Missionary Ben’s Daughters Discuss Growing Up In China (And Dad’s Deportation) [China Compass]

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🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben, flying to Malaysia (via Hong Kong) as this podcast drops!

Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) where I post daily reminders to pray for China. X is also the best way to contact me. Just follow and send a DM. You can also email me @ bfwesten at gmail dot com

Who is Missionary Ben?

I haven’t done this in a long time, but every now and then I am reminded I should probably give a little bit more of my background (and my China bonafides). Now I can’t divulge very much, for security reasons, but here are the basics: moved to China at the age of 19, in the early 2000s, taught myself to speak (and read) Chinese. Lived there w/ my family til I was deported in 2018.

Unbeaten: Confronting the Lies (and Laughter) of the Chinese Communist Police

The Story of My Arrest, Interrogation, and Deportation from China (Unbeaten.vip)

Over those nearly 15 years, I set foot in every province, and visited hundreds of cities, towns, and villages. Alongside our evangelistic work, I helped manage a leather factory in a Muslim town, opened a yak burger/pizza restaurant on the Tibetan Plateau, served as a guide and Tibetan taxi driver, and taught English to elementary kids, high schoolers, and young adults.

How I Taught Myself Mandarin (And How You Can Learn Chinese Too, But Won’t)

https://chinacall.substack.com/p/how-i-taught-myself-mandarin

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0:00.0	Welcome to second year
0:05.0	Welcome to another special edition of the China Compass podcast on the Fight LaFeast Network.
0:24.5	I'm your host, Missionary Bin, coming from, well, I'm actually, this is dropping while I'm not in Oklahoma.
0:30.7	I'm on my way to Malaysia, but we're recording in Oklahoma on Father's Day.
0:35.5	I'm with my two daughters, one whom is staying behind here in America
0:40.4	while we go to Malaysia and the other one who is going with us to Malaysia. I want to ask them a few
0:45.1	questions on the podcast today and talk through some stuff that's happened in China in the past
0:49.8	that I haven't necessarily asked the right questions and asked all the details about.
0:54.8	And I'm curious what they have to say.
0:56.1	I want to learn a few things about what happened specifically seven years ago this week
1:01.3	when you guys left China for the final time as residents of China.
1:06.0	And I was already waiting for you in Thailand.
1:08.1	So I want to know how those last few days and weeks went when I wasn't there and you were
1:11.7	packing up to leave China from having called China your home for the last time.
1:16.1	Anyway, let me introduce this is Abby is here.
1:18.4	Abby is the youngest.
1:19.4	Hi, Abby.
1:20.4	Hi.
1:21.4	This is your first time on my podcast, right?
1:23.9	Yes, it is my first time, although I've helped with it a lot, so I'm familiar.
1:28.9	You helped early on a little bit. You helped to do some editing early, early. Well, she basically got
1:33.1	it started. That's right. She helped me with some of the, yeah, you're right. Credit, where credit is
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