The Bread of Life Church (Chinese: 靈糧堂; pinyin: Ling Liang Tang) is an independent Chinese church founded in Shanghai, Republic of China, in 1942, which now has churches in Asia, Australia, and North America.
[1] During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the International Settlement in Shanghai was seized by Japanese troops in December 1941, putting a stop to Western missions in the region.
The next year, in June 1942, the Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor Timothy Dzao (Chinese: 趙世光; 1908–1973) established the Bread of Life Church in Shanghai.
[1] By the time of the communist victory in mainland China, Dzao moved his headquarters first to Hong Kong in 1949,[1] before moving it to Taipei, Taiwan in 1954.
When Nathaniel Chow (周神助; born 1941) became the senior pastor of the Bread of Life Church in Taipei (1977–2011), the church began have a stronger emphasis on a charismatic infilling of the Holy Spirit.