Author: Reverend Donald Ng Archive

Dayle Scott Celebration of Life Service, Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church, Oakland, CA, November 20, 2021, 1:00 PM Dayle and I were colleagues in ABC Educational Ministries in Valley Forge forContinue readingPlan-Overs Always Half Full

A lifetime ago, I went to Gordon College after high school and became the first in my Chinese American family to graduate from college. Since then, our children, all myContinue readingCollege Days and Life-long Days

Enough John 6:1-15 July 25, 2021 Sermon preached remotely at First Chinese Baptist Church, San Francisco. When is enough, enough? When visiting our son and his family last month, IContinue readingEnough

On this 4th of July, my father, Goon C. Ng was awarded the US Congressional Gold Medal for serving in the US Army in WWII. He along with over 20,000Continue readingWe Are Americans

Eddie Lum always sat in the back of the sanctuary with his wife Margaret in worship. He was present but Margaret was first to speak like many of the membersContinue readingEddie Lum–Road Less Traveled

Growing up in Boston, I often heard people claiming that their ancestors arrived on the Mayflower. There was this “blue-blood proper Bostonian” culture that permeated everything. But even as someoneContinue readingWhere Are You From?

My Zoom name tag is “Don Ng 吳錫民.”Under my rectangular picture is both my English and Chinese names. When I was born, my parents gave me my Chinese name. IContinue readingSay My Full Name

I sang Kumbayah for the first time sitting around a campfire at Pond Homestead Baptist Camp in Wrentham, MA. It was memorable because the quietness of the night was filledContinue readingKumbayah

Model Minority Myth (MMM) I was expected to do well in math. By the time I was in junior high school, I was enrolled in “modern math!” I was expectedContinue readingModel Minority Myth (MMM)