Pastor Eugene Lee, Cornerstone Church (Boston, MA)

Eugene is Pastor of Cornerstone Church in Boston. He loves working with young people, challenging them to live the life God has called them to. His favorite things to do are: watch sports, play sports, and play sports video games. Eugene’s most recent passion is BBQ grilling.

Eugene grew up in North Carolina and graduated college with a degree in Chemistry. He’s spent time as a missionary with Youth With A Mission in Seattle and India and has lived in Boston for the past six years. He and his wife Esther have been married for three years and they have two boys, Nathan and Jacob. His dream is to change the world by touching one life and at time.

Pastor Claude Hubbard, Fairlawn Community Church of NJ

Coming soon!

Ed Lin

Ed Lin has been part of the Bergen Christian Testimony Church (CT – Wyckoff) family in Wyckoff, NJ since the age of 10. He came to know the Lord personally during the 1995 New York Summer Conference. He attended Johns Hopkins University and graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science.

During college, Ed was part of Grace Life, a church plant in the Baltimore, Maryland area. There he received a calling to enter into ministry. After his college graduation, he served as an intern pastor for Grace Life until recently, he returned back to CT – Wyckoff to serve with the College & Career Group (REACH Fellowship).

Currently, he is finishing up his 2nd year of seminary at Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, PA. His interests include sports (basketball, football), movies, Halo, and missions.

Jasmine Flores

Jasmine Flores has been dubbed the “tea egg” of the Chinese Churches. (Brown on the outside and yellow on the inside.) She is Puerto-Rican, but has been studying Mandarin since she was 7 yrs old. She even graduated from Chinese School ten years ago! Ever since she was saved, about 13 yrs ago, she’s been discipled in Chinese churches.

She is currently an active member of OCM Vision Church, where she is a worship leader and sits on the Worship Committee. She has led Women’s Growth Group, and taught Sunday School classes on Comparative Religions as a part of her former role as Vice-Chair of the Missions Committee. In college, she was a member of both the Baptist Campus Ministry and InterVarsity, where she was Chapter President in her senior year. It was in college, her freshman year, when God called her to full-time ministry. As a result, she has been on various missions trips overseas, lived in China for one year, and is conspiring to get as many people as she can to go to China.

Jasmine has been leading worship for 11 yrs, and it is her heart to see everyone worship God in Spirit and in Truth. She desires to see Christians walk in the fullness of all that God has for them, and live in the freedom of the power of the Holy Spirit. She has spoken at conferences and church fellowships on Spiritual Gifts, the Holy Spirit, and Ministry in the Kingdom of God.

She works in full-time Chinese Youth Ministry at CCHC’s Herald Youth Center and is a certified public school teacher. She hopes to move on to seminary school once she finishes up her M.S. Childhood Education and work towards an M.Div. Her guilty pleasures include reading (mostly fantasy novels, theological books, and comic books), watching Smallville, obsessing over HIllsongs worship pastor Darlene Zschech, studying languages, writing newsletters, trying to design web-pages and playing online. You will often find her on AIM, or reading while playing with her cat.

Joanne Highley, Counselor & Director of LIFE Ministry

I was born, raised and educated in Oklahoma. I arrived late in my parents’ lives and was the darling new baby that my whole family loved and pampered. However, at the age of 5, my world fell apart. My father died suddenly, my mother of necessity had to take a job, my 22-year-old brother got married, and my sister went to college. This shock of being “abandoned” sent me into a survival pattern of unreality that caused me to turn off my mind to avoid the pain. This pattern made me very vulnerable and brought feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. My mother took me as her emotional mate because of her loneliness and pain, so I tried always to be sufficient for her and be a “good little girl”.

By the time I reached puberty, I began to resent my mother’s worship and demands. When I was approached and kissed by a girl my age when I was 13, I was drawn into lesbian activity that continued for 10 years. It seemed a viable escape. During these years, I dedicated my life to full-time Christian service and attended Bible college at Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma. Obviously I had seriously compartmentalized my mind to be able to practice lesbianism while attending Bible college. The lesbian relationship ended when she told me she had found another woman. I felt devastated and thought my life was over. But soon I found myself involved in another relationship which ended in a very painful way as well. I saw the lie of this lifestyle and vowed to close the door on this ungodly activity.

I took a position in a large church in Kansas City where I met Ron Highley. He also believed in the Lord and His life-changing power. When I told him of my former lesbian connections, Ron said, “I’ve done things I deeply regret having done, so let’s leave these things behind us and go on together.” We were married 45 years in an ever-deepening and happy marriage until he went to be with the Lord in October 2001. It was not as easy as this sounds, but the Lord was constant in His work to free us from old ungodly reactions to pain and to deliver us from demonic oppression. I am completely free of all homosexual orientation and activity, and have been for forty-seven years, all glory and praise to our loving Father.

We were living in the Midwest when we were born again and swept into the Kingdom of God by an outpouring of the Spirit in the 1960s and 1970s (called by some the “Charismatic Renewal” or “Jesus Movement”). I went through a very painful period of sickness and testing of my faith, but the Lord stayed with me and brought healing and deepening faith in His power and Word.

We were principal singers with the Kansas City Lyric opera from 1958-1978, appearing in more than 300 performances of over 40 different roles. We sang in concert and oratorio performances as well. We came to New York City in January of 1978 to pursue our singing careers and see what God had for us here. He very clearly led us to begin a ministry to people desiring freedom from homosexuality and that began in June of 1983. Since then, we have interviewed and counseled over 1000 people, mostly from the New York area (midtown Manhattan) though some have come here from other parts of the country and the world.

We have seen many men and women become completely free of homosexual orientation and activity as a result of following the counsel of the Lord’s Spirit and His Word in this ministry. There have been about 60 marriages, an this has produced nearly 50 “grandchildren” at present count.

It has been a privilege to work with a wide variety of gifted, sensitive people of great courage and tenacity as they fought bravely through their pain, and against sin and lies to freedom in Jesus Christ.

The Lord has made a way for us to teach in churches, conferences, and schools. We have appeared in several TV talk shows such as Donahue, Sally, Geraldo, Jerry Springer, Rolonda, as well as some Christian programs such as PTL, The 700 Club, People Are Talking, and others. Churches in Puerto Rico., the Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic have heard us teach and testify on two trips there, and we have been invited to return.

Laurence Tom

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Raised in the Brooklyn side of town, “LT”, Laurence Tom, ventured out to Rutgers University in the land of New Jersey where he studied graphic design, urban planning/public policy. He got involved there with the InterVarsity Chinese Christian Fellowship in a heyday where God moved powerfully in students’ lives. After working a couple of years in a nice cushy job, he broke the news to his parents that he wanted to leave it all to serve as a youth minister intern at the Rutgers Community Christian Church and marry a tall white girl.

Like a young Jedi Padawan, he then began his theological training at Biblical Theological Seminary pursuing a Master of Divinity degree and soon, even, got married to that tall white girl who happens to be an All-American volleyball player. For almost a decade strong, LT has gotten his hands dirty in youth ministry, short-term missions here and overseas, and sharing the privilege helping establish Somerset Christian College as a premier evangelical college in Jersey.

Life continues to be an adventure. She cooks. He cleans. She likes the national geographic channel. He reads like an addict anything from comic books to deep theological treatises. The two together continue to disciple, teach and speak to young people from place to place. Laurence and Lauren are expecting to become parents this fall with their first baby. Yeah, they almost have the same name. Isn’t that cute? Guess what they’ll name their kid?

Together they hope to always reach new generations with the story of God and help build up the church. They simply want to go to where people are at and help bring them to the place where God desires for them to be.

Peter Ong

Mr. Peter Ong (peterdarock@yahoo.com) is currently serving as the Director of Chinese Christian Herald Crusades' Herald Youth Center. The new mission of the Herald Youth Center (HYC) is to unite, organize and mobilize the Body of Christ to Reach Chinese Youth for the Glory of God. Our target population is Chinatown Chinese teens. The focus of our ministry is to develop effective youth programs in cooperation and partnership with local churches and ministries. The Herald Youth Center seeks to serve youth in their adolescence at a time when many youth are searching for meaning, direction and self-identity.

Peter Ong graduated from New York University and worked in the Asian American non-profit sector for five years before being called to full-time youth ministry. He attends Redeemer Presbyterian Church and served on the Board of Directors for Hope For New York, Redeemer Presbyterian's mercy and justice ministry. He is an advisor to the Teen Eastern Chinese Bible Conference. He also serves as an advisor to Jesus Generation, its goal is to see a generation so sold out for Jesus that the world could not help but notice that there was something different.

He served as volunteer staff at NYU Intervarsity Asian American Christian Fellowship. He served on the youth pastoral committee for The Call NYC and also one of the first forming committees for the Coalition of Urban Youth Workers. He also served this year for the Billy Graham Crusades of Greater New York as a liaison and working with community churches to reach local youth.

He loves young people and those who serve youth. He is betrothed to Jamie Leong on August 13th when he and Jamie will commence on the mystery of marriage. He loves to read graphic novels, sing with Norman Yung, play basketball with all those Yao Ming wannabe’s, he is inspired by young people who travel on the road of faith, and he has been known to hang out in Chinatown trying to find prodigals and the one soul who is in need of Christ. Visit him at www.xanga.com/peterdarock or at www.tumbo-ing/blogspot.com.

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