William grew up in Cabramatta in South West Sydney. His parents were refugees to Australia from Vietnam. A friend of his mother convinced her that she should go to church, and that taking her children was a good idea “to avoid them going down the wrong path”. So that’s how he ended up going to Cabramatta Anglican church from age 6 years.
During college, William spent two years at MBM Rooty Hill. In the second year at MBM, they announced that they were going to plant a church in Smithfield in South West Sydney, so he joined. As an Australian born Chinese/Vietnamese, he loved Smithfield and its congregation of Maltese, Lebanese, Assyrian, Armenian, Islander, and Australian Christians. In his words, “I learned the value of hugs and lots of food, among other things of course”.
After college, he began serving at Cabramatta Anglican as one of the assistant pastors for the English congregation. This is his home church, with Chinese and English speaking congregations. In the short term, he hopes to equip parents, especially those who haven’t been raised in a Christian household, to raise their children to know and love Jesus Christ. This will mean helping the Chinese speaking parents and second generation English speaking parents. In the long term, he hopes to work on speaking Mandarin and Cantonese, in order to reach out to Mandarin and Cantonese speakers coming to Sydney.
