This document discusses trends among Asian Americans and next generation Asian American churches. It notes that the Asian American population is growing rapidly and includes many diverse ethnic groups. Younger Asian Americans are less likely to identify with traditional ethnic churches and are helping to establish new multi-ethnic and creative churches. Existing churches can support this movement by engaging younger generations, raising up new leaders, and funding church planting efforts among minorities.
11. 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
12.
13. 17%
population of the other
Asian American groups
not accounted for in
the 6 largest groups
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15.
16.
17.
18. 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.
19. 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.)
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21.
22. Churched Asian Americans
Chinese
4,010,114
31%
Filipino
3,416,840
89%
Indian
3,183,063
18%
Vietnamese
1,737,433
36%
Korean
1,706,822
71%
Japanese
1,304,286
38% Population % Christian
34. 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
35. 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/