How Churches Are Reaching Asian Americans
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How Churches are Reaching Asian Americans
DJ Chuang Executive Director
L2 Foundation www.L2Foundation.org
L2 Foundation
Developing leadership and legacy for Asian Americans– bless & empower the next generation– connecting leaders for innovation and
healthy leadership development– mobilizing legacy partners to invest in
the next generation
2 print-on-demand books
• Asian American Youth Ministry• Conversations: Asian American Evangelical
Theologies in Formation
reaching next gen Asian Americans
• statistics
• signs
• stories
• structures
When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red’, and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
Matthew 16:2-3
50+U.S. churches close each week
from http://www.newchurchinitiatives.org/morechurches/index.htm
80%U.S. churches plateaued or declining
from http://www.newchurchinitiatives.org/morechurches/index.htm
Four stages of organizational decline
Cf. Mark Driscoll’s Confessions of a Reformission Rev pp.141-144 http://www.encounterthis.com/blog/?p=142
Creative Management Defensive Blaming
5%of the US Population is Asian American
(July 2004)
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/006587.html
14.4MAsian Americans in the US
(July 2005)
33.4MAsian Americans by 2050
(projected)
87%of Asian Americans
are high school graduates(age 25 and older)
49%of Asian Americans
are college graduates(age 25 and older)
20%of Asian Americans
have graduate degrees(Masters, Ph.D., M.D.)
$61,094Highest median household income of any racial group
11.1%Poverty rate for
single-race Asians(up from 9.8% in 2004)
17.9%without health insurance:
single-race Asians(up from 16.5% in 2004)
56%Asian Americans unchurched
http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=229
26%Asian Americans
under age 18
69.7%Asian Americans
who speak English “very well”
derived from the Census 2000 report "Language Use and English-Speaking Ability" athttp://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-29.pdf
Four stages of organizational decline
Cf. Mark Driscoll’s Confessions of a Reformission Rev pp.141-144 http://www.encounterthis.com/blog/?p=142
Creative Management Defensive Blaming
window of opportunity
For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his fathers and his body decayed.
Acts 13:36
househttp://www.flickr.com/photos/arnar/402574248/
duplexhttp://flickr.com/photos/sidereal/111616256/
townhousehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ohadby/151741368/
mansion
hotelhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/94025957/
multiplexhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ckyuan/1004839506/
ethnic church structures
• Multi-lingual
• Multi-department
• Multi-organization
• Multi-Asian
• Multi-ethnic
• Multiplying: church planting
Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
Matthew 9:17
Evergreen LA
NewSong (Irvine + NOC + LA + Bangkok + more)
Quest Church (Seattle)
photo credits: BENJAMIN BENSCHNEIDER / The Seattle Times, http://flickr.com/photos/54896089@N00/487696832/
Lakeview Church (Chicago)
Grace Covenant Church (Philadelphia)
Vox Veniae (Austin, Texas)
http://flickr.com/photos/speedye/1305243195
100+English-speaking Asian-led churches
less than 10 years old
some characteristics
• spirituality
• creativity
• inspiring worship
• social justice
• leadership
• excellence
$50,000Sarang Community
Church’s annual fund for church planting by 2nd Generation Koreans and
other minorities
http://blog.l2foundation.org/2007/08/29/multiethnic-church-planting-fund/
what existing churches can do
• evangelizing in new ways• cultivating creativity• raising up young leaders• supporting church planting
with prayer, people, and funds
“To reach people no one is reaching, do things no one else is doing.”(Craig Groeschel)
http://flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/139376081/http://flickr.com/photos/sadaqah/426291086/
these slides + more @ http://blog.L2Foundation.org
DJ Chuang
L2 Foundation
www.L2Foundation.org
949-870-5726