Farewell to Moses Chung
After a thorough and prayerful discernment process to review the structure of the leadership team at Resonate Global Mission, a decision was made to eliminate the director of program and strategy position. As a result, Rev. Moses Chung will be leaving Resonate Global Mission after more than 13 years of service as an agency employee.
“As a relatively new organization, it is necessary to regularly test and shift our organizational structures toward greater functionality and efficiency,” explained Rev. Kevin DeRaaf, director of Resonate Global Mission, about the decision.
He added, “Moses and I worked closely together, so this has a very real personal impact for me. Moses served as director of Home Missions and on the transitional leadership team that formed Resonate. He has served as a strong spiritual leader and caring colleague. He will be deeply missed by all of us who have worked closely with him.”
Chung is an ordained minister in the CRC. He earned a master of divinity degree from Calvin Theological Seminary and a doctorate in missional leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. Prior to his service with the denomination he worked for nearly 20 years in parish ministry and church planting settings in southern California, Michigan, and South Korea.
In 2011, when he was hired as director of what was then Christian Reformed Home Missions (CRHM), Chung said that his dream was for the CRCNA to be a leading voice for mission in North America and around the world.
“I really sense that God is at work,” said Chung. He added then that CRHM would “play a part in what God is doing in North America today."
That passion continued for Chung as CRHM joined with Christian Reformed World Missions to become Resonate Global Mission in 2017. The same theme drove him to cowrite Joining Jesus, a book about ordinary people doing extraordinary things to share the gospel. Chung indicated that this passion also continues today as he departs his role as Resonate’s director of program and strategy.
“I am profoundly grateful for the honor and joy of serving Christ and God's mission over the past 13 and a half years through Christian Reformed Home Missions and Resonate Global Mission,” Chung said in a farewell message to Resonate staff. “My greatest blessing has been in seeing God at work and working alongside many passionate and mission-minded people who have been my coworkers and friends. I will continue to remember you in my prayers as you navigate some of the toughest challenges ahead in joining God's mission at this critical moment in history.”
The CRCNA thanks Chung for his years of service and wishes him God’s blessings as he and his wife, Eunae, process this decision and seek God’s direction for their future.
