Oong & Elena Lee

Oong & Elena Lee

Shepherd's Bush, U.K.

Oong and Elena met in London and were married in 2016. Oong completed Serge’s two-year apprenticeship in 2015, served as the lead church planter of the Shepherds Bush team at New City Church from 2018 to 2023.

Elena has been a Montessori school teacher since 2012 but since giving birth to Noah and Aurora, has been supporting the family from home.

Oong is originally from South Korea but came to London as a child. Elena is originally from Italy and studied theology there before coming to London in 2010 to serve at a seminary where they met.

With Oong being a 2nd generation British-Korean, and Elena, now a typical Italian Londoner, they naturally have a heart for the next generation of Londoners to know and follow Christ.

The Lee family are embarking on a new church planting project in a community of London that has seen much decline in Christianity and increase in no-religion. It is both economically and ethnically diverse with large numbers of immigrants from around world. The Serge team will seek to cultivate a multiethnic church that would be a home for members of the diaspora community who do not feel the belonging that they long for in a church, nor have experienced being understood by a church community, especially the diverse culture that they have been brought up in.

It is our belief that God is calling our family to cultivate, raise, and equip the next generation of believing individuals and families to know and follow Christ, be a gospel-centered church family that serves their neighbours and the wider community, ultimately, being mission-minded.

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Oong & Elena Lee

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