Author: Abe Cho

Abe Cho is the Senior Director of Training with City to City NYC and North America. Cho has more than 20 years of pastoral ministry experience, including 14 years as a pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in NY and six years as the Senior Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church East Side. Cho’s leadership also within the Asian American community create opportunities for CTCNA to theologically strengthen the leadership of practitioners in the cities we work. Cho holds an MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a DMin from Fuller Theological Seminary. Abe’s gifts as a preacher, teacher, and church leader have shown a proven ability to have deep biblical frameworks that integrate a vision for justice and reconciliation into Christian leadership. His reputation, relational network, character, and theological depth hold significance for us as CTCNA seeks to build multi-ethnic tables with a vision to advance the mission of the church in North America. Abe and his wife Jordyn live with their four children in Manhattan.

Modulating the Key of the Gospel

In 1989 when Tim and Kathy Keller first moved to Manhattan to plant Redeemer Presbyterian Church, one of the most critical challenges he would say they faced was learning how to communicate the historic gospel in a way that was both true to Scripture and would resonate with a highly secular, therapeutic culture among the educated professional classes of the Upper East Side.