leadership
2002 Q&A session with Pastor Ken Fong
Pastor Ken Fong (Evergreen LA) spent almost an hour with a group gathered at L2 Foundation’s 2002 Leadership Forum in Monterey, California. (This was an improvised leaders gathering for about 20 Asian American ministry leaders from the San Francisco Bay area.)
We had this interactive Q&A session recorded on video, and you can glean some wisdom […]
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results and outcomes show progress towards a mission
This Found+Read article, Outcomes vs. Activity: Why everything a founder does must be a means to a specific end, has keen insights how results (really should) matter to any organization [ht: Terry Storch] ::
Some people choose wisely and focus on high-impact activities that truly move the needle. Others, however, work the same number of hours […]
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training English-speaking Chinese leaders
Eugene Hor has been the pastor for English ministries at the Burwood Chinese Presbyterian Church in Sydney, Australia since 1999, involved in planting their evening congregation Burwood@Five, now known as GracePoint.
I’d recently found his blog and website, and learned of his work with Rev. Ying Yee as members of the English Task Force of Chinese […]
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developing next gen Korean UMC churches
A Task Force on Korean American Ministries was called for by General Conference of the United Methodist Church denomination. In their report from March/April 2000, their findings are consistent with what L2 Foundation has noticed among many ethnic Asian immigrant churches:
A main concern among both laypeople and clergy is that the traditional styles of leadership […]
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connecting innovative Asian American churches
I’m so grateful to see how God takes my dreams and orchestrates it beyond my own limitations and far exceeded my own expectations! They must’ve been God’s dream to begin with. During the past 6 months since coming on board with Leadership Network (via a partnership with L2 Foundation), I’ve been researching churches all over […]
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checking-in on Virginia Tech
[mirrored from the Leadership Network Learnings blog]
I talked with Josh Deng to check-in on what’s happening there in terms of a Christian witness on the Virginia Tech campus. Josh is a Virginia Tech junior (who is Chinese/Asian-American) and on the leadership team of vtONE, an organization that unites the body of Christ at Virginia Tech […]
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Asian American leadership styles
This article about leadership styles and characteristics was published by Harvard Business School, Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique? It compares and contrasts leadership reproduction and succession in various cultural contexts in the corporate business world, which also has implications for the Asian American church:
To a significant degree, large American firms are […]
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worship and career choices
I first met Lee Huang at the L2 Foundation 2004 Leaders Forum in Chicago, and then visited with him in Philadelphia too. He is particularly thoughtful about living out his faith and working out the implications of the Gospel. He rightly noticed a missing link in how Asian Americans can worship well with great music […]
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Supporting Second Generation Church Leaders
Originally published in The Gospel Herald, February 11, 2006:
[via booyah81]
Understanding & Mentorship to Support Second Generation Church Leaders
by Eunice Or
While many Chinese churches in the United States celebrate the tremendous growth over the last few decades, uniting the first and second generation ministers has become a common concern.
In the latest issue of the magazine published […]
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Asian American churches face leadership gap
This weekend, Los Angeles Times featured this article, Asian American churches face leadership gap: Pastors aren’t being prepared to handle congregational conflicts over cultural and generational issues, experts say. [registration required, ht: JoseonIllin, also mirrored at the ISAAC blog and asianamericanartistry and Step by Step and kitsapsun.com.]
A few article excerpts to highlight notable references with […]
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