Category: multiethnic
3 options for nonprofit cultural change
Recent conversations spurred on this short take on how to change a nonprofit’s organization’s culture, whether someone should stick around to change over time, or to start something new from scratch. Oh, let’s say the topic was diversity and they’d like to see the nonprofit organization become a safe place that values diverse people of…
DEI as markers of churches known for Belonging
Dr. Arthur L. Satterwhite III explained: Diversity, equity, and inclusion should matter to us because they are the outworking of a critical truth embedded deeply within the Christian faith.
Inviting Devotional Writers from around the World
Learned of this lovely project from a friend of a friend. Epic Love Story is inviting authors for a devotional study guide! Epic Love Story wants to have one author per country for this collaborative project. And let’s do the math together: with one devotional for each of the 66 books in the Bible, that…
Asian Pastors Leading Larger Multiethnic Churches
A small yet growing number of Asian North American pastors are leading larger multiethnic churches. By larger churches, most of these are considered megachurches, meaning they have a weekly attendance of over 2,000 adults and children. Megachurches come with their share of complexities; and for Asian American senior pastors, they bear an extra challenge, as…
Mental Health Therapists for People of Color
Let’s make it easier to find mental health professionals, counselors, and therapists who are culturally competent for people of color and BIPOC.
a List of Black Pastors to Listen to
At this kairos moment in history, the American church must listen to Black preachers and African American pastors, for the sake of liberty and justice for all peoples, especially black lives harmed for generations. The gospel imperative compels Christians to care for every person created in the image of God, that’s why we must listen,…
Committing My Life to 3 Things = M.S.G.
3 things that I’m devoting my life to = MultiAsian + Shame + Generosity. Watch this quick personal update video where I explain. It’s taken me many years, several decades, to arrive at discovering what my ultimate contribution in life will be, or should be. My life was blessed to discover and receive clarity around this time last year. I’ve been waiting…
Familiar Foreigners: Asian-Americans and White Majority Culture Churches
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…
Now available! MultiAsian.Church book in print and digital!
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…
Multilingual Churches with Multiple Languages
As churches adapt to serving a multicultural global village and communities with more diversity, some are developing ministries in multiple languages. (cf. polyglot – someone who can speak multiple languages) Many ethnic Asian churches and other immigrant churches have done that for decades. For some ethnic Korean churches, they’re ministering in Korean and English, for Chinese…
U.S. Church Diversity has nearly doubled from 1998 to 2010
The percentage of multiethnic churches in America has grown from 7.5% in 1998 to 13.7% in 2010, based on 2 different survey-bases studies, using a 20% minority criteria. One of the leading church researchers, Dr. Scott Thumma (Professor of Sociology of Religion, Hartford Seminary), posted this on the Huffington Post blog, Racial Diversity Increasing In…
Listen to leading voices from the global church
The world is much bigger than America, and according to what’s reported in books like The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, people are responding to the Christian Gospel message in far larger numbers in Africa and Asia than America. While the marketing platforms aren’t being used as actively in the non-Western world to…
