Rev. Aaron Chan

Rev. Tim Chen

Aaron was born in Hong Kong and came over to New York when he was seven years old and now lives on Long Island.  He served with Cru before pursuing his M.Div. and Th.M. in preaching at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary.  He is passionate about God's work in raising up a new generation of Asian-American Christian servant leaders.  He is happily married to Connie and together they have a ten-year-old daughter named Grace and a seven-year-old son named Christian.​

Timothy T. Chen was born in Taiwan and came to the United States when he was 10.  He came to embrace his faith fully during his college days at Baruch InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.  He worked as a network system analyst/consultant prior to his call into full-time ministry.  Tim was called into full-time through the Christian & Missionary Alliance’s May 2003 “Ministry as the Second Career.” Tim was ordained in Jan, 2006.  He served with 2 other churches, one in Queens, and the other in Manhattan for about 10 years before being called to his current ministry.  Tim has served as the EM Pastor of Grace Chinese Alliance Church, in Brooklyn since April 2014. He received his M.Div. from Bethel Seminary of the East.  Tim and his wife Linda were married in 1990, have a son, Christopher. 

Motto: Where the Lord placed you at the time, there is your mission field.     

Rev. Wilson Cheng

Rev. Steve Hwang

Wilson has served on the pastoral staff of three churches, two in Northern California and one in Queens, NYC since 1991.  He came back to the NYC area, where he was born and raised, in 1998 to church plant.  He presently is still serving at Covenant of Grace Presbyterian Church in Queens where he began as a church planter.  Wilson and his wife Miranda have three daughters, Jensine, Kara, and Daniella.
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Steve currently serves as the English Ministries Pastor for Crystal Evangelical Church of New York. He also serves as the East Coast Director for Joyful Praise Ministries which exists to share the joy of knowing Christ through praise & worship, geared toward supporting and helping the local church. Steve received his M. Div. from Drew Theological Seminary. Steve and his wife, Annie, have two daughters, Joyce and Jubilee.

Rev. Lee Ka

Lee has served as the English Pastor of the Staten Island Chinese Christian Church since September 2000. Prior to being called to serve at SICCC, Lee worked in the Financial/Investment Banking Industry for eleven years. Lee grew up at Oversea Chinese Mission and was a member of that church for twenty years. He received his Master of Divinity from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in May 2000. Later that year, God led Lee and his number one supporter and wife, Joan, to SICCC. Lee and Joan are the proud parents of three wonderful girls named Teagan, Karis Ann and June Logan.

Rev. Bayer Lee

Bayer and his wife Nancy have been serving the Lord together since 1978. After Bayer graduated from Dallas Seminary, he and Nancy returned to New York to serve in their first home church, The First Baptist Church of Flushing. They served there 7 years before the Lord called them to serve their second home church, Chinese Evangel Mission Church, Queens. Bayer and Nancy served CEMC, Queens for 10 years before the Lord called them to serve Trust in God Baptist in New York Chinatown. He is currently completing his research on the Hakka and Taishan family and community while serving as a consulting pastor to First Chinese Baptist Church and Trust in God Baptist Church. Bayer's role in PaLM, as he sees it, is to serve as a link between PaLM and the Chinese-speaking churches and to help PaLM explore the possibilities of future short-term mission trips to Taishan and Hong Kong. Bayer and Nancy have three boys - Bryant and Lawrence, both of whom have graduated and are working and Jared who is a freshman in college.

Rev. Daniel Lee

Rev. John Maxham

Daniel arrived in NYC in 1998 to pastor the congregation he currently serves, Compass Fellowship Church, in the Upper West Side. Having spent almost his entire life in Cali, he was welcomed to NY with parking tickets stamped 5:53am, a continuous parade‐barricade of through streets in Central Park fifteen minutes prior to Sunday service time, and the realization that 'curb your dog' really has no meaning at all. Daniel met the Lord in college while attending UC Berkeley and then felt the thrill of ministering to undergrads who were struggling just as mightily as he once had. These experiences stayed with him throughout his foray into engineering, law and eventually seminary GGBTS & PTS). Today, he does his best to keep up a personal spiritual edge, good relationships in the family of God, a less‐than‐respectable spiking ability, and a fun home life with his wife Mona and 2 kids, Nicholas and Rebekah.

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Rev. John Maxham is a native of New Jersey, growing up and becoming a Christian in Grace Presbyterian Church in Montclair. He met his wife Li-Chan Chen while studying at Manhattan School of Music. They were married in Chinese Evangel Mission Church and went on to careers singing opera. After performing in Germany for nine years, they returned to live in NJ and joined CEMCNJ in East Brunswick where they were asked to start an English speaking congregation with three other families. With the support of CEMCNJ, John received an MDiv degree at Philadelphia Biblical University (now Cairn). In 2014 he was called to serve as Pastor of English Ministries at OCM Grace Church in Ridgefield Park, NJ. and both he and Li-Chan serve the Lord there with gladness. They are proud parents of Julia and Johnny.

Rev. Jim Om

Jim grew up in the Philadelphia area.  His undergraduate degree was in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania where, more importantly, he met his wife Jennifer through InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Jim has a M.Div. from Westminster Theological Seminary Philadelphia.  Jim served on the pastoral staff of Redeemer Presbyterian Church for seven years, as an Associate Pastor in New York and a church planter in New Jersey.  In 2003 he started a non-denominational church called The River Church of New Jersey with a small group of families.  The Lord has blessed him with a growing multicultural community.  Jim and Jennifer have four kids: Peter, Phoebe, Penelope, and Philip.

Rev. Jeff Whisman

Jeff Whisman has served as the Pastor of English Ministry at Chinese Christian Church in Somerset since October, 2008. He grew up near Lowell, Massachusetts and got his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 1988. Jeff studied at Denver Seminary where he met his wife, May. He graduated with a Masters of Divinity in 1995. Jeff and May have a passion to reach the next  generations of American Born Asians for Christ. After three years of working together in a primarily Caucasian church in the Denver area, they followed the Lord's calling and began serving at a Chinese American Church in Irvine, CA in 1998. Jeff has served as Pastor in Chinese American churches in southern California and New Jersey the past eleven years. Jeff finished his work on a Doctor of Ministry degree from Gordon Conwell and graduated in May, 2009.