The Rev. Dr. Suk-Boo Lee was appointed to serve the Artesia-Cerritos United Methodist Church effective July 1, 2006.

Dr. Lee was born and raised in South Korea. He served various churches in Korea and was able to continue his service to the church in the United States. He has concentrated primarily on Christian education and pastoral care in his parish work. In both Korea and the United States, he was able to understand multicultural relationships and perspectives.

Suk-Boo and Sung-Hee Kim married in 1993. They moved to the United States in 1994. He was graduated from the Masters of Divinity program at Claremont School of Theology in May 1998. He 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. He learned of God's being and presence, the healing ministry, and the importance of faith. Sung-Hee is also a Methodist minister. She will begin a new ministry as pastor at Montclair UMC effective September 1. Their daughter, Frances, was born in Honolulu in 1998.

His hospital ministry helped to form his pastoral identity, his pastoral communication skills, and his understanding of theological reflection. In 1999 he was appointed as pastor-in-charge at Bardsdale United Methodist Church in Fillmore. It was a big challenge for him to minister in a cross-racial setting, and it was a learning period about other cultures and the tradition of Christianity in America.

The Lee family resides in the church's parsonage in Artesia.