 A former member of the Beijing branch of the London Missionary Society led by British missionary Samuel Evans Meech (1845–1937), Wei became a Pentecostal under the influence of Norwegian missionary to China, Bernt Berntsen.In 1917, he left Berntsen’s group and claimed that a vision had directed him to found his own church.Wei predicted that the world will end in 1921 or 1922.