For the 8th year, we are offering a preconference specifically for volunteers and youth ministers in the Asian-American church. This preconference will be held on October 23 from 11:30am - 3pm. Lunch will be included. Join us and our speakers, President Joel Kim of Westminister Seminary California and Pastor Jason Tarn from Houston, TX, for this preconference experience, designed to encourage us to "press forward in gospel-centered youth ministry for the Asian-American church."

Speakers

Joel Kim 

Rev. Kim has taught New Testament at Westminster Seminary California since 2005 and in 2017 was appointed as the fourth president of WSC. He previously taught at Calvin Theological Seminary and International Theological Seminary in Los Angeles, as well as in Taiwan and Indonesia. Rev. Kim is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and has served as a pastor in several churches in Michigan and Southern California since his graduation from WSC in 1997. As the son of a Christian Reformed Church minister, he was catechized in the Three Forms of Unity from childhood. When he was nine years of age, he and his family moved from South Korea to Southern California, where he would learn English and retain fluency in Korean. He has served the global church through agencies such as the Southeast Asia Partnership, and, among other notable leadership positions, he chairs the Candidates and Credentials Committee of the Korean Southwest Presbytery of the PCA. Among other publications, he co-edited Always Reformed: Essays in Honor of W. Robert Godfrey (Westminster Seminary California, 2012). Rev. Kim’s doctoral studies in historical theology were with the noted scholar Professor Richard A. Muller at Calvin Theological Seminary.  Rev. Kim and his wife, Sharon, have a daughter and a son; the family resides in Escondido and attends New Life Presbyterian Church.

Jason Tarn

Jason is the Lead English Pastor of Houston Chinese Church, a non-denominational Chinese heritage church in Houston, TX. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and completed an M.Div. at Regent College. Jason grew up at Houston Chinese Church as a teenager and has been pastoring there since 2011. His passion is to bring healthy reform to the immigrant church, rooted in sound doctrine and a missional vision. Jason serves as a member of the Board of Trustees and Council for the SOLA Network. He is married to Theresa, and they have two daughters, Talia and Maisie.

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