MissionTeam Member: BurtY

Having only retired in 1998 from his professional career of 36 years as an elementary school teacher and principal in Oakland, Burt continues to follow his call to lay ministry to “Do No Harm, Do Good, Stay in Love with God”. This Wesleyan-based tradition has served and continues to serve as his personal motto.

Adding to his already active faith journey with his local church CCUMC of over fifty years, he was recently elected to serve as CA/NV Annual Conference Co-Lay Leader for the 2008-2012 quadrennium. As the first ever Asian-American to hold such a position, he works closely in partnership with the bishop and his cabinet and represents the interests of the laity of over 350 churches.

In addition to spending quality time as a husband, a father and a grandfather of Emma and Linus, he sings bass in New Dimension Chorus, the Fremont/Hayward Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society bringing barbershop harmony to appreciative audiences, young and old. He also serves as a volunteer Hayward Area Recreation District van driver for seniors on Bay Area trips. He serves alongside with his wife, Jane in the American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter, Alameda County as co-lead for mass care, sheltering and feeding.