达拉斯华人教会植堂者 Jack Tai 扎根 Plano 一年半带领5人受洗
德克萨斯州科林县 Plano 市的华人教会传来成长消息：来自中国的教会植堂者 Jack Tai 与妻子 Lydia 在 Plano 创立的 Joy Church 稳步成长，从自家客厅起步一年半以来，已有5人信主并接受洗礼。
据美南浸信会新闻社（Baptist Press）报道，Tai 原本按父母的期望，要离开中国到美国公司工作、过上成功的生活，但在大学学习英语时结识了国际传道部派来的宣教士，在英语角听到福音后信主，人生方向就此改变。他与妻子随后在中国一间地下教会服侍十年，每天都面临被关闭的风险。
来到美国后，Tai 看到达拉斯—沃斯堡都会区约有10万华人移民，其中九成尚未接触福音，便决心在这里植堂，专门服侍华人群体。在美南浸信会植堂网络的支持下，他从客厅里的小聚会做起，教会不断有新朋友加入。Tai 表示，最令他兴奋的是上帝不断把新朋友和未信者带到教会中，他看到了上帝的国度在成长。
Chinese Church Planter Jack Tai Roots in Plano, Dallas Area; Five Baptized in 18 Months
PLANO, Texas — Joy Church, founded in Plano, Collin County, Texas, by Chinese church planter Jack Tai and his wife Lydia, has grown steadily since starting in their living room a year and a half ago; five people have come to faith and been baptized.
According to Baptist Press, Tai was expected to leave China, work for an American company and live a successful life, but while studying English in college he met missionaries sent by the International Mission Board and heard the Gospel at an English corner, which changed his direction. He and his wife then served an underground church in China for a decade, facing the daily risk of being shut down.
After moving to the United States, Tai saw that the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex has about 100,000 Chinese immigrants, 90 percent of them unreached, and decided to plant a church serving the Chinese community. Supported by the Southern Baptist Send Network, he started with small living-room gatherings that keep drawing new friends. Tai says what excites him most is that God keeps bringing new friends and nonbelievers to the church, and he is seeing God's kingdom grow.
来源：美南浸信会新闻社
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图片来源：Plano 市的 Stinson 小学。（Michael Barera 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons）
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