2026 Grace Conference Speakers
Daniel Eng
Daniel K. Eng is a husband, Dad, teacher, preacher, and author. He is a graduate Talbot School of Theology and the University of Cambridge. A native New Yorker, he still misses the pizza and bagels. He served in pastoral ministry roles in California, Texas, and the United Kingdom. He currently serves as Associate Professor of New Testament at Western Seminary. He is the author or editor of several books, including James: The Hodder Bible Commentary and Faithful Ministry Through Chinese Churches in America. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and three daughters. In his spare time, he enjoys strategy board games, following his hometown Knicks and Giants, traveling on credit card points, and trying different kinds of cheese.
Wayne Chen
Pastor Wayne Chen and his wife Gail both graduated from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Upon graduation, Wayne and Gail served in Tri-Valley Chinese Bible Church in Northern California. In 2007, Wayne and Gail, along with Abigail and Michaela, left suburban America and joined New Tribes Mission as tribal church planters. In 2009, the family moved to the country of Papua New Guinea. They soon began living with a tribal group called the Biem people, on a tiny volcanic island 150km off the northern coast. In the last 9 years, they learned Biem language, developed an alphabet and a written form of the language, taught the Biem how to read and write and presented the Gospel for the first time to the Biem people. Today, there is a strong and vibrant indigenous church on Biem with tribal elders shepherding the church. They are now working to complete the New Testament translation for the church. Wayne is also the director for Radius Asia. Radius is training program for cross-cultural missionaries with heavy emphasis on language and cultural acquisition to proficiency, foundational Bible teaching, embracing suffering and hardship as tools in church planting and planting mature churches with indigenous leadership.
Chris Hui
Chris currently serves as a Pastoral Resident at Park Community Church - Near North in Chicago. He grew up in Naperville, attending and growing in his faith through the youth ministry at Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church (WCAC). Chris heard God’s calling to ministry in high school and served Him through various opportunities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he graduated with a B.S. in Psychology and Religious Studies.
Chris served as a youth counselor at WCAC and worked as a children’s soccer coach in Texas before continuing to pursue God’s calling for his life and beginning his studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. He graduated with his Master of Theology in 2024 with an emphasis in Intercultural Ministries. After graduating, he served as the Young Adult Minister at a Chinese heritage church in the Seattle area for two years before returning home to Chicagoland.
Chris and his wife, Naomi, live in Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood. In his free time, you can find him supporting Chicago sports teams, playing League of Legends, or smoking Texas barbecue.