2 requests I get most often from my (fledging) network of Asian American ministry leaders is (1) a speaker for their upcoming event, and (2) pastors and churches looking for a connection. It’s a little bit outside of my sweet spot in my role for L2 Foundation, but we try to do what we can.
My old friend David Hsu from seminary days has been pastoring in Houston for over a decade now and has the distinction of being dubbed a senior pastor of an multi-generational Chinese church while he was under age 40(!) (if I’m not mistaken). I’ve seen Pastor David in action on several occasions, he’s not only fluent in Mandarin and English, he’s also well-versed in both Chinese and American cultures.
So we got to talking on our occasional check-in, and here’s the wild idea. Rather than only using conventional means of posting a job listing for a ministry opportunity, he thought it’d be good to post the opening for his church’s English pastor position here at djchuang.com — after all, the kind of a pastor they’d want would be a regular reader here, right?
Here’s the quick summary of the position:
West Houston Chinese Church (WHCC) is a nondenominational church that is committed to sharing the journey of life transformation in Christ. WHCC is seeking a full-time pastor/minister for Meta, our English-speaking adult congregation. Meta is a vibrant, inclusive community of God-inspired change that consists of English-speaking adults of all ages. Meta currently has an average worship attendance of 150 adults, with 14 small groups meeting throughout the city of Houston.
This pastoral role involves Leadership, Teaching & Preaching, Small Group Ministry, Family Ministry & Pastoral Counseling, and Missions & Evangelism. This is an English Pastor position within a multi-generational Chinese church context, and you’d get the added bonus of working with a culturally-astute senior pastor. (I’m almost tempted to throw my name in the hat for this outside chance of working along side of David Hsu, but I just made a big relocation myself this summer. Almost.)
Hey DJ,
There’s a site called Korean American Ministry Resources( kamr.org ) that lists churches and job openings for pastors. It would be neat if something like the Asian-American church plants website had a classified section for churches to post any openings they had.
Joseon, thanks for the mention of kamr.org – there are 2 other websites I know of that list job openings for pastors: http://isaacopps.wordpress.com/ and http://www.ccmusa.org/service_column/opportunities.html
With these 3 sites covering the bases, my thinking is their efforts are sufficient.
DJ,
Those two sites are great! Thanks for posting them…
Is that position still open?
Keith, according to the web page http://www.whcchome.org/english/personnel/english_pastor.shtml, the listing is still there.
You can contact the search committee directly at 713-935-9422 or whccsearch@yahoo.com to check.
am a dynamic pastor from the republic of togo in africa but an english speaking minister. if the post of a pastor is still available, am intersted. i have the chineese visa already. just to hear from u and with ur letter of invitation, then ill come down there to show what my lord had for his church.u are blessed.