Category: ASIAN AMERICAN
Silent Exodus: Asian American Christians Leaving Churches
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For over 20 years now, ethnic Asian churches have lamented the loss of the next generation of Asian Americans, often the children of Asian parents who remain faithful to the ethnic Asian church, whether that’s Korean, Chinese, or one of the other 30-some Asian ethnicities. Many church leaders have expressed their concerns over the attrition…
KevJumba Interview on Asian America Podcast
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KevJumba has entered a new season of life and a lot has happened since his quick rise to fame on YouTube. KevJumba was one of YouTube’s first stars who happens to be Asian American, Chinese ethnicity, to be specific. He started his channel in 2006, got featured on the YouTube homepage in 2007, and was…
A List of Influential Chinese-American Christian Leaders
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I asked for help with this question, “Who are the influential Chinese-American (English-speaking) Christian leaders?” on the internet and on Facebook. The crowdsourcing activity was way more numerous on Facebook, with 41 comments and counting. Here’s the list of Chinese-Americans mentioned on Facebook in response to the question: David Hsu, West Houston Chinese Church Vivian…
Influential English-Speaking Chinese-American Pastors
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This question came into my inbox, “Who are the influential Chinese-American (English-speaking) Christian leaders?” Frankly, the question stumped me. My hunch is the question behind the question might be to find conference speakers that would draw a crowd. And that’s just how it goes with the business side of conferences, that keynote speakers are often…
A List of Asian American Theologians
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Thinking and writing about the study of God is known as theology. And in some ways, all of us who are Christ-followers are theologians in that we read and study the Bible. We are commanded to love God with all our mind. However, there are also theologians who are paid professionals, often seminary professors, Bible…
Research on Chinese Canadian Christians
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There’s a research project about Chinese Canadian Christians underway that’d be very valuable and of interest to many. * Since the time of this original post, the research was completed and published—see Listen to their Voices: An Exploration of Faith Journeys of Canadian-Born Chinese Christians. This is a summary by Jonathan Tam with details about…
Untapped Stories of Atlanta featuring Asian American voices
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4Pointes Church can be considered a MultiAsian.Church in Atlanta, the modernized center of the Deep South. Recently (on March 12th) they premiered a film festival with 4 mini documentaries of Asian American faces and voices who are creatives. Very empowering and encouraging to see! Watch the videos here or click over to the YouTube playlist: And…
Now available! MultiAsian.Church book in print and digital!
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The publishing of this new book, “MultiAsian.Church : A Future for Asian Americans in a Multiethnic World,” is finally complete! Now it is available for purchase online, both in print and in digital formats. 100% of proceeds from book sales go to Thirty.Network for advancing Asian American church leaders in a multiethnic world. This book…
New Book for Asian American Churches and Pastors
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My new book, MultiAsian.Church: A Future for Asian Americans in a Multiethnic World, will be released on October 4, 2016! The book will be released as a digital eBook first and later as a printed edition, to be released by the end of the year, Lord willing. MultiAsian.Church gives an overview of the Asian American…
San Diego Asian American Churches
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A list of churches in the San Diego area that are led by Asian American pastors and/or reaching next generation Asian Americans (listed in no particular order): Anchor City Church anchorcity.org Redeemer Presbyterian Church redeemersd.org GC2 Church gc2church.org Lighthouse Bible Church lighthousebc.com Kairos Christian Church kairoschurch.org Redeemer’s Grace Church rgcsd.com Ethnos Church ethnos.us Hope Presbyterian Church hopepcsd.org…
Asian American worship leaders and Christian musicians
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Sharing a list of Asian American Christian musicians and worship leaders here for people looking for good music, inspiration, role models (or event planning 😁). By Christian musician, we mean people who profess to be Christians and the music is not necessarily in the Christian or CCM genre. NOTE: this list is not an endorsement, just…
Asian American Evangelicals and Race Matters
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There’s a recent history of race matters for Asian Americans and evangelicals. American culture today is well-aware of how racism is alive and well, not just the overt offensive things but also systemic racism and racial insensitivities too. Grateful to be invited to speak this week in a class in the Asian American Ministry track of the Doctor of…
