PASTOR HUGO CHENG  was born in Queens, New York but grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. He came to faith in Jesus Christ during his senior year in college, while he was attending Carnegie Mellon University obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design. He first sensed the Lord’s call for him to serve in full-time Christian ministry after coming to Christ for two months, during the Chinese Missions Convention (CMC) in 1989.

He worked in the field of computer graphics and helped his professors to start a human-computer interaction design firm. While working, he and his wife served as the leader of the senior-high youth group, the college and young adult fellowship groups. After working for seven years, Pastor Hugo left his job and attended Columbia Biblical Seminary (Now called Columbia International University, or CIU) to obtain a Master of Divinity degree. While at CIU, God used Hugo and his wife to plant a church among the factory workers in a Taiwanese plastic factory in Florence, SC.

In 1999, God called him to become the pastor of the Pittsburgh Chinese Church Oakland (PCCO), reaching and making disciples from among the overseas Chinese university students and scholars, as well as other international students. In 2004, an English-speak congregation called Oakland International Fellowship (OIF) was started by the PCCO church leadership and him, with a vision to build a congregation that is made up of people from all nations and ethnicities in the university area. Today they have students from over 18 nations represented in OIF.

In 2016, God called Pastor Hugo Cheng to become the senior pastor of our church (CBCM).  He believes that CBCM has been given many resources from God and is poised to make an even greater impact for God’s Kingdom locally and globally. With the teamwork from the staff, pastors, elders, and all the members, he hopes to lead CBCM to be an effective center and resource for prayer, discipleship, leadership training, evangelism, church planting, missions, and fellowship life.

PASTOR VITUS CHENG has been the Cantonese Pastor since 1995. He was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1978. He was brought up Catholic and was born again in 1979. After graduating from the University of Maryland in Mechanical Engineering, Vitus then received his M. Div. at Capital Bible Seminary (1988).  He began his ministry in Boston in January 1989 which included one year at the Boston Chinese Evangelical Church and five years at the American Chinese Christian Education and Social Services (ACCESS) center in Chinatown.  He has led short-term mission teams to serve in New York’s Chinatown, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, and Chile; in recent years his focus has been Venezuela.  His desire is to see the lives of God’s people transformed as we walk together in faith with the Lord, out of an intimate, real, and personal relationship with Him.

MINISTER FELIX CHIU began attending CBCM in 2013 when he was a student at the University of Maryland. In 2015, the Lord called him to full-time ministry, leading Felix to attend Westminster Theological Seminary, where he obtained a Master of Divinity with a focus on Biblical Counseling. After completing his theological training, Felix began serving at CBCM as a Pastoral Intern where he now hopes to transition into the role of English Minister. His ministry passions and focuses include young adult ministry, small groups, teaching, counseling, and worship ministry. Outside of ministry Felix enjoys running, hiking, and musical theater.

PASTOR STEVE EATMON has been the Youth Director since 2015. Steve Eatmon grew up in the Washington DC area and graduated from Chantilly High School in Northern Virginia.  In his late high school years, he accepted Christ as Lord and Savior.  He then obtained a B.A. from Florida State University where he was very involved in the Baptist Campus Ministry and the Wesley Foundation, which helped strengthen his faith.  In college he felt the Lord calling him to serve in full-time ministry and he graduated from Asbury Seminary with his M. Div..  Since returning to the Washington DC area, he spent six years in the corporate world while working in churches around the area. He began full-time pastoral ministry three years ago at McLean Bible Church as the director of youth ministry at their Maryland Campus. Steve married his wife Heather in 2010 and they have two children: Ryan (2012) and Rachael (2014). In his spare time, Steve enjoys football, basketball, playing music, the outdoors, and spending time with his family.

PASTOR EDWARD JIANG   born and raised in Shanghai, China, Pastor Ed immigrated to the US when he was 15. He became a Christian in Pittsburgh while in high school. Later, he majored in Computer Engineering at The Penn State University and worked in the telecommunication industry near Boston after graduating. While working, he served at his local church (Chinese Bible Church of Greater Lowell) as a youth counselor, where he felt the tug to go into full-time ministry.

In 2003, Ed started formal ministry training at Westminster Theological Seminary. Having the conviction that the gospel is meant to change people from the inside out, he chose the MDiv Counseling track. After graduating from seminary in 2007, Ed served as the English/International pastor at his home church, Pittsburgh Chinese Church Oakland, until 2011.

Ed is married to his wife, Pin-Hsi, who became a Christian at CCIC while studying at UI for her Master’s, and who is now working on her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh. Together, they have a son, Apollos, and a daughter, Zoe. When Ed is free, he enjoys watching movies, the Steelers, listening and playing music, listening to NPR, eating and cooking, and doing all the above with friends.

YOUTH DIRECTOR DOROTHY LAU  is a Chicagoland, Illinois native, born and raised in a second-generation Chinese immigrant Christian home. Though the Lord called her into ministry when she was 16 years old, she attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for public policy and law. Only after completing her undergrad degree did she proceed to train for and obtain a Master of Arts in Spiritual Formation and Discipleship from Moody Theological Seminary.

Her ministry passions include administration, mentoring youth, and musical worship. For the past 5 years, she has served in Chicago at the Chinatown Chinese Christian Union Church as the English youth worship service coordinator, as well as a junior high fellowship counselor and high school praise team aid/consultant. When she is not serving, Dorothy enjoys jam sessions with friends, reading, grocery shopping, and watching Korean dramas.

MINISTER ISABEL LEE has been the Minister of Women’s Ministry since 2009. Since November of 2018, she also took on the role of Minister of Global Outreach at CBCM. She graduated from Washington Bible College and Columbia International in Bible and Missions and has been in ministry since 1980. Her goal in ministry is Colossians 1:28 “We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.” She serves women in the areas of discipleship, mentoring, encouragement, counseling and prayer through Bible studies, seminars and retreats. She strongly believes when women are strong spiritually and emotionally, they are positive influences to those around them.  She desires to see many come to the saving knowledge of Christ, discipled and faithfully follow Him and serve Him. She prays, encourages and mentors the younger generation and trust that God will thrust them forth to the nations to reach the unreached.

Isabel served over 22 years with SEND International as a missionary in three church plants with various leadership roles. She worked in evangelism, discipleship, seminary teaching and equipping leaders in Taiwan and China within SEND-Taiwan and beyond. After returning to the US, Isabel continues in cross-cultural missions and ministered in Ukraine and Siberia, taught and trained national leaders in Korea, India, Middle East and served Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Macedonia. Isabel has been a regular instructor of Perspectives on the World Christian Movement since 2013 and serves on the U.S. and International Board of Directors, International Executive Committee, and Human Resources and Member Care Committee of SEND International.

PASTOR CHRISTOPHER POH was born in Taiwan. He came to U.S. for graduate studies in 1987. He married Beatrice in ’91 and had their first child Joyce in ’93. The same year he received his Computer Science Ph.D. at NJIT and started his teaching career in Taiwan, which he progressed through positions of department head, chairman of graduate school, provost, and dean. Christopher led the family back to U.S. in 2001 and had a software engineer career. He actively involved in education admin and e-commerce relevant research during these years. End of 2004, Christopher answered the second calling from God and started to prepare for full-time service. He quit his job, sold the house in New Jersey, and moved the family to South Carolina to attend Columbia International University in 2007. During this period, Poh family actively involved in local Chinese church work in such capacities as fellowship groups, seeker classes, preaching, Sunday school, and discipleship training. He earned the M. Div. Degree in May 2009. Upon graduation, Christopher started to serve as solo pastor at Atlanta Chinese Christian Church Northwest (ACCCNW) with Beatrice. Amongst daily pastoral work, highlights of focused efforts include musical ministry for Sunday services and special events, promotion of Christian lifestyle and regeneration of Christians, enriching Christian marriage and children education, advocating long-term local and over-the-horizon missionary works, caring for single-parent families, fellowship group member growth and discipleship training, and promoting evangelism under the influence of postmodernism.In November 2016, God called Christopher to join the pastoral team of CBCM and began the work at its Gaithersburg Campus as Mandarin Congregation pastor. Pastor and Mrs. Poh have two children, Joyce, has a career in Atlanta, and Ethan, currently studies Architecture in Boston.

PASTOR JOHN TUNG has been English Pastor since 1990. He is a trained Stephen Leader, which is a caring ministry. John was born in Taiwan and grew up in New York City. John is married to Elizabeth and they have three adult children. He received his B.A. in Religious Studies and a Philosophy Minor from Queens College. He graduated with M.A.R., M. Div. and D. Min. from Westminster Theological Seminary. He has contributed to two books: Hiring an English Ministry Pastor and Beyond by Joseph Choi (2012) and Real People, Real Suffering, Real Victory by Joseph Choi (2013). He has led short-term mission teams to Brooklyn, Montana, and Bolivia. While on a short-term mission trip to Bulgaria he taught at the Sofia Theological Institute. He is interested in the relationship between theology, culture and Asian ministry.