LEADERSHIP

Your Servants Team for the Church

This page will evolve and develop over time. At San Francisco Bay Christian Fellowship, our church governance and ecclesiastical structure will include Pastoral Staff Leadership, Board of Directors, Elder/Deacon Board, and Executive Council to meet the (future) needs of the congregation.

REV. JOON CHOI

Founder, Sr. Pastor, & Chief Spiritual Architect
San Francisco Bay Christian Fellowship
eMail: joon.choi@sfbaycf.org | X @ChoiJoon

Having accepted Jesus as his personal Savior & Lord at age 17 and been called into ministry at age 19 in college, Joon has dedicated his life to serving the local church ministries and missions for God’s Kingdom purpose and cause over the last 35+ years as a lay leader (deacon & elder), a pastor, and a urban missionary.

As a native of the SF Bay Area, Joon has been in full time pastoral ministry over the last 15+ years, serving and leading the local churches as a pastor and a church planting missionary in the greater Bay Area. Prior to his formal vocational ministry, he’s been involved in the local church ministries and missions since 1990 serving in a variety of different capacities, incl. children, youth, college, young adults, families, and senior adults ministries. He has also served as a deacon, an elder, and a member of the board of directors for a number of church plants since 2003. In addition to local pastoral, preaching, and teaching ministry, he also supports and participates in various mission initiatives, incl. local, regional church planting networks as well as international global missions coalitions. He currently also serves as Director of San Francisco Bay Bible Institute, a local theological education center in partnership with Gateway Seminary where he serves as an adjunct professor and a certified TFE (theological field education) mentor for graduate seminary students. He previously served on the Executive Board of the CSBC (California Southern Baptist Convention) as a member of the convention operations committee (2019-2022).

Prior to transitioning into vocational, pastoral ministry, he had served in the marketplace - technology industry (semiconductor, information technology, and software) in Silicon Valley, CA for over 15 years in a variety of capacities as an engineer, a manager, and and executive for both the Fortune 500 companies, including Samsung, HP, SIEMENS, etc., as well as venture startup firms. Towards the later part of his professional career, he focused primarily on working with international technology startups (from Asia-Pacific region such as China, Taiwan, Korea, and India) assisting and advising founders and C-level executives. Through the late 2000s, he had served as VP & Partner for Calance, an IT management consulting firm and Managing Director for Semieda & Co., an advisory consulting firm specializing in the semiconductor industry.

He’s a proud father of two sons, Joshua, who recently graduated from college (UC Berkeley), and Jonathan, who is in his Junior year in high school (Marin Catholic). He and his family reside in San Francisco, CA. During his spare time, he enjoys traveling, attending sports games, and learning to cook different cuisines.

He’s a graduate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (BS) and Pepperdine University (MBA). He received M.Div. and M.Miss. from Gateway Seminary (Mill Valley, CA), and Th.M. from Southern Seminary (Louisville, KY). He's a Ph.D. candidate/student at Midwestern Seminary (Kansas City, MO).

PhD (WIP), Midwestern Seminary

ThM, Southern Seminary

MDiv & MMiss, Gateway Seminary

Executive Education: General Management, Stanford Business School
MBA, Pepperdine University
BS, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

RICHARD CLARK

CFO, Treasurer, & Elder

Richard had grown up in a Christian family/home, along with his older brother in Rochester, NY. His parents were a long time, faithful members of the local methodist church and his grandfather was a (Presbyterian) minister. After graduating from college, he served at the U.S. Navy for two years before embarking on his marketplace career. He began his initial career in food manufacturing industry with General Mills in the early 70s and then joined McKesson Corporation, based in San Francisco HQ location, where he spent the next 20 years in product management, marketing, general management, and corporate finance serving in a variety of roles as controller, GM, director, and VP. He also started and led his own management consulting practice for over 20 years where he worked with and assisted corporate CFOs and controllers, up until his retirement in 2013.

He has been actively involved and serving in a number of non-profit and charity organizations over the last 30+ years, including the Salvation Army where he’s served as chairman of the NorCal advisory board working with the local homeless outreach projects in San Francisco. He also serves as membership chairman for the Order of St. John where he’s initiated as a knight. He has been a long time member (30+ years) of Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco and a frequent volunteer at the Ft. Miley VA Medical Center.

Richard has found his secondary passion with music and has been a skilled, avid piano player over the last 20+ years playing for many corporate and private functions such as Christmas parties, weddings, and the like. He’s a graduate of University of Rochester, NY (BA, Economics w/ distinction) and holds an MBA (in Finance) from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.

BA, University of Rochester

MBA, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business