John has worshiped in over eighty diverse immigrant churches across the Minneapolis area, meeting their pastors and listening to their stories. At the same time, he has dialogued with ministry leaders nationwide about the blessings and challenges of partnerships between churches of different cultures. In 2019, John founded Immigrant Ministry Connections as a platform dedicated to multiplying healthy cross-cultural church partnerships across North America.
John has pastored in a large multicultural church in Beijing, China, and has trained pastors across Asia. He is a graduate of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, an ordained minister of The Evangelical Free Church of America and has been happily married to Sherry for twenty-six years.
He is the Executive Director of
Immigrant Ministry Connections.