Many have called into question the biblical sufficiency of these measures, and the SOLA Network also expresses strong concern regarding the decision of the KCP. SOLA Network, a digital platform and conference including Asian American pastors from all over the country, recently broke ties with Chung. WebPastor Min Chung (@pminchung) Instagram photos and videos pminchung 119 posts 1,287 followers 21 following Pastor Min Chung This Account is Private Already follow "Regarding recovery, the pastor reconciled with his victim, and regarding his relationship with God, he recognized his sin before God and relies on the blood of Christ. A new report appears to implicate Covenant Fellowship Church's former head pastor, Min Joshua Chung, in fostering and creating a misogynistic church environment. .mytheme-mejs-container .mejs-embed, Last summer, Kim, writing on behalf of the Oversight Board, promised that CFC would release a full report at the conclusion of GRACEs investigation. 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UIUC officials told WBEZ that CFC has chosen not to renew its status as a registered student organization for the coming year, meaning it cannot recruit new students at a back-to-school event or reserve space on the campus for meetings. For many years, Chung had been a council member and a writer for their site. And in August, CFC hired GRACE. CFC would not be given much specific information prior to the release of the final executive summary, CFC reported in September. .mytheme-mejs-container .mejs-time-total { left: 0; Get new articles and breaking news delivered to your inbox. We are sobered and shudder at the human propensity for sin; we seek Gods grace so that we can be committed to keeping the church protected and honored as the Bride of Christ. Pastor Min Chung admitted some guilt but faced few consequences. .mytheme-mejs-container .mejs-embed body { AsAmNews is a community of users interested in reading, learning and commenting on news, events, people & issues in the Asian Americans and Pacific Islander communities. New report reveals how Korean pastor in Chicago fostered 'm WBEZ uncovered multiple other allegations against CFC, including pastors at the church making sexual comments to teen girls, church officials brushing off women who were sexually assaulted who went to them for help, and an overall culture that diminished women. Esther Yoon-Ji Kang is a reporter for WBEZs Race, Class and Communities desk. The World Economic Forum ranks the country 115th out of 145 countries in gender equality. Over the course of the past few years, the leadership of Covenant Fellowship Church has sought to investigate claims of abuse regarding our founding pastor, Kim wrote in a statement to TRR. For the sake of the churchs purity and healing, we desire for there to be a thorough, fair, and independent investigation completed regarding the incident and the aftermath. The report accuses Chung of orchestrating a cover-up of sexual abuse allegations against another Korean-American pastor of a church with close ties to CFC. The report, published in June, is intended to provide resources to handle abuse cases and to offer best practices and guidelines for elders, churches, presbyteries and other entities. Your tax-deductible gift helps our journalists report the truth and hold Christian leaders and organizations accountable. Pastor Kim confirmed the churchs decision with TRR but did not give a reason. In September 2019, a member of the new leadership team, Pastor KJ Kim, said Chung had admitted to touching a female over the clothing for a brief moment about 20 years ago but had immediately stopped when she asked him to, per a recording obtained by WBEZ. The council also encouraged a member in the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) to inform the denomination of the information SOLA had received regarding Min, who is a member of the PCA. The victim did. In February of 2019, Park said she reported the matter to Kim and urged him to allow a third-party investigation, but Kim refused. This is so disheartening. Rebecca Hopkins is a journalist based in Colorado. In addition, CFC vowed to be clear and transparent with members by providing regular updates on the probe on its website. On July 9, 1988, Whelchel tied the knot with Steven Cauble, her first husband and associate pastor at The Church on the Way. Powered by Church Plant Media I would be interested to know how much of the loss of members comes from the PCA and how much comes from the-once much larger-PCUSA(not PSUSA). It affects your identity, making you want to hide parts or even all of yourself. We prefer to style these with the main accent color of our theme */ However, nine elders objected to the decision and asked for Chung's suspension. Some former CFC members told TRR they believe CFC leaders have lost their way. Many times, I thought I lost my own understanding in God. Langberg helped an ad interim committee of the PCA write a new report on domestic and sexual abuse in churches. Great! Covenant Fellowship Church is nondenominational, has no elders, and is not a PCA member. At the same time as former and current members of CFC were being interviewed by GRACE, the case against the figure at the center of the controversy Min Chung made its way through the PCAs judicial system. WebLearning to Groan in the Holy Spirit | Romans 8:13-16, 26-27 (Pastor Min Chung) In one instance, Chung assaulted a woman in the back seat of a car in 2001, the report alleges. In 2020, the SOLA Council was notified about a past incident involving council member Min Chung, in which he acted inappropriately with a female young adult whom he was pastoring. The timing of thisso close to the finish of the assessmenthas raised a lot of questions and suspicion among former members, said Pinyo. My heart breaks. Your tax-deductible gift helps our journalists report the truth and hold Christian leaders and organizations accountable. Rebecca Hopkins is a journalist based in Colorado. Several CFC Survivors came forward to tell their stories on an Instagram account. Donate today >>, Wednesday, March 1, 2023 Todays headlines: Caterpillar and the United Auto Workers have reached a new tentative six-year agreement, averting a strike. If they found out, they would be devastated and you know how people talk, and I wouldnt want them to have to go through that. . We remind him to abide by the BCO (Book of Church Order), and we believe that he should return to ministry," Sungwoo Nam of KCP stated. A few months later, a group of pastors dissatisfied with the presbyterys April 2021 determination filed a complaint in an effort to indefinitely suspend Chung from ministry. 6 min read. Chung was also an adjunct professor at Urbana Theological Seminary from 2005 to 2018. The commission declared the KCP should have disciplined the pastor according to the PCAs Book of Church Order not follow the restorative steps the associate pastors had instituted, according to Brian Park. height: 3px; Find more resources and videos here. Weve lost our reputations. Former members of Covenant Fellowship Church say Chungs abuse is part of a larger pattern of abuse and silencing at CFC and affiliated ministries. The church followed the report with a letter apologizing for several wrongs. We are personally reflecting on where we may fall short and how we can be proactive in preventing abuse and cover-up, instead of just reacting to it. Hi. The SOLA Network, for the gospel-centric reason outlined in the introduction, feels it is necessary to articulate that: We grieve the fact that ministers of the gospel, those who are to represent Christ himself, have sinned against their own sheep, denied the biblical call to repentance, and failed to seek justice. The commission ruled the KCP had made procedural errors during its initial look at the allegations against Chung, according to Brian Park, one of the pastors in that presbytery who filed the complaint to the SJC. .mytheme-mejs-container .mejs-time-buffering, In a situation like this, we believe real accountability, discipline, and repentance are required. .mytheme-mejs-container .mejs-time-handle-content { The CCG called the allegations against Min Chung an inappropriate moral failure between Min Chung and a woman. .mytheme-mejs-container .mejs-horizontal-volume-total, } Kim would not agree to an interview but wrote back: We at CFC continue to seek the Lord in the work of the church and we are grateful to God for the way He is leading our congregation and this is our focus right now. Unfortunately, GRACE has been informed by CFC that they are terminating the assessment, an update linked on GRACEs website stated. Your tax-deductible gift helps our journalists report the truth and hold Christian leaders and organizations accountable. Nothing was ever followed up on with me. Would you consider making a tax-deductible donation to help our journalists continue to report the truth and restore the church? Pastor Kim also promised that church leadership would add more layers of accountability and would humbly listen, learn, and grow so we can be a healthier church moving forward.. According to U of I spokeswoman Robin Kaler, Covenant Fellowship is once again a registered student organization with the university this school year giving the 32-year-old congregation access to the schools facilities and a new crop of potential members. Without its RSO status, the church was not able to reserve campus spaces and recruit attendees on Quad Day, an annual event held at the start of the fall semester where new students are introduced to organizations on campus. CFC has begun posting Leadership Updates on its website. The cost has been high for the whistleblowers, said Amy Han, one of the whistleblowers who submitted the report. Covenant Fellowship Church in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, whose previous pastor Min Joshua Chung (left) resigned last year following abuse allegations, has The treatment and reception of Asians in the broader American society has shaped the theological tendencies of Asian American Christians, ranging from very radical to very conservative theologies and all of these tendencies, even though often at odds with []. A total of 19 people signed on to the report or are cited as witnesses. Yet this generations aggrieved version of sexism has taken on a different character from their fathers more traditional version of sexism featuring machoism and strict gender roles., https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/13/opinion/south-koreas-misogyny.html, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/23/young-south-korean-men-hate-liberals-feminists/. The motion failed to pass, allowing Chung to remain an ordained minister in good standing with the PCA. Meanwhile, Chung maintains a presence and continues to attend KCP meetings, according to sources. For almost 20 years, Chung kept the alleged sexual assault from church leaders and his wife, Park said. I actually had gotten to the point where I was naively thinking that [the GRACE assessment] was the one thing that was finally going to [lead] CFC to take a true, humble look at themselves.. In your pain and in your healing, may you be comforted and strengthened by the presence of Christ, your advocate, your protector, and your savior. Follow her on Twitter @WBEZeducation and @soosieon. As WBEZ previously reported, those restorative steps had included meeting with the CFC pastoral staff regularly for mutual encouragement and care and preventing Chung from preaching at CFC for a limited time. /* .jet-smart-listing__featured-box-link:before { Rhee told WBEZ she reported the incident to Pastor Chung. Former church members expressed dismay over CFCs apparent about-face. But TRR said that the ruling may still be appealed to the Standing Judicial Commission of the PCA's General Assembly. Another woman reported to Chung that she had been raped repeatedly. I am probably going to get myself in trouble making this next statement but the context was always a sense of Hyper-Complimentarianism or some hybrid form of it because the Denomination that I refereed of believed in women Pastors but the culture was steeped with this type of theological thinking. Please consider interning, joining our staff, or submitting a story or making a contribution. Though disappointed, the whistleblowers said that they were not surprised with KCP's ruling, citing the environment at CFC where Chung leads and the congregation's high regard for the minister. It was another missed opportunity, Amy Han said. Especially in the Korean community, to call out a pastor, youre going against God-given authority.. Fontijn, Park and others told WBEZ they are angry the victims of sexual and spiritual abuse who came forward to be interviewed by GRACE will not be heard. visibility: hidden; /* Player controls */ Park is one of the whistleblowers who submitted the report to the KCP. tricked into sending Asian Texans drivers licenses to fraud scheme, Everything Everywhere All at Once nearly sweeps SAG Awards, Elon Musk uses Asians in defense of Dilbert creators remarks about Black people, Michelle Yeoh wins SAG Award for best actress. /* Player background */ SEOUL, South Korea A prominent church pastor whose behavior came under scrutiny when the #MeToo movement took hold in South Korea was He has either founded or served in leadership for several youth and college ministries throughout the country, and was a board member for international missions organization SIM from 2006 to 2019. background: #db4e88; text-align: left; } background-color: #efefef; Mayor Lori Lightfoot was handed a stunning defeat, the first time in 40 years a sitting mayor was not reelected. Pastor KJ Kim acknowledged that Chung has been accused of a pattern of abusing his authority. They described various experiences of mistreatment by an unhealthy leadership culture over a couple of decades. The SOLA Network exists to influence the emerging generation with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Minister accused of sexual misconduct remains ordained, Meet Todd Gloria the first AAPI Mayor for San Diego, Arrest made in vandalism of Philadelphia mosque, Marvel unveils plans for AAPI Heritage Month stories, Woman accused of lying about her ethnicity resigns from diversity position, Govt. I would guess the numbers will continue to collapse keep up the good work PCA. What remains is for the regional body that originally adjudicated the case to respond about procedural steps needing correction for the future.. She said, Its very important for churches to understand theyre killing themselves, and they dont look anything like the God they say they serve. Conversations about sex, including consent, are taboo. [They] are literally re-traumatizing [themselves] by speaking to us, so the least the other side could do would be to hear those pieces of information, Dunn said, adding that current church leaders, including KJ Kim, were the only remaining people GRACE had left to interview. WILL and the Illinois Newsroom are committed to bringing you in-depth, relevant coverage that keeps you informed and engages you with our community and state. All rights reserved.Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Bryan Chapell, the PCAs stated clerk, confirmed to WBEZ in a statement that the discipline matter has been concluded by the SJC. Our hope is to provide care and oversight in whatever way is appropriate. He declined to be interviewed in order to respect the privacy of those involved and due to the ongoing nature of allegations.. Chung showed Minari to his parents around Thanksgiving 2019, a couple of months before its Sundance premiere. Join with thousands of others to keep this important public media-based resource available to all. Give a gift of $30 or more to The Roys Report this month, and you will receive Escaping the Maze of Spiritual Abuse by Dr. Lisa Oakley and Justin Humphreys. Attorney Laura Dunn, a contracted institutional response specialist with GRACE, said many of the people with whom she spoke struggled to get through their interviews, some of which took three to four hours. We see this is the third article this month youve found worth reading. content: ''; Copyright 2023 Christianity Daily. Sources at GRACE told WBEZ that the group had conducted interviews with more than 40 former and present CFC members, many of whom spent hours talking about their experiences. Chungs church reckoned him to have an especially high place of anointing, making him untouchable when he does wrong, said Dan Lee, another whistleblower in the report. We at the SOLA Network respect and believe in the due processes of member denominations; we encourage the work that our PCA brothers are pursuing to bring the appropriate denominational actions for proper discipline. Under the previous structure, CFC was an independent church, with just Chung and the associate pastors, as individuals, belonging to the Korean Central Presbytery (KCP), one of the regional bodies within the PCA. border: 0 none; .grecaptcha-badge { visibility: hidden; } Were an all-volunteer effort of dedicated staff and interns. Give a gift of $30 or more to The Roys Report this month, and you will receive a copy of Escaping the Maze of Spiritual Abuse by Dr. Lisa Oakley and Justin Humphreys. As James 3 warns us, teachers will be judged more strictly. 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