7:00PM – 7:30PM Evening Program 7:30PM - 9:00PM Worship, Speaker; Rev. Dr. Don Ng
More about tonight's speaker: Rev. Dr. Don Ng is serving as President of American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) for the biennium running from January 1, 2014-December 31, 2015. He served as Vice President for the term running from January 1, 2012-December 31, 2013. Since 1998, Don has served as senior pastor of the historic First Chinese Baptist Church in San Francisco that was started by the American Baptist Home Mission Societies in 1880. The church has three Sunday worship services served by a multiple pastoral staff team ministering to both English-speaking and Cantonese-speaking people in Chinatown as well as in the greater Bay Area.
Rev. Ng’s ABC service includes service on the General Board (now Board of General Ministries), the Executive Committee of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies, the Executive Committee of the General Board, and the Education Task Force for the new ABCUSA Bylaws that were adopted in June 2011. From 1978-1998, Don was on the national staff of American Baptist Educational Ministries in Valley Forge, where he was director of Education for Discipleship, Youth Ministry. In this role he also represented EM on the General Executive Council. He was also involved in curriculum development, camping and conferencing, Asian Pacific youth ministry and Christian education; he also directed a number of the national American Baptist youth gatherings.