Meet Our Elders
Marin Asian Community Church currently has two elders that oversee and shepherd our church ministry leaders and members. They are Clifford Chang and Ralph Young and have been vital part of the ministry here at MACC. We invite you to get to know them better!
Clifford Chang
1. Who are you married to and for how long? How many children and grand kids do you have?
Susan for 52 yrs. We have three children and eight grandchildren.
2. When did you move to Marin County and why?
Marin in 1972 for better schools, swimming pool & tennis court
3. What are your favorite things (hobbies, sports, foods, movies/things to watch, books, places to vacation, bible verse)?
Fishing, golf, travel, be with grand kids, eating, horror & science fiction, martial art, action movies, Isaiah 40:31
4. How did you start coming to MACC? What have your areas of service at MACC been over the years?
After 4 families moved from SF to Marin County from the Chinese Independent Baptist Church of San Francisco, we began with home Bible Studies, Vacation Bible School & built up relationships in Marin county. We felt the Lord’s leading to plant a church, which is when MACC began. I was always with the 4 families who started the church.
My areas of service have been Elder, overseer of Multiplication, Christian Ed & Congregational Life Committees, in charge of church prayer meeting, serving communion, church morning prayer & Christian sharing, Pastor Search Committee, and Pastor Relations Committee.
5. What is your favorite thing about MACC?
Worshiping God as one body
6. What do you hope to see happen at MACC in the next 5-10 years?
Members grow spiritually, membership increase, bonding of families in Christ, all members serving in church (Ephesian 4:13) and bearing fruit (Galatians 5:22)
Ralph Young
1. Who are you married to and for how long? How many children and grand kids do you have?
Married to Hazel since 1963! Two kids one daughter and one son; one grandson and three granddaughters.
2. When did you move to Marin County and why?
Moved to Marin in 1965! I was raised in Santa Rosa and always had an affinity for the West Bay and areas North of SF!! We were living in SF at the time; I took a job in Berkeley. The commute to Berkeley was easier from Marin than from SF!
3. What are your favorite things (hobbies, sports, foods, movies/things to watch, books, places to vacation, bible verse)?
I like to collect things, much to Hazel’s chagrin!
I love Cantonese opera and have a collection of both DVDs and audiotapes; good movies (especially the older films — comedies, dramas, gangster films, and action films).
I love good Cantonese food, French food, Italian food; actually, good food of most stripe.
I like Chinese martial arts and mythology flicks and historic era, costumed drama films!
We both love travel to Asia and Europe, although less of that lately and more within the US!
I like reading mysteries and espionage thrillers; I mix secular with Christian books (I have a trove of unread books), typically one followed by the other, so I can cover both.
My favorite verse is Psalm 23, a psalm of David!
Favorite sports teams are the SF 49ers, SF Giants, Cal Bears!
I love ancient Asian art, especially that of historic China; I was a docent for the SF Asian Art Museum for 10 years and just went on inactive (no longer a touring docent) this year.
4. How did you start coming to MACC? What have your areas of service at MACC been over the years?
I was introduced to MACC when it was initially formed by the original families; I was not a believer at the time. After I came to Christ, I served as a Sunday school teacher, led worship (believe it or not!), served in committees, and eventually became an elder!
5. What is your favorite thing about MACC?
MACC has always been a family oriented church and this filled a need for us when our kids were young and needed fellowship! We also had both men and women’s fellowships which helped to bond the church and is a primary reasons why we have stayed together for all these years. The Lord has blessed the church for all these years and we hope to see this continue.
6. What do you hope to see happen at MACC in the next 5-10 years?
With the infusion of young families, we hope to see MACC continue its ministry into the future! MACC has to change its focus and direction, and the young families are the life line of the church into the future. I can see both the makeup and the profile of MACC changing (more community outreach and multi-ethnic), but we need new leaders to take her forward!
