The Rev. Dr. Brian Suk-Boo Lee was appointed to serve the Artesia-Cerritos United Methodist Church effective July 1, 2006. Born and raised in South Korea. Brian and Chloe Sung-Hee Kim married in 1993 and moved to the United States in 1994. Their daughter, Frances, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1998. Chloe is also a UMC minister. The Lee family resides in the church's parsonage in Artesia.

Brian was graduated from the Masters of Divinity program at Claremont School of Theology in 1998. He earned his Doctor of Ministry degree from the CST in 2006. His study thesis was Cultural Issues in Cross-Cultural Ministry for Effective Pastor Leadership. Ordained as an Elder in Full Connection in the California-Pacific Annual Conference in 2001, Brian has served various churches in both Korea and the United States. He has concentrated primarily on pastoral care and counseling and church leadership in his parish work. He understands multicultural relationships and perspectives. He is interested in social justice and peace and vision making to fulfill the mission of Jesus Christ.

After receiving his M.Div. at CST, Brian went to Hawaii to serve as a resident chaplain at the Queen's Medical Center of Hawaii and as youth pastor at Christ United Methodist Church. Prior to coming to serve as pastor for Artesia-Cerritos in an English-speaking culture, his appointments included serving as pastor in a cross-cultural setting at Bardsdale UMC in Fillmore, California; pastor for Anchorage Korean UMC in Anchorage, Alaska; and pastor for Pacific UMC in South Pasadena, California.

Dr. Lee has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Pacific and Asian-American Ministries since 2000. He has served as a council member of the Alumni/ae Association of Claremont School of Theology since 2006 and as President of the Association since 2008. He has been a member of CST’s Board of Trustees since 2008. Presently, he serves as chairperson of the Santa Ana District’s Committee on Ordained Ministry and is a member of the SAD Leadership Team. He was elected to the Cal-Pac Conference Leadership Team at the meeting of the Annual Conference in June 2009.