REV. DR. HWA YUNG
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Rev. Dr. Hwa Yung |
Bishop Dr Hwa Yung is the fourth bishop of the Methodist Church in Malaysia.
Rev Dr Hwa Yung was elected Bishop at the 8th Session of the General Conference of the Methodist Church in Malaysia on 22 September 2004.
Bishop Hwa Yung graduated in 1970 from the University of Tasmania, Australia, majoring in Organic Chemistry. Subsequently he completed the B.D. (1979) and M.Th. (1980) from the University of London, and a doctorate in missiology at Asbury Theological Seminary, USA in 1995.
Bishop Hwa Yung joined the Trinity Annual Conference as the pastor of the Grace Methodist Church, Kuala Lumpur, in 1981. He was then appointed a Lecturer in Christian Theology in 1982 in Seminari Theoloji Malaysia (STM). He became the Principal of STM in July 1986, a post which he held until June 2001. In July 2001, he was appointed the first Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia (CSCA), Trinity Theological College, Singapore.
Over the years he has held significant positions in various church and mission-related bodies, both in Malaysia and on the international scene. Presently, he is the Chairman of the Council of Trustees of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS), Chairman of the Asian Methodist Council, and a member of the Congress Management Team for the 3rd Lausanne Congress, Cape Town 2010. He has also authored a couple of books, and a substantial number of papers and articles in academic journals and books in the fields of mission and Asian Christianity.
He is married to Dr. Lee Bee Teik and they have three children, Yang Jerng, Xin Ping, and En Ning.
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Chinese Annual Conference
Sarawak Chinese Annual Conference
Sarawak Iban Annual Conference
Sabah Provisional Annual Conference
Tamil Annual Conference
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