Source: Los Angeles Times
On December 8, 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported that "the Rev. Ken Fong is doing what he and many other church leaders once thought was impossible: making a historically Japanese American church look more like multiethnic Los Angeles in the heart of the San Gabriel Valley. Since March 1997 when the third-generation Chinese American became the senior pastor of Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles in Rosemead, Fong has been working toward a church model that reflects the wider community... The result is a thriving congregation that is 20% African American, Latino and white, 4% multiracial and 75% or so pan-Asian, composed of 17 Asian ethnicities including Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Burmese, Cambodian and Laotian... The church rolls have more than doubled: from 300 to nearly 700. People come from as far away as Santa Barbara and San Diego to participate in the life of the church, whose three core values, Fong said, are hope, humility and hospitality."