I am a former thirty-year foreign missionary, now working as Senior Software Engineer for a large electronics and appliance retailer.In 1966, as a new Christian and an American soldier in Vietnam, I was deeply moved at my first exposure to idolatry.In 1974, after completing Bible college and missionary deputation, our family of four moved to South Vietnam to begin formal missionary work, where we remained until the war was lost and Americans had to leave.In 1976, with another missionary, we started Harvest Baptist Church and Christian School on Guam.We returned to the field in 1977 going to Taiwan, where we began our Chinese ministry. The Lord allowed us to start the Ping Lin Baptist Church in Taichung at that time.From 1981 until 1988 I did the software development for Baptist International Missions in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We then returned to the mission field of mainland China. In 1989 my first wife went to be with the Lord, and the Lord gave me my wife Beth in 1990.We remained in Beijing and Hong Kong until 1999.I'm still a Mandarin Chinese speaker. I have five children, the youngest sixteen years old.