Pastor Bio
Jul 21st, 2008 by admin
If you’re a visitor to the site or the church, you’ll probably want to know who the pastor is…
My name is Leo Kim… Some people use a title like “Pastor Leo” or “Reverend Kim” which is okay, but I’m fine with just plain “Leo.” I’m someone who’s learning to follow Jesus. It’s been a while, and the whole professional side of me being here has been a long journey (from believing in God in college to seminary to ordination to my doctoral studies) but I really feel like I’m just getting started. So here’s what you should know about me, roughly in order of importance:
- I am not the owner of CityFellowship. Our church belongs first to God, and then to its members (of which I am one). This is a risky way to do church, but it seems to be the way God designed it. He is a risk-taking God. Risk taking when it comes to those He loves.
- My greatest accomplishment (to the extent I can take credit for anything) is that I love my Savior. I often get sidetracked with other things and forget about God while ‘doing things in His name’ among other bone-headed things, but when God wakes me up I am a devoted lover of God.
- My second greatest accomplishment, for which I can take no credit, is that I’m married to a wonderful woman named Grace. She’s my best friend. Right now she works in the corporate world for a large media company, but she has dozens of business ideas for the future, some of which include yarn.
- I believe that it’s important to submit to people (especially those you love), and allow other people to call the shots sometimes - but I am hopelessly distrustful of authority figures and large organizations (read Soren Kierkegaard’s “The Crowd is Untruth”)
- I am an INTJ. I was completely socially-retarded for most of my life - so if I don’t seem to know what to say in a social situation, it’s because I don’t. But I’m listening.
- I am ordained in a denomination called the PCA (Presbyterian Church in America).
- Some people know me from the few years I pastored a college ministry in Amherst area, called Amherst Koinonia Church (AKC) - I had fun, and still run into people from the Five Colleges.
- I am s-l-o-w-l-y finishing a doctorate in Urban Ministry at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia.
- I prefer two-wheels to four so when I’m not riding my motorcycle I’m riding Grace’s little red Buddy Scooter.
- Some people think I look/act like the Mac guy, but I actually prefer PCs.
If you feel so inclined - whether you just visit the site, or visit our church - or we’ve spoken at some point and you want to keep in touch, add me as a FaceBook friend!