Category: church
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A Sermon by Pastor Greg Owyang
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Pastor Greg Owyang served as a gifted Chinese-American preacher in the 1980’s and inspired many to serve the Lord. He was tragically martyred in 1985. I had never heard him preach, until recently, when I found a website with some of his sermons from 1983. These recorded audios had thought-by-thought translation from English to Cantonese…
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3 Steps for Churches to Start a Mental Health Ministry
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Caring for the mental health of one another is the reality of our human condition around the world. Americans who struggle needlessly with mental and emotional disorders was estimated around 20% before the global pandemic in 2020, and projected to have increased since. The truth is that not enough professional healthcare resources currently exist to…
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Asian American Barriers to Mental Health Treatment & How Churches Can Help
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Key Ministry started a new series on Mental Health Ministry and Cultural Competence and they invited me as one of their webinar speakers, for which I’m grateful to have shared from my lived experience in managing my mood disorder. 2020 brought rapid change to the worldwide Church, but one thing that has not changed much…
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Some Asian American Preachers for Christmas 2020
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Here’s a random sampling of sermons and services from Christmas week 2020, in no particular order, not curated nor ranked—
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Free Care and Support for Women in Ministry
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in churchThere are times you need help from other people to care for you. It’s not a sign of weakness to ask for help; it’s simply a sign of humanity and humility.
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6 Next Generation Networks for Asian American Christian Leaders
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Rise up, Asian Americans! There are more voices beginning to speak and write in the public square of social media and the Web. Coming together has so much more potential than going it alone, solo, or individual, in this multiethnic multicultural world; very needed and long overdue. Here’s a short list of networks that are…
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Churches with In-Person Worship Services in the OC
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in churchMost churches have remained open during the past 3 months or so with livestreamed or on-demand video worship services, due to the global pandemic of COVID19 coronavirus. [update 7/13/20] “Effective immediately, California closes some indoor business operations statewide and additional indoor operations in counties on Monitoring List for 3 consecutive days.” <- this means indoor…
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Church Consultants for Diversity and Black Lives
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I’m pained and cringing at the blunders and blindness of people who say the wrong things, hurtful words, because they don’t understand the plight of black lives amidst the protests that are all around us. Especially white pastors and church leaders, who you’d think would know better, but some don’t, yet. The fact is, injustices…
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A List of Black Pastors to Listen to
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in churchWho are black pastors that I should listen to? Here’s a helpful list for starters
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29 Books for Faithful Racial Justice
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InterVarsity Press is arguably the leading publisher for Christian authors who share their prophetic voices and stories to educate the uninformed and challenge with the truth. Learn from these books to pursue justice, wholeness, and racial righteousness in your homes, churches, and communities. InterVarsity Press had offered one free eBook of a title below from…