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Reaching next generation Asian Americans 2013

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

17%population of the other Asian American groups not accounted for in the 6 largest groups

11%Approximately 11% of Asian Americans live below the federal poverty line, a rate that exceeds that of non-Hispanic Whites but falls below the national average.

22.5%Cambodians, Hmong, and Laotians have poverty rates similar to those of blacks and Latinos. (22.5% of Cambodians, Hmong, and Laotians in the US lived in poverty, compared to 24.9% of blacks and 21.4% of Latinos.)

Chinese

Filipino

Indian

Vietnamese

Korean

Japanese 1,304,286

1,706,822

1,737,433

3,183,063

3,416,840

4,010,114

Population % Christian

Churched Asian Americans

31%

89%

18%

36%

71%

38%

7,123Estimated number of ethnic Asian American churches

house

duplex

townhouse

hotelhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/94025957/

multiplex

houseduplextownhousehotelmultiplex

ethnic church models

Multi-lingualMulti-departmentMulti-generationalMulti-organizationMulti-site

Multi-AsianMulti-ethnicMultiplying: church planting

ethnic church models

71%Approximately 71% of Asian Americans speak a language other than English at home.

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

It is not enough to condemn culture. Nor is it sufficient merely to critique culture or to copy culture. Most of the time, we just consume culture. But the only way to change culture is to create culture.-- Andy Crouch, Culture Making

http://www.culture-making.com/about/book/

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Next Generation Multi-Asian Churches

ambassadorchurch.com

crossway-church.com

epicchurch.net

ebcla.org

irvine.newsong.net

pewsocialtrends.org/asianamericans-maps

seattlequest.org

facebook.com/loftworship

gracecovenant.net

creativityinspiring worshipsocial justiceleadershipquality

next generation church traits

evangelizing in new waysraising up young leaderssupporting church planting with prayer, people, and funds

opportunities for existing churches

$50,000Sarang Community

Church’s annual fund for church planting by

2nd Generation Koreans and other

minorities

http://flickr.com/photos/sadaqah/426291086/

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