Name | Aaron Wong
Hometown | Hong Kong
Undergraduate Degree Program | Bachelor of Music in Sacred Music, classical guitar emphasis
Class of | 2010

From the Word

Aaron Wong was born and raised in Hong Kong, a crowded commercial city known as “The Pearl of the Orient.” After he gave his life to Christ, he began to question the materialism that surrounded him in the city.

“I was studying very hard for GCSE and A-Levels, [which are] sort of like SAT or IB in the States,” he says. “Education in Asia is very competitive, and I realized that the pressure is so great because most students want to get into university so they can have an impressive resume and a higher salary in the future. It’s all about money in a sense.”

Disillusioned by the materialism surrounding him, Aaron turned to the Bible for an answer to his search for life direction. What he read there convinced him that he was called to “love God and love people, serve God and serve people.” This led him to focus on his passion: music. “This is why I study at Moody now,” he says, “to use the talents in music that God has graciously given me and use [them] faithfully to love and serve the Lord and people around me. What I do in this life is actually an investment in someone’s eternity.”

Aaron particularly appreciates the excellence demanded of him at Moody, which served him well during his music internship at a church in England this past summer. “I was very pleased to see that all I learned at Moody has value in ministry,” he says. “During the two months of the internship, I found myself using what I have learned in music theory, conducting, performing arts, sound/room acoustics, sound systems, vocal technique, biblical theology and hymnology.”

To Life

Aaron aspires to be a full-time professional musician, but also would like to be a music minister. “I think that music is a very interesting issue in the church these days,” he says. “Very often people focus too much on emotions and feelings [when] worshiping through music but forget about the theology of worship. I’d like to serve the church in music with biblical theology and sound doctrine to help congregations to worship the Lord correctly through music.”

And as always, Aaron will insist upon pursuing excellence in his ministry. “If I am going to minister to non-believers and to be a witness to people who usually dislike Christians, I need to be good at music,” he insists. “I need to [show] them I’m good enough in skills, technique and knowledge to make them willing to talk to me, work with me and invite me to events. I need that ‘ticket’ to get into their environment if I am going to be effective in ministry. At Moody, I am receiving a quality education, so I’m very confident I am already getting that ticket.”