Tabor Laughlin (pseudonym) got his PhD in Intercultural Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School [TEDS]; his MDiv from Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY; and, his bachelor's in Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University. Tabor has served in China over ten years. He was president of a small mission agency in NW China. Now he lives with his wife and family in China.
He is the author of Becoming Native to Win the Natives: Cross-Culturally Becoming All Things to All Men (2016); China's Ambassadors of Christ to the Nations (2020); China's Harvest Fields (2020); and, In the Fiery Furnace of Suffering (2018). He has been considered an expert on cross-cultural Chinese missionaries sent from Mainland China to other countries.