Asian American
books
- Asian American Youth Ministry
~ published by L2 Foundation, edited by DJ Chuang; read what people are saying >> - CONVERSATIONS: Asian American Evangelical Theologies in Formation ~ published by L2 Foundation, edited by DJ Chuang and Timothy Tseng; Read more >>
bonus: Archive of everything I had found about Asian Americans between 2004-2007
Quick start to Asian American ministry
- Growing Healthy Asian American Churches ~ edited by Peter Cha, Steve Kang, Helen Lee (cf. publisher’s description, book introduction, bonus chapter “Preparing for Asian American Church Leadership” (500Kb PDF) — not in book, list of contributors include pioneering leaders like Ken Fong, David Gibbons, Grace May, Wayne Ogimachi, Steve Wong, Nancy Sugikawa and Soong-Chan Rah; also see my blog series based on this book, Mark Noll’s brief book review).
- Invitation to Lead: Guidance for Emerging Asian American Leaders by Paul Tokunaga (March 2003; IVP Preview)
- Pursuing the Pearl : A Comprehensive Resource for Multi-Asian Ministry by Kenneth Uyeda Fong. (November 1999; Judson Press)
- Following Jesus Without Dishonoring Your Parents by Jeanette Yep, coordinator, with Peter Cha, Susan Cho Van Riesen, Greg Jao, and Paul Tokunaga (March 1998; IVP preview)
more books
- More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Women on Expectations, Relationships, Leadership And Faith by Nikki Toyama, Tracey Gee, Kathy Khang, Christie Heller de Leon, Asifa Dean; cf. blog
- Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians by Jane Hyun of Crossroads Careers
- Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches by Russell Jeung – great exploration of how and why Asian American churches are formed, based on research of over 50 Asian American churches [November 2004]
- Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries, edited by Tony Carnes and Fenggang Yang — great research on Asian American religions from a social science perspective [May 2004]
- Chinese Christians in America : Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities by Fenggang Yang
- my big list of Asian American books »
- more books on faith and race »
culture
- Giant Robot is touted as the magazine for Asian American pop culture
- Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged
- KoreAm Journal English-language magazine for the Korean American community
- Census: Mix of success, struggle [cache] — Asian-Americans’ incomes fall at ends of the spectrum, more like an hourglass on its side, with many rich and many poor
resources
- All Seasons – Counseling & Spirituality Center (Seattle)
- ChristianMentalHealth.com – Christian Counseling and Psychology, Psychological Services (San Francisco area)
- Asian American Christian Counseling Service (AACCS) (Los Angeles area)
ministries
- djchuang.com’s a directory of churches + ministries
- My list of Next Gen Multi-Asian Churches
- Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity
- Catalyst Leadership Center
- Council on Asian-American Reformed Leadership
- Pastoral and Laity Ministries – aka PaLM (Fresh Meadows, NY)
- Iwa (Glendale CA)
a ministry to discover & develop resources for evangelism, leadership, church growth, church planting, and spiritual renewal among Japanese, Japanese Americans, and Asian Americans - Asian American Ministry at Logos Evangelical Seminary (El Monte, CA)
- Asian American Ministry Center at Union-PSCE
- Asian American CPM – network of pastors, church planters, and lay leaders for church planting movements to emerge among every Asian ethnic people group in the USA & Canada
more links
- CAC Forum – Chinese American Christians discussions and resources – archived from 1995-2002
- About Face – download archive of 1979-2003 newsletters from Fellowship of American Chinese Evangelicals
- KAC Media – Korean American Christian media
- Developing Asian American Leaders in IVCF, Third Edition (2001) ~ 152 page handbook
- Great ExpectAsians, cf. article in Miami Herald, “New Line of Greeting Cards Aims to Showcase Images of Asian Americans“
- Asian American Christian Groups Flock to Gibson’s “Passion” — Asian American Christians are among those caught up in the emotional roller coaster of this controversial movie. [streaming Real audio, 2/26/04 on KQED's Pacific Time]
- Asian-American Children Are Members of a Diverse and Urban Population
- Hyphen Magazine Bridges the Gap: The Next Generation of Asian American Media — an all-volunteer non-profit effort
- Asian American Covenanters Contribute to New Book (Covenant News, 2/13/06)
- Asian American Experts Share How to Grow a ‘Healthy Church’: Through the expertise of Asian American Christian leaders, congregations who face the challenge of reaching out to the Asian American community will be given eight principles in a new book on how to grow a healthy Asian American church (from Gospel Herald, January 2006)
- Where are My People? – my commentary on Asian Americans [written in 2003; was published at phuture magazine]
- “Asian evangelicals blend faith, culture” [cache 1 2] and “Young evangelicals flock to Sunnyvale, rocking out for faith” [cache] (from Mercury News; March 2005)
- Stark Contrasts Found Among Asian Americans (LA Times) [12/16/04]
- UMass study details Asian-American diversity: Challenges facing community defy simple fixes [05/27/04]
- Asian population surging across America (Associated Press article, also at detnews.com, wjla.com, ncvaonline.org, hollandsentinel.com) [04/30/04]
- For Asian-American Churches, Integration Proves Complicated – watershed article by Michael Luo [01/2001]
- Silent No More – article on Asian American Christians in New Man magazine [05/1997]
- Reconsidering Rickshaw Rally — the on-going saga about a new VBS curriculum published by Lifeway that may be unintentionally stereotyping Asian Americans (and official clip art downloads)… and in November/December 2003, SBC decides to not modify the material, to the chagrin of offending many — buzz spreading to: LifeWay Consults Culture Experts to Quash Critics’ Quarrels with VBS Curriculum (Apr 5, 2004); BGCT (Baptist General Convention of Texas) ends relationship with Lifeway (Mar 4, 2004); Christianity Today, “Vacation Bible School Wars” (Feb 27, 2004); NPR affiliate KQED’s Pacific Time picks up on this (Principles for Vacation Bible School)
Silent Exodus: Can the East Asian church in America reverse the flight of its next generation? by Helen Lee, with additional reporting by Ted Olsen [8/1996; cache]
