Jim Ziglar

Ruling Elder

Jim Ziglar has been at Emmanuel since moving back to New York in July, 2001, and has been an elder since 2003. Currently, Jim oversees the church's discipling/accountability ministries and financial operations (although Cheu does all the real work), in addition to leading and hosting a Home Fellowship Group with his wife, Louisa. Prior to Emmanuel, he was a member in a large church in Dallas where he was a Sunday School teacher and discipled a number of men.

Professionally, Jim is an investment banker, and has also spent 6-1/2 years in management and marketing consulting. During his semi-nomadic life, he has lived in New York, the Washington DC area (where he was born and raised), Phoenix, New Haven, Miami, Philadelphia and Dallas.

FT Chong

Ruling Elder

FT was born in Malaysia in 1956 and became a believer about 16 years ago. At the time he was attending Redeemer Presbyterian Church here in New York. His family and he joined EPC in 2006.

In 1992/3, he received training in hospital chaplaincy and served at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK). He also led a ministry group at Redeemer that conducted monthly Sunday worship services at DeWitt Nursing Home and at MSK. When his family moved to Indonesia for work in 1994, he and his wife, Karen joined about 6 other families to start a new church (Jakarta International Christian Fellowship) that has since grown into one of the largest English language congregations in Jakarta. He had the opportunity to participate in the leadership group at that church. Returning to New York, he served as a ruling elder of the session at Redeemer and Karen was a deaconess.

As an EPC elder, FT hopes to be helpful to the staff, pastors and the congregation--most of all he would like to be in the position to encourage and help other EPC members to play official and non-official leadership roles at the church.