presented on January 13, 2008 by DJ Chuang www.L2Foundation.org at Bay Area Chinese Bible Church

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

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. 33.4M Asian Americans by 2050 (projected)

19. 87% of Asian Americans are high school graduates (age 25 and older)

20. 49% of Asian Americans are college graduates (age 25 and older)

21. 20% of Asian Americans have graduate degrees (Masters, Ph.D., M.D.)

22. $61,094 Highest median household income of any racial group

23. 11.1% Poverty rate for single-race Asians (up from 9.8% in 2004)

24. 17.9% without health insurance: single-race Asians (up from 16.5% in 2004)

25. 56% Asian Americans unchurched http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=229

26. 26% Asian Americans under age 18

27. 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

28. Four stages of organizational decline Cf. Mark Driscoll’s Confessions of a Reformission Rev pp.141-144 http://www.encounterthis.com/blog/?p=142

29. window of opportunity

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

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

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

34. mansion

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

36. multiplex http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckyuan/1004839506/

47. $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/

50. http://flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/139376081/ http://flickr.com/photos/sadaqah/426291086/

51. these slides + more @ http://blog.L2Foundation.org DJ Chuang L 2 Foundation www.L2Foundation.org [email_address] 949-870-5726