Jin Mingri, who is also known as Ezra Jin, is the pastor of Zion Church of Beijing a very influential independent Chinese Christian church in Beijing, China. The church started in 2007 and soon grew to over a 1,000 worshipers.[1] Journalist Evan Osnos said Jin has a "lively televangelist flair".[2]
Born in Heilongjiang, he is a Korean ethnic minority in China.[3] He is a graduate of Beijing University (BA), Nanjing Union Theological Seminary (MDiv) and Fuller Theological Seminary (DMin).[4] Following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, he started attending a Three-Self Patriotic Movement church. Within a few months, he became a Christian convert.[3] In 2018, the authorities shut down the church and put the pastor under house arrest.[5]