Pastoral Staff

Pastor Peter Ng was born in a Christian Family. 1977-1978 he experienced born again and filling of the Holy Spirit, and dedicated his life to bear the cross and follow Christ. 1979 he clearly felt the call to fulltime ministry and enrolled to study theology at Malaysia Bible Seminary. After graduation, from 1984-1988 he served as a missionary with North Thailand Tribal Mission. 1987 he married the freshly graduated theological student Ruth Sim and together they served in North Thailand as missionaries. 1988- 1990 they went back to their home country to serve as the pastor of Chempaka Lutheran Church, a church he pioneered with other seminarians back in the seminary days. 1991 he served as the assistant manager and course instructor of Lutheran Bible Institute. 1992-1995 he joined Open Doors Malaysia to assume a leadership training and field research position.

1995-1998 he enrolled in the Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies, and later (1998-2000), Doctor of Philosophy in Intercultural Studies programs at Fuller Theological Seminary. 2000-2006 he served as the Senior Pastor of Salinas Chinese Christian Church. 2003 he discontinued his Ph.D. program in order to focus on the pastoral ministry. He joined our church in August 2006. They are blessed with three wonderful children. Caleb, the eldest, is currently a sophomore at UC Davis. Cheny is a junior and Joshua a freshman at Wilcox High (2006).


Pastor Youwan Kang was born in Seoul, Korea and immigrated to the US when he was 3 years old. He grew up in the Bay Area and attended Cupertino High School and Santa Clara University. Upon graduating from college, he served on staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at the University of Hawaii, Manoa campus. He returned to the Bay Area after 5 years in Hawaii and completed his Master of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary.

Youwan’s connections with MVCCC run very deep. He first came to this church when he was in high school through the invitation of a friend. MVCCC was very important in his spiritual formation and call into full-time ministry. Pastor Kang was ordained at MVCCC in November 2006. He also met his wife Jenny here at MVCCC when he was in high school. They have been married since 2002 and are raising a son, Elijah, and are excited to be back “home” serving at MVCCC.


Youth Minister Patrick Yao was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His family moved to St. Louis, Missouri when he was two years old and lived there for 26 years. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he received a degree in Economics and East Asian Languages and Cultures. After graduation and a year of work and further schooling, he decided to pursue God’s calling into ministry and thus attended Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis and received his Master of Divinity. While in seminary, Pat continued to attend his home church, St. Louis Chinese Christian Church, as the interim youth minister.

Pat and his wife, Gloria, have been married since July of 2005 and they have a daughter, Adelaide Kara. Their prayer and desire is that God would instill an inward and outward passion for God within the growing English ministries in Chinese churches.


Pastor Emeritus Mark Kor Cheng was born in Fujian, China. He received the Lord when he was 26 and dedicated himself to the Lord's service when he was 30. He graduated from Alliance Bible Seminary in Hong Kong and taught in that seminary. He also taught in a seminary in the Philippines and the Christian Witness Seminary in the United States. Afterward, Pastor Cheng served as the Senior Pastor of Grace Gospel Church in Manila, Philippines, where he pioneered Chinese church engagement in missions. He then served as the General Secretary of the Chinese Christian Missions in the United States.

In 1992, Pastor Cheng came to Mountain View Chinese Christian Church to serve as the Senior Pastor and later became the Pastor Emeritus. He has served the Lord for over 50 years and is especially burdened with missionary work. His recent prayer is for the Lord to turn China into a missionary nation with at least 400 million Christians and 100,000 missionaries.