Untapped potential of Asian Americans

Untapped potential of Asian Americans

Got tapped to weigh in on this informal survey on Facebook from Tom Lin: What are some gifts Asian Americans bring to the Church and missions?
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The need for Context and Voice. new eBook.

The need for Context and Voice. new eBook.

This is a conversation I want to engage. And Vince Marotte has fired the first shot. It won’t be the last. The church has a big glaring communication problem and Vince calls it out with his first eBook, Context and Voice: Communication [ . . . ]

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Why we need Asian Americans 3

Why we need Asian Americans 3

The third reason we need Asian Americans to be Asian Americans is multi-cultural competency. 2 Asian American authors have described this as third-culture adaptability (via Dave Gibbons‘ The Monkey and the Fish: Liquid Leadership for a Third-Culture Church) and cultural intelligence (Soong-Chan [ . . . ]

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Why we need Asian Americans 1

Why we need Asian Americans 1

The first reason we need Asian Americans to be Asian Americans is globalization. It doesn’t get any bigger than that. The world needs Asian Americans and America needs Asian Americans.
When I was growing up, lots of things were “Made in Taiwan.” Now, [ . . . ]

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Why we need Asian Americans to be Asian Americans

Why we need Asian Americans to be Asian Americans

While we wait for the final results to come in for the 2010 Census, very likely over 15 million, I want to share a few thoughts of things I’ve sense over the past decade or so as an Asian American and as [ . . . ]

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Chinese American churches revisited

How the multi-generational multi-lingual ethnic Asian Amerian church should and could minister in a healthy way is a recurring conversation, and occasionally new people enter this context afresh, perhaps from a job relocation, a next step after commencement, a natural progression of [ . . . ]

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how to be more than just an emerging church

how to be more than just an emerging church

I first met Jim Belcher at the Catalyst West conference in Irvine, California. We had corresponded over Facebook prior to that about mutual interests, so it was great to meet in person to put a face with the name. While I haven’t [ . . . ]

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how churches get embedded with values

how churches get embedded with values

I’ve just finished reading the new book by Soong-Chan Rah titled, The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity. Rah reviews the biases in American history that have now been institutionalized not just in mainstream culture, but also unknowingly embedded [ . . . ]

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any strengths-based churches out there?

any strengths-based churches out there?

StrengthsFinder is my favorite personal assessment test. It was the first one that I’d taken that gave me a better sense of the unconventional me. My top 5 talent themes are: ideation, input, strategic, adaptability, woo.
I’ve heard there are organizations and churches [ . . . ]

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