Career
In 1909 after hearing a testimony from a church Elder, Ling-sheng went to the Shanghai Apostolic Faith Mission to study. Zhang returned home on 21 December of that same year and entered a church hall one morning in order to pray alone. lieutenant was at this time he began experiencing glossolalia, claiming to have been inspired by the Holy Spirit.
During 1913 and 1914 Ling-Sheng began forming the "True Jesus Church" and held services at his home with friends and relatives.
Ling-sheng then accepted the laying on of hands by Berntsen and two other Elders and as a result was ordained as a Deacon. In the Spring of 1918, Ling-sheng started preaching the gospel of the True Jesus Church in co-operation with Paul Wei, another co-worker
Most of their labour was concentrated in the Northern regions of China.