Revitalizing Asian American Churches for New Generations

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    2. Revitalizing Asian American Churches for New Generations DJ Chuang www.djchuang.com September 26, 2007
    3. what have I done
      • Engineer
      • Pastor
      • Strategist
      • Editor
      • Researcher
      • Facilitator
      • Father
    4. who I work with
      • 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
      Connecting innovators to multiply their impact
    5. 2 print-on-demand books
      • Asian American Youth Ministry
      • Conversations: Asian American Evangelical Theologies in Formation
    6. revitalizing the church
      • Why?
      • Statistics
        • Number of people
        • Number of churches
        • Church life cycle
      • scriptures
      • signs
      • stories
      • 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
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      • 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
    15. Four stages of organizational decline Cf. Mark Driscoll’s Confessions of a Reformission Rev pp.141-144 http://www.encounterthis.com/blog/?p=142
    16. 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
    17. 14.4M Asian Americans in the US (July 2005)
    18. 2000 U.S. Census, cf. wikipedia entry on “Asian American”
    19. 33.4M Asian Americans by 2050 (projected)
    20. 87% of Asian Americans are high school graduates (age 25 and older)
    21. 49% of Asian Americans are college graduates (age 25 and older)
    22. 20% of Asian Americans have graduate degrees (Masters, Ph.D., M.D.)
    23. $61,094 Highest median household income of any racial group
    24. 11.1% Poverty rate for single-race Asians (up from 9.8% in 2004)
    25. 17.9% Without health insurance single-race Asians (up from 16.5% in 2004)
      • 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
    26. 75% of Koreans in North America are affiliated with a church (estimated) http://www.djchuang.com/2006/05/d1296
    27. 56% Asian Americans unchurched http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=229
    28. 26% Asian Americans under age 18
    29. 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
      • 12
      • churches per 10,000 people
      • (national average)
      from http://www.citychurchsf.org/planting/planting_print.htm
    30. Asian American Churches estimated numbers from online directories, CM&A, ISAAC
      • 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
    31. Four stages of organizational decline Cf. Mark Driscoll’s Confessions of a Reformission Rev pp.141-144 http://www.encounterthis.com/blog/?p=142
    32. Revitalization: Window of opportunity
      • Southeast Asian Leaders (2006 national conference)
      • Next Gen South Asians Leaders
      • Evergreen LA (here)
      • 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 multi-Asian / multi-ethnic churches less than 10 years old
    33. $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/
    34. what existing churches can do
      • Encourage creativity
      • Raise up young leaders
      • Support church planting with prayer, people, and funds
      • “ To reach people no one is reaching, do things no one else is doing.” (Craig Groeschel)
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    36. http://flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/139376081/ http://flickr.com/photos/sadaqah/426291086/
    37. DJ Chuang www.djchuang.com L 2 Foundation www.L2Foundation.org Leadership Network www.LeadNet.org Q&A
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