Our Resource Team
Timothy Tseng, Ph.D. (Executive Director, President of the Board, and Consultant)
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Dr. Timothy Tseng is the Executive Director and a consultant for ISAAC. He trains and facilitates seminaries, para-church organizations, and denominational staff in order to strengthen their relationship with and services to their Asian American constituencies. He also leads seminars about the socio-cultural dynamics of intergenerational ministries, the histories of Asian American Christianity, and the intersections between race and missions.
A historian by training, Tim's research interests center on Asian and Asian American religious history, Asian Christianity, race and religion in North America, the Chinese Diaspora, and American evangelicalism. Along with his forthcoming history of Chinese Christianity in the United States, he is the co-editor with Michael Emerson of The Changing Face of American Evangelicalism (forthcoming), and with Hyung Shin Park of Persistent Witness: A Documentary History of Asian American Christianity (forthcoming). He has written articles for several journals and has contributed chapters to Realizing the America of our Hearts: Theological Voices of Asian Americans, Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America, Women and Twentieth-Century Protestantism, The Social Gospel Today, and New Spiritual Homes: Religion and Asian Americans. He facilitated the publication of "Asian American Religious Leadership Today: A Preliminary Inquiry" on behalf of the Pulpit and Pew Project and other projects designed to be resources for leaders in Asian American ministry settings.
Dr. Tseng is currently a member of the Council of the American Society of Church History and Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, CA). He has served as the President of the Asian American Baptist Caucus (1998-2002), the American Baptist Churches USA General Board, and Board of Managers of the American Baptist Historical Society, and on the Board of Christians Supporting Community Organizing. He received his PhD in American religious history and Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York (1994 and 1987, respectively) and his BA from New York University (1984). He has served as faculty at Denver Seminary (1994-1996), Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (1997-2000), and as Associate Professor of American Religious History and Director of the Asian American Center at the American Baptist Seminary of the West (2000-2006). Tim is married to Betty and has two sons, Nathaniel (16) and Benjamin (13).
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Grace Choi Kim, M.T.S. (Board Member)
Grace Choi Kim is the Vice President of International Marketing and co-founder for LogiLinx, Inc. LogiLinx, Inc., is a “full service investment company that specializes in mining” and is based in Irvine, California. In addition to her experience in international marketing, Ms. Kim is an expert in ministerial and religious studies. Currently an adjunct professor at Logos Evangelical Seminary in El Monte, California, Grace is also completing her PhD in Congregational and Asian American Studies at Garrett Evangelical Seminary. She received her Masters of Arts in Christian Education from Presbyterian School of Religious Education (Richmond, Virginia) in 1993 and her Masters of Theological Studies in Pastoral Counseling at Garrett-Evangelical Seminary (Evanston, Illinois) in 1998. Ms. Kim was on the pastoral staff at Grace Community Church and New Community Presbyterian Church between 1993-2001 and also served as a consultant on educational ministry issues for Asian American Church Consulting (both in Chicago, IL). She has led seminars on Spiritual Formation, Inner healing, Asian American Christian Education, and Marriage Counseling. She published Revelation (Precept Ministry Press in Korean) and has made many presentations on Asian American Women issues at various religious and academic conferences.
James Chuck, Th.D. (Senior Consultant)
Dr. Chuck is ISAAC's Senior Consultant and Director of the Bay Area Chinese Congregations project. Between 1951 and 1991, he pastored the First Chinese Baptist Church of San Francisco. He then served as Professor of Theology and Church Ministry at the American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley, California between 1991 and 2007. Dr. Chuck has been visiting professors at Hong Kong Baptist Seminary, Chung Chi College, the Pacific School of Religion, San Francisco Theological Seminary, Asian Lutheran Theological Training Center, and City College of San Francisco. In 1996 Dr. Chuck published a research report on the Growth of Chinese Protestant Congregations in five Bay Area Counties. He also published China Letters (2000) and Chinatown Stories of Life and Faith (2002). Dr. Chucks' special interests include continuing education for clergy, theological training for laity, adult education, contemporary social and theological trends, the mission and outreach of the church, pastoral care, preaching, congregational program development, constructive theology, Christian faith and world religions, and cross cultural issues.
Russell Moy, Ph.D. (Board Member, Secretary)
Russell Moy received his PhD in Christian Education at Claremont School of Theology (1995), his Masters of Divinity from Calvin Theological Seminary (1980), and his Bachelors of Arts from the University of Michigan (1975). Russell was ordained by the American Baptist Churches and served as Senior Pastor of the First Chinese Baptist Church of Sacramento, California. He was Assistant Professor of Christian Education at Drew University School of Theology (Madison, New Jersey) between 1995-1999 and Associate Professor of Christian Education at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (Berkeley, California) between 1999-2005. He served on the Association of Theological Schools' Committee on Race and Ethnicity and initiated ISAAC's Summer Immersion Program. Russell has written, “Resident Aliens of the Diaspora: I Peter and Chinese Protestants in San Francisco,” Semeia 2002 (90-91: 51-67) and has research interests in Asian American biblical interpretation.
Andrew Lee, Ph.D. (Eastern Regional Director and Consultant)
A resident of New York City, Dr. Andrew Lee will form an Eastern Region resource team and develop regional programs for ISAAC. He also serves as a consultant in the area of intergenerational ministries and congregational development. He will develop an ISAAC D.Min curriculum with an Asian American Ministry emphasis.
Dr. Lee received his B.A. in history at Nyack College, his M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Baylor University with emphasis in Old Testament studies. Andrew has served as the Director of Theological Education at Northeastern Baptist School of Ministry and was Associate Professor of Old Testament Interpretation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in Bible at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Jersey.
Rev. Lee also served as English Pastor of Trust in God Baptist Church (NYC) and lead pastor of English Ministries at Oversea Chinese Mission (the largest Chinese church in New York City), combining for more than 21 years of pastoral ministry. He recently contributed a chapter, “Reading the Bible as an Asian American: Issues in Asian American Biblical Interpretation,” to Ways of Being, Ways of Reading, edited by Mary Foskett and Jeffrey Kah-Jin Kuan (Chalice Press, 2006). His articles will also appear in forthcoming volumes of The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon Press, 2006). He is married to Penny and has 3 children, ages 26, 23 and 19.
Young Lee Hertig, Ph.D. (Board Member, Vice President & So. Cal. Regional Director)
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Young Lee Hertig teaches in the Global Studies and Sociology Department at Azusa Pacific University. She was formerly a Vera B. Blinn Associate Professor of World Christianity at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio (1998-2002), and currently mentors United Theological Seminary's Doctor of Ministry Group, “Spirituality, Sustainability, and Interfaith Dialogue.” She was an Assistant Professor of Cross Cultural Ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary (1992-1995) where she also earned a Ph.D. in intercultural studies. She is an ordained Presbyterian clergy and author of Cultural Tug of War: Korean Immigrant Family and Church in Transition (Abingdon Press, 2002). She has contributed chapters to Realizing the America of our Hearts: Theological Voices of Asian Americans, Resistance and Theological Ethics, Mission In Acts: Ancient Narratives for a Postmodern Context, Gospel Bearers, Gender Barriers: Missionary Women in the Twentieth Century, and People On The Way: Asian North Americans Discovering Christ, Culture, and Community. She also served on the study team that published "Asian American Religious Leadership Today: A Preliminary Inquiry" on behalf of the Pulpit and Pew Project at Duke Divinity School.
Viji Nakka Cammauf, Ph.D. (Board Member)
Viji Nakka Cammauf received her PhD in theology from the Graduate Theological Union (2003), her Masters of Divinity from the American Baptist Seminary of the West (1988), both in Berkeley, California. She received her Masters of Art from Mills College in Oakland, California (1982). She is a member of the Board for Perspectives on World Christian Movement - Northern California, World Christian Fellowship (Asian American Christian group committed to Global Missions) and the William Carey Heritage Foundation (which is dedicated to helping Serampore College in Calcutta India recapture the vision of William Carey in its theological education and training). Viji organized the Little Flock Childrens' Home in India in 2004 (littleflockhomes.org). She has a dream of building an orphanage dedicated to transforming the lives of orphans, widows, and their communities through the healing, love, hope, and truth of Christ. Her vision is that widows, who have no means of support, can care for the orphans. She has worked with youth for 7 years and 13 years as the Minister of Missions, Adult Education, and Prayer Ministries at First Covenant Church, in Oakland California (1989-2002). Among other responsibilities, she founded and directed the church's school of laity - The Oakland School of Ministry. She is also an adjunct professor at American Baptist Seminary of the West, Fuller Seminary Northern California, and Logos Evangelical Seminary. Viji will develop ISAAC's lay academy and congregational consultation services.
Wing Ning Pang, Ph.D. (Board Member)
Dr. Pang is the Executive Director of Christian Leadership Exchange, which “works directly with the Church in China through servanthood ministry.” An architect and urban planner by training, Dr. Pang has published From Squatter Settlements to Industrial Estates: The Impact of the Resettlement Program on Squatter Factories in Hong Kong - A Study of the Locational Problems of Urban Small Industries (1979) and articles in Urban Affairs Review and Chinese Law and Government . Dr. Pang has provided leadership for the campus expansion efforts of Nanjing Union Seminary in China. He is also recognized as a leading scholar of the Chinese Christianity in North America, having conducted the most extensive survey of North American Chinese churches. He received a BA from UC Berkeley in Architecture (1967) and PhD in Urban Planning from UCLA in 1978.
Russell Yee, Ph.D. (Board Member, Treasurer)
Dr. Russell Yee manages ISAAC's finances and operations. He also chairs ISAAC's Personnel Committee. He received his PhD in worship and liturgy from the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, California), his ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary (Dallas, Texas) and his B.S. at UC Berkeley in 1982. He was Senior Pastor of New Life Christian Fellowship (Castro Valley, California) for ten years and is now an adjunct professor at Fuller Northern California, the American Baptist Seminary of the West, and Logos Evangelical Seminary. Dr. Yee is a third-generation Chinese-American keenly interested in helping develop effective worship and ministry for Asian American settings. He believes we need to relate to Jesus both individually and through our faith communities--and this means we need well-developed, culturally specific ways to express and experience that relationship. In recent years he has helped lead and direct several groundbreaking worship conferences and projects, including, "Waterwind" (Asian American), "Crossings" (African American + Asian American), "Emerging Voices" (Native American + Northeast Asian Indian +Asian American), and "New Urban Voices (South East Asian American + Multicultural). He is currently working on a book of Asian American worship resources. He is available to consult and lead workshops on culture and theology in Asian American worship and pastoral care.
