For minister, music is a medium of hope

If music is the universal language, then Mark Tedder's dialogue with Beijing takes place one show at a time.

And he's doing so with the help of his family his nuclear one and the 30-plus musicians scattered worldwide that compose a kind of rotating clan.

Having arrived in September 2006, Tedder is currently the music minister (a title Tedder dislikes) at the Beijing International Christian Fellowship (BICF). He also plays other shows, from opening for Newsboys at StarLive and performing at the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad's (BOCOG) Christmas party to entertaining university crowds on occasion.