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Pastor Juta Pan was from Taiwan. Growing up from a Free Methodist family, he converted to Christ at the age of 14. After 8-years journey of seeking God’s guidance, he confirmed God's calling and became a minister of Campus Evangelical Fellowship (CEF) in 1985. During 12 years’ service in CEF, he met his wife Chaoluan, who became a minister of CEF in 1988, and married her in 1990. In 1997, Juta came to Boston with his family for theological study. After obtaining his MA in Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2000 and Master of Sacred Theology at School of Theology, Boston University in 2001, he went to Scotland to pursue his PhD at the School of Divinity, the University of Edinburgh. His dissertation entitled: "The Kingdom of God and the Pure Land: Towards the Dialogue of Christianity and Buddhism in the Context of Taiwan." His theological study focuses on Theology, Missiology, and Christianity and Other Faiths. After finishing his study, Juta returned to Boston with his family and served at CBCGB in 2005. He was ordained as pastor at the same year in September, and has been the pastor of Fellowship Ministry, of Campus Ministry, of Evangelism Ministry, and of acting lead pastor of Chinese Ministry. He founded and currently serves as the pastor of City Outreach Ministry, a ministry focusing on Chinese overseas students, scholars, and young professionals in Boston city. In 2019, he was assigned by the church to be the senior pastor of CBCGB. He is also an adjunct faculty in several Chinese theological seminaries in North and South America teaching Systematic Theology, Christian Ethics, and Christianity and other Faiths. Juta was also a visiting scholar of Princeton Theological Seminary during his first sabbatical leave in 2011 and second sabbatical leave in 2018. His book: The Cross and the Lotus was published in 2016. Juta’s wife, Chaoluan, is a scholar of Church History obtaining her ThD from School of Theology, Boston University. She is an adjunct professor at a seminary. They have one daughter, Lucilla.

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Pastor Steve Chang was born in Er-shuei, Changhua County, Taiwan. He earned his M.Div. degree at the China Evangelical Seminary (CES), Taipei, Taiwan. While there, he also married Irene Chen. He was ordained as a minister when he served in the Spiritual Friends Church, Taipei. In 1987, the family moved to the States, where Pastor Steve served at Rutgers Community Christian Church (RCCC) in Somerset, N.J., and then at the Canaan Taiwanese Christian Church (CTCC) in Mountain View, CA. Since the fall of 2001, he has served as Caring Pastor in CBCGB. Pastor and Mrs. Chang have 3 daughters: Stephanie, Jennifer and Serena.

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Yuegang Zhang was born in Yunnan, China. He got his Ph. D. degree in Chemistry from SUNY Buffalo in 2001. He accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord in 2001 at Chinese Christian Mandarin Church in Chicago. Brother Yuegang moved to Boston in 2006 to work as a scientist at a pharmaceutical company. He got the calling from God in 2010. Brother Yuegang finally accepted the full time Fellowship Minister position in our Chinese Congregation in September 2014 and resigned from his scientific career. He graduated from the Boston Campus of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary with M. Div. degree in 2017. He lives with his wife, Sister Meiqin Xie, daughter Sarah, and son Joshua. Sarah and Joshua have published with their father two volumes of English-Chinese bilingual Christian children’s books: Silly, Silly Mouse Jamie Book 1 and 2.

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Jeff was born and raised in the suburbs of Greater Boston. He began attending CBCGB at an early age along with his family. He grew up quite literally in this church, having come to faith in Jesus here and having been a part of the many different ministries with each life stage. Through a traumatic life-changing event, God began to pave a path for Jeff that was different from his peers. He attended Gordon College, graduating with degrees in biblical studies and economics and a minor in business administration. Though Jeff had aspirations to be successful by worldly standards, God challenged him to place his trust and identity in Christ alone. Sensing God’s call to vocational ministry at an early age and eventually obeying, Jeff continued his studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary where he earned his Master of Divinity, while also continuing to serve at CBCGB. After graduating in 2015, Jeff served as the Assistant English Ministry Pastor at Logos Community Church in New York. Jeff is married to Ying, whom he met in the college fellowship at CBCGB. Together, they have an adopted Yorkie named Clover. God has called Jeff and Ying back to Boston, where Jeff will continue advancing the Kingdom of God through the local church as the Cross Bridge minister and Ying will continue serving God in the marketplace as a Tufts pediatrics medical resident. Having had his faith largely shaped and matured through the ministries of those who came before him at CBCGB, Jeff looks forward to continuing that work as the Cross Bridge minister.

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Dr. Arthurs was raised in western PA in a nominally Christian home and came to saving faith in Christ when he was 14 years old. His life was turned upside down as he soon became deeply involved in the life of the church, receiving a call to preach at age 16. To this day his passion is preaching, and he uses his wide ranging communication experience as a teacher, missionary, director, announcer, and consultant to equip others for more effective proclamation of the Word. Jeff has taught on all levels from grade school to grad school, having taught preaching and communication in a dozen colleges and seminaries in the U.S. and abroad. He is currently professor of preaching and communication and chair of the Division of Practical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. In the past he served as teaching pastor in Portland, OR, and interim pastor of Hope Alliance Church in Melrose. Currently, Jeff is interim at Cross Bridge, Lexington, MA. Dr. Arthurs is a past-president of the Evangelical Homiletics Society and an active scholar, regularly presenting papers at conferences and writing articles for periodicals such as the Journal of Communication and Religion, Preaching, Leadership, and Preaching Today on-line. He has written Preaching With Variety, Devote Yourself to the Public Reading of Scripture, and Preaching as Reminding. Jeff has been married to Liz for more than 35 years and they are the parents of one son, Daniel. Jeff enjoys traveling, and playing tennis and disc golf with his wife. His education is summarized below:

• Ph. D., 1992, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN—Communication.
• M. A., 1987, Western Seminary, Portland, OR—Theology.
• M. A., 1981, Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC—Speech.
• B. A., 1979, Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC—Bible.

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Jennifer (Jen) joined the CBCGB family in April 2011. She grew up in Texas and received a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is an avid Longhorn football fan and will be spotted wearing a lot of burnt orange and white. She enjoys playing many sports including basketball, volleyball, and tennis, and enjoys making crafts and reading. Growing up, she had lofty dreams of becoming a doctor, and up until college, she worked hard for this dream. During her last year of college, God challenged her and led her towards missions and ministry, and she followed Him to serve in Taiwan and China with Overseas Missionary Fellowship for over a year and then returned to work as a youth intern at Austin Chinese Church in Austin, TX for two years. She studied at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX and earned a Master of Divinity with a concentration in Student Ministries in December 2010. She fell in love with working with youth and seeing them fall in love with Christ, and she has a heart for seeing youth become men and women who love Him, serve Him, and bring the Gospel to the rest of the world. She got married to her husband, Nate, in the midst of the pandemic in August 2020 and has been enjoying growing together in married life.

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Taylor was born and raised in Columbus Ohio. Taylor did not grow up going to church but heard the gospel and was invited to church during his teenage years. At first he went to church just for social reasons but God worked on his heart to bring him to Christ shortly after. After coming to Christ and being discipled he began serving in the church as a coworker but after a few years felt God's call to full time ministry. He earned his M.Div. and B.A. in Biblical Theological Studies in 2018 from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. God brought Taylor and his wife Kylie together halfway through his seminary education in June 2016. In his free time he enjoys working out, reading, eating good and new foods with his wife and friends, and talking about theology, philosophy, and apologetics.

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Pastor Bowman was born and raised a few miles down the road from CBCGB, in Cambridge, MA. He and his family currently live in Acton, MA. God in His mercy rescued him from a life of rebellion in 1991. Almost immediately upon becoming a Christian God called him to be a blessing to His children. Pastor Bowman began assisting in Grace Chapel’s children’s ministry in the beginning of 1992 and then teaching and then directing and he continues to serve children. In July of 1996 God brought Maria De Los Angeles Brenes Delgado into his life and they were married in “Angie’s” home country of Costa Rica in February of 1997. Angie has been a missionary here in the states as well as in Mexico and China. In 2000 they were blessed with their daughter Abigail. Pastor Bowman graduated from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in 2003 with a degree in Christian Education. The Bowman’s believe in and encourage families serving and practicing faith together in their homes, local church and overseas. By the age of 12 Abigail joined her family on her 8th short-term mission trip on 5 different continents. The Bowman’s love children and seek to partner with God in blessing children to know, love, follow and serve Jesus Christ. In June of 2014 God has called Pastor Bowman to the CBCGB family from CBCGL after 9 years of serving as Children’s Minister.

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Born and raised in a Christian family in Taiwan, Hsiao-Dun was baptized at age 15 and received God’s calling to enter full-time ministry while he was in college. He joined Campus Evangelical Fellowship (CEF) in 2012 and served as a campus minister for five years. He met his wife Yi-Hui at CEF, where she has served for eleven years. Hsiao-Dun earned his M.Div. and his Th.M. in New Testament from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. His passion is studying the Bible with a group and preaching the gospel to college students and young adults. He currently serves as a minister of City Outreach Ministry (COM).

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Juan was born and raised in a small coastal town in Fujian, China. She loves sea and food (especially seafood) and enjoys spending time with children. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degree in education, and subsequently taught schools in Chiang Mai and Los Angeles. When she was a teenager, she dreamed about becoming a missionary. She began her theological training at BU School of Theology in 2015 with the goal to become a missionary. One year into her study, she felt God’s calling to work with college students in Boston. The large turn-over rate of student population in the Boston area makes it an ideal mission field! God has clearly provided the way. After completed her M. Div. degree, she becomes a minister of CBCGB working at City Outreach Ministry (COM) serving students. She is excited about the fulfillment of her dream to become a missionary and the opportunity to share Gospel with students in the Boston area.