December 5 - Our guest will be the Rev. Dr. Pablo Kim Sun, Intercultural Liaison for the PCC
The Rev. Dr. Hyung Jin (Pablo) Kim Sun is the new (as of August 2024) Intercultural Liaison for The Presbyterian Church in Canada.
Before joining the PCC, Pablo served as the Senior Leader for Anti-racism and Intercultural Conciliation with the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) within Canada and as an Intercultural Leadership Program Consultant with the Tyndale Intercultural Ministries (TIM) Centre. In his role with the CRC, he has collaborated with a national anti-racism and decolonization committee to plan, execute and lead systemic and cultural changes within the denomination. His work includes fostering a network of connected organizations and church leaders nationwide and promoting programs that build relationships, particularly with minority communities. At the TIM Centre, he has been instrumental in redesigning and developing new content to equip Christian leaders for diverse and inclusive ministry.
Before these two significant roles, Pablo served as a Mennonite pastor at Toronto Mennonite New Life Church. There, he ministered to a Spanish-speaking congregation, where, in addition to performing pastoral duties, he provided social-emotional support to several members who came to Canada as refugees. Other pastoral roles include being the Lead Pastor at Church for Others in Temple City, California and a chaplain at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has also been an academic mentor at Northwest Baptist College and Seminary in British Columbia, a Louisville Scholar at the Louisville Institute in Kentucky and a Teaching, Research and Program Assistant for Intercultural Leadership and Learning at Forum for Intercultural Leadership and Learning, a reference group of the Canadian Council of Churches.
In addition to three journal articles and a book chapter, Pablo is the author of Becoming a Critical Intercultural Church: A Mennonite Ecclesiology in Contemporary Canadian Multicultural Society (recommended by peer reviewers and the editorial board and is presently under final review for contract issuance) and Who Are Our Enemies and How Do We Love Them? published by Herald Press in 2020.
Pablo is of Korean descent, grew up in Paraguay and came to Canada by way of the United States. His academic studies began with a Licenciatura en Teologia at the Universidad Evangelica del Paraguay, followed by an M.A. in Intercultural Studies and an M.Div. (emphasis in Christian Ethics) at Fuller Theological Studies. He has a Th.M. from Boston College with an emphasis in Christian Ethics and a Ph.D. in Theological Studies from Emmanuel College, University of Toronto.
He is married with a young daughter.
Principal Clerk of the PCC, the Rev. Victor Kim, welcomed Pablo to this new position, saying, “We are excited about the possibilities that the position and Pablo in particular offer for the ministry of the PCC. In a time of rapid change and challenge, we continue to be a people of hope and possibility. We look forward to the ways that Pablo will contribute to the present and future of our denomination and its ministries.” He asked that everyone join with him “ in welcoming Pablo and in praying for him as he begins this new role.”
Ministry Forum is delighted to host an online space that will strive to be safe as modelled and facilitated by its hosts where ministry leaders will gather with almost no agenda and where everything is on the table and tangents are welcomed. Join us for "We Need To Listen" where participants will find: - support and encouragement - accountability and celebration - ideas and strategies and most of all, a community of people passionate about sharing the Good News of Jesus with the world but sometimes feel alone doing it.