Over fifteen years ago, Reverend Caleb
Tang, Reverend Ted Lam, and a host of other Chinese Baptist pastors
organized this Association with the hope to unite all Chinese Baptist
pastors serving in the South and the Southwestern part of USA, to provide
support for each other in times of needs, and to provide bridge and
networking relationship with each other.
Through time, this Association
developed working relationship with the Chinese Baptist Fellowship of USA
and Canada under the leadership of Rev. Paul Wong. The Chinese Baptist
Fellowship sponsors and organizes national conference once every two years.
At this moment, there is no annual association due for membership in both
organizations but free-will donations and offerings are welcome.
In order to provide closer networking
relationship with our members and provide spiritual supports to our members,
our Association general meets twice a year, in various locations within the
states: Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, and Arkansas. We
generally review and discuss our current programs, organize and develop
plans in planting new Baptist churches, and plan our yearly youth and young
people retreat.
The young people retreat has been a
blessing to many youths and young people in the past few years, especially
for our smaller Baptist churches. Speakers for this young people retreats
are generally from the pool of Baptist pastors in this region and a group
young professional people from several Baptist churches organize and run it
cheerfully and professionally with assistance from their pastors.
Furthermore, we occasionally invite
well-known spiritual leaders, seasoned Baptist pastors, or Biblical scholars
to our general meetings to strengthen and enrich our serving skills in
various fields. Sometimes, their insights and experience encourage and
strengthen our personal walk with our Lord and provide a spark to our
serves. Currently, we have over 15 Baptist pastors and ministers as our
regular members.
Our newly elected officers are:
Reverend Timothy Yin of First Chinese Baptist Church San Antonio, Texas as
the chair, Reverend John Tsai of Agape Chinese Baptist Church of Broken
Arrow, Oklahoma as the Vice-chair, Reverend Ted Lam of Church Planting,
Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma as our Secretary and Treasurer, and
Rev. Caleb Tang, Interim pastor of Hyde Park Chinese Baptist Church as our
Association Advisor.