Bishop Dr Gordon Wong is married to Lai Foon and they have two children, Deborah and Jeremy. He was the Bishop William F Oldham Professor of Old Testament at Trinity Theological College where he taught Old Testament, Hebrew and Homiletics for 17 years.

He began pastoral ministry in 1986 and served as the President of the Trinity Annual Conference for 8 years till he was consecrated as Bishop of The Methodist Church in Singapore in December 2020.

He holds a BA (Honours) from the London School of Theology and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. His publications include a book on the relevance of Christian faith (God Makes Sense), Old Testament commentaries on the books of Daniel (Faithful to the End), Habakkuk (God, Why?),  Isaiah (The Road to Peace: Pastoral Reflections on Isaiah 1-12), Ruth (The Power of Love) and an academic monograph entitled Foolish Leaders and the Will of YHWH: Editorial Effects in Isaiah 19.