The Luke Alliance is not just filling a gap in the mission of the church, but is also filling a gap within government. Over the past 5 years, we have become one of the few trusted voices in Washington to represent the needs of the persecuted church in China. The Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC) has told us we are one of the few groups who regularly bring reliable information to them about the persecution of the Chinese church.

We use our network of relationships in Washington to brief the Executive branch, members of Congress and the State dept to raise awareness so that through diplomacy, the persecuted might find relief. We are building a network of individuals, churches, businesses, and government officials who stand in the gap for the persecuted church together.

Corey Jackson
Founder and President 

Corey Jackson planted and is currently the Senior Pastor of Trinity Park Church in Cary, NC, a multi-cultural church that is home to Christians from over 25 cultural backgrounds. He actively coaches several church planters and pastors in China and in the United States. Corey previously lived in China, speaks Mandarin, and has served as an advisor for a large urban house church movement in China for the past 13 years.

He has been instrumental in advocating at the highest levels in Washington, D.C., and globally for arrested Chinese house church leaders, their families, and for others in China experiencing persecution. He remains deeply connected to the unregistered church movement in China and to constituents in Washington, D.C. and in Europe.

Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Corey has a B.A. from Auburn University in History and a Masters of Divinity from Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. He has been quoted as a human rights advocate by Real Clear Politics and his pastoral articles have been highlighted by The Gospel Coalition and Christianity Today.

Rana Siu Inboden 
Consultant

Dr. Rana Siu Inboden is a Senior Fellow with the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas-Austin. She serves as a consultant on human rights, democracy and rule of law projects in Asia for a number of non-governmental organizations and conducts research related to international human rights, Chinese foreign policy, the effectiveness of international human rights and democracy projects and authoritarian collaboration in the United Nations. Her first book, China and the International Human Rights Regime (Cambridge, 2021) examines China’s role in the international human rights regime between 1982 and 2017.

Previously, Dr. Inboden served in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor where her primary responsibilities included managing the State Department’s Human Rights and Democracy Fund China program and promoting U.S. human rights and democracy policy in China and North Korea. She also served at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, in the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, and in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research where she covered U.S.-China relations.

Dr. Inboden holds a DPhil from the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. She obtained an M.A. at Stanford University in East Asian Studies and a B.S. at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She was awarded a U.S. State Department Superior Honor Award for her work in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.

Charity Starchenko
Director of Communications

A California native, Charity has over a decade of experience in non-profit management and marketing communications. She is pursuing a Th.M. in Missiology at the Edinburgh Theological Seminary, where her research focuses on the theology of advocacy and human rights. She holds an M.A. from California State University and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Charity began her career teaching AP Economics and European History at a private school for Chinese and Korean expat families in San Francisco. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children.