Registration is now available. Early-bird rates continue until 15 November 2025; thereafter, regular rates apply until registration closes on 1 December 2025.
Conference Summary
Theme: ‘Rise, Stand on Your Feet’ (Acts 26.16).
Bible Study: Book of Jonah.
Date: 26–30 December 2025 (Friday–Tuesday).
Location: Joshua Medical Center, 7872 Walker Street, La Palma, California.
This year’s conference theme comes from Acts 26.12–18:
‘Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.’
Registration Fees
Early-bird rates continue until 15 November 2025:
- Full-time in-person attendance ($200; or $100 as a student or a conference Bible study leader);
- Online attendance only ($100; or $0 as a student or a conference Bible study leader participating full-time);
- Part-time in-person attendance only ($50 per day);
- Part-time in-person attendance, and online attendance for the remaining days ($100 plus $25 per in-person day).
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About the Conference
This year’s 2025 annual Kingdom Leadership Conference, formerly known as WCCCC’s Winter Conference, is a 5-day gathering designed to equip, challenge, and inspire leaders to rise up and serve faithfully in God’s Kingdom. The conference’s theme this year is ‘Rise, Stand On Your Feet’ (Acts 26.16), the call that God gave to Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus.
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Inductive Bible Study
Our inductive Bible study will go through the entire Book of Jonah in three sessions, discovering what it means to respond to God’s call with courage, obedience, and renewed faith.
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Schedule
The conference schedule is as follows (scroll horizontally to see other days, and vertically to see other times of the day):
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Workshops
Faith-in-Action Forum: From Vision to Victory, Session I (27 Dec., English)
Sam Kho; Tony & Nancy Chan
This forum advances the annual Kingdom Leadership Conference’s mandate: to build up disciples who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord, act as good and faithful spiritual leaders, lead with kingdom authority, and conquer through Christ’s love (Rom. 8.37; Rev. 21.7). No more sideline spectators: inductive Bible study sparks not fleeting ideas, but a long-lasting fire of the Holy Spirit whose concrete action in the world warms homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces. Session I (27 Dec.) focuses on current projects, community outreach, training of high-schoolers to lead inductive Bible studies, an Athanasius Graduate Fellowship; and two developing projects, ‘How Great Thou Art’ (telling life stories), and art salons.
How to Be an Outstanding Inductive Bible Study Leader (27 Dec., Cantonese)
Ken Law
It is good that anyone would aspire to understand God’s word and to help others do so. ‘The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever’ (Isaiah 40.8). That means this is a ministry that has eternal value! In this workshop, you will learn not only how to understand God’s word through passage textual analysis, but also how to exercise in-depth observations. Only from these can you derive the correct interpretation and sound applications. Those who want to be outstanding Bible study leaders will further learn how to organize their findings into a theme, with which they can develop a road map of a sensible Bible study session that will benefit others.
Prerequisite: One must like people and be willing to invest time to study the Bible.
Faith-in-Action Forum: From Vision to Victory, Session II (28 Dec., English)
Trinity Bustria; Tony & Nancy Chan
This forum advances the annual Kingdom Leadership Conference’s mandate: to build up disciples who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord, act as good and faithful spiritual leaders, lead with kingdom authority, and conquer through Christ’s love (Rom. 8.37; Rev. 21.7). No more sideline spectators: inductive Bible study sparks not fleeting ideas, but a long-lasting fire of the Holy Spirit whose concrete action in the world warms homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces. Session II (28 Dec.) presents two other developing projects, in chaplaincy and paleontology, and solicits W4C dream projects and your ideas.
The Tabernacle and Our Worship Life (28 Dec., English)
The Rev. Joshua Law
You will be immersed in the experience of Prof. Joshua Law’s ‘Seven Stanzas’ worship theology: praise, submission, confession, reconciliation, illumination, word of God, prayer. Professor Law views worship as a Spirit-led lifestyle of gratitude and obedience, not mere ritual or entertainment. It demands ‘spirit and truth’ through personal practices such as Bible study, prayer, confession, and living sacrifice. In corporate settings, it promotes active participation in praise, edification and Christlike living. He critiques passive services and untrained musicians, favoring theologically mature leaders who choose music for biblical depth, godly composers, and emotional-intellectual balance. He opposes sensual ‘superstar’ music, advocating discipleship that emphasizes salvation and repentance, preparing ministers for God-glorifying worship. This abridged workshop is only an introduction on how to lead Spirit-filled praise and worship. For those who are seriously seeking leadership roles in praise and worship, WCCCC will organize with Prof. Law a post-conference series focusing on in-depth theory and practices.
How to Be a Spiritual Leader in a Political World (29 Dec., English)
Richard Yen
Description forthcoming.
An Inductive Bible Study on Women’s Leadership in the Christian Churches (29 Dec., Cantonese)
粵語講座：用歸納式查經來探討婦女在教會領導的角色
Michael Yung (翁偉琦博士)
Women’s leadership in the Christian church has been somewhat controversial recently in conservative Christian circles. Many have looked at it as a cultural issue (which therefore should be a non-issue in the 21st century). Are the teachings of the Bible unclear, hence leading to this confusion? In this workshop, Dr. Yung will emphasize the concept of ‘principles’ versus ‘applications’ in the biblical text itself as the key of using the inductive Bible study method to integrate the teachings of the Bible, enabling a church to establish Bible-honoring practices on women’s leadership.
最近，在保守派教會的圈子中，婦女在教會中的領導角式產生了一些爭議，很多人視之為一個文化問題（所以覺得不應該再是廿一世紀的一個問題）。這混亂是否因聖經的教導含糊？在這講座我會指出聖經中「原則」和「應用」的觀念，並嘗試用歸納式查經方法來整合聖經中有關婦女在教會領導角式的教導，幫助教會釐定出合乎聖經的婦女領導模式。
Make America Spiritual Again (30 Dec., English)
Eric Liang
The martyrdom of Turning Point USA (TPUSA)’s Charlie Kirk may, in fact, be a turning point for the nation of America. Charlie Kirk having already built a budding movement within Gen Z, his insistence on engaging and confronting an entire generation with spiritual, moral, and political common sense proved so effective (and menacingly so to ‘progressivism’) that the forces of darkness felt it necessary to use a bullet to try to cut short the debate. Now the debate is spreading like wildfire across the land. And it should. Will you be counted amongst the faithful who are willing to engage? This is a once-in-multiple-generations opportunity to re-assert that ‘American exceptionalism’ is real. It can be a 21st-century version of Pentecost. Intrigued by recent events, Dr. Liang has researched some relevant facts that he would love to share with you: (1) what social and spiritual circumstances surrounded major revivals in history; (2) how the tenets of progressivism have led to despondence in young people; (3) building blocks of spiritual revival; (4) confronting the apathy of the establishment churches; (5) whether Asian Americans can play a unique role; (6) observations from technology and foreign policy, with eschatological implications.
Raising Princes for God’s Kingdom (30 Dec., Mandarin)
K. Y. Tsang (曾國揚博士)
Workshop description forthcoming.
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Speakers
Keynote Speaker: Dennis Schreiber
A gifted teacher and police chaplain, and lead pastor at Bethany Church, Alhambra, California, the Rev. Dennis Schreiber will guide us through the theme ‘Rise, Stand on Your Feet’ with biblical depth and practical wisdom, equipping us to stand firm in our calling as leaders in God’s kingdom.
Other Speakers
Trinity Bustria is an operations manager in the security industry, tutor of English as a second language to undergraduate to doctoral students, and tutor of classical literature and historical theological works to undergraduate students. Graduating from the Buddhist-affiliated University of the West with a liberal arts degree (magna cum laude) with a concentration in East Asian languages and religions as the valedictorian of his class, Trinity is an independent scholar of Sinology, ancient Egyptian religion and magic, Korean and Japanese relations, the just war theory, and the anthropology of magic, witchcraft, and religion. Trinity aspires by the grace of the Holy Triune God to: (1) own his own private military company operating according to the ethical and spiritual discipline of the just war tradition, (2) elucidate on the ancient Egyptian framework and background of the ancient Near Eastern world of the Hebrew Scriptures, and (3) restore a magical worldview in the Church of Jesus Christ informed by and in submission the Holy Scriptures’ revelation.
Tony Chan obtained his Doctorate in Regulatory Science (DRSc) from University of Southern California (USC), MBA from University of California, Irvine, M.S. in Quality Management from Cal State University. He was certified by the American Society for Quality in 7 different specialized areas. He represented the U.S. medical device industries to the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) to create and publish the ISO 14971 Standard: Application of Risk Management to Medical Devices. He taught at Virginia Tech and USC on medical device risk management. He worked for a Fortune 100 Corporation as a Quality Advisor, consulted in this area, and was a FDA Medical Device Fellow. He has been serving international students together with his wife, Nancy, for several decades. He is the current Chairman of the WCCCC Board.
Nancy King-Chan (Mrs. Chan) currently serves as a realtor for YL First Team, retired from a full-time tenured professor position, received the honor of professor of emeritus in the counselling department of a Los Angeles College. She has provided career, academic, and international student counseling for more than 30 years. With her years of experience assisting immigrants with their settlement and academic counseling, she is passionate about helping new immigrants adjust to their current environment, find suitable housing, and support their children’s school districts, as well as helping them succeed academically in the American educational system. She received her master’s degree in educational counseling from the University of Southern California (USC) and a Bachelor’s degree in Pre-Medical Studies at UCLA. At her Chinese church, she served as director/member of the mission board for 12 years. As part of the mission board, she founded and coordinated the China Scholars Outreach at her church for 8 years. Currently, she does volunteer outreach to more than 100 international students and scholars. She is the wife of Dr. Tony Chan, and mother of Esther Chan, a medical resident at the Bayview Campus of Johns Hopkins University.
Samuel W. Kho
Somehow in God’s Providence, Sam has stories: from being a curator of the edgiest contemporary art to literally knocking doors for a data tech giant and a large renovation group in the Westside’s Culver City. His heart for Christ, people, and outside-the-box creativity has had him happily street preaching at times! Sam is joyfully married to Betty, and they live and play in the “most dangerous” part of Los Angeles, aka Downtown (DTLA). He is glad to serve near and far, including at his local church in Alhambra, CA, and at W4C.
Prof. Joshua Law, expert in voice, choir, East Asian music, and theology; taught at City College of San Francisco (1972–2012) as Asian Studies Chairperson from 2002. Post-retirement, he directs the oratorio chorus, and has performed numerous major choral masterworks. Over 25 years, he lectured on worship, church music, Soteriology, and Ecclesiology at seminaries such as Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary (1972–1977), International Bible Institute (1981–1986), Grace School of Theology (1986–1990),and Overseas Theological Seminary (1997–2019). He received a B.A. Social Work/Psychology from Hong Kong Baptist (1967); M.Div. from Golden GateBaptist Theological Seminary (1975); D.Min. from San Francisco Theological Seminary (2003). He has extensive pastoral and worship roles at First Baptist Church SF (1977–1981), Park Presidio Bible Church (1981–1986), Christian Fellowship Church (1986–1991), Church of the Highlands (1991–2000).
Ken Law
Born in China, raised in Macau and Hong Kong; educated in the U.S., accepted the Lord in 1971; has been involved in teaching ministry since 1976; has specialized in training Bible study leaders and Sunday school teachers since 1984. Currently volunteering in teaching and worship services at the Joshua Ministry in La Palma, California.
Eric Liang believes learning never stops. He obtained his PhD in aerospace from Stanford University, his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley, his MBA from UCLA, and his Master of Arts in Biblical Studies from The Master’s University. He had careers in engineering research and strategy consulting. He currently works in IT management and teaches at TMU, yet yearns for a new calling that more directly glorifies God.
梁柏恩博士深信學無止境。他從史丹福大學得航天博士，UC Berkeley得機械工程學士及碩士, 從UCLA得商科碩士，也從The Master’s University得了聖經學碩士。他曾從事工程硏究和策略顧問。他現任職於資訊科技管理，亦在TMU任教，但却祈望能品嚐到一個新的、更直接榮耀神的呼召。
K. Y. Tsang (曾國揚博士) became a Christian when he was a teenager. In addition to being a counsellor involved in teaching and training ministry in various campus fellowships, he was formerly a church elder; he now serves also as an overseas committee member of a seminary. He came to the States to study at Caltech, and after graduation he later received a doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Ever since he was in college, he has had a burden for student gospel ministry. He was a sponsor to teen fellowships in Hong Kong and California. He attended the WCCCC winter conference while a graduate student at UC Berkeley, where he led multiple evangelistic Bible sessions on campus each week; his partner Bible study leader later became Mrs. Tsang. (His son Lue-Yee also graduated from Berkeley before undertaking graduate study in Britain and seminary training in Toronto. His other son, Ming-Yee, graduated from Princeton before getting his doctorate from Oxford. There Ming-Yee married fellow graduate student Anne, whom he has previously met at a WCCCC winter conference. Anne later discontinued her doctoral study to focus on the family.) K. Y. has taught in universities and done research at the US Naval Research Lab and other public and private institutions. In recent years he has spoken in several evangelistic meetings for young people, where he led over a hundred to the saving faith of Christ.
年青時信主後，除在校園團契任輔導以教導及訓練服事外，曾在教會任長老，現服務神學院擔任海外地區委員。來美留學後在加州理工學院畢業，並在柏克萊加州大學取得物理學博士學位。曾在大學任教及在美國海軍研究所等公私機構從事研究工作。從學生時期開始即有負擔於學生福音工作，近年向青少年多次主講佈道會，帶領一百多人決志歸主。
Richard Yen, PhD, MD, has been serving WCCCC since his arrival in 1971 for his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the founder of WCCCC’s alumni association, the W4CAA. He speaks often on topics of Bible etudy, evangelism, ethics, cloning, and evolution versus creation. He is the CEO of a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the mobilization of stem cells for wound healing and countermeasures against radiation injuries. He has more than 60 patents and has won 5 NIH awards.
Michael Yung, PhD, has been a church leader and Bible study leader/teacher of the Chinese Bible Church in West Los Angeles for more than 40 years. He was actively involved in the W4C movement in the early days and, in recent years, as workshop speakers. His passion is inductive Bible study, not only as a basic discipline in building up personal spiritual life but also as the gold standard in establishing church doctrines and practices.
翁偉琦博士在洛杉磯西區聖道堂服侍及帶領/教導查經四十多年，在早期積極參與W4C的事奉，近期則擔任工作坊講員和幫忙訓練查經組長。他熱衷於使用歸納式查經來建立信徒的靈命以至釐定教會的信仰及實踐。
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Why Attend?
Our Mission
At W4C, our heart is to raise up faithful leaders for God’s Kingdom. We seek to:
- Challenge believers to grow beyond their comfort zones,
- Train disciples to live and lead with integrity and skill, and
- Broaden perspectives so that leaders may love and serve people of every culture.
We believe in following Jesus wholeheartedly, studying his holy word, living it out, and helping others grow in love for him. Our calling is to equip leaders who will stand firm in faith, act with integrity, and bring hope to the world, even in the face of trials.
Whether you’re a student, a young professional, or an experienced laborer for the Lord, this conference will provide biblical teaching, fellowship, and renewal for the year ahead.
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