Pastor Freed from Jail in China on 4th of July
Written by Kingdom Kutz Media 266 days in a cell. One conversation between two presidents. And eight names still waiting for the same mercy. The plane landed before sunrise. Somewhere over the Pacific, a man had crossed from one life into another. Nine months earlier, he had been dragged from his church in Beijing. Now he was descending onto American soil, into the arms of a family he had not lived with in eight years. He did not know what day it was. Someone told him. It was the Fourth of July. His name is Ezra Jin Mingri. For 266 days, the Chinese government held him for the crime of leading a church it could not control. "Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body." — Hebrews 13:3 That verse is not decoration. It is the whole shape of this story. A Church Beijing Tried to Erase Jin founded Zion Church in Beijing in 2007. It grew fast. Within a decade it had become one of China's largest unr...