Category: ASIAN AMERICAN
What does Asian American worship sound like?
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A significant Asian American population worships weekly in over 7,000 churches, mostly in Asian languages, with some in English. One research approximates 42% of Asian Americans identify as Christian, including both Protestants and Catholics. People can easily distinguish the unique sounds of African-American and Latino-American worship music. A majority of Christian worship music has been…
If Asian Americans struggle with Mental Health in May 2018
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The month of May is Mental Health Awareness Month and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. And these two things intersect, or shall we say, collide, for those who are Asian Americans and struggle with mental illness. Let’s do the math. The Asian American population is estimated at 21.4 million (as of 2016, cf. Census Bureau’s…
Where Asian American Pastors Can Get Coaching
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You have choices for coaching cohorts as Asian American pastors; coaching helps you to grow your effectiveness as pastors, church leaders, church planters, spiritually, relationally and personally.
Can we talk about shame?
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Yes, we have launched a podcast called Erasing Shame where we will have honest talk for healthy living—emotionally, relationally, mentally, and personally. DJ Chuang and Eunice Lee will co-host Season 1 together. I’m particular grateful for Eunice making time to do this podcast together, because the topic of shame is so big, what resources we…
Rev. Thomas Wang, a Chinese Leader in World Missions
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Rev. Thomas Yung-Hsin Wang (王永信) was highly regarded as an influential Chinese church leader among the worldwide Chinese Christian population. Rev. Wang had a global vision that included both the Chinese diaspora as well as all nationalities and ethnicities as the Great Commission calls for. I had met Rev. Wang on a couple of occasions.…
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…
