The courage of my father in prison
By Grace Jin Drexel - Posted at Baptist Press: Last October, Chinese police arrested my father, Pastor Ezra Jin, in coordinated raids across 11 cities. Nearly 30 leaders of Zion Church, the Beijing congregation he founded in 2007, were taken with him. It was the largest, most coordinated crackdown on an independent Chinese church in four decades. This July, after nine months in a detention center in Beihai, he stepped off a plane in Los Angeles and into the arms of a family that had not been whole in eight years. While we lived in exile in the U.S., the Chinese government had barred him from leaving the country. People ask what carried us through those months. The honest answer is that my father had settled the question of fear long before the police came. In the weeks before his arrest, he knew the government was preparing a campaign against him. He met it with his usual joy. When members worried about informants infiltrating services, he would chuckle, “We’ll minister to them, too!” ...
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