Mark Chiu

I’ve been with LGCC since 4th grade, mostly growing up in the South Bay location at LGCC YMCA. My parents are Tom and Lucia who are in Shanghai now pastoring a church. I have 2 older sisters and a younger brother. My family have spent time in several parts of the world, making stops in Boston, Hong Kong and Singapore. I started working with the youth group back in 2008 and have been helping with the jr high youth since.

I started serving Kairos back when it was still known as GAVE in 2008. Some of our counselors past and present were still in the Youth Group at that time! Aidan and Wendy Leu had invited me to serve with them in the Middle School ministry and I've been doing it ever since. There have been many challenges along the way, definitely some classes were easier to handle than others. If there's one Fruit of the Spirit that has been tested most it would definitely be patience. However, it will always take just one student who is receptive to the Word that makes it all worthwhile. It's a constant reminder to myself that it is not by my works that these students come to believe in Christ. God, and only God, has the power to change and convict people's hearts. Seeing God work in each of our student's lives is something that helps me continue to serve the Youth Ministry and convinces me that Youth Ministry is where God is calling me to serve. My hope and prayers for Kairos is to continue to be a place where we help equip and raise up many generations of future men and women of Christ.