From South Carolina
The Rev. Dr. Tabitha doesn’t want her full named used because she is a missionary priest to the People’s Republic of China and fears the release might jeopardize her mission.
Tabitha came to the United States in 1977 and became a naturalized citizen in 1982. A friend started going to an Episcopal church in Massachusetts and urged Tabitha to come with her because “the priest was nice.”
Tabitha felt a “powerful presence” in the church, plus she said the church had a “sense of warmth” that she had never felt before.
She and her two daughters were baptized in the church in 1980. This led to her “Damascus Road Experience” in 1986.
In a vision she saw Christ “put the Chinese people as precious jewels on a paten and hold them to my heart with a sword.”
Tabitha returned to China and began working in the missionary field. On a retreat in Malaysia in 1998, she met the then rector of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Charleston.
Tabitha came back to the U.S., where she graduated from an Episcopal divinity school and then went on to receive a doctorate from a theological school.
The St. Michael’s rector recommended her to the then-bishop of the lower diocese of South Carolina in Charleston. He ordained Tabitha in 2003.
More here-
http://www2.scnow.com/lifestyles/2011/apr/01/episcopal-minister-born-china-shares-religious-mis-ar-1659658/
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