陳海全牧師 Pastor Mark Haiquan Chen
現任牧師簡介
陳海全牧師於1973年出生於中國湖北。1993年畢業於湖北文理學院後,曾任教於襄陽縣第三中學,擔任英語教師。1998年,他在湖北大學攻讀中國古代歷史碩士學位。畢業後受聘為廣東潮州韓山師範學院的歷史講師。2002年,他赴美進入夏威夷大學攻讀博士學位。
翌年,陳牧師蒙神呼召,並在國際浸信會團契的一致推薦及夏威夷 Shiraki 紀念基金會的資助下,轉入德州西南浸信會神學院,於2007年獲得道學碩士學位。
2007年7月,他受德州奧斯丁西北華人教會差派返回中國,在山西太原的家庭教會神學院任聖經教師。
2008年1月,陳牧師與趙小朋 (Anna) 姊妹結為連理。同年,神引領他們來到深圳寶安福永鎮的一個小村莊宣教,開拓並建立「城市福音教會」。經過七年的辛勤服侍,從最初的一個家庭開始,發展至有約 80 人穩定聚會,實屬神蹟。2010年7月,陳牧師接受中國基督教海外使團的按立,成為該教會的牧師。
2014年,他重返美國,進入密歇根的加爾文神學院研讀系統神學；隔年1月轉入密蘇里州堪薩斯城的中西部浸信會神學院,至今持續進修聖經神學博士課程。
2016年,陳牧師蒙主帶領,受邀至德州海灣華人教會擔任代理牧師,負責講道、部分主日學及探訪事工。
目前,陳牧師與師母育有三位可愛的女兒：Sheena、Esther 和 Hannah。
Current Pastor Introduction
Pastor Mark Chen was born in 1973 in Hubei, China. After graduating from the Hubei University of Arts and Technology in 1993, he taught English at the Third Middle School of Xiangyang County. In 1998 he pursued a Master Degree of Ancient Chinese History at Hubei University. Upon graduation, he was hired as a history lecturer at the Hanshan Teachers’ College in Chaozhou, Guangdong. In 2002 he came to the United States as a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii. The following year after receiving Jesus Christ as his personal savior and answering to the Lord’s calling, he was unanimously recommended by the International Baptist Fellowship to enter the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth Texas supported by the Shiraki Memorial Foundation. He graduated in 2007 with the Master Degree of Divinity.
In July 2007 Pastor Chen was commissioned by the Northwestern Chinese Church of Austin Texas to China, where he taught Bible classes in Taiyuan House Church Seminary in the Province of Shanxi.
Pastor Chen married Anna Zhao in January 2008. The same year the couple was guided by God to settle down in a small village at the Baoan District of the City of Shenzhen in Southern China, where they started to build the City Gospel Church with the vision to excel discipleship in the community. During the seven years of cultivation and hard work with limited resources, the church started with one family and evolved to eighty regular members. In July 2010 Pastor Chen was ordained by China Christian Overseas Mission and became the Pastor of the City Gospel Church.
In 2014 Pastor Chen returned to the United States to study Systematic Theology in Calvin Theological Seminary at Grand Rapids, Michigan. Then in January 2015, he transferred to the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri to enroll in a doctoral program of Biblical Theology.
In 2016, guided by the Lord, Pastor Chen was invited to take up the interim pastor position at the Galveston Chinese Church in Texas until July this year.
Pastor Chen has three lovely daughters, Sheena, Ester and Hannah.