Gi Yoon-Huang was born in South Korea to a Buddhist family. She moved to Virginia to be raised by her father when she was 6 years old. Through a missionary leading a non-believer's youth Bible Study, Gi came to saving faith when she was 12 years old and attended the Falls Church Episcopal.
As an adult, she grew in faith at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City. In 2007, she and her husband, Ambrose, moved to the Boston area and have been attending Christ the King Presbyterian Church. Over the 13 years, the Huangs have been blessed with 2 daughters, Samantha (age 10) and Hana (age 8). Gi has served as a deacon's assistant, Bible study leader, and Sunday school teacher over the years. She works as a pediatric ophthalmologist at Boston Medical Center and is active in her town government of Belmont.
Leonard, an Elder at Christ the King Presbyterian Church, is a lifetime Cambridge native who works as a security officer at Harvard University. He and his wife Naomi have attended the church since 2010. Recent empty nesters, they have two young adult children, Elisabeth and Nathanael. Leonard is enrolled at the Harvard Extension School. His interest is poetry, English, and theology. Leonard enjoys reading, piano, fishing, audio, and music of the baroque, especially the cantatas and passions of J. S. Bach, and a good conversation. Naomi has a small business sewing for interiors.
Laura Bullock is a native New Englander and was raised in a Christian home about an hour outside of Boston. She believed on Christ at the age of 14 at a youth retreat - the passage preached was Philippians 3:10-11, which continues to be a life verse for her. She has been attending CTK since 2006, and has served on the music team, running the sound board, and her new favorite thing at church: teaching 4th/5th grade Sunday school. In 2017, she came on staff as Church Administrator. When she’s not church administrating, she reads and writes fiction. This winter, she’ll be assisting Paula Sachsenmeier in leading the Boston Fellows Arts Cohort. She agrees with Flannery O’Connor that “only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.”
Emily Stuntz is a native New Englander who came to faith through the witness of her parents and the youth ministry of a congregational church in Haverhill, MA. She began attending CTK 8 years ago, and has been richly blessed by its teaching and community, as well as involvement in various ministries such as music team, community groups, and women’s ministry. Over the years, she has found a variety of excuses to stay in Boston and at CTK - attending grad school, working different jobs in the local biotech industry, and marrying Andy, who she met during the passing of the peace. Emily lives in Malden and enjoys hiking, cooking, and reading.
Greg Russell is an elder at Christ the King. He is married to Dana who serves as CTK's director of children's ministry. They have three daughters - Miriam and Tobey who are in high school, and Selah who is in college. Greg moved to Cambridge in 1996 for grad school and joined CTK then. Greg and Dana never felt called away from the area and settled here to raise their family. He now works as an architect in Boston.
Greg became a Christian as a middle-schooler, and grew up in a Christian home. At CTK, Greg has served on the diaconate and as an elder since the early 2000s. He is passionate about serving the kingdom and is currently teaching the middle school Sunday school class, which he thinks is good preparation for joining the pastoral search committee.
In his spare time, Greg does NY Times crossword puzzles, runs in the woods of the Fellsway, and works on his Victorian House in Melrose.
James Goodman is married to Sarah Goodman, and they have three children Abby (13), Gracie (12), and Sam (10). They began attending Christ the King six years ago after having moved to the area for James’s work in pharmaceutical research and development. James has been a member in the PCA since junior high, and he and his family have previously been active in congregations in St. Louis MO, Chattanooga TN, Portland OR, and New Haven CT, where they have benefited greatly from grace-filled, Christ-centered preaching and shepherding. James enjoys, in no particular order, coffee, working on projects around the house, action sports like snowboarding and "onewheeling," and reading about the interaction of science and faith.
Joe Buckley and his wife Susan have been members at CTK for almost twenty years. Their two adult children are Kristin and Daniel. It's been a blessing for them to be a part of the CTK family with cherished relationships and place to worship together.
Joe’s work has been in the construction trades for forty years. Susan works at the Perkins school for the blind in the health services department. Over the years, Joe has served at CTK as a deacon and on staff as the building manager.
When Joe began to learn reformed theology, it changed his life knowing that God's desire is for us to know Him and His Son and to trust in the promises in the Word. Isaiah 55 is one of those promises he always remembers:
Isa 55: 10-11 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Paula Sachsenmeier is married to scientist, pianist, and elder Kris Sachsenmeier. They have two sons: Jasper (married), a lecturer of composition and myth at Penn State Behrend; and Eliot, a medical student in Rochester, NY. As an artist and writer, Paula’s hand has led her to freelance and non-profits like World Vision, local galleries, church and arts education. The Sachsenmeiers moved to Boston and have attended CTK for three years, during which time she helped launch the Arts Cohort of Boston Fellows, a cross-church guild supporting artists in the integration of vocation and faith. She has been a Christian as long as she can remember, including a catalytic experience as a young child, biblical education in the Lutheran tradition and familiarity with the ‘suffering that produces character, that produces hope, that does not disappoint.’ Prayer as a liminal space between the tangible and mysterious, is where my art and my heart linger increasingly.
Susanne van Veluw grew up in The Netherlands as the youngest daughter in a family of five. Her dad is a theologian and became a pastor in the Dutch reformed church when she was a kid, so she has been at the ‘other end’ of pastoral search committees a few times herself! After graduating from college (Amsterdam) and obtaining her PhD in neuroscience (Utrecht), she moved to Boston in 2015 for a post-doctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Earlier this year, she joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and now leads her own research group of young scientists. They are eager to better understand and eventually treat a brain disease called ‘cerebral amyloid angiopathy’ (ask her about it after church, and she’ll tell you everything you want to know!). Since she moved here five years ago, she has attended CTK Cambridge, which has become a warm home away from home.