Dr. Danny Kwon

Danny Kwon, Ph.D., has been serving 29 years as the Youth and Family Pastor at Yuong Sang Church, a bicultural, bilingual Korean-American congregation outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He is married to Monica, a Christian counselor and Psychologist, and has three children. He completed his Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership and teaches as an adjunct professor of Youth Ministry at Eastern University. He has authored three books, including A Youth Worker's Field Guide to Parents: Understanding Parents of Teenagers, and Mission Tripping: A Comprehensive Guide to Short Term Missions.” Dr. Kwon has also contributed to various journals and publication, spoken at ministry and leadership conferences across the country and world, and mentored 28 youth ministry pastoral interns and seminarians over the years through his church ministry internship program which he created. He loves sports, eating, and making people laugh.

For many years, while serving as a youth and family pastor, Dr. Kwon has taught courses at all levels of higher education and served with youth ministry organizations such as Youth Specialties and The Youth Cartel. He also completed an advanced coaching master certification related to ministry coaching. Finally, his degrees in Organizational Leadership (Ph.D.) and Pastoral Theology have also given him the pastoral and educational foundation in various areas of ministry, leadership, and church dynamics. His doctoral dissertation focused on innovation theory and intergenerational youth ministry paradigms in the local church. These experiences have grown his love for ministry to teenagers and families, intergenerational ministry, as well as serving, teaching, and training churches and ministry leaders in various contexts outside the local church.

Danny has also had substantial and diverse experiences from places from Philadelphia to St. Louis to Seoul, South Korea, in addition to numerous teaching opportunities in diverse and international locations such as Cuba, Haiti, Kazakhstan, and Japan. These experiences have enriched and broadened his views and practices in ministry, youth ministry, intergenerational ministry, and leadership, and given him a sense and calling for ministry not only in the United States, but from a global, cross-cultural, and international perspective.