Board Members

Damon Au

Member

Hope Evangelical Free Church

Testimony:


As I was growing up, I always felt unwanted by my parents. Because of the emptiness I felt, I was constantly getting in trouble at school or with those who were in authority. Due to the lack of parental supervision, I grew up in the streets of SF Chinatown. I was considered the black sheep of the family. I had a lot of anger within me and at any moment I would lash out. I did not know how to communicate verbally; I just used my fist to speak.


I don't remember when my sister and mother came to know Christ. When my mom came to accept Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior she changed. She stopped playing her MJ game and threw away her MJ set. Not only that, but she also even had one of the Reverend to come to our house to throw away her idols. Once she believed, she began to pray for my salvation—it took a couple of years.


My pastor's wife led me to Christ. She said two things to me that touch my heart: “God loves you" and "What have you to lose if you gave it a try”. At that moment, I decided to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. What did I have to lose? No one ever loved me and here, a God loved me unconditionally. I then acknowledged Jesus Christ who loved me and died for me. I asked forgiveness of my sins and asked Him to come into my heart, in Jesus Christ name. After my prayer, I sensed the filling of the Holy Spirit--a peace and joy within me. This occurred in August 1968. I was baptized twice, once with sprinkling and then emersion. I did it the

second time because I wanted to follow Christ's example.


The Youth at the Church where I attended were amazed of my decision. When I started sharing my testimony, many of the Youth who attended did not receive Christ as their personally Savior until I shared with them. I fully believed God used me to start a revival at the Church. Then I got involved and started with 5 other people started the Chinese Christian Union Basketball League in 1968.


As I got more familiar with the Church, I joined the basketball team. I became involved organizing friendship basketball leagues where invites were open to friends and youth in the community center to participate. We knew a lot of basketball players who would attend our Friendship Basketball League but not attend fellowship or Church. During this time, we would set time aside so players on our team would share their testimonies with our guests. Many came to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. This was how we planted the seed of

Christ through basketball.


I was also involved in our Church choir. I had the privilege to share the gospel musically around the Southern States for three summers traveling by cars and vans. Many came and accepted Christ.


August 1978 was the turning point of my life. My pastor challenged us at the summer camp: “Is God calling you to serve Him in full-time ministry? Are you willing to take up the cross daily and follow Him? Are you willing to sacrifice your life for Him?” God moved me to take the next step of committing myself totally by going into full-time ministry. Immediately after camp, I gave two weeks notice to my secular job that I will not be returning. I have served at Cornerstone Evangelical Baptist Church for 27 years and at Cornerstone Trinity Baptist Church for 3 ½ years. Presently I am pastoring at Hope Evangelical Free Church in the Sunset District, San Francisco.

George Jue

Member

Millbrae Bible Church

Testimony:


My name is George Jue and I am married and have four sons. I came to know Christ through attending a young adult fellowship at Bay Area Chinese Bible Church (BACBC) in San Leandro, CA. A friend invited me to the BACBC fellowship after I graduated from UC Berkeley. I eventually came to the decision to accept Jesus Christ and was baptized at BACBC when I was in my late twenties. My spiritual journey lead me later on to attend Sunset Church in San Francisco in mid 90's and that is where I met my wife. I later moved to South San Francisco and have been attending and serving at Millbrae Bible Church for the past seventeen years. In 2014, I became actively involved with sports ministry at Millbrae Bible Church and headed up the basketball ministry. I later joined CROWN as a board member in 2019 to help keep the former CCU Basketball ministry going.

Brad Chang

Member

Sunset Church

Testimony:


Growing up in a Christian environment meant going to church on Fridays and Sundays, having mostly church friends, and playing in Christian sports leagues. It wasn't until my later years of high school that I began to understand that being a Christian was not as much the actions of the person but more about why a person behaved a particular way.
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Continuing to understand that God loves me changes my thinking to want to choose what he desires for me. I am not motivated to participate in Christian activities because that's what others expect of me but I am motivated by what God wants from me. There is no pressure to live to the expectations of people but I am free to live for God who loves me and fully accepts me as his own child. 

Richard Liu

Member

New North Church

Testmony:


I was born and raised in Miami, FL and began attending the Chinese Baptist Church of Miami at a young age, growing up in the youth group. I accepted Christ in elementary school at our annual summer retreat and was baptized at the church as well. I moved to California in High School and attended college at University of California Davis.


During my time at UC Davis, I served in various leadership roles for AACF and also began playing in the CCU basketball draft league my senior year. After graduating, I was invited to play on the CCU Ambassadors and spent about 10 years on the team playing in various tournaments.


My relationship and reliance on God was taken to another level during COVID, where I oftentimes felt powerless and was unable to control the outcomes of events, which therefore left me nothing but seeking a deeper faithfulness. It was also during this time that I began coaching my son's basketball team, which led me to volunteering for a CROWN youth clinic by one of my former Ambassador teammates. In a short amount of time, I felt called to continue to help with youth programs and has allowed us to host leagues, tournaments, and even establish youth Ambassador teams to play in local Asian league tournaments, some of them being the same as when I had played as a young adult.


My goal is continue to serve others and become more like Jesus in His humility and acceptance of a life of a servant. I am grateful to serve on the CROWN board and am eager in always to find new ministry opportunities to serve the local community more.