Pastoral Staff
Reverend Paul Ho - Senior Pastor
Reverend Darryl Fong - English Congregational Pastor
Pastor Darryl serves as the Pastor of Agape Christian Worship (English ministry of CBCCOC) equipping the saints for the work of ministry!! Darryl wants to present every person complete in Christ (Col 1:28). Darryl was a full-time faculty of Talbot Seminary and has interests in integrative theology and practice.
Reverend Jason Yim - Cantonese Assistant Pastor
Pastor Jason Yim came from Hong Kong. He was brought to an evangelistic meeting right after landing at LAX and became a believer of Jesus Christ 22 days after he came to the US in 2002. He confirmed God’s full-time calling of him in a worship service in March 2007 at CBCCOC.
Pastor Jason has committed his life to share the gospel and ministering to God’s people. He hopes to help believers build a solid foundation of faith and establish their identities, values, and mission in the Lord. Besides preaching, teaching, and serving in fellowships, he also leads the caring ministry of the church, including caring for the homeless, cancer patients and their families and etc.
Pastor Jason earned his Master of Divinity at Logos Evangelical Seminary in 2012 and became a full-time minister at CBCCOC since then. He enjoys being married to his wife, Lan, and has a daughter named Dorcas. In his spare time, he likes singing, playing soccer, and puzzles.
Reverend Michael Liang - Children Assistant Pastor
Pastor Michael Liang joined the Chinese Baptist Church of Central Orange County (CBCCOC) in July of 2021 as the Children’s Assistant Pastor. He was born in Minneapolis, MN, lived in many Midwest cities, and graduated from Moody Theological Seminary with a Master's Degree in Biblical Studies.
He has served 15+ years as a Children's & Youth Pastor at Pittsburgh Chinese Church Oakland, Preacher at the Northwest Suburban Chinese Christian Church, and Youth Director at the Living Water Evangelical Church.
His vision and belief are that God has given parents the primary responsibility to nurture their children in the Christian faith. This is both a wonderful opportunity and important responsibility. He desires to come alongside the parents to support and equip their children in laying a firm foundation of faith, hope and love in Jesus Christ.
His mission is to help provide a deeper faith in the Children not only to just accept Christ into their heart, soul, and mind as their Savior, but as their Lord. Secondly, he wants children/youth to love and obey God’s Word (not out of legality or pleasing parents, but worship, pleasing God).
Pastor Michael is married to his beautiful wife Jeanne and has a lovely young daughter Madeleine.
Minister Margaret Liu - Mandarin Minister
Minister Margaret Liu was born in Taiwan. She came to the U.S. for her graduate study and proceeded with a career in the field of Business Processes and Information Systems Management. She joined CBCCOC as a congregant in 2001. In 2010, after her Holy Land trip，she was called for full time ministry。She started part-time seminary work at Logos Evangelical Seminary and in 2014, she ended her secular career and formally enrolled in Golden Gate Baptist Theological (now Gateway) Seminary and obtained her M.A. in Education Leadership in 2016. She started with the Children Ministry at CBCCOC for over a year and was called to Mandarin adult ministry focusing on Christian Education, Sunday Worship, Caring, and Fellowship ministries. She is particularly burdened with outreach evangelism and missions. She firmly believes that every Christian can be God’s faithful servant who, as the Kingdom child, can bring out the glory of God and can be the blessing to others. She completed her D. Min. in 2023 from Gateway Seminary to be better equipped to serve.
Minister Mark Kwong - Young Adult English Minister
Minister Mark Kwong joined the Chinese Baptist Church of Central Orange County (CBCCOC) in April of 2022 as the Young Adult English Minister.
He was born in Berkeley, California, and attended the University of the Pacific to study dentistry. After receiving a call from the Lord to pursue pastoral ministry instead of health care, Mark enrolled at Fuller Theological Seminary and graduated with a Master of Divinity degree in 2021.
He is passionate about relational evangelism and enjoys sharing the gospel with all people knowing that God can transform any heart. In his free time, you can catch him playing tennis, browsing through collectibles, or watching the latest movie.
Mark is happily married to his beautiful wife Joyce. They enjoy taking walks, drinking boba tea, and exploring new places together.
Minister Ruby Fung - Children Minister
Minister Ruby was born and raised in Hong Kong. She became a Christian in her high school year! Since then, she was growing in faith in the Bethlehem Church of Hope Mission and serving actively in the youth ministry. While she was in her post-graduate study in Melbourne, Australia, God has impressed in her heart through Romans 10:15 that "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!" She prayed to God to devote her life to serve HIM full time as a minister of His Gospel in 1992. Finally in 1998, God opened door for her to go to Talbot School of Theology to pursue her M. Divinity (majoring in Evangelism & Discipleship). She graduated in 2001 and started serving as the full time English minister in 2002 in Irvine First Chinese Baptist Church. After becoming a wife and a mother, she switched to be the Children Minister (part-time) in 2005 till January 2018.
As a children minister, she devotes to minister to the children workers as well as the children parents in order to co-work as a team to help the children to know and love Christ and to be His faithful followers. Her motto is "All by His Grace and All for this Glory!" She loves to eat and share life stories with families & friends, and enjoys swimming, biking, traveling and other outdoor activities!
Minister Ruby and her husband Edmond, have 2 Children (Ryan & Ella). They live in Irvine, CA.
Founding Pastor
Reverend Dr. James Chiu - Founding Pastor
CBCCOC served in a full-time capacity by Pastor Dr. James Chiu. Pastor Chiu was born in Swatow, China. His mother became the first Christian in their village. Fleeing from persecution for their Christian faith, Pastor Chiu and his family moved to Hong Kong. He became a Christian as youth and was called into the ministry. Dr. Chiu spent many years in preparation for the ministry. He married Minnie Cheung, who prepared to be a missionary nurse before they met. She helped Dr. Chiu through his years of studies, from 1968 to 1972, by working as a full time nurse. They started our mother church, Chinese Baptist Church of Orange County, in April 1974 and founded our church (CBCCOC) in 1993. In 2007 Dr. James Chiu officially retired, and on occasion continues to preach by invitation.
He loves to go fishing in his free time and enjoy visiting with his grandchildren.
On May 31, 2015, Pastor Chiu went home to be with the Lord. He will always be remember as our founding pastor.
Church Staff
Mrs. Sandy Chong Lee
Administrative Assistant