1. From 2017 to 2025, I sought dialogue with Pastor Gong Mingpeng and experienced the unresolved issues:
1) During marriage counseling in 2017, after Pastor Gong Mingpeng had caused a distortion of right and wrong and created injustice, I asked Pastor Gong Mingpeng to correct his erroneous teachings and wrote to other pastors and key staff members in the church to help persuade him to correct his mistakes.
However, Pastor Gong Mingpeng, while refusing to admit his mistakes or correct them, continued to share his understanding of God and the Bible, his spiritual experiences, his experience correcting mistakes, his life-saving and unwavering love for his wife, and instructed me to first acknowledge my own mistakes and empathize with my wife’s feelings.
This led me to believe that perhaps I wasn’t as spiritual as he was, and therefore didn’t understand the teachings he was giving and their benefits to me. I mistakenly thought, “Perhaps I was wrong. If I just tried harder, tried harder to love my wife, tried harder to know God, and admitted my mistakes first, then the problem would be solved.” Furthermore, I didn’t want to embarrass him, so I didn’t insist on him correcting his mistakes.
This caused my family to miss the best opportunity to resolve the problem, leading to subsequent disasters, and I myself fell into a state of bondage.
(Looking back now, he fully understood the confusion and injustice he had caused, but he simply refused to admit his mistakes and deliberately misled her.)
2) From 2018 to 2019:
If Pastor Gong Mingpeng had admitted during this period that he had misled my wife in his counseling, and had used the right one to correct the areas where he had misled her.
As my wife reads the Bible and prays with him and a few others every week, hoping to know God and listening to His words very much, it is impossible for my wife to:
do something very wrong when my mother moved out of my house in 2017, and then do something even more immoral and unconscionable in 2019 by not letting my mother come to my house, and yet feel very spiritual;
It is also impossible for my wife to continue to control me about money, violate basic principles, and yet feel at ease in the church environment.
During this period, I repeatedly approached Pastor Gong Mingpeng, hoping he would address
my wife’s issues and point out the harm his counseling practices, including the distortion of right and wrong and the injustice they inflicted on our family, and how his approach was misleading my wife.
He initially said “My wife and I are both making progress, so let’s wait a little longer.” Later, he even accused me of “casting pearls before swine,” “not seeing the beam in my own eye,” and “I just don’t want to see my wife getting along with others.”
3) The “domestic violence” incident in June 2019:
Because my wife falsely accused me of domestic violence, saying I was going to kill her, she was so frightened she couldn’t sleep. The police wouldn’t let me go home or to my family’s company.
In fact, Pastor Gong Mingpeng not only knew about my wife’s financial control over me, but he also personally saw photos of my wife beating me and causing me to bleed. He was fully aware that it was my wife who was domestically abusing me. He knew I couldn’t possibly pose a danger to her.
During this period, he and my wife and a few others read the Bible and prayed together every
week, learning to be Jesus’ disciples. My wife was very obedient to him. It would have been
easy for him to get my wife to drop the criminal charges against me, but he did nothing.
I had to talk to an elderly man who didn’t know my wife and another pastor before she wrote to the prosecutor, saying she was no longer in danger. It took eight months for me to return home.
4) Late 2019: Pastor Gong Mingpeng accused me of “sow discord among pastors.”
At the end of 2019, because the “criminal charges” for domestic violence had not been dropped, I wrote to Pastor Gong Mingpeng and two other pastors at his Huaxia Bible Church, hoping that Gong Mingpeng could persuade my wife to get the charges dropped.
Pastor Gong Mingpeng, however, rebuked me, saying, “Don’t sow discord among pastors.”
5) Late 2019
Although I was deeply confused, because of Pastor Gong Mingpeng’s spiritual demeanor and reputation, I still considered him spiritual. I couldn’t believe his actions were completely contrary to my moral conscience, and I often sought his advice. Once I asked him, “Do you really think what you’re saying is right?”， “Do you really think true love can develop between a husband andwife under my wife’s deeply unethical behavior and her control over me?”
He didn’t answer my questions, but instead asked, “If your wife continues like this, can you accept it?” He continued, “We must not only learn to love with a life-giving spirit, but also learn to love to the end.”
Looking back now, the real solution isn’t for me to “accept” the control and abuse, but for Pastor
Gong Mingpeng to admit his mistakes and correct the distortion of right and wrong and the
misleading he caused my wife. His statement about love is also completely wrong: “Love is
unconditional, but it has principles.”
6) In 2020: I directly pointed out Pastor Gong Mingpeng’s problems:
I asked him, “Why did you know you were causing distortion and misleading, but didn’t correct it?”。 “Why did you know you could have helped our family, but didn’t?”
He then blocked me on WeChat and stopped contacting me. I could only communicate through intermediaries.
7) From 2020 to 2024: Pastor Gong Mingpeng’s behavior was extremely bad.
Pastor Gong Mingpeng’s behavior was extremely egregious. He misled and manipulated my wife, using force against us, colluding to destroy our family, trapping my family in a dead end, a “two-or-three” situation, forcing me to choose divorce.
During this period, I was unable to contact him directly.
8) In 2021: My public conflict with Pastor Gong Mingpeng:
In 2021, Pastor Gong Mingpeng came to my church to preach, appearing reverent. I pointed at him and said, “My family’s blood is on your hands.”
Afterward, I reflected on my own heart and publicly acknowledged my sins in front of the entire church. I publicly admitted, “I realize that my heart is not only unforgiving toward Pastor Gong Mingpeng, but I have also developed a vengeful mentality.”
I also wrote a letter of apology to Pastor Gong Mingpeng for my sins and the negative impact they had on him. I have since gradually overcome this negative mentality. But Pastor Gong Mingpeng caused such devastation to my family, yet not only did he refuse to admit his fault, he even took the opportunity to disavow his responsibility.
(In 2025, Pastor Gong Mingpeng even used my apology letter to prove his innocence within the “Chinese Coordination Centre of World Evangelism of Canada ” where he serves as chairman of the board. This is simply ridiculous.)
9) From 2022 to 2023: Pastor Gong Mingpeng refused to talk
During this period, I privately approached Pastor Gong Mingpeng 10 times, saying, “I hope to resolve the issues concerning him.” He either brushed me off or said, “Lord, Lord,” as if I were doing something wrong or embarrassing him. This truly made me feel “sick.”
I sent messages to him three times through my church pastor and three times through the elders of his church, hoping that he would have a “frank” conversation, where whoever was at fault would admit their mistakes and make corrections, resolve the issues, and move forward together.
But he refused to talk, using excuses like “I’m condemning him,” “I haven’t truly changed,” and “I don’t want to talk.”
2. Pastor Gong Mingpeng exploited his power within the church to collude in covering up the truth and suppressing me.
1) At the end of 2022, I reported Pastor Gong Mingpeng to the Toronto Chinese Bible Church
West Branch for the damage he had caused to my family and his misleading and manipulating
of my wife. However, he, along with church elders and others aligned with his influence,
colluded to lie and distort the truth.
2) The church established a four-member “Conflict Resolution Team” for this purpose.
Pastor Gong told the team, “He can’t change my wife, and there’s nothing he can do.”
In reality, Pastor Gong was completely lying. He presented himself as a helper, and my wife
was gradually misled by him to this point. His refusal to admit his mistakes, correct his mistakes, and his continued misleading and manipulating of my wife, all contributed to the destruction of our family.
If he had admitted his mistakes, corrected them, stopped his misleading and manipulating
activities, and allowed our family to return to true principles and a normal external environment, our family would have been on the right track long ago.
3) Four members of the “Conflict Resolution Team”:
One was a key church staff member to whom I reported the situation when Pastor Gong
Mingpeng was causing confusion in 2017. She was aware of Pastor Gong Mingpeng’s
misconduct at the time.
Another was an elder who helped me pass on messages to Pastor Gong Mingpeng three times.
She knew I was willing to have a “frank” conversation, but Pastor Gong Mingpeng refused.
Another was someone who read the Bible and prayed with my wife every night from 2020 to
2024, and with my wife and Pastor Gong Mingpeng every Tuesday. She knew that Pastor Gong
had been conveying misleading attitudes to my wife.
The last person was less familiar with my family’s situation (but was the only one who offered a
few “fair” words during the process).
I was in this church from 2014 to 2019. These people were fully aware of my wife’s extremely
wrong actions and witnessed Pastor Gong Mingpeng’s misleading behavior towards her. They
knew the main process of my family’s situation, yet they echoed Pastor Gong’s claims and
colluded in the cover-up.
4) My interaction with the “Conflict Resolution Team”:
I repeatedly requested a “confrontation” with Pastor Gong to clarify the facts, hoping they wouldnot operate in secret. I provided written and oral statements, pointing out how Pastor Gong knew he was wrong but refused to admit it, how he knew he had caused damage and misleading people but refused to correct them, and how he seriously violated moral conscience. I pointed out how Pastor Gong misled and controlled my wife, colluded with her to thwart and destroy my family, and then collaborated to cover up the truth.
However, Elder Zhang, who aligned himself with Pastor Gong, led the “Conflict Resolution Team.” He ignored my statements, refused to “confront” me, and failed to verify the truth of Pastor Gong’s and my statements. Despite our completely contradictory statements, he operated in black-box, distorted the facts, and directly concluded:
- Pastor Gong did not violate any biblical principles.
- My family was already divorced and remains so. No harm has been done to my family.
I lodged a serious protest:
- Pastor Gong violated even ordinary moral standards, so how could he not have violated the “higher” biblical principles?
- I privately pointed out the elder’s problem: You lie in the name of the church, aligning with
forces to distort right and wrong. Do you still fear God?
5) In 2023:
regarding their collusion in using the church’s name to cover up and distort right and
wrong, I went to their church with a sign to protest. To conceal the truth, Elder Zhang rallied the church members against me.
6) In May 2024:
I went to Pastor Gong’s church and submitted a one-page summary, outlining Pastor Gong
Mingpeng’s serious violations of moral conscience and the destruction he inflicted on my family, as well as the specific facts this elder had lied and covered up using the church’s name.
Pastor Gong called me outside and said, “Everyone has a different understanding of the
matter.”
I told him, “Then draw your conclusion based on the facts.” He said, “Okay.”
I asked him, “Did your counseling in 2017 cause any distortion of right and wrong, which had
a negative impact on my family?” He said, “No.”
I told him, “You deny it right after we get to the first point. How can we continue? Think it
through and we’ll talk again.” Our conversation ended there.
During my conversation with Pastor Gong Mingpeng, there was no arguing or shouting, and I
was waiting for the next conversation. I also didn’t make any noise inside the church, so there
was no way I could disrupt the service.
However, within a few days, the church sent me an email saying they had called the police and
that if I went again, the police would immediately arrive to protect people and property.
I was at this church from 2014 to 2019. I simply submitted documents to report problems with
the church leadership. My wife was also at the church at the time. I posed no threat to their
safety. Their motive was to prevent the truth from being revealed.
7) In early 2025:
I wrote to the church again, attaching a joint letter signed by eight people, demanding a “confrontation” with Pastor Gong Mingpeng about the facts, asking them to investigate and verify the facts, and pointing out that “Elder Zhang” was complicit in the cover-
up and suppression. To date, they have not responded.
3. Pastor Gong Mingpeng used his influence and the benefits he offered to cause the pastors of the Chinese churches， where I had lived for several years to act against his conscience regarding matters related to my family. This was simply “forcing a good woman into prostitution.”
1) Churches I’ve Lived In:
From 1997 to 2014, I was at a certain church.
From 2014 to 2019, I was at Pastor Gong Mingpeng’s “Toronto Chinese Bible Church West.”
In 2019, I was at a Bread of Life church, referred to as “Church A.”
From 2019 to 2023, I was at another branch of “Toronto Chinese Bible Church,” referred to as
“Church B.”
From early 2023 to June 2023, I returned to “Church A.”
Since then, I have primarily been in English churches.
2) Example 1:
From 2019 to 2023, I was at “Church B,” another branch of “Toronto Chinese Bible Church.”
The pastor of this church is referred to as “B-1.” From 2019 to 2021, Pastor “B-1” fully
supported me. He witnessed and experienced Pastor Gong Mingpeng’s “extremely egregious”
actions during this period, as well as the unjust treatment and destruction my family suffered. He knew the entire process, including the details. I only recounted the entire story in detail to him.
But starting in 2022, due to Pastor Gong Mingpeng’s influence and the benefits he offered,
Pastor “B-1” began to change his stance, stating statements completely contrary to the facts he
knew. He claimed, “My family’s problems are primarily my fault,” and “My wife is an adult and
has not been influenced by Pastor Gong Mingpeng.” He selectively emphasized certain
aspects, perverting and distorting the overall message, ultimately accusing me of “disdain for
the church” and “Attacking God’s servant”
Because of Pastor “B-1’s” change of heart, others who supported me in the church also began
to change their stance, either remaining silent or selectively distorting their statements.
3) Example 2:
While I was at Church “B,” an intern pastor, temporarily referred to as Pastor “C-1,” spoke the
truth and conscience regarding my family’s situation, saying that I was being wronged and
proactively expressed his views to Pastor “B-1.” However, in 2024, under the influence of Pastor
Gong Mingpeng and the benefits he offered, Pastor “C-1” started a new church. Pastor Gong
Mingpeng preached at Pastor “C-1″‘s church once a month.
Pastor C-1 completely changed his way, publicly stating in a 2025 sermon, “I should see a
doctor” (implying I had mental health issues). He also said that Pastor Gong Mingpeng had
demonstrated humility and love in the face of my attacks, exuding the “fragrance of Christ.”
4) Example 3:
In 2019 and 2023, I was at Church “A,” where the pastor, temporarily referred to as Pastor “A-
1,” was fully aware of my account of the injustice and destruction my family suffered. He had
numerous interactions with my wife and understood the absurdity of what was happening to my family within the church.
But starting in 2023, Pastor “A-1” refused the materials I provided him exposing Pastor Gong
Mingpeng’s problems. I later learned that he had accepted bribes offered by Pastor Gong
Mingpeng.
Pastor “A-1” and Pastor Gong Mingpeng preached once a month at Pastor “C-1’s” church. At
the 2025 sermon meeting held by the Toronto Chinese Evangelical Pastoral Fellowship, all
counselors were from Pastor “A-1’s” church.
5) At this point, all the pastors in the Chinese churches I had lived in over the years, and who
had experienced the injustice and destruction my family suffered during this period, had been
recruited by Pastor Gong Mingpeng.