Meet Our Team
Rev. Joseph Wong
Reverend Joseph Wong and his wife Rose were both born in Hong Kong. Moving to the United States in their young twenties, they have spent the last twenty-seven years in states across the Eastern United States. The two have been best friends since their teen years, married over twenty-five years and deeply in love! Pastor Joseph¡¯s colorful career has included time as an entrepreneur, a mental health counselor, Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, and a Doctorate Degree candidate for Christian Leadership. Joseph and Rose have two children, Enoch and Evangelina.
Joseph‘s passion is to bring love, faith, and hope to all people. His desire was to create a space for people to experience and deepen their relationships with Christ Jesus in their lives. Pastor Joseph received the calling to plant an English second-generation and intergenerational church called Living Stone Community Church, and the church had its first service in Orlando, FL on November 11th, 2007.
Rev. Jason Febrero
Reverend Jason grew up in a Christian home, and was an active youth leader in church before coming to the US in 2000. After completing his physical therapy degree from the University of the Philippines Manila, he worked as staff physical therapist and as regional manager in the Brooklyn-Queens New York area for 12 years. He also served as church elder in a Southern Baptist Church in Brooklyn, before God called him to full-time ministry in 2012. He completed his Master of Divinity at Alliance Theological Seminary NYC in 2015, and 2 years later joined The Alliance Southeast in Florida.
Jason was commissioned by Living Stone Community Church as Children’s Ministry Pastor in 2018, and was ordained by the Christian and Missionary Alliance in September 2020. Being bi-vocational, he continues to minister to patients and coworkers in his secular job for the sake of the gospel. As Worship Pastor, he enjoys training future musicians of the church, and singing with his wife Agnes during worship and at home. In his free time, he watches Disney+ and plays video games with their 2 sons.
Lori Buchanan
Lori Buchanan is a Florida State certified educator with over 25 years of experience working with children. Originally from California, Lori spent much of her childhood in the Caribbean. Her love for tropical climates, proximity to water and the accompanying wildlife are all part of this experience. She accepted Christ as her Savior during her college years and this has been a defining relationship in her life ever since.
Lori began her education career as a first grade teacher in a small private Christian school. She later moved to the public school system, where she has been an elementary art teacher until her recent move to Florida. Having been led to Living Stone Community Church, Ms. Buchanan was offered the position of Childrenʼs Services Director. Lori considers it a great honor to hold this position and looks forward to getting to serving the children and families of Living Stone.
Ms. Buchanan continues to enjoy artistic pursuits in her spare time. The startup of an art club by fellow church member Helen has provided a venue to express this interest. Lori also has a great love for travel and looks forward to the opportunity to do so more extensively in the future.
Rev. Craig Daugherty
Rev. Craig Daugherty, MDiv. is a CMA Affiliated Pastor at Livingstone Church and a Board-Certified/Supervisor Certified Chaplain at The Lake Nona VA Orlando Hospital, where he serves as a CPE Educator for new Chaplain Interns. Prior to this, he worked at the Cornerstone Hospice Acute Care Inpatient Unit, at Orlando Regional Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Hospital Center in Orlando, where he worked for both institutions for almost 10 years.
Earlier in his career, Craig worked in various management/leadership positions in the Telecommunication/IT Industries for over 26 years (living/working overseas) before responding to a call in ministry. After graduating from Reformed Theological Seminary, Oviedo, FL, Rev Craig Daugherty served as a Pastor at Central Florida Chinese and Asian churches for 14 years, including at Livingstone Church and also served at Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Craig is widowed, but was previously married for 40+ yrs to Dr. Janet Daugherty, PhD, Higher Ed-now retired to heaven with Jesus from her teaching positions, and has 2 wonderful adult children-son, Dr Jared Daugherty, VP Veritas- Christian Scholarship non-profit, married with a daughter; daughter Dana is also married; and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who worked in an immigration clinic working with refugees in Pittsburgh, but now lives in Seattle, WA. Craig is a Chaplain and Pastor who believes in being a “hopeful” empathetic presence in providing compassionate spiritual care and in discipling young adults to train/ teach others in helping Asian believers attain to maturity in Christ.
