High Expectations
By Kevin Molloy

When I went to China in 2003 I went under high expectations of a sovereign word from God that I was going to do three things: 1) I was told to say the name of Jesus to 30 million to 120 million people, 2) I was supposed to marry a Chinese woman and be a step father to her daughter, and 3) Teach English to 1 million Chinese people. I had these orders by prophecy. I had no way of knowing how it would happen either.

Maybe I had heard wrong?

What does a saint do when such a thing happens to him? Well, the first thing I did, was to think I was crazy! The most I have ever done was giving a testimony in a church service in front of maybe 200 people. I got married in front of 800 people in 1971. That was a large crowd. Somebody like me just does not speak to that many people.

It had to be a God thing, if it was going to happen at all.

I read the scriptures which should be the first way of dealing with this type of issue; at least for this saint. So I went to the elders in my Baptist oriented Sunday School that I attended. They all thought I was thinking about the young Chinese woman who was 14 years my junior as the main reason I had the “vision”.

What was hard for this poor soul to understand was the enormity of the task ahead of me. Surely some other brother and sister in the Lord should confirm or reject (in all probability) my “word from the Lord”. “Wait for the Lord to tell you,” was one dear saint’s advice that has since gone on to be with the Lord. Only one brother who died of cancer had the word from my heavenly Father for me.

After a month long wait my fiancé connected with an elderly women’s group who were sponsoring the wedding ceremony to be seen all over China. Immediately, the prophetic word from God returned to me in robust form, and rekindled my heart. Suddenly, more emails sporting all kinds of love talk and plans for the big day renewed interest in the “call” God was speaking clearly to me.

The overwhelming factor was the chance to preach the name of Jesus to as many people as television cameras could reach in a relatively short time. As the immensity of this experience reached my slow moving cranium I began to wonder how it could happen at all; the actual working to glorify Christ was going to happen.

There was a clarifying new impetus that God was reeling me in to do His work, and say the name of Jesus to a people who have never heard the name of Jesus mentioned in English or Mandarin Chinese. This was going to reach all over China and those who scoffed at the idea originally, suddenly reversed their position and were now blessing me.

Meanwhile, I sensed a growing fear of government interference plaguing us as we endeavored to begin this exercise in faith. My employment was going to be sacrificed and it was the best job I had ever experienced. I taught 15 students an introduction to computers at a local technical school here in Phoenix. What lay ahead of me was an international section of a local Chinese school teaching 135 children the English language.

I am proud to say that the students were far different than what I had expected. There was an aversion to grammar at the school and since there is no past tense in Mandarin the concept of past tense in English is foreign. Try to eliminate the past tense and see how your English sounds.


My focus during all of this was to keep the three prime thoughts about why we were in China in the first place. The prophecies dominated this writer’s mind to the point of elimination of everything else. I gave shallow cognizance to all other issues. Everyone wanted to know all about me, and what my impressions of China were.

On October 7th we arrived at the wedding office for the People’s Republic of China and we were met my no less than eight newspapers and the only major television station in Shenzhen China- TV1. They asked me why I wanted to marry this Chinese woman and leave my country. I replied to them that God had told me to do it.

Christina looked at me and with challenging eyes of a new bride asked me with fear on her face, asked me the question of my lifetime. I said God had told me to do it and she should tell them that on live television. When she responded slower than I thought reasonable she told me in chinglish that we might get arrested for saying that, I told her that if she did not translate in Chinese exactly what I said we would stop immediately.

The wedding went fine and we were among 99 other couples in a single joint ceremony. There was a certain excitement and high expectation of what would be the results of uniting this westerner or “laowhy” or white devil to this Chinese woman. The other couples wanted to take their picture with us because they thought we were lucky.

We were accepted by them because we did not want to proselytize anyone at the time, which would come later. By 2005 in June we had accomplished all three of my original goals given to me trough prophecy. This website was famous all over China and when each person asked me for my web address I gave it to them with pride I helped over 1million people read English for the first time in their lives.

We later learned that TBN had paid a large sum of money about $20 million, I believe, to get the same rights to say the name of Jesus. The cost saying the name of Jesus for me was a measly $200 dollars.

God’s plans done God’s way will yield much fruit.