Tagged: leaders

churches closing and pastors leaving

churches closing and pastors leaving

Question >> “do u know a place to get stats on how many churches close a day, month, year etc and the same on pastors and leaders leaving ministry?” djchuang >> Good question. (And, in case you can’t tell, this...

A way to mentor like Jesus

A way to mentor like Jesus

Thanks to Chris Hornsby of Next Generation Mentoring, I got a review copy of Mentor Like Jesus, by Regi Campbell with Richard Chancy. This book lays out a very clear mentoring process to reproduce leaders of a particular type. Regi...

How to raise up minority leaders

How to raise up minority leaders

Asian and Latino. Techie and Non-techie. Conference junkie and conference rock star. DJ Chuang and Rudy Carrasco. We’ve been friends online and offline. Now we’re thousands of miles apart. Web technology has kept us connected. And one of the burning...

Paucity of Chinese American ministry leaders

Paucity of Chinese American ministry leaders

This set of question was posted in a recent email discussion, as Southern Cal ministry leaders are anticipating the upcoming lunch fellowship this Wednesday 6/3: As an observer and advocate of ABC ministries since the 1970s and a former youth...

live webcasts with 11 church leaders

live webcasts with 11 church leaders

For the next 3 weeks, Leadership Network will host live webchasts with 11 innovative church leaders, almost every weekday at 1:00pm Pacific / 3:00pm Central / 4:00pm Eastern, Monday thru Thursday. The free webcast runs for 15 minutes, so it’s...

God seems to use flawed people

God seems to use flawed people

I’d always been a little suspicious of people who seem to have it all together, hiding their flaws, and appearing strong and confident too often. I have to admit, I probably can’t tell the difference between a confident person and...

how I’m quoted in the Los Angeles Times article

how I’m quoted in the Los Angeles Times article

It was delightful to be interviewed by K. Connie Kang for the Los Angeles Times during the past week. Her work in the religion beat is most commendable for raising awareness of the social location within particular ethnic racial contexts....

speaking on Asian American churches

speaking on Asian American churches

I’m brewing and stewing on a new talk titled, “Revitalizing Asian American Churches For New Generations,” which will presented to about 100+ mostly Asian American ministry leaders. I thought of using a word like “reimagining” or “rethinking” or “reinventing”, but...