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Published on: 5/1/2005
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Y. Hui Chen of Princeton Theological Seminary
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The 2005 winner of the David H.C. Read Preacher/Scholar Award is Y. Hui Chen, who will receive a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, on May 14.
This $10,000 award honoring its former Pastor, the Rev. Dr. David H.C. Read, is given annually by Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (MAPC) to a student in the final year of a Master of Divinity degree program who demonstrates special distinction in both preaching and biblical scholarship and is committed to the parish pulpit ministry.The intent is to help the winners to continue furthering their strengths as preacher/scholars after they leave seminary.
Y. Hui ChenThe 2005 winner was selected from 29 candidates nominated by 19 Protestant theological schools throughout the U.S. and Canada.
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Ms. Chen will preach at MAPC on Sunday, June 12 at the 10:30 am and 7:30 pm services.
"A creative and diligent student whose sermons are biblically based, theologically sound and address issues that will pertain to the everyday life of the faith of her listeners, Hui Chen is one of the most outstanding students I have known in my years at Princeton Seminary," Dr. Nancy J. Duff, Stephen Colwell Professor of Christian Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary, wrote in her letter of recommendation.
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"Ms. Chen is exactly the type of person for whom this award must have been created," wrote Dr. Brian K. Blount, Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary.
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Ms. Chen was born in Taiwan, the grand-daughter of one of Taiwan's first women ministers.At age 14, she came to study in the U.S. at the Pennington School in New Jersey.Thereafter, she received a B.A. in Social Science at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with High Honors, followed by a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law.From 1991 through 1994, Ms. Chen was with the United States Department of Justice's Office of International Affairs, serving as a consultant to the Russian Government on legal reform and criminal justice issues.From 1995 through 1997 she was Assistant United States Attorney in Brooklyn, New York serving as a federal criminal prosecutor of terrorism, fraud and narcotics cases.Thereafter, she became Counsel for Microsoft Corporation as regional Counsel for US East Region and Regional Counsel for Central & Eastern Europe.In October of 2001, she became a volunteer attorney for the Family Assistance Center for 9-11 Victims in New York City.She wrote, "On my way to work on the morning of September 11, 2001, I saw the huge billows of smoke rising from the World Trade Center.