The Reverend Stephen Lui, 88, of San Francisco, California, died December 27, 2021, after an eight-year struggle against Alzheimer’s disease. Stephen was an honorably retired member of Presbytery del Cristo and the former associate pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Chinese Church.

Stephen was born in San Francisco June 1, 1933, to Lee and Quock Shee Lui. Lee was a barber. Influenced by the Reverend Morgan Gates speaking at the ecumenical Mount Hermon Camp and Conference Center in Felton, California, Stephen became a Christian and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Chinese Church in December 1949. He married Rose Fung Lieu July 19, 1959.

Stephen was educated at historic Lowell High School, the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi River, and at George Washington High School from which he graduated in 1951. As an undergraduate, Stephen attended City College of San Francisco from 1951 to 1953 and San Francisco State University from 1953 to 1955. He graduated from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, in 1959.

Stephen came under the care of Pacific Presbytery in 1955 and was ordained August 21, 1960. The Reverend Carl Ramsey preached his ordination sermon and the Reverend Dudley Girod delivered the charge. Stephen was called as associate pastor of the Chinese Church and served his entire ministry in Pacific Presbytery and, after middle judicatory realignment, Presbytery del Cristo.

Stephen’s son, NBC journalist Richard Lui, documented his father’s struggle with Alzheimer’s in the book Enough About Me published by Zondervan Books in March 2021 (available from Cumberland Presbyterian Resources) and reviewed by Pat White in the May 2021 Cumberland Presbyterian.