Ivan Yu 余頌恆牧師

Pastor Ivan Yu is a native of Massachusetts. He accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Savior while growing up attending church in Chinatown. He moved to the Albany, NY area in 2010 to study at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and graduated with a B.S. in Science, Technology, and Society in 2014. During college, God’s call for him to serve as a pastor got stronger. He studied at the Northeast Branch of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary and graduated with a Master of Divinity in 2017. While in seminary, he interned at a Chinese-ethnic church in Albany before serving as the English Pastor there from 2016-2020 to minister to youth, college students, and young adults. God led him back to Massachusetts to pastor at CGCM in November 2020.

Pastor Ivan is very passionate about preaching God’s Word and equipping the church to defend the Christian faith for effective evangelism. He holds a Ph.D. in Theology and Apologetics from Liberty University. He is happily married to his wife, Joyce, and they have a daughter named Olive and a son named Davian. Pastor Ivan enjoys reading, writing, playing piano by ear, audio/video editing, and watching Anime.