Our Team
“Urban Farmer” (pseudonym)
Urban Farmer is currently the Academic Dean at a house church seminary in a major Chinese City, where he lived for 10 years. In addition to working closely with house churches in China over the past 15 years, he has concentrated his ministry and research over the last decade on his two passions, church development and theological education in China’s house church. He has a PhD in Educational Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
Books:
“Missionaries’ Role in Theological Education in China,” China’s Harvest Fields, ed. Tabor Laughlin, Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2020.
Articles:
“A Reader Responds to the 2021 Winter CSQ,” ChinaSource blog, January 17, 2022. https://www.chinasource.org/resource-library/blog-entries/a-reader-responds-to-the-2021-winter-csq/
“Contextual Theology: The Voice of the House Church Must Be Heard,” China Partnership blog, May 24, 2021. https://www.chinapartnership.org/blog/2021/5/contextual-theology-the-voice-of-the-house-church-must-be-heard
“The Growth of the Urban ‘Teenage’ House Church,” China Partnership blog, April 23, 2019. https://www.chinapartnership.org/blog/2019/4/the-growth-of-the-urban-teenage-house-church
“Mainland China and the Trend of Global Desecularization,” China Partnership blog, April 16, 2019. https://www.chinapartnership.org/blog/2019/4/mainland-china-and-the-trend-of-global-desecularization