Category: church
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about Next Generation Chinese Canadian Christians
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Living in fast-changing times of the 21st century has enough challenges in our society and culture. Trying to navigate two very different cultures is that much harder. The dynamics of bi-cultural of people from an ethnic Asian heritage and living in an American cultural context brings many challenges and opportunities. Add on top of that…
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Multi-site Churches with Video Teaching by Preachers of Color
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The question came up in a recent conversation about how effective is video teaching with non-white church attenders. My hunch (based on my limited experience) in following the chatter with multi-site churches and multiethnic churches over the years, is that video teaching seems to work better with white teaching pastors and communicators. In other words,…
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4 More Things for Naïve Pastors to Know
Good Bible teaching and right theology alone will not get pastors prepared for a lifetime of fruitful ministry. That textbook knowledge has to be translated and developed into skillful practices, wise insights through healthily-processed life experiences, and gracious humility for all human kind. One research showed that most pastors and clergy don’t last in ministry…
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Naive pastors and the unexpected pain of pastoring
The Bible talks on several occasions about suffering. And you don’t have to be a Christian, or even a spiritual person, to know that the world has too much suffering for inexplicable reasons. But, what do you do with that reality? Some teach that one should detach from suffering but that could become confused and…
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Top 12 Social Media Churches in 2019
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Life.Church gathered 12 of the “most creative and innovative churches” doing social media at a roundtable in November to learn from each other and to freely share their key takeaways and learnings with the world at open.life.church. Here’s the list of (most of) those 12 churches so you can take a look at their social…
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Talking about Depression, Anxiety, and Faith next Fri 11/22
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The videos from this mental health seminar, where DJ Chuang and family shared about living well with depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder, can be viewed online. Come next Friday 11/22 to Torrance, California, where I am speaking about mental health. The event starts at 7:30pm and the location is the Bread of Life Church (2780…
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There was a blog for Asian American Christian voices
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NextGenerAsianChurch team blog had quite a run, almost a decade, as a collective that was open to talk about the collision of faith and Asian American cultures. The blog went dark about a year ago, for some unknown reason. I was digging up some of those old blog posts for a friend, so while I…
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Oldest Asian American Churches in USA
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Some people love to remember the history and honor the traditions of the past generations. One of the lasting legacies of faith that is passed on from one generation to the next is a church community. While the typical church has a life span of around 60-80 years, these are churches that continue to provide…
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How Saddleback Church is Becoming an All Nations Congregation
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Orange County, California, has over 3 million people and about a third of that population is foreign-born. The largest church in Orange County at this moment in history is Saddleback Church, originated in Lake Forest in 1980. Now the church meets in 18 locations around Southern California (USA) and other countries (Hong Kong, Philippines, Argentina,…
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Statistics on Asian Americans in Multiethnic or Monoethnic churches?
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Research on Asian American Christianity can be hard to find in the pubic, though I’ve heard that there’s a significant number of academic studies, as in dissertations and thesis, that have been done. But, those are not readily available for public usage. People ask me questions related to this topic of Asian Americans and churches.…
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Asian American Christians don’t talk about money?
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Generosity and philanthropy are uncomfortably hard to talk about in mainstream American culture and churches. It’s even harder to talk about in Asian American Christian churches.
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When Christians Grasp for Power, We all Lose
I believe that we as Christians have had privilege in many ways that other religions do not have, here in America. I think that privilege and power are intricately linked—found these good thoughts on Twitter worth reading and considering. (twitter thread by Ray Chang, posted with permission, unrolled via threadreaderapp.com) #ChristianPrivilege, like any other form…