New Vision is lead by an amazing team of pastors as well as congregation leaders, each with their own area of focus.
Pastors
Pastor Martin grew up in Chicago; later moving to Seattle where he resided for 20 years. Eventually, he settled down in New York with his family. Pastor Martin was a pre-med student in college, obtaining a BA in Biology from the University of Chicago. While doing biomedical research at the University of Washington, he discerned a call to ministry. He went onto study at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada, completing his MDiv in 1999.
Pastor Martin’s unique spiritual and technical background brings a modernized view into his sermons, always seeking to not only explain how God works and relates to us at a personal level, but how God applies and relates to everything around us. What Pastor Martin finds most amazing about God is how thoroughly personal and relational God is; God is both relatable to us as individuals and beyond. Aside from loving theology and New Vision, Pastor Martin’s hobbies include: tennis, table tennis, hiking, compelling stories, and coffee(!).
Pastor James Kim is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Covenant Church, former restaurateur and church planter. Coming into this season, he has been serving as part of the teaching team at Beacon Church in Albertson, NY. He graduated from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in the greater Boston area where he met Carol, his wife of 18 years while serving at a local church. They have three young children, Luca (13), Ilan (11) and Yohan (9).
Leadership Team
John Sheen
Moon Sung
Jungrok Shin
Lillian Yim
