About.

About

Third Space is a startup non-profit ministry under the leadership of Rev. Milton Eng to provide resources and spaces to help Asian Americans grow in their ethnic and spiritual journeys. These include seminars, internships, research/publications and other innovative and creative programs to inform Asian Americans and the wider community of their history, culture and contributions and to support the Asian American Christian community and their local churches in the challenges they face as ethnic minorities in the religious landscape of America.

Asian American Leadership Center

Third Space is a ministry under the Asian American Leadership Center which is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing assistance and a platform to help other ministries get started. AALC has helped launch 4 new churches, 11 new innovative ministries and host 8 national leadership conferences.

ISAAC East?

Milton formerly served as East Coast Project Director for ISAAC (Innovative Space for Asian American Christianity) beginning in 2012. In 2020,  he left ISAAC to start his own non-profit, Third Space Asian America. With more flexibility and independence, he will be able to concentrate more fully on the local New York and New Jersey area where he is based. Third Space is a ministry under the Asian American Leadership Center (www.aaleadershipcenter.org). All contributions are tax-deductible and should be made payable to "AALC" for "Third Space AA."

Founder and Director
Rev. Milton Eng, PhD

Milton (伍敬華 牧師) is an independent minister and Hebrew Bible scholar. He is also an adjunct professor teaching World History and Asian Studies at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ.

As a minister, he guest-speaks frequently on Sundays in a variety of Chinese-American congregations throughout the NY and NJ area as well as teaching adult Sunday School classes. He preaches in the Princeton, Monmouth, Warren, East Brunswick, NY Chinatown and Flushing areas.

Pastor Milton is also an author and published with Zondervan in 2015  Devotions on the Hebrew Bible  with his good friend, Lee Fields. His latest publication is as a contributor to the Baker Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words (Baker, February 2023).

Born and raised in New York City and Milton has been living in northern NJ for over thirty years. After graduating from Columbia University with an engineering degree he felt called to full-time Christian service and started attending seminary.  He graduated from Evangelical Seminary in Pennsylvania with his M.Div and Biblical Seminary (now Missio) with his S.T.M. He also studied for a year at Westminster in their Th.M./Ph.D program.  Always seeking more knowledge in the Word, he eventually attended Drew University where he earned his Ph.D. in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible.

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