About Living Water CRC
What We Believe
Just as Jesus shared the importance of Living Water with the Samaritan woman in John 4, we seek to proclaim the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ around the world.
We do this work by sharing God’s Word both locally and outside our borders, nurturing faith within the church, caring for the oppressed, and equipping and training leaders to be servants in the Kingdom of God.
Please visit the Christian Reformed Church website to learn more.
Reformed
We believe that God is the author of salvation and that we are His children.
3rd Culture
We live in an increasingly complex world and diverse cultures. We have a heart for those who live in-between cultures.
Multi-Ethnic
We are a cross-cultural community with members from all over the world.
We ❤️ Grand Rapids
We are a community called to serve Grand Rapids.
Meet Our Pastors
Yohan Lee
Born and raised in Brazil, Pastor Yohan has a deep love for God’s Word and a heart for ministry. He earned his Master of Divinity from Christ’s Servant Theological Seminary (Seminário Teológico Servo de Cristo) in São Paulo, Brazil. After years of serving in ministry, he moved to the U.S. to pursue a Master’s degree in New Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He also completed the Ecclesiastical Program for Ministerial Candidacy (EPMC) at Calvin and was ordained as a Minister of the Word and Sacrament in 2024. Currently, he is furthering his studies with a second Master’s degree in Old Testament at Calvin Seminary.
Passionate about preaching, leading worship, and walking alongside others in their faith journey, Yohan has served in a variety of ministry settings, including urban evangelism, juvenile prison chaplaincy, and short-term missions.
Since joining Living Water in 2021, Yohan has found a home in its culturally diverse and welcoming community. As a third-culture individual himself, he sees Living Water as a beautiful reflection of Revelation 7:9—a glimpse of every nation, tribe, and people worshiping together.
Yohan is happily married to Joana, and together, they are blessed with three wonderful children: Alice, Isabela, and Abel. He enjoys spending time with his family, sharing a good cup of coffee with his wife, and getting lost in a great book.
Ezra Lee
Pastor Ezra has been a bi-vocational pastor for more than 9 years and a nurse for 17 years. He serves children’s ministry as well as pastoral care ministry for families and individuals. His dream when he was young was to live like apostle Paul as a single, wholly devoted to God and to go as a missionary and finish his life as a martyr. Nothing wrong with that! But his journey took a detour when he met his wife, Becky, and cancelled his promise not to marry and immigrated to the US instead of going as a missionary to a third world country. However, he identified himself as a missionary to America and mentored young college students in Chicago. After finishing his nursing degree and working at a hospital in Chicago, he moved to Grand Rapids to attend Calvin Theological Seminary and graduated in 2014. After serving as an outreach pastor in an urban setting for seven years he joined Living Water in 2021 and is now overseeing children’s ministry and is part of the pastoral care staff.
He has four children between 11 – 19 and they all have a passion for ballet to glorify God through dance. P. Ezra loves dishwashing at home, cleaning at church, and watching Premier League soccer anywhere he goes.
He holds a BA from Chonnam National University in South Korea, BSN from Post University, and M. Div from Calvin Theological Seminary.
He is praying that God would take him home as a martyr around his 80s.