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"New Executive Pastor Nominated"
  

        On September 17, 2011, the Rev. Jinsuk John Chun was unanimously confirmed as the nominee for the post of the Executive Pastor of the North American Pacific/Asian Disciples.  His nomination was confirmed by the NAPAD Board of Directors at its meeting in Orange, California, and was recommended by a search committee chaired by Ms. Cindy Kim-Hengst.  When confirmed by the NAPAD Convocation at its meeting in August 2012, Chun will succeed the Rev. Dr. Geunhee Yu, who is retiring in November after nearly twenty years of service as the inaugural Executive Pastor of NAPAD. Between Yu’s retirement and the Convocation, Chun will serve as Acting Executive Pastor of NAPAD.  He will serve a renewable six-year term, and provide pastoral leadership for the growing NAPAD community, currently composed of 145 or so congregations, as well as provide leadership for the whole church as the representative of a general ministry, which the Office of the NAPAD Executive Pastor has become as of January 1, 2010.

Chun lives and conducts his ministry in Southern California.  He currently serves as Director of New Church Development and Asian American Pacific Island Ministries for the Pacific Southwest Region of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).  Along with his spouse the Rev. Myung Sun Kang, he also pastors Sallims Christian Church in Newport Beach, California.  Chun, a Korean-American, received his bachelor’s degree from Yonsei University in Seoul and MDiv from San Francisco Theological Seminary.  He is now working towards a DMin at Claremont School of Theology in Southern California.  Chun and Kang are parents of Sarah, a recent graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, now working in San Francisco, and Christina, a Sophomore at Chapman University.   

 

Video of Rev. Chun   

 

 

NAPAD Youth & Young Adults Winter Retreat

 
 Halleluiah! The 2nd NAPAD Youth and Young Adults winter retreat was gathered at Camp Ocean Pine, CA on December 26-29, 2011. The total of 67 NAPAD youth/young adults were attended.  They spent significant time with their extensive experience in Christ and learned more of God's words.
The Theme was “Anti-Racism & Reconciliation” and sponsored by Reconciliation Ministry of Christian Church.  Rev. April Johnson (Reconciliation Minister of Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) was the keynoter.  The retreat was successfully ended.
We appreciated minister’s who gave faithful services for the young generations at the retreat.

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