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Who's Who

This page contains auto-biographical introductions posted by CAC forum members, in chronological order of submission. Please submit your biographical info if you're a CACer by email to cacforum-owner@yahoogroups.com

NOTE: most items submitted in June 2000 - information may be outdated.

We took an online survey on the CAC Forum, with 55 subscribers participating. See the survey results for some very interesting information.

Dr. Timothy Tseng One of the co-founders of the CAC mailing list. Recent Seminary professor, taught church history at Denver Seminary from 1994 to Spring 1996. I am currently trying to write a history of Chinese Christianity in North America. This project has entailed everything from looking for scattered documentation to interviewing contemporary Chinese Christians. I was born in Taiwan and came to the U.S. at the age of 2. I'm a PK - my dad pastors (he is the senior minister at the Brooklyn Chinese Christian Church in NYC which he founded and where I was nurtured). I received Christ as my Lord and Savior at the age of 12. By God's grace (Intervarsity Fellowship staff, Chinese Christian Fellowship at NYU, Urbana '81) I received a calling to be a minister (though I went into the ministry kicking and screaming). I was ordained through the American Baptist Churches, U.S.A. in 1988. My dissertation [doctoral program in Church History at Union Theological Seminary] examined the discourse of white Protestants during the turn of this century regarding Japanese and Chinese immigrants. Web site: http://hometown.aol.com/tstseng/
Sze-kar ("SEE-KAH") Wan Co-founder of CAC mailing list. Born in China, raised in Hong Kong and (since 15 yrs of age) Boston. Came to the Lord at 16, right before college, where I studied Math and Computer. Have been in theology after a 2-yr stint as engineer, how- ever, and am teaching NT at Andover Newton Theological School (since 1990). Not yet ordined but might one day in the Episcopal Church. Have been involved in non-denominational Chinese Evangelical churches in Boston until the power that be became suspicious of me bc of my positions on women leadership (120% support, incl ordination and the works!), social issues (let's make the gospel work), etc. Am involved in an Episcopal congregation in Boston ministering to recent immigrants from China, Cantonese being the primary language, Mandarin the secondary.
DJ Chuang CAC mailing list and web site manager. My background is ARC (American Raised Chinese)- born in Taiwan, and came to America when I was 8 years old, grew up in a small town in Virginia, attended Virginia Tech for electrical engineering. I felt led to ministry after working a few years in Southern Maryland, and completed seminary studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in April 1995. Served 5 years in pastoral ministry. Currently working as a web developer and a foundation staff member. Personal web site: A Place Called Home at www.djchuang.com .
Dr. Samuel Ling General Director, China Horizon (a ministry to mainland Chinese scholars, and a one-time ABC youth director, 1976-78, and church planter for ABC's, 1980-85.
Fenggang Yang Ph.D. in sociology. I have done sociological studies of Chinese churches in the United States. My dissertation (1996) is entitled "Religious Conversion and Identity Construction: A Study of a Chinese Church in the United States." It is an ethnographic study of the three primary identities that a Chinese Christian in the United States must face -- "Christian", "American", and "Chinese", and the complex relationships of these three identities. I have written papers on the historical changes and general characteristics of Chinese churches in the United States, on the internal diversity and unity of a Chinese church in the United States, etc. Currently I am a postdoc researcher working on a project called "Religion, Ethnicity, and New Immigrants Research" (RENIR). I am doing ethnographic studies of a Chinese Buddhist temple and a Chinese Protestant church in Houston.
Louis Lee My wife and I are both ABC's who grew up near Detroit, Michigan. We both graduated from the Univ. of Mich (75) and Dallas Seminary (79). After pastoring several Chinese churches in northern California for the past 17 years and starting a small para church organization called MESA (Ministries for English Speaking Asians) in 1988, I was hired full time by Promise Keepers in 7/96 to help coordinate their contacts with Asian Americans.
Ken Uyeda Fong Born ('54) and raised in Sacramento, Ken is a native Californian, a third generation American of Chinese ancestry.  He has degrees from U.C. Berkeley ('76, biological science), M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, (1980), and D.Min. from Fuller (1990). He's been part of Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles since becoming an associate pastor in January 1981, and became senior pastor in March 1997, seeing it progress from an English-speaking Japanese American ministry to becoming a multi-Asian multi-ethnic church. Judson Press published his book, Pursuing the Pearl: A Comprehensive Resource for Multi-Asian Ministry, in the fall of 1999. He was the closing evangelist for the October 1998 Promise Keepers conference in Sacramento, CA, and will serve as the main Bible expositor at the Urbana 2000 student missions conference. He enjoys tennis, mountain biking and golf. He is married to Sharon Uyeda, and they will be adopting a child from China in 1999.
Ed Yee I am currently the English Pastor at the United Christian Church of Hacienda Heights, an eastern suburb of Los Angeles. Grew up and became a Christian at True Light Presbyterian in LA. I graduated from Calif. State Univ. at LA in Accounting and worked for about seven years and then entered seminary at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Finishing with my MDiv in 1987, my first church was at Chinese Christian Mandarin in Illinois. Then moved on and got married in SF and took a position at Berkeley Chinese Community in 1989. I have been in my present position since Nov., 1993. I have been involved off and on with the Inter-Church Conference (ICC), ministry similar to MCBC (which I have also been involved with) and ECBC. I have also been involved in the FACE Family/Adult Conf. which has been held at Mt. Hermon, California. My hope and vision is for a stronger ministry to the Young Families and older singles (30 plus) in our area and I hope to do some of that through ICC. I hold for the FACE directors here a relatively current directory of English Ministry Pastors and workers in the Southern California area.