Deacon & Trustee Candidates

CCCTO Executive Board Members 執行委員會成員 2024-2025

Deacon & Trustee Profiles

Gregg Hanke, Deacon Candidate (EM)

1. Tell us a little bit about yourself.
   Gregg is Michigan born and raised. He moved to California in 1988. He has worked in various technical professions since then. I am single, never married.
2. What do you do as occupation and what are your hobbies?
   My present job title is Instrumentation Specialist. I do calibration, maintenance, and repair a pharmaceutical research laboratory instrumentation.  I have also worked in aerospace for about 17 years, as a senior assembler, prototype, assembler, test, engineer, quality, engineer, and product engineer.
3. Why did you choose to accept the nomination to be a deacon?
   Recently, I had been trying to figure out ways to serve the church in addition to simply running the soundboard on Sunday mornings. In the midst of these thoughts, I was praying that God would give me something to do. Then came the inquiries about becoming a deacon with no prompting from me. 
4. How did God speak to you through the process?
   As referenced above. I was approached by two individuals in leadership, the church, one Deacon, and one elder.  God work with me, by Moving these two men to inquire with me about becoming a deacon. It happened the way that I prefer, someone approaching me, instead of me, trying to get into a position of leadership.
5. What is one thing you look forward to the most as you serve as a deacon? 
   Looking forward to working with The men in the leadership of the church, and the opportunity to serve God and his people with the experience and gifts God has provided for edification of others.
6. Do you anticipate any challenges ahead and how can we (the Church) pray for you?
   This being a new chapter in my involvement at CCCTO, my greatest desire is to grow in God‘s wisdom. That is how people can pray for me, knowledge, discernment, understanding, and wisdom.

Solomon Cheng, Deacon Candidate (EM)

1. Tell us a little bit about yourself.
   I have been going to CCCTO for decades and have served as a deacon many years ago.
   My wife, Michelle, and I have 3 kids: Katelyn, Annalise, Terena.
2. What do you do as occupation and what are your hobbies?
   I work in Camarillo for a company called Advanced Motion Controls. My hobbies include reading about car news.
3. Why did you choose to accept the nomination to be a deacon?
   God has blessed me and my family greatly.  I want to serve any way I can.
4. How did God speak to you through the process?
   The thought that comes to me many times is, “How have I been serving God lately?”
5. What is one thing you look forward to the most as you serve as a deacon?
   Serve the church as we move forward from the many changes and challenges in the past few years.
6. Do you anticipate any challenges ahead and how can we (the Church) pray for you?
   Yes, there will be challenges, but I don’t yet know what they will be.  Pray that we will rely on God when it comes.

Few questions we asked the current deacons:
1) Tell us about you and your family.
2) What do you do as an occupation and what are your hobbies?
3) Why did you choose to continue serving as a deacon for the next term?
4) Can you share one valuable lesson you learned from serving as a deacon?
5) How can the church pray for you?

Steve Quon

1. Single, two older sisters, two nephews (18 and 16) and one niece (17)
2. Occupation: Financial Analyst with SoCalGas
3. Hiking, sports (golf, tennis, football), eating
4. Felt a calling and conviction to serve the church in this capacity during this time of transition between EM pastors
5. Listening to others and holding your tongue when facing complicated situations
6. For the proper perspective; less of me and more of God through the Holy Spirit.

Allan Chow (English Ministry)

1. My name is Allan, my wife’s name is Amy.  We are blessed with two boys named Eric (15) and Evan (10).
2. I am a pharmacist currently working for a pharmaceutical company, my hobbies are watching movies, playing ping pong and video games.
3.  I choose to continue serving as a deacon for the next term as I see there is tremendous need for our church especially as we are going through a transition period.  I also am confident in my calling to serve. 
4. One valuable lesson I learned while serving as a deacon is that God’s timing is always perfect, we just need to be patient.
5. Please pray for me to do my best balancing between busy work, family time and serving in CCCTO.

Bobby Thompson (English Ministry)

1. I’m married to Fong Fong.  We originally met at the CCCTO Family Fun Night and have been married for over 18 years.
2. I work as a web application developer.  I enjoy using tech devices, and playing video games.
3. The fact that I’m only half way through a 2 year term definitely plays a role.  Besides that, quite simply, I’m not done yet.  I was worried I’d be warn out and tired by the end of my first year, in fact I’m experiencing quite the opposite.
4. Don’t let your fear of being inadequate prevent you from serving.
5. Pray that my marriage relationship stays strong, and pray that I can continue to grow as a leader in the youth group.

Marilou Cheung (English Ministry)

1. Adolf and I have been married for 38 years and have 2 kids and 3.33 grandkids:  a son Matthew (married to Jenna) with grandkids: Alistair and Summer and a daughter Kristina (married to Stephen Lin) with grandkids Adrian and one due in April 2024.
2. I have been retired since 2016 and have been filling my time with caring for my grandchildren, working in Adolf’s business, serving at church, and playing tennis.
3. I love serving our Lord and I love our church and this is a difficult transitional time for our church as we continue to search for new pastors and directors.
4. Through my service as a deacon, I learned how to appreciate the innerworkings of our church and to see God’s glory and grace as brothers and sisters each use their unique gifts for the good of our church.
5. For God to continue to use me as His servant for his church even as I finish out my existing term as a deacon.

Angela Woo (English Ministry)

1. My name is Angela Woo and next year will be my fourth year serving as a deacon. My primary role is to serve in the treasurer position and care for the less ministry. My husband Brian and I have two kids, Joshua is in his 2nd year in college and Sarah is a senior in high school.
2. I work as a property management accountant at a non-profit organization.
3. Why did you choose to continue serving as a deacon for the next term? God has blessed me with an accounting background and use my talent to serve my last year as the church treasurer. 
4.  I get to know other deacons better.
5. A good time management between serving the church, working full time, and being a good mom and a good wife.

Andy Zhou 周恩明 (Mandarin Ministry)

Tell us a little bit about yourself 自我介紹
My name is Andy Zhou, a man created by God, a confessing sinner, husband of a godly woman (Daisy Zhang – Coworker at CCCTO，Software Engineer), father of two young Christians who were baptized in CCCTO (Ken – UCSD master student and David – Moorpark College/Georgia Tech student)
周恩明, 一個上帝所造的男人，一個坦白的罪人，一個敬虔的女人的丈夫，兩個在千橡城基督教會受洗的年輕基督徒的父親。冬梅(妻子) – 教會同工，軟件工程師; Ken – 加大聖地亞哥分校碩士學生; David – Moorpark College/Georgia Tech 學生。

What do you do as occupation and what are your hobbies? 你的職業是什麼，你的愛好是什麼？
Software Engineer
Hobby 1 – Fixing problem: cars, house, computer, electronic, internet, etc.
Hobby 2 – Digital creation: photography, videography, videos
Hobby 3 – Learning: theologies, technologies, cultures, languages

軟件工程師
興趣1 – 修理東西：汽車，房屋，電腦，電器，網路等
興趣2 – 數字創作：攝影，攝像，視頻
興趣3 – 學習：神學，科技，文化，語言

Why did you choose to accept the nomination to be a deacon? 你為什麼選擇接受執事的提名？
I was called and I don’t want to find an excuse. 我被呼召服事，沒有想過找藉口推託。

How did God speak to you through the process? 在這個過程中，上帝是如何對你說話的？
I didn’t receive the direct revelation from God. Rather as I perceive the aging and passing of saints during the pandemic, I felt the need to step up and do more. I believe it’s the work of the Holy Spirit. 我不認為上帝有直接對我說話。只是看到疫情期間很多年長的聖徒老去，感到我應當盡我所能做更多。相信這是聖靈的感動。

What is one thing you look forward the most as you serve as a deacon? 作為執事，你最期待的一件事是什麼？
Always looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of my faith, serve CCCTO with patience and endurance.一如既往仰望為我們信心創始成終的耶穌基督，通過耐心與忍耐在教會服事。

Do you anticipate any challenges ahead and how can we (the Church) pray for you? 你預計未來會遇到任何挑戰嗎？我們（教會）如何為你祈禱？
Yes, God protects my family from the temptations of the evil one. And please pray for the cleansing of my fleshly desires and be a servant that pleases our Lord Jesus Christ. 是的，求上帝保守我的家庭成員不被撒旦的奴役攪擾。同時求主的靈清潔我身上還有的屬肉體的情慾，以便成為一個讓主喜悅的僕人。