Laurence currently serves on the pastoral team at the Chinese Christian Church + Center in Chinatown, Philadelphia since 2006. His primary passion is the development of the local and future church. He received his M.Div from Biblical Theological Seminary and has over a decade of experience in youth ministry and leading short term missions.

While studying graphic design, urban planning & public policy at Rutgers University he was involved with InterVarsity Chinese Christian Fellowship on campus. It was soon after a couple of years in the corporate world that Laurence followed a call of God towards full-time vocational ministry. He served on staff at the Rutgers Community Christian Church as an intern minister and also had the privilege of working in Christian higher education on the administration of Somerset Christian College helping to establish it as the leading evangelical college in the state of New Jersey. Laurence served as the Youth Program Director for the Chinese Missions Convention a premier tri-annual missions gathering sponsored by Ambassadors For Christ since 1998.

During the summer of 1996, Laurence met Lauren Cacciamani. She was beginning a glorious college career as a starting player on the Penn State University Women’s Volleyball team. Lauren helped bring this team several times to the NCAA Final Four and then finally to win the national championship her senior year. This was an incredible platform for Lauren to share her story of following Jesus Christ with many teammates and fans. She received many honors and awards including the National Player of the Year and as Player of the Century in her home state of New Jersey. After graduating with a degree in art education, she returned home and soon dove into the youth ministry at Rutgers Community Christian Church serving as a youth counselor alongside her future husband. This was a great shock to the volleyball world that expected her to play in the 2000 Olympic games or move on to professional volleyball. God had other plans for her.

Laurence and his wife Lauren were happily wed in the spring of 2002 and entered the joy of parenthood in 2005 with their son Jayden. She's 6'2". He's probably 5'10" with Nikes on. She cooks. He cleans. She has a high tolerance for mess. He's slightly OCD. She likes Discovery channel. He reads anything from comic books to deep theological treatises like an addiction. They're both artists with different aesthetic values. Jayden is a normal functioning happy healthy toddler from what we can tell.

There will a new addition to their family this coming August.

Daniel Park

Daniel Park began preaching the Gospel since his youth. Founder of KINGSMARK GLOBAL MINISTRIES and Associate Senior Pastor of Princeton Glory Church, pastor Daniel is an inspiring preacher, visionary, strategist and entrepreneur. He travels extensively around the world ministering, equipping and provoking the young people to be Kingdom’s ambassadors in the global and local communities.

Redd Sevilla
Redd's brothers are named Blue, Verde and Gray. Redd believes that the reason for the colors is because his parents are hippies but the parents deny this. Redd and Aya's daughter is named Amber. Aya means "color" in Japanese (at least according to Aya who is not Japanese but wanted to fit into the whole color thing going on). If they have a second child, Redd and Aya are looking for suggestions on what to call him or her. The person that suggests the winning name will have the awesome opportunity of babysitting for Redd and Aya.

Redd's life was changed by God when he was 15 years old attending high school. Aya life was invaded by the love of Christ after she graduated from college. Amber is 1 year old and raises her hand voluntarily during worship. They have 10 years of youth work experience. Currently, they serve as part of the leadership community at New Life Fellowship in Queens.

Carol Chao
Carol Chao served as the Mentoring Coordinator and Biblical Counselor at Chinese Christian Herald Crusades from 2004-2006. Prior to that, she was the Production Coordinator and AGM for four years at Second Generation Productions, a non-profit theater company based in NYC, where she helped produce performances and concerts in New York, Hawaii and Taiwan.

It was during her love affair with Broadway that God called Carol to seriously consider deepening her relationship with JUST Him and pay more attention to what she was doing with most of her time: counseling. She did just that and graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in May 2004 with a M.A. in Biblical Counseling. Her time there with the Lord and fellow saints has helped her to practically administer the Word in all its fullness both in counseling and daily life.

Currently, she loves being a mommy to her adorable 17-month old daughter Verity who is a smarty-pants! She and her husband Justin have been married for three joy/adventure-filled years. They serve together in the children’s ministry at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Morningside Heights, NYC. Previously, she led worship, youth group, children’s worship, retreats and bible studies at Chinese for Christ NY Church in Flushing.

She looks forward to training more biblical counselors who can impart wisdom and a God-oriented perspective to their communities, giving people refreshing freedom from the mundane through Christ’s boundless love. In her “downtime” she enjoys reading chick lit and “green” books, finding baby freebies, hiking and exploring Westchester where she lives, and daydreaming about lattes, surfing, and sushi.

Pastor Janming Hou, Christian Testimony Church Morris Plains

Janming Hou, a forty-seven-year old pastor who is learning to minister to young people. He is just as special as most regular first-generation Chinese immigrants: Ph.D. in engineering, wife, kids, jobs, house... BUT, he quit his job as a research scientist and became a pastor of Christian Testimony Morris seven years ago. He is in his last year of Bethel Seminary M.Div. program (the title might reflect some of his own experience...?). He has been married to Betty for twenty years and they have two children, Phillip who will have just turned 17 and Rebecca is almost fourteen, along with their dog Tagg, and they live happily in Parsippany, NJ.

Wendy Chou, Founder of Generation Now! and Youth Director of Monmouth Chinese Christian Church

Responding to God’s call for the next generation, Wendy early retired after 24 years of service and became full-time youth director at the Monmouth Chinese Christian Church (MCCC) in 2002. Over the past six years, she has built a thriving youth ministry with over 100 youth in a church of less than 500. She also launched two college groups that started a wave of over twenty ABC young adults serving in the youth ministry. She takes great joy to receive news about her students serving as church-planters and missionaries in Asia, youth ministers in both urban and suburban churches and campus fellowship presidents. One student whom she’s mentored since 7th grade is now a deacon on the board of executive counsel in her own church.

Wendy’s bi-cultural background and professional trainings give her the unique privilege to speak to church leaders, parents and students alike. Her teachings emphasize on character, prayers, discipleship, servanthood, leadership, teamwork, and intimacy with God. Her leadership that challenged youth to live in a missional mentality inspired the launching of six Bible study groups in the campuses and communities last year. She has led youth mission trips around the globe, taking actions to address social injustice by fundraising to rescue child prostitution, helping children in the war-torn countries, sharing the gospels to the homeless, gangster, drug addicts and people of all faiths by preaching in the subway, open streets and parks in NYC. One of Wendy’s greatest joy is seeing her students leading two Tibetans to Christ in Union Square last September. Recently God has risen up her high school students to preach in the monthly youth outreach events that drew 250-300 students each time with many committing their lives to Christ.

Wendy has been married for thirty years. Her husband, Rev. Joseph Chou is the founder of House of Mercy and Evangelism (H.O.M.E.), a ministry to the disadvantaged in the jail and nursing homes. Both her children serve alongside as lead worshippers, video producers and small group leaders in the youth group. In her spare time, which is very rare these days, she enjoys reading, watching nature or movie, hang out with good friends or just simply do nothing and enjoy God.

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