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He has been an active member of the Boston Ten-Point Coalition (an urban ministry working with at-risk youth) and is a founding member of the Boston Fellowship of Asian-American Ministers. He currently serves on the board of World Vision, Sojourner, the Christian Community Development Association, Evangelicals 4 Justice and the Catalyst Leadership Center. Soong-Chan has previously been part of a church planting team in the Washington DC area, worked for a number of years with IVCF in Boston (specifically at MIT), and had mobilized CCFC to plant two additional churches. In spite of the demand on her time for social obligations and other activities, she devoted much time and energy to the bringing up of her children.Rah is formerly the founding Senior Pastor of the Cambridge Community Fellowship Church (CCFC), a multi-ethnic, urban ministry-focused church committed to living out the values of racial reconciliation and social justice in the urban context. Madame Kung was a charming and devoted mother of four children, two boys and two girls. Believing in the social application of Christian principles, she takes great interest in and contributes generously though often annonymously to Christian works. Yet, notwithstanding her position, she led a very simple private life. A gracious hostess, she entertained generously at their home on Route de Sieyes, Shanghai, where many internationally known personages enjoyed her hospitality. Madame Kung had a large circle of friends both in China and abroad. Yet, despite all this, she was a most unassuming and congenial character. Her opinion was widely sought and highly respected by the leaders of the country. She is one of the few who have the larger views of the affairs of China and the world, and was helping in an important though quiet way in the reconstruction of the nation. Like her parents, Madame Kung was a follower of the Christian faith.Ī woman of rare intellect and great vitality, Madame Kung was counted among the foremost leaders in China's modern womanhood. When the Apostalic Faith Mission Church in Zhabei, originally built by her mother, was burned during the Sino-Japanese War in Shanghai, she undertook to rebuild it in memory of her mother. Her beautiful command of English makes it almost her second mother-tongue. She was the first Chinese woman to be sent by her parents to study in America, which bespeaks her parents' foresight and ideals in giving high, modern education to China's womanhood. Soong.Īt an early age, Madame Kung went to the United States to pursue her studies and graduated from the Wesleyan College of Georgia. Kung, Vice-President of the Executive Yuan and concurrently Minister of Finance, and was the sister of Madame Sun Yat-sen, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Dr.
Soong, well-known in Chinese business circles. Kung, nee Eling Soong, was the eldest daughter of the late Mr.