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Dr. Benny Wong is the director of Gateway Seminary’s Chinese-English Bilingual Program and associate professor of leadership formation. He was born in Hong Kong, but he immigrated to Canada in 1978.  He became a Christian while he was a teenager and he was called to Christian ministry in 1980. He started his first pastorate in 1984, after he graduated from a Bible college. In 1989, he returned back to Canada to pastor a Chinese Alliance church after he received his M.Div. from a seminary in Taiwan. In 1993, the Lord directed him to Los Angeles to pastor First Chinese Baptist Church Los Angeles until 2023–when he became CEB director at Gateway. In 2001, he received his Doctor of Ministry degree from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.  

Dr. Wong is an ordained pastor who is well known to Chinese Baptist churches in North America. He served as the president of the US & Canada Chinese Baptist Fellowship from 2018-2022. He is married to his wife, Julia. His hobbies include cooking, playing violin and saxophone.

Degrees
D.Min., Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Valley, CA
M.Div., China Evangelical Seminary, Taipei, Taiwan
B.Th., Prairie Bible College, Three Hills, AB, Canada