Reverend Pastor Louis

Reverend Louis Kiang was born and raised in Fresno, California.  He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Writing at the University of California San Diego, a Master of Divinity from Bethel Seminary San Diego, and a Doctor of Ministry in Youth, Family, and Culture from Fuller Theological Seminary. He and his amazing wife Mimi have been married since 2011 and have two girls; Nuelle and Onora.  Pastor Louis began serving as the youth director at Harvest in 2001. He left in 2007 to attend graduate school. From 2010 – 2013 Louis served as a youth pastoral intern at Chinese Bible Church Central Campus. In June 2013 Louis returned to Harvest to serve as the youth pastor. In 2017, he was ordained by the EFCGA at Harvest. In 2021 Louis began overseeing the English adult ministry. Louis is passionate about God, enjoys hanging out with people (especially youth), building biblical community, reaching the lost, playing games and sports, traveling, eating good food, and drinking tea. He has a youthful heart and likes to laugh. He also has the desire to ignite an authentic passion for Jesus in the next generation and would be delighted to meet you..

Minister Haiyan Liu

Minister Haiyan Liu was born in Hunan Province, China. In 1993, when she was in high school, she accepted Jesus as her personal savior. In 1994, she was admitted to Hunan Medical University to study “Psychiatry and Mental Health”. During the 8 years of college and graduate school, her faith was strengthened, and she was enthusiastic about evangelism and discipleship training on campus.

After graduating in 2002, she became a psychiatrist in a hospital in Beijing. At the same time, she participated in adult Sunday School and sermons at a local church. She had a deep desire for God’s words and theological training. In 2006, God miraculously opened the door, allowing her to take advantage of her holidays while working as a doctor to attend the intensive Mandarin theological courses at the China Graduate School of Theology in Hong Kong and obtain a bachelor’s degree with honors in 2008.

In the same year, she married brother Haitao Shang and they have two sons and one daughter.

In August 2019, Haiyan was admitted to “Logos Evangelical Seminary” to study “Master of Arts in Family Ministry”. In September of the same year, she joined HECSD. The main service is adult Sunday school. At the end of 2020, because of the calling from the Lord, she switched her major from the “Master of Arts in Family Ministry” to the “Master of Divinity” and graduated in May 2022. In July of the same year, she was hired as a minister of HECSD.

Chairman Timothy Lin

Timothy Lin was born in Taiwan in 1968 and grew up in a Christian household. In 1983, his family emigrated to Argentina. As a youth, he was moved deeply by the Lord’s words in John 10:10 and since then he has been longing for the abundant life that God grants. In 1986, he received the Confirmation Ceremony at the Presbyterian Church of Taiwan in Argentina and confessed tat the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Savior before God and the people. From 1989-2000 he served as an elected deacon, and then, between 2001-2016 as an elected elder. From 2001-2014 since the church didn’t have a senior pastor, Timothy was elected as chairman and was in charge of the administration of the church.  2021 till present, he serves at Harvest Evangelical Church of San Diego as an elected deacon. He serves in many areas being Educational Deacon as one of them.  In 1997, Timothy married Cindy Chen and since that day, they have made “As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord” their life guideline. In 2017, God led the Lin family to immigrate to the United States. In 2018, their son Matias started college at UCSD, and their family came to live in the beautiful environment of San Diego. In 2020, their daughter, Brenda, began her college career at USC. Thanks to God’s grace, for leading them to His blessed HECSD to congregate. Timothy looks forward to continue serving the Lord in God’s house with the principle: “He must become greater; I must become less”

Elder Tim Cheng

Elder Tim Cheng has retired from secular work since 2016.  He is now fully focused on church ministries & missions.  In the last 16 years of Qualcomm, he has held positions of China Sales, Worldwide Carriers Support and technical support operations.  Prior to Qualcomm he worked for Motorola GED for 21 years in engineering & management, with the last position as VP of technical marketing & business development. He received a MBA from University of Phoenix and BS Biology & BSEE degrees from University of Washington.

As a Christian servant, he has served as Sunday school teacher, youth leader, fellowship leader, deacon and elder.  He also has participated in short-term missions for the last 12 years.  He served in Greater Phoenix for 21 years and Harvest Evangelical Church of San Diego (HECSD) for 19 years.

His present roles in HECSD are Elder supporting English Congregation Ministries, Missions Ministry, General Affairs Ministry, Children Ministry, and Human Resource Ministry.  He is also leading the English Pastoral Search Committee.

He presently also holds roles with Care Ministry International (CMI) are Secretary of the CMI USA Board and Vice Chair of the CMI IHQ Board.

Elder Steven Xu

Born in Zhejiang, China, Steven Xu is currently a HW engineer at Qualcomm. He had never got the chance to learn Bible and Gospel back in mainland China, but God’s grace, power, and glory, manifested through the testimonies of the love, joy and peace of many brothers and sisters, touched his heart while he was a Ph.D. student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In the third year at GA Tech, he was baptized at North Avenue Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, GA.

While working for Freescale in Phoenix, Arizona, Steven served as the fellowship caring coworker and group leader at the Greater Phoenix Chinese Christian Church (GPCCC). He and his family were relocated to San Diego about 10 years ago due to work. Since then, he has been involved in various ministries at the HECSD church, such as Sunday service audio coworker, usher, presider; fellowship Bible study leader; coordinator of the joint Friday Night Fellowship worship program for 2 years; Sunday school teacher; church Mission Committee member, etc. He also served as the church’s Finance Deacon and Treasurer for 6 years from 2015-2019. In his spare time, Steven loves hiking, playing tennis and traveling. His wife is Lucy Hou, and his son Daniel is a freshman at UCSD.