Following God’s Call to the Ends of the Earth — with Emma Wong
Season 1, Episode 8 | Originally aired on July 26, 2019
About the episode
"Regardless of my vocation, I'll always be called to encounter people and help them encounter Jesus."
Emma Wong definitely considered serving with NET Ministries at one point in her life, but it wasn't until she gave her yes that she realized the magnitude of it. She spent an entire year in Australia with NET Australia, serving the youth of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney. Now that she's back in town, she is a youth minister at St. Patrick's Parish in Maple Ridge. In this conversation, Emma shares her experience in Australia serving with NET Ministries, her current work as a youth minister, and how she's seen her own feminine genius grow throughout these experiences.
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Meet Emma Wong
Emma Wong was raised in Maple Ridge, BC in a family with 3 sisters and 2 brothers – her family was your typical front pew family who definitely said their evening prayers and the Rosary in the car. At a young age Emma’s family stopped practicing the faith and she went a journey of exploration that ended with her choosing Jesus in the Catholic Church and serving in her youth ministry for her teen years. She has been filled with a passion for people and the encounter of the individual, to making them feel known and loved by God and his children. Emma lives out her missionary identity today by engaging in community that feeds her spiritual growth giving her the strength of the Holy Trinity to go forth and make disciples of all nations.
Emma has been in full-time youth ministry for the Archdiocese of Vancouver at St. Patrick’s Parish, Maple Ridge. Before taking up the role of youth minister at her parish Emma learned about her missionary identity and how to engage youth in an encounter with Christ through her time as a missionary with NET (National Evangelization Teams) Ministries Australia. She loves exploring the great outdoors, having deep and meaningful conversations with people and spending anytime she can spend singing or learning a new instrument. She likes listening to music, especially if its worship, and having late night jam sessions with her friends.