A List of Influential Chinese-American Christian Leaders

I asked for help with this question, “Who are the influential Chinese-American (English-speaking) Christian leaders?” on the internet and on Facebook. The crowdsourcing activity was way more numerous on Facebook, with 41 comments and counting.

Here’s the list of Chinese-Americans mentioned on Facebook in response to the question:

• David Hsu, West Houston Chinese Church
• Vivian Mabuni, Author of Warrior in Pink and with Epic Movement
• Dr. Timothy Tseng, Pastor of English Ministries at Canaan Taiwanese Christian Church and church history professor for many years
• Rev. Dr. Grace May, Founder of Women of Wonder and minister at large
• Margaret Yu, National Executive Director, Epic Movement
• Dr. Chloe Sun, Professor of Old Testament Studies at Logos Evangelical Seminary
• Francis Chan, best-selling author and speaker, church planting We Are Church
• Pete Sung, Pastor, Davis Campus of Bayside Church
• Judy Wu Dominick, Speaker and blogger to build bridges across racial divides
• Jeanette Yep, Pastor of Global Outreach at Grace Chapel[*]
• Rev. Dr. Ken Fong, Podcast Host of Asian America Podcast and recently retired pastor of Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles
• Dr. Russell Jeung, Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University and author of Faithful Generations and At Home in Exile, and more
• Dr. Nancy Yuen, Associate Professor of Sociology, Biola University and author of Reel Inequality
• Joe Ho, National Director of Asian American Ministries, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
• Melanie Mar Chow, Asian American Christian Fellowship
• Jeffrey Kuan, President of Claremont Theological Seminary
• Rev. Darryl Fong, English Pastor, Chinese Baptist Church of Central Orange County
• Rev. Katie Choy-Wong, Senior Pastor at New Life Christian Fellowship (Castro Valley, CA)
• Rev. Victor Quon, Campus Minister, Asian American Christian Fellowship
• Pastor Daniel Wong, New Hope Community Church (Sacramento, CA)
• Check Yee, Salvation Army
• Rev. Steve Quen, Chinese Bible Church (Alameda, CA)
• Brad Wong, Pastor of The River Church
• Donna Dong, Director Multi-Ethnic/Multicultural Ministry, InterVarsity Canada
• Hugo Cheng, Senior Pastor, Chinese Bible Church of Maryland
• Clement Setiawan, Youth Guy at Dallas Chinese Bible Church
• Rev. Joshua Lee, EM Pastor at The Crossing at CFCC Hayward
• Fred Mok, Garden City Church
• Peter Ong, Director of Church and Community Engagement at Hope For New York
• Dr. Amos Yong, Professor of Theology & Mission at Fuller Seminary
• Dr. Allen Yeh, Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies, Biola University
• DJ Chuang, Blogger and author of MultiAsian.Church: A Future for Asian Americans in a Multiethnic World
• Bruce Fong, Dean and Professor of Pastoral Ministries, Dallas Theological Seminary–Houston
• Dr. Robert Chao Romero
• Brian Leong
• Jennifer Guo
• Jennifer Yen
• Wei Feng Ho
• Janna Louie
• Sabrina Chan
• Jaeson Ma
• Debbie Hearn Gin
• Tracey Gee
• Melissa Dyo
• Debbie Schwartz
• Brenda Wong
• Dennis Lee
• Hyung Lee
• Jodi Yin Chung
• Christina Son
• Stan Chang
• Jennifer Lin
• Zaneta Loh
• Jeremy Chu
• Benjamin Lam
• Joshua Ong
• Liz Lin
• Bruce Reyes-Chow
• Pastor Louis Lee
• Pastor Alvin Louie

I found out after the initial query that the questioner was more interested in church influencers (pastors and professors) rather than all Christian leaders in all kinds of vocations. Fair enough. So I’ve moved Chinese-American Christian leaders who are not religious professionals to this list below:

• Larissa Lam, Award-winning singer and songwriter, talk show host, TEDx speaker, and more
• Baldwin Chiu, Rapper “Only Won”; and with her wife Larissa Lam, made a short-film Finding Cleveland that will have a sequel as a full-length documentary
• Nikole Lim, speaker and educator on leveraging dignity through the restorative art of storytelling
• Jenny Yang, SVP of Advocacy and Policy at World Relief and Co-Author of “Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate”
• Yuzhan Hong, Advocate for justice, especially women’s rights, and blogger at feministasiandad.com
• Grace Esther Liao

If you noticed there were names listed above without any description, that’s because I haven’t had the time or energy to find out who they are or they’re not findable on the internet. You may also have observed that there’s a wide range of what people consider to be influential.

Did you find this list helpful? Do you know of others? For those without descriptions, would you describe how they’ve been influential? Please add a comment. Thank you.