How Churches Are Reaching Asian Americans

How Churches are Reaching Asian Americans DJ Chuang Executive Director L 2 Foundation www.L2Foundation.org

L 2 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

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

14.4M Asian Americans in the US (July 2005)

33.4M Asian 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.)

$61,094 Highest 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" at http://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

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

house http://www.flickr.com/photos/arnar/402574248/

duplex http://flickr.com/photos/sidereal/111616256/

townhouse http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohadby/151741368/

mansion

hotel http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/94025957/

multiplex http://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

$50,000 Sarang Community Church’s annual fund for church planting by 2 nd 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 L 2 Foundation www.L2Foundation.org [email_address] 949-870-5726

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How Churches Are Reaching Asian Americans

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