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Upcoming Webinar – Coffee with Wing Yi Wong

We’re excited to invite you to the second instalment in our “Coffee With” web series, Coffee With: Wing Yi Wong!

Please join us on Thursday, May 23 at 12 PM EST/ 9AM PST for this virtual event. Register below.

Pastor Wing Yi 黃詠貽 is a Ph.D. candidate in Homiletics at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. She holds a Th.M. concentrated in preaching from Princeton Theological Seminary as well as an MDiv. from Alliance Bible Seminary (Hong Kong). Before pursuing her education abroad, she served as a full-time minister. Currently, she is going through the ordination process at the United Church of Canada. Furthermore, she is the first generation in her family to pursue higher education and one of the first female homileticians in Hong Kong. Committed to theological education and social justice, Wing Yi has 10+ years of intercultural preaching, teaching, and ministry experience in Hong Kong and Canada.

Additionally, Wing Yi is a multiple-time recipient of the Foundation’s Elizabeth White Bursary, a longstanding academic support for Chinese students and students of Chinese descent.

In this webinar, we’ll catch up with Wing Yi to learn what she’s up to these days! She’ll reflect on her ministry journey and also share her current work.

See you (and your coffee!) on May 23! Register below to save your place at the webinar Coffee With: Wing Yi Wong

Suggested Reading

During Asian Heritage Month, we’re showcasing the Asian and Asian-Canadian people strengthening the church’s intercultural ministry as well as highlighting opportunities to engage with this work.

Also, ahead of the webinar, you may want to learn more about Wing Yi’s work, we suggest:

• this powerful prayer, Bearing Witness to the Journey of Asian Peoples in Canada
• the United Church 40 Days of Anti-Racism webinar replay, Intersecting Identities: Intergenerational Asian Voices, for which Wing Yi was a panellist (hosted by the Foundation’s Jenna Yango Leonard!)
• this short video about the recent retreat Wing Yi co-facilitated with Foundation Board Member Alan Lai.

Our “Coffee With” series is a new way of inviting you into the work of various movers and shakers across the United Church of Canada. Timely, relevant, and intimate, these half-hour webinar sessions are easy to fit into your lunch hour or coffee break!