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presentation made by DJ Chuang at The Gathering, Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles (Rosemead, CA) on September 26, 2007
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Revitalizing Asian American Churches
for New Generations
DJ Chuang www.djchuang.com
September 26, 2007
what have I done
• Engineer
• Pastor
• Strategist
• Editor
• Researcher
• Facilitator
• Father
2 print-on-demand books
• Asian American Youth Ministry• Conversations: Asian American Evangelical
Theologies in Formation
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
Creative Management Defensive Blaming
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
14.4MAsian Americans in the US
(July 2005)
Vietnamese 1.2M
Indian 1.9M Filipino 2.9M
Chinese 3.4M
Japanese 1.1M
Korean 1.2M
2000 U.S. Census, cf. wikipedia entry on “Asian American”
33.4MAsian Americans by 2050
(projected)
87%87%of Asian Americans of Asian Americans
are high school graduatesare high school graduates(age 25 and older)(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.)
$61,094Highest 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)
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
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" athttp://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-29.pdf
Asian American Churches
150 58300
4000
1300
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
Four stages of organizational decline
Cf. Mark Driscoll’s Confessions of a Reformission Rev pp.141-144 http://www.encounterthis.com/blog/?p=142
Creative Management Defensive Blaming
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
$50,000Sarang Community
Church’s annual fund for church planting by 2nd Generation Koreans and
other minorities
http://blog.l2foundation.org/2007/08/29/multiethnic-church-planting-fund/
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)
http://flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/139376081/http://flickr.com/photos/sadaqah/426291086/
DJ Chuang
www.djchuang.com
L2 Foundation www.L2Foundation.org
Leadership Network www.LeadNet.org
Q&A