Daniel grew up in New York City, where he attended Stony Brook University and worked in student ministry and the legal field for a number of years. At Redeemer Presbyterian Church, he caught Tim Keller’s vision for ministry and church planting in global cities, which led him to help plant Maranatha Grace Church while obtaining a Master’s degree at Westminster Theological Seminary. He has also worked at The Summit Church, where he developed curricula for discipleship, small groups, Bible study, and faith-and-work ministry.
As the program coordinator for the Center for Public Christianity, Daniel runs operations, curates the New City Fellows program and teaches on its faculty. As the local outreach coordinator for Holy Trinity, Daniel cultivates the church’s relationships with local ministry partners and mobilizes the church to support them. He is married to Crystal Chen, and they enjoy hiking, cooking, reading, movies, traveling, and hosting friends and family.
With Thanksgiving here and the season of Advent approaching to bring 2020 to a close, I am reminded more than ever why the season is so significant. In it we remember the Advent, the coming of God himself incarnate into our broken world in the person of Jesus of Nazareth 2,000 or so years ago.…
What does it mean to be an entrepreneur in the time of COVID-19? The question has come to mind lately as the New City Fellows* have been exploring what it means to be an entrepreneur as a follower of Christ. We’ve gotten to hear from Christian entrepreneurs like Holy Trinity’s Jesma and David Reynolds;…
News broke this week that a secret startup led by Bill Gates achieved an incredible breakthrough in solar energy that may enable our most energy-intensive industries to drastically reduce their carbon footprint. It seems every day we find the marker for human achievement advanced further than imaginable. Which raises the question, what are the limits…
It’s a challenge to live as faithful witnesses of Christ. So I was pleased to recently discover help in a surprising place: the story of Abraham. Abraham’s world was not so different from ours. He was called by God to sojourn in a place that was not his home, among people who believed differently,…