As the church adapts to serving a multicultural global village, some are developing ministries in multiple languages too. (cf. polyglot - someone who can speak multiple languages) Ethnic Asian churches and other immigrant churches have done that for decades. For some ethnic Korean [ . . . ]
The percentage of multiethnic churches in America has grown from 7.5% in 1998 to 13.7% in 2010, based on 2 different survey-bases studies, using a 20% minority criteria. One of the leading church researchers, Dr. Scott Thumma (Professor of Sociology of Religion, [ . . . ]
What may be emerging is a new role in the church: pastor of innovation. (Granted this may not become mainstream where every church would have one, since most churches have more pressing operational day-to-day needs.) I’ll do my part to keep this [ . . . ]
Welcome to old friends and new visitors here to djchuang.com! You’ve come at an opportune time for my initiative called “February is Fundraising.” Watch the videos – February is Fundraising playlist Subscribe to my YouTube channel for daily video updates at youtube.com/djchuang Subscribe [ . . . ]
The OC Register (our local newspaper with a circulation around 300,000) and reporter Jim Hinch posted this article, “O.C. exports Asian American churches to the world” (cached), telling the compelling story of Asian American churches and my story too. Thank you OC [ . . . ]
The current event of the day does not bode well for America on the whole, with regards to unity for a diverse people holding different convictions, and for the Evangelical church, on many fronts. Within 48 hours of the official invitation, Pastor [ . . . ]
I’m in St. Louis this week for the tri-ennial student missions conference called URBANA 12! Follow along all the activities via the Urbana 12 Live Blog where I’ll be blogging highlights from the main sessions. And, you can get a taste of [ . . . ]
Today is that magical numerological date in history 12/12/12 and at 12:12:12 I was sitting down for lunch at a place called Chef Chen because a friend suggested it via Yelp. Where were you? As Christmas 2012 draws near, the Chuang family [ . . . ]
Few books adeptly addresses the conundrum of work from a Christian world view. Work is such a consuming part of our lives, often unsatisfying, yet there is something good about work that both the Biblical text and even Ayn Rand (a vocal [ . . . ]
