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 >>
• Everything I’m finding about Asian Americans in my public Google Notebook >>

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)

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Other great 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 »

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

ministries

• djchuang.com’s a directory of Asian American churches + ministries
• Asian American church plants wiki (autonomous churches less than 10 years old)
• 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
• Asian American Christian Counseling Service (AACCS)
• Apokata. Psychological Services
• Ministry for English Speaking Asians (MESA)
• AA Church Consulting
  - church planting ministry of Robert Goette
• The Exodus – worship CD by Asian Americans

resources

• 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]

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]

• 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