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The Reverend Dr. Werner Bürklin,

Founder, China Partner, Inc. Werner Bürklin was born in Wuhu, China on November 2, 1930. His German parents were missionaries of the Alliance China Mission (Allianz Mission Barmen), formerly a German branch of the China Inland Mission, now Overseas Missionary Fellowship. He received his early schooling at the Kaiser Wilhelm Schule in Shanghai, China. In 1949 the newly established Communist regime expelled all missionaries and their children. He returned to Germany, his home country, and later studied at the University of Paris (Sorbonne); graduated from the Institut Biblique Europeén in Chatou, France; Grace College, Indiana and earned his doctorate at the Luther Rice Seminary/University in Atlanta, Georgia.

In his earlier years he worked as an evangelist with Jugend für Christus Deutschland (Germany Youth for Christ) and later served as its President for many years. Furthermore, he served as an Executive with Youth for Christ International and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. From 1967 to 1968 he lived with his family in Jamaica to prepare and direct Youth for Christ’s Eighth World Congress. From 1978 to 1979 he and his family moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil to direct the youth conference Geraçao 79 (Generation 79). He also directed Billy Graham's International Conferences for Itinerant Evangelists held in Amsterdam in 1983 and 1986.

In 1989 Dr. Bürklin founded China Partner, Inc. (CP) as a vehicle to teach and train emerging young Chinese Christian leaders in evangelism, pastoral care and leadership development. He endeavors to build bridges of friendship, understanding and communications with Christians across China. He traveled to China close to one-hundred times. Years of building relationships within the church in China has helped open many doors for ministry. Over forty pastoral training schools (PTS) have been conducted in seventeen of the twenty-three existing theological training institutions across China. Furthermore, other activities, such as preaching ministries and gospel concerts, are being constantly carried out. Tens of thousands of biblical study books, worth hundreds of thousands of US dollars, have been shipped legally into China and distributed to emerging young Christian leaders. CP gives scholarships to worthy and poor theological students in the province of Jiangxi, helped to construct four churches and two retirement homes for poor senior citizens and helped to construct the first and only Bible school in Nanchang in the province of Jiangxi.

Presently, Werner serves as President Emeritus of China Partner, Inc., a missionary organization he founded, focusing on training emerging young Christian leaders in China.

Werner and his China Partner team regularly travel to Mainland China to preach in churches and teach at theological schools. He endeavors to build bridges of friendship, understanding and communications with Christians across China. The ministry that he founded continues to conduct short term pastoral training schools and conferences, provides teachers for Bible schools and seminaries, and distributes large quantities of theological and sound biblical study books and other Christian literature to emerging young Christian leaders, seminarians and Christian leaders

He and his wife live in Boca Raton, Florida and they have four children: Erik, Heiko, Stephan, Linda and have ten grandchildren.

In the year of 2015 Dr. Bürklin concluded sixty-four years of spiritual ministry. He authored four books: JESUS NEVER LEFT CHINA; HITLER, MAO & JESUS; AN INCREDIBLE GOD; ON UNCHARTED PATHS IN CHINA.