Welcome to Metro Phoenix Chinese Alliance Church

Join us in Cantonese Service at 11 a.m. on each Sunday. We'd love to see you there!

Phone/Fax: (480)967-7280

Address: 1341 E University Drive, Tempe AZ 85281

Email: mpcac.tempe@gmail.com

Lead Pastor: Alan Kwong

Associate Pastor: Joel Yuen(Youth Ministries)

Worship Leader: Jason Yee

Children Ministry Coordinator: Fiona Quan

Our church was a church planting effort initiated by the Chinese Churches Association (CCA) of the Christian & Missionary Alliance (C&MA) of United States in 1981. Rev Paul Tse launched the first SundayService on November 25, 1981. One year later, the church was formally approved by the CCA and was legally named the Metro Phoenix ChineseAlliance Church.

Previously we have met at Mckemy Middle School, Desert Rose Lutheran Church,Tri-City Alliance Church, Lakeshore Bible Church, Danforth Chapel ofArizona State University, Dobson Academy. We moved to our current permanent location in Tempe during the Mothers' Day of 2009.

In the past 30 years, we have grown through the leadership of a few pastors - Rev. Paul Tse, Rev. Philip Huynh, Rev. Sing-kin So, and currently Pastor Alan Kwong. Rev. Jeff Lee has also been helping us out in-between transitions of pastoral leadership.

We have the long tradition of ministering to immigrants, students and families, especially to those who speak Cantonese, although manyChinese who speaks Mandarin also attend our services. As we grow and the need for serving English-speaking congregants become imminent, we launched our English service in 2008.

We see the need to reach out not only to the Cantonese and English speaking, but also to the working class besides the professionals,new immigrants besides the old established diaspora, the young besides the adults. We also honor the mandate in the Scripture not just to share the Gospel but also to disciple the believers.

We are a C&MA church at heart, with missions in our blood. We strive to support global missions work around the globe through our support of missionaries, their ministries through our prayers, finances and human resources.

Fourfold Gospel Alliance founder Dr. A. B. Simpson voiced the core "theology" of the C&MA many years ago. He called it the Fourfold Gospel, and it's all about Jesus - our Savior, Sanctifier, Healer, and Coming King. The Fourfold Gospel is the Christological summary on which the spiritual DNA of The Christian and Missionary Alliance is built. One of Simpson's life verses contains these words: "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27). The Fourfold Gospel points to this fact: as we experience Jesus in these ways, we will experience the "hope of glory" Simpson spoke of.

Jesus' death on a cross was the fulfillment of Old Testament law, which required blood atonement for sin. By His death and resurrection, we are redeemed from eternal separation from God, justified, made righteous, and accepted in His Name. Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to man by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12).

The laver symbol represents the daily cleansing from sin by the power of the Holy Spirit. His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness (2 Peter 1:3).

This symbol represents a pitcher containing oil to anoint the sick for healing that comes through obedience to God's Word. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up (James 5:15).

The crown represents Christ's royalty as the King of Kings. His coming will be a visible, personal appearance. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven (Mark 14:62).

The globe represents our mission in the world. The Lord urged His followers as He sent them to spread the Good News throughout the land. That appeal will continue until the gospel, through the efforts of His Church, has reached all peoples, and He comes again. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come (Matthew 24:14).

In the formative years of our movement, the Holy Spirit instilled within A. B. Simpson a passion to reach people with no knowledge of Jesus Christ in his "Jerusalem" and around the world. That passion still lives in The Alliance today and is our first core value: Lost people matter to God. He wants them found.

We believe that nothing of lasting value can be done unless it is bathed in prayer. So passionate in his belief that prayer is the undergirder of all ministry, Alliance founder A. B. Simpson was compelled to create a prayer league that would focus on the world's evangelization. He believed that the Prayer Alliance would "prove to be the mightiest force in the spread of missions." That force still drives The Alliance today. Prayer is the primary work of God's people.

Everything we have belongs to God. We are only stewards. This core value is intrinsic to the nature and structure of The Alliance. As Scripture encourages us to remember, it's not the amount of money we have or how much we give-it's recognizing that everything we have comes from God (Luke 21:1-4). We teach and practice the blessing and effectiveness of the faith principle of giving. The issue is not how much to give but how much to keep.

If The Alliance had a "life application" verse, it would be Matthew 28:19: "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"-The Great Commission! But the next verse is equally important: "and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." Knowing and obeying God's Word is fundamental to all true success.

Completing the Great Commission will require the mobilization of every fully devoted disciple. In The Christian and Missionary Alliance the first priority of every minister, congregation, and believer is to work for the evangelization of the world. Healthy churches producing healthy disciples who are devoted to reaching lost people will hasten the completion of the Great Commission and the return of Jesus Christ.

The Apostle Paul said, "My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power" (1 Corinthians 2:4-5). Without the Holy Spirit's empowerment, we can accomplish nothing. This is not only the fiber of our being as believers but also the sixth of our Alliance core values.

For more than a century, Alliance workers have braved harsh and dangerous territory, at great personal risk, to take the good news of Jesus to a lost world. These workers experienced our seventh Core Value-Achieving God's purposes involves taking faith-filled risks. This always involves change. Because of the selfless dedication of Alliance workers who were willing to lay down their lives for the gospel, entire people groups now know Jesus.