Mrs. Teresa Ong began her music instruction when she was 4 1/2 years old, studying violin at the Pacific School of Music in Seattle, Washington. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Church Music Education from Denver Baptist Bible College in 1977, a Master of Arts in Education from the University of Northern Colorado in 1986, and a Master of Christian Liberal Arts from Chambers College in 2011.
She and her husband, Pastor Stephen Ong, founded Colorado Heritage Education School System, a school ministry for homeschoolers in 1991, and Chambers College, a church-based degree granting college in 1998.
Mrs. Ong has taught music courses and conducted choirs and instrumental groups for both of those institutions since their founding. She has been a church pianist/organist and music coordinator since 1982. She has played violin in the Chattanooga Symphony, the Jefferson Symphony, and currently plays in the Loveland Orchestra.
She is glad that God’s desire for music in worship is participation by “. . . all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the pupil” (I Chronicles 25:8).