Category: church
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What is the line between recruiting versus poaching pastors and church staff?
Working in the church context comes with a unique dynamic with employment, job transitions, and staffing. By contrast, in most other professional jobs, someone can submit a 2-week notice to resign from a job and go to another job. Etiquette expert Peggy Post shared these basic steps for quitting: Tell your supervisor. Establish a last…
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Chinese American Mental Health Seminar Videos
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Very valuable resources are now available online: culturally-relevant informative videos about mental health in Chinese and Asian American communities. Watch the videos in this YouTube playlist from the 2018 Enlighten Mental Health Seminar. Enlighten seminar notes and video titles are posted at english.cccto.org/mental-health/videos-handouts 2018 Enlighten Seminar – Session Titles The Ministry of Presence to Broken People…
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5 Best Christmas Sermons of 2018
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in churchChristmas gets celebrated by millions and billions around the world. In America, millions sing Christmas songs and listen to a pastor preach a message to retell the Christmas story. Communication in the 21st century has become a multimedia experience by creative pastors who work extra hard to handcraft a message that is more than spoken…
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Churches near me in Rockville and Bethesda Maryland
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in churchFinding a church near Rockville, Maryland, is something I do on the occasions when I’m visiting family and friends in MoCo. There are many churches around Rockville, including many within driving distance in Gaithersburg, Germantown, and even Derwood. Here are ones I’m aware of and many of these I’ve visited: Churches within driving distance of…
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Christian Spirituality of Korean and Chinese Americans
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While both Chinese Americans and Korean Americans are included under the broad umbrella grouping of Asian Americans, general differences and also similarities can be observed in how they practice their Christian faith. In Chapter 5 of Tapestry of Grace: Untangling the Cultural Complexities in Asian American Life and Ministry (by Benjamin C. Shin and Sheryl Takagi Silzer),…
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What does Asian American Christian spirituality look like?
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This video by Pastor John Shin on Facebook Live got several engaging comments, and this extended comment from Pastor Joe Suh suggested particular areas in which our Asian American culture can create barriers that we need to be aware of so that the gospel can penetrate
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Asian American Sermons on Shame
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What a shame that we can’t talk about our pains. It’s hard for anyone from whatever ethnic background to talk about their weaknesses and pains, it’s especially hard for Asians and Asian Americans. And, sadly it’s not talked about in churches, where it is the one place to be safe for pouring out our pain…
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WordPress developers in Chinese and English?
Where can you find WordPress developers and designers for a bilingual website in Chinese and English? That question came up in a recent conversation. They’re not so easy to find, yet. So let me share what I’ve found (and please do add a comment to make this list more useful): https://flow.asia (Beijing) https://eggplantdigital.cn (Beijing) http://chinawebdesigners.com…
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What the Bible says to crazy rich Asians?
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2018 marks the momentous occasion of the popular movie, Crazy Rich Asians. This romantic comedy (aka romcom) stands as a quality piece of entertainment, that also carries extra meaning for some Asians and Asian Americans. The movie serves as a good prompt to vocalize the variety of Asian American lives. People from all kinds of…
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Familiar Foreigners: Asian-Americans and White Majority Culture Churches
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Guest Post by Young-Sam Won, August 2018—adapted from Twitter Thread Recent discussions of racial justice and racial reconciliation have led to an increased interest in the relationship between people of color and majority culture churches and institutions. Many Asian-Americans (AsAms) who have been a part of majority culture churches are experiencing a renewed interest in…
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Where Asian American Pastors Gather Together
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I believe in the value of gathering pastors and leaders gathering together for robust discussions, the iron sharpening iron kind of dialogue. There is some value in sharing a meal for fellowship and encouragement. In many localities, cities or regions, I’ve participated in and have known of pastor’s fellowships that met monthly or quarterly. I…
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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…