Previous Positions: Executive Director, United Vision Missions, USA; Senior Pastor, Eternal Love Bible Mission Church, Los Angeles; Founding and Senior Pastor, Vision Church, Beijing
Research Interests: Missional Ecosystems, Mission-Oriented Discipleship, Church Planting, Marketplace Missions, Missional Strategies, Pastoral Care in Multicultural Contexts
Special Topics & Seminars: Cross-Cultural Missions Mobilization, Missional Strategy Planning, Church Planting, Discipleship Training
Languages: Mandarin, Korean, Japanese
Background: Pastor Xuan was born in mainland China and has two daughters. He received God’s call to ministry while attending university in 1990 and later taught Japanese at the university level. From 1993 to 2008, he focused on mission-oriented discipleship among university students. In 2009, he planted an urban house church and developed both same-culture and cross-cultural missions, planting several churches in China and sending more than 20 missionaries to Africa and Southeast Asia. Beginning in 2008, he pursued theological education at Virginia Christian University and St. Light Theological Seminary in Taiwan, earning two M.Div. degrees. In 2015, he began doctoral studies at LOGOS Evangelical Seminary and also received missions training at Fuller Theological Seminary. After earning his D.Min. from LOGOS Evangelical Seminary in 2019, he served as senior pastor of Eternal Love Bible Mission Church and established United Vision Missions in Los Angeles. He continues to support cross-cultural missions in Africa and Southeast Asia, mobilize missions in Chinese churches, and teach missions as a visiting professor at several seminaries. He is the author of The Missional Ecosystem and currently serves as Director of the Intercultural Studies Program at LOGOS Evangelical Seminary.
Selected Publications
The Missional Ecosystem. Paradise, PA: Ambassadors for Christ, 2020.
“Missional Vision and Missional Strategy,” Today’s Mission, June 2016.
“Effective Short-Term Missions,” United Missions, December 2019.
