The Brief History of Metro-Phoenix Chinese Alliance Church

Our church was a church planting effort initiated by the Chinese ChurchesAssociation (CCA) of the Christian & Missionary Alliance (C&MA)of United States in 1981. Rev Paul Tse launched the first SundayService on November 25, 1981. One year later, the church was formallyapproved by the CCA and was legally named the Metro Phoenix ChineseAlliance Church.

Previously we have met at Mckemy Middle School, Desert Rose Lutheran Church,Tri-City Alliance Church, Lakeshore Bible Church, Danforth Chapel ofArizona State University, Dobson Academy. We moved to our currentpermanent location in Tempe during the Mothers' Day of 2009.

In the past 30 years, we have grown through the leadership of a fewpastors - Rev. Paul Tse, Rev. Philip Huynh, Rev. Sing-kin So, andcurrently Pastor Alan Kwong. Rev. Jeff Lee has also been helping usout in-between transitions of pastoral leadership.

We have the long tradition of ministering to immigrants, students andfamilies, especially to those who speak Cantonese, although manyChinese who speaks Mandarin also attend our services. As we grow andthe need for serving English-speaking congregants become imminent, welaunched our English service in 2008.

We see the need to reach out not only to the Cantonese and Englishspeaking, but also to the working class besides the professionals,new immigrants besides the old established diaspora, the youngbesides the adults. We also honor the mandate in the Scripture notjust to share the Gospel but also to disciple the believers.

We are a C&MA church at heart, with missions in our blood. We striveto support global missions work around the globe through our supportof missionaries, their ministries through our prayers, finances andhuman resources.