Speaker Profiles
Opening
Lawrence Ko
Expository Preaching
Kingdom Gospel
Patrick Fung
Expository Preaching
Holistic Mission
Arnold Chow
Expository Preaching
Chinese Churches
Clement Chia
Plenary
Kingdom Gospel
Albert Chuang
Plenary
Kingdom Gospel
Winnie Fung
Plenary
Holistic Mission
Wayne Chen
Plenary
Holistic Mission
Allen Yeh
Plenary
Chinese Churches
Albert Ng
Plenary
Chinese Churches
Tong Liu
Plenary
Chinese Churches
Rick Warren
Closing
David Doong
Closing
* Speakers are listed in no particular order
Opening
Edmund Chan
Global Alliance of Intentional Disciple Making Churches / Founder and Leadership Mentor
Founder and Leadership Mentor, Global Alliance of Intentional Disciple Making Churches
Pastor Ed is an expository preacher and leadership mentor at heart. Endowed with a keen mind, his insightful teachings have made him a sought-after speaker internationally.
In 2003, he completed a 24-month Master of Arts (MA) degree at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USA in less than 9 months, and graduated summa cum laude. He has written several books on spirituality, discipleship, and leadership; and has taught doctoral courses (D.Min.) in three countries.
Having served as the senior pastor of Covenant Evangelical Free Church in Singapore for 25 years, he transited in 2012 to serve the global church as the founder of the Global Alliance of Intentional Disciple Making Churches.
He mentors top-echelon leaders around the world, including distinguished business owners, CEOs, bishops, senior pastors, theological educators, as well as founders and directors of para-church organisations and missions agencies.
Edmund is married to Ann, who ministers alongside him, and they have two lovely adopted daughters, Amanda and Belicia. In their family, “adopted means loved.”
Expository Preaching
Kingdom Gospel
Lawrence Ko
Alliance Bible Seminary / President-elect and Chair, Division of Biblical Studies
Dr. Ko was summoned to full-time ministry when he studied at the University of Hong Kong. He was a campus worker of Hong Kong Campus Crusade for Christ and pastor of Kowloon Tong Church of the CCMA Yan Yau Church.
Afterwards he went to Durham University in the U.K. to study especially the relationship between the cantors described in the Chronicles and the cantors of the ancient Mesopotamia, bringing out the worship theology in ancient Jewish Temple. He then became a faculty member and Vice President at Alliance Bible Seminary. Concurrently, he served as a volunteer pastor at the Kowloon Tong Church of the CCMA Yau Oi Church, where he was ordained as a reverend.
His writings include: The Fire of Exegesis, The Colour of Exegesis and a commentary on 1 Chronicles: Preparing the Synchronization between Heaven and Earth in the Temple Worship.
Expository Preaching
Holistic Mission
Patrick Fung
OMF International / Global Ambassador
Chinese Coordination Centre of World Evangelism (CCCOWE) / Board Chairman
Rev. Fung serves as the Global Ambassador of OMF International (formerly China Inland Mission) and was the former General Director from 2005-2023. He shouldered the vital responsibility of overseeing and guiding approximately 1,400 missionaries, dedicated to sharing the Gospel with the peoples of East Asia.
Rev. Fung and his wife, Jennie, previously served on the front lines of medical missions in South Asia in a Muslim context, where they were deeply committed to the ministries of preaching, teaching and discipleship apart from medical work. He was the Bible expositor at the 2015 Urbana Student Missions Conference and a plenary speaker at the 2010 Third and 2024 Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. He also served as one of the Bible Expositors for the 2016 and 2023 Hong Kong Bible Conference.
Rev. Fung formerly served on the Lausanne Movement’s International Board. He is currently a member of the International Council of Langham Partnership International (John Stott Ministries). Since 2021, Rev. Fung is serving as the International Board Chair of CCCOWE.
Expository Preaching
Chinese Churches
Arnold Chow
North Point Alliance Church (NPAC) / Senior Pastor
Born in Hong Kong, Rev. Chow spent his early years as a missionary kid in Taiwan before return-ing at age 10. He received a divine calling during his first job. He initially participated in church planting before resigning from his position as a government executive officer to serve full-time in his mother church’s administration department for three years.
He earned a Master of Divinity from the China Graduate School of Theology and returned to his mother church for pastoral and church planting ministry. He is now the Senior Pastor of North Point Alliance Church (NPAC), Chairman of the Christian & Missionary Alliance Church Union of Hong Kong, Vice Chairman of the Alliance Bible Seminary Board, and a committee member of the CCCOWE.
Known for his focus on the younger generation and Bible teaching, Rev. Chow was a speaker at the 95th Hong Kong Bible Conference. He is married with two children.
Plenary
Kingdom Gospel
Clement Chia
Singapore Bible College / Principal
Dr. Clement Chia began his career in construction industry before being called to full-time ministry, dedicating his life to Christ, the church, and soci-ety. He holds advanced degrees from Singapore Bible College, University of Aberdeen, National University of Singapore, and a doctorate from the Uni-versity of Exeter. With nine years of pastoral and church planting experience, he joined Singapore Bible College as a full-time lecturer in 2008, later be-coming Dean of the Chinese Theology Department and, in 2016, the col-lege’s seventh principal.
Dr. Chia is a prolific author, co-founded the maga-zine “Xin Qiao,” and has published several influential books. He is passionate about addressing the cultural and spiritual needs of Singapore’s immigrants and is actively involved in theological education and public engagement.
Dr. Chia is married with two children and enjoys reading, writing, preaching, movies, and family life.
Plenary
Kingdom Gospel
Albert Chuang
Tam Kang Church / Senior Pastor
Born in 1970, Reverend Albert Chuang is an alumnus of National Taiwan University and China Evangelical Seminary. He currently serves as the Senior Pastor of Tamkang Church in Taiwan, having established and overseen sev-en branch churches.
Reverend Chuang has long championed the “Chinese Bible Reading Move-ment.” He founded the ” Tamkang Church Evangelical ” YouTube channel, where he has recorded verse-by-verse exegetical devotionals for the entire Chinese Bible, ministering to Chinese churches worldwide for many years. More recently, he has leveraged AI technology to translate these interpretive videos into multiple global languages for broader dissemination.
Pastor Chuang actively promotes “Church-Based Missions,” advocating for churches to embrace their primary role in fulfilling the Great Commission rather than delegating this responsibility solely to individual Christians or mission agencies. To this end, he founded the Heos Mission Training School. (Heos, meaning “until” in Greek, signifies the church’s continuous mandate for missions “until the ends of the earth, until the Lord returns.”) This school trains and dispatches long-term missionaries globally to partner with local churches in fulfilling the Great Commission.
Plenary
Holistic Mission
Winnie Fung
CEDAR Fund / Chief Executive
Dr. Winnie Fung is the Chief Executive of CEDAR Fund. She is a development economist with a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University and an MA in Biblical Studies from Wheaton College. She is a board member of Micah Global, and her passion lies in integral mission, poverty alleviation, and faith-based relief and development work. She has published on famine and malnutrition, infectious diseases eradication, smallholder farming and agricultural policies, as well as an-ti-human trafficking and business-as-mission.
She has supervised projects in Asia and Latin America, on issues pertaining to microfinance, fair trade, food security, and gender-based violence. Prior to CEDAR Fund, she was an Associate Professor of Economics at Wheaton College and Academic Head at Lumina College.
Plenary
Holistic Mission
Wayne Chen
Radius Asia / Director
After graduating from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in the United States, Pastor Wayne served in a Chinese church in San Francisco. In 2007, he was called into cross-cultural missions, and in 2009, his family—including his wife and two daughters—moved to a remote, unreached tribal group in Papua New Guinea. There, they integrated with the indigenous people, learned the tribal language, translated the Bible, and established local churches.
Pastor Wayne is currently dedicated to Radius Asia, a missionary training center focused on equipping frontline cross-cultural missionaries. Radius Asia’s core values are built on the necessity of language and culture acquisition, the completeness of the Gospel message, the essentiality of church planting, and the conviction that suffering is the cost of fulfilling the Great Commission.
Plenary
Chinese Churches
Allen Yeh
International Theological Seminary / Academic Dean and VP of Academic Affairs
Denver Seminary / Creative Director of the Young Adult Initiative
Allen Yeh is a missiologist with research interests in World Christianity and Gen Z. He is currently Academic Dean and VP of Academic Affairs at International Theological Seminary in Los Angeles, as well as the Creative Director of the Young Adult Initiative at Denver Seminary.
He earned his B.A. from Yale, M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell, M.Th. from Edinburgh, and D.Phil. from Oxford. Allen has been to nearly 70 countries on every continent, to study, speak at conferences, do missions work, and experience the culture.
He is also the author of Polycentric Missiology: 21st Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere (IVP, 2016), and co-editor (with Tite Tienou, former Dean of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) of Majority World Theologies: Theologizing from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Ends of the Earth (William Carey, 2018).
He is married to Arianna Molloy (a Professor of Communication at Biola University) and they have a 7-year-old son named Asher.
Plenary
Chinese Churches
Albert Ng
Island Evangelical Community Church (ECC) / Pastor
Albert Ng was born in Mainland China. His family moved to Hong Kong and lived in the Kow-loon Walled City when he was a little boy. After graduated from the University of Hong Kong, God called Albert to serve with Cru in Hong Kong. Albert received his M.Th. from the Univer-sity of Aberdeen and D.Min. from Fuller Theological Seminary. For the last 17 years, Albert serves as a pastor at Island ECC, an international church in Hong Kong, heading the small group and adult education ministries. These cross-cultural settings gave Albert some insight into the churches in Hong Kong. His Chinese church upbringing and the current role in an international church helps him understand the uniqueness and differences of these two different worlds.
As a “third culture” pastor, Albert desires to use his experience to walk alongside fellow pastors to explore new ways of leading their churches into the future.
Plenary
Chinese Churches
Tong Liu
River of Life Christian Church (ROLCC) / Senior Pastor
Rev. Tong Liu is the founder and senior pastor of River of Life Christian Church in Santa Clara, California.
Since 1995, he has dedicated himself in building a glorious church for the Lord, and developed an expansion strat-egy based on four major levers: Worship & Praise, Renewal by the Holy Spirit, Cell Groups, and Global & Local Impact. He has also planted more than 360 daughter churches in 34 countries around the world.
Rev. Liu initi-ated the ministries of River of Life Foundation, River of Life Pastoral Leader-ship Institute, and U Channel TV as extensions of his church. He is also the author of 3 books, and hosts a 2-minute program “Life of Victory” on local Chinese TV channel for more than 15 years.
Closing
Rick Warren
Finishing the Task/ Executive Director
Saddleback Church / Founding Pastor
A Time magazine cover article named Rick Warren the most influential spiritual leader in America and one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Tens of millions of copies of Pastor Rick’s books have been published in 200 languages. His best known books, The Purpose Driven Life and The Purpose Driven Church, were named three times in national surveys of pastors (by Gallup, Barna, and Lifeway) as the two most helpful books in print.
Rick and his wife Kay founded Saddleback Church, the Purpose Driven Network, the PEACE Plan and Hope for Mental Health. He is cofounder of Celebrate Recovery with John Baker.
Pastor Rick has spoken in 165 nations. He has spoken at the United Nations, US Congress, numerous parliaments, the World Economic Forum, TED, Aspen Institute, and lectured at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and other universities.
Rick is executive director of Finishing the Task, a global movement of denominations, organizations, churches, and individuals working together on the Great Commission goals of ensuring that everyone everywhere has access to a Bible, a believer and a local body of Christ.
Closing
David Doong
Chinese Coordination Centre of World Evangelism (CCCOWE) / General Secretary
David Doong (Ph.D. in Theology, Fuller) is currently the general secretary of CCCOWE. He is a pastor, a teacher in various seminaries, a podcaster who hosts “Missional Disciples” podcast interviewing global Chinese Christian leaders weekly, and the author of Practical Theology as Discipleship and Missional Discipleship: Unleashing a Diverse and Innovative Generation of Disciples, and the chief editor of Missional Disciples at Workplace.
His passion is to be a bridge builder between different generations, cultures, and disciplines, exploring faithful ministry practices in today’s pluralistic world dominated by the market economy and ideological conflicts.