Rev. Timothy Conkling, PhD, is a cross-cultural worker with China Ministries International. He has been a pastor and church-planter in Taiwan and a researcher of the church in China.

His book, Mobilized Merchants-Patriotic Martyrs: China’s House Church Christians and the Politics of Cooperative Resistance, chronicles the development of the church in China, explains the religious policy of the PRC in historical context, and explores the political response of house-church Christians to persecution. His second book, Stranger in Every Land: Reflections of a Transcultural Adult in a Shrinking World, blends biblical principles and humorous anecdotes together to explore the problems cross-cultural workers face when they leave their country of origin and seek to be identified with their new land and their new culture.

As a missionary with China Ministries International (CMI), Dr. Conkling is co-authoring the authorized biography of Dr. Jonathan Chao, the late president and founder of CMI. As a partner missionary with Asia Mission Partners, Dr. Conkling has pioneered a ministry of connecting families with needs to people who care via Connecting Families, providing personalized disaster relief, help for orphans, widows, and women in crisis pregnancies, refugee rescue and relocation, and facilitating lower cost stem cell therapy in Thailand.