Pastor Zhang Boli Recaps Three-Day Texas Trip: New Harvest Church Planted in Dallas, Visits to the Mayflower Church and ChinaAid
DALLAS, Texas — Pastor Zhang Boli, senior pastor of Harvest Chinese Christian Church, recapped a three-day trip across Texas in his online program on November 11. The trip had six stops: an evangelistic music concert in Southlake, the planting of a Harvest Chinese Christian Church congregation in Dallas, a prayer meeting in Midland for the persecuted church in China, a visit to the headquarters of ChinaAid, a visit with the Mayflower Church, and a meeting in Dallas with members of Turning Point USA and Texas high school students.
The first stop was Southlake, a city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, where he held an evangelistic concert.
The centerpiece of the trip was the establishment of the Dallas congregation of Harvest Chinese Christian Church. Zhang first planted the church in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in 2002; congregations followed in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Singapore and Sydney. Zhang now lives in Southern California and pastors the church's East Los Angeles congregation. The Dallas church is the network's newest location.
In Midland, in West Texas, he joined a prayer meeting for the persecuted church in China and met with local co-workers about its preparation. He also visited the headquarters of ChinaAid, a Christian human rights organization based in Midland and founded by Bob Fu.
Also in the Midland area, he visited the Mayflower Church. Formally the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church, led by Pastor Pan Yongguang, the congregation left China in 2019, passed through South Korea and Thailand, and arrived in the United States in April 2023. It first settled near Tyler in East Texas and later moved to the Midland area, where it now worships in facilities provided by First Baptist Church of Midland.
The trip ended back in Dallas, where he met members of Turning Point USA and a group of Texas high school students — a stop he returned to several times in the program.
In the briefing slide that opened the program, Zhang wrote that the schedule was tight and he was physically tired, but that he saw the door of the gospel open wide in Texas and heard the cry of America's younger generation, leaving him convinced that the Lord is still in control and that His gospel will not be stopped.
The program was streamed live on November 11 and runs 1 hour and 18 minutes.
Zhang worked as a journalist and writer in his early years. By his own testimony on many occasions, he encountered the Christian faith in 1989, devoted himself to ministry in 1995, earned a Master of Divinity degree from Logos Evangelical Seminary in Los Angeles, and was ordained as a pastor in 2001. He serves as senior pastor of Harvest Chinese Christian Church, and he founded the China Gospel Seminary. In October this year, he spoke at a fasting and prayer meeting in Los Angeles held for the persecuted church in China.
Related: Pastor Boli Zhang to Headline “Truth and Freedom” Gospel Music Concert in Southlake on Nov. 7
Source: Harvest Chinese Christian Church
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：张伯笠牧师在讲台讲道（GSM供图）。 / Image: Pastor Boli Zhang preaching at the pulpit (Photo: GSM).
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