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Working under an Asian/Chinese Senior Pastor
Pastor Steven Chin, of Boston Chinese Evangelical Church, spoke at a workshop titled, “Working Faithfully Under a Senior Pastor” at The Gospel Coalition 2009 National Conference. Pastor Chin shared about his experiences in pastoring within an multi-generational Chinese church, and offers 10 pieces of advice.
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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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interview with Soong-Chan Rah about The Next Evangelicalism
Last week, I (DJ Chuang) interviewed Soong-Chan Rah about his newly published book, “The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity.” Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah is Milton B. Engebretson Associate Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL.
In this 12-minute interview, Prof. Rah talks about his book. […]
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Talks from Missions Conference for Chinese/Asian Americans
Passion for the Nations: SoCal Chinese-American Missions Conference was held on March 14, 2009, and the conference talks are now posted online, including plenary messages, testimonies and workshops. Audios are also available as an RSS feed or as an iTunes podcast.
The three plenary messages are:
“The Global Cause of Christ” by Dave Gibbons, Lead Pastor of […]
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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interview with Ken Kong about Southeast Asian ministry
In this video interview with Ken Kong, Director of Southeast Asian Committee, we hear about how this ministry to next generation Southeast Asians was started, how they have gathered to develop leaders, and introduces dates for the 2010 national conference.
ministry to Southeast Asians - interview with Ken Kong on Vimeo.
mentors who develop generous leaders
Andy Ho reports in a blog post titled, “Seasons of Change: A Leadership Development Discussion Series” about leadership development for emerging philanthropic leaders. Several insights were shared by Peggy Saika (Executive Director of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy) and Glen O’Gilvie (CEO of the Center for Nonprofit Advancement) ::
Peggy and Glen shared how mentoring […]
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“Prequel Questions” on Developing New Asian American Leaders from the Austin Conversation on April 29th
It seems that prequels are quite popular nowadays, especially given a recent blockbuster movie that has everyone talking.
Recently, a Conversation on the State of Asian American Leadership was held in Austin (4/29/09), a partnership between the L2 Foundation and Vox Veniae. We’re excited to say that in a few weeks, we’ll be posting the video […]
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3 recent books explore Korean Americans and their faith
Christianity Today featured this article by Kate Bowler titled, “Generation K: Korean American evangelicals.” The article describes the unique ethnic context out of which 3 recent books have been published about both 1st and 2nd generation Korean Americans, namely, Religion and Spirituality in Korean America by David K. Yoo and Ruth H. Chung; God’s New […]
How to develop genuine church community
BuildingChurchLeaders.com has a forum titled “Ask the Experts” in which experienced church leaders share their knowledge about ministry leadership. This question was posted: “How have you nurtured and sustained genuine community in the life of your church?”
And, here is Ken Fong’s response:
The compelling vision of our church [Evergreen] is to create a “faith village,” in […]