identity
Presentation #2 from the Austin conversation
The videos of the Asian American Leadership Conversation (on 4/29/09 in Austin) are now online for viewing. The topic revolved around what kind of Asian American leaders need to be raised up to make Kingdom impact, and 3 presentations were made from 3 different perspectives: church, academic (sociological), and parachurch.
Here is the second presentation, “The […]
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This week’s questions…
This week’s discussion questions on Asian American leadership, will tackle the context of both in the church and broadly, outside of the church, looking at some things that may hold back Asian American’s in their development. Areas of identity issues, perhaps background from a shame and guilt mother culture, and sometimes a grace-less church has […]
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Part 2 on Prequel Questions on Developing New Asian American Leaders
Happy Memorial Day to everyone.
Here is Part 2 of the questions from last week’s posting on “Prequel Questions” on Developing New Asian American Leaders. Are you like me that sometimes it’s good to step back from a challenging task and, instead of listing facts or known ideas, to start again by asking questions. That’s what […]
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musings about Asian American ministry
PaLM’s Ekklesia ministry has a series of articles from John L. Ng’s reflections and thoughts on doing pastoral work in New York City:
A Diverse Asian Community as Context for Church Ministry
Thinking Through The Identity Issue Among […]
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why God made you an Asian American
Russell Jeung (Associate Professor of Asian Studies at San Francisco State University) gave 4 talks at the first Asian American conference hosted by Bread of Life Church in Torrance, California, March 7-9. We recorded the first talk from Friday night. (Videos from all the talks may be made available later, but no guarantees.)
With permission from […]
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a Chinese church perspective
Pastor Paul Hong Cheng heads the only local Chinese church, formed four months ago in Vacaville. Vacaville is approximately 35 miles from Sacramento and 55 miles from San Francisco. Pastor Cheng shared this perspective about reaching the next generation and the future impact of China in this article, Breaking language barriers: Chinese church reaches out […]
Asian American women and cultural pressures
There are many factors that affect Asian Americans, both pressures from our Asian cultural heritage as well as being a minority in an American context. This CNN article, Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women, unpacks some of these pressures that push a few over the edge towards tragedy [ht: Eddie Byun]:
Asian-American women […]
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contextualizing the Gospel for Asian Americans
The Epic Movement is the Asian American focused ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. They held an Epic East Coast 2007 Conference near Washington DC in January 2007, and recorded the 4 messages by Dr. Ben Shin (Adjunct Professor, Talbot School of Theology) –
Our Identity: Confessions of a California Roll (mp3)
Where is Grace? (mp3)
On Becoming […]
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not easy being Asian American
2 videos that give a glimpse of what it feels like to be an Asian American, dealing with racism [via Eugene Cho’s blog], identity [via ISAAC blog], and more:
The first video, Silent Racism, was produced as a part of the 2006 Faith and Race class at Quest Church (Seattle) processing issues of race, racism, and […]
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youth marketing insights
This recent marketing research piece is making the rounds, originally from SnapDragon Consultants: Ten Things Every Brand Should Know About Asian American Youth [ht: Docuticker, MediaPost’s Asian-American Youth Seek Edgier Image, Hyphen]
What are the implications for better reaching and engaging Asian American youth with the Gospel?
Many Asian-American youth feel excluded and misunderstood by most brands. […]
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