Resonate Welcomes Back Moses Chung
Rev. Moses Chung is again joining Resonate Global Mission in living out and sharing the gospel worldwide. He is returning to serve as the agency’s Asia Mission Team leader. Chung’s appointment comes at a providential moment: at a time when he was sensing God’s call to work in Korea, Resonate was seeking a leader for its work in the Asia region.
“My Resonate colleagues and I are excited to have Moses return to our denomination’s mission agency,” said Kevin DeRaaf, director of Resonate. “We see God's hand in leading Moses and [his wife] Eunae to South Korea to engage with church-planting efforts there and to support the work of Resonate in this critical region in the world.”
Chung holds a master of divinity degree from Calvin Theological Seminary and a doctorate in missional leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. He worked in parish ministry for 20 years in California, in Michigan, and in South Korea before being appointed to serve as the director of Christian Reformed Home Missions in 2011.
In 2017, when Home Missions and Christian Reformed World Missions joined to form Resonate Global Mission, Chung stepped in to serve as director of mission innovation and later as director of program and strategy.
In October 2024, however, Chung’s position was eliminated. At that time Chung said that “he really felt God’s grace” as he entered a season of prayerfully seeking God’s guidance for his next steps.
To his surprise and wonder, Chung said, he felt God calling him to mission work in Korea, where he had spent the first 15 years of his life before moving to North America.
“I have a new sense of calling in my life to leave here and do mission work in Asia, in Korea in particular. . . . I feel God has equipped and prepared me in the past 55 years of my life to do the work that’s laying in front of me, and that God is inviting me to join in what God is doing already in Korea,” he said.
Chung added, “I am amazed at how God led me to apply for this position—another big surprise. I am eager to see how God will reveal God’s purposes through this journey, and I look forward to engaging in God’s mission alongside Resonate and the Asia Mission Team.”
Chung is stepping into the role at a time of change in the Asia field for Resonate. First, Resonate has restrategized and restructured some of its regions throughout the world, in part due to budget cuts in response to declining ministry shares. Previously the agency’s work in Asia was divided into two regions: East and Central Asia and South and Southeast Asia. Today Resonate has designated Central Asia as part of its Europe region, and East, South, and Southeast Asia are now combined as one.
Second, Resonate missionaries Lawrence and Ruth Spalink are retiring in May 2025 after 44 years of serving in Japan, and Resonate missionaries Charles and Hensel Oh are transitioning to Japan after serving in the Philippines.
In Japan, Charles Oh will work alongside Resonate’s current missionaries in the field (Jeong and MiSook Gho, Ken and Jeannie Lee, and Perrin and Jodi Werner) as well as with the Reformed Church in Japan to develop a church plant for immigrants to the greater Tokyo area.
Joyce Suh, who serves as Global Mission leader for Resonate, noted that Chung is well equipped to lead the Asia team as the mission agency navigates these changes.
“Asia is both a place where the Spirit is on the move and where there is a large population not yet reached with the gospel,” said Suh. “Moses is bringing a wealth of mission knowledge and experience, organizational insight, and spiritual depth into his new work at the regional level.”
She adds that Resonate’s mission work from a Reformed perspective contributes something special to the mission field in Asia: “Resonate has many strengths for its work in Asia: staff with a strong sense of calling, strategic relationships, deep knowledge and understanding of the context. We are well placed to influence Christian movements in the areas where we serve—we reach broad groups of people and places, not only individuals, with the good news of Christ.”
Chung will be joining Resonate missionaries Joel and Jeannie Huyser on the field in Korea, where they moved in September 2023 to work alongside a local community to start a Christian school. The Huysers have served with Resonate in a variety of capacities, including with the Nehemiah Center in Nicaragua – and more recently, Joel served as Resonate’s interim director from April 2022 through June 2023. Huyser said he is excited to serve alongside Chung again.
“Moses has years of experience and wisdom in walking with churches that are seeking to join Jesus in their communities,” said Huyser. “In Korea, churches are facing the challenges of reaching the younger generation and ministering in an increasingly multiethnic context. I think Moses can help.”
Chung officially started his new role on Apr. 1, 2025, and will move to Korea after a time of building a strong support network. Similar to other missionary roles through Resonate, Chung’s position is funded both by Resonate and by a community of churches, individuals, and families partnering in his mission through support and prayer.
“I am very excited to join in and work closely with Resonate missionaries and our partners in Asia,” said Chung. “Resonate and the denomination have a long history of mission work and partnership in Asia, and I see great potential and possibility for participating in God’s unfolding work and vision there at this time in history.”
