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Wednesday September 23, 2009 ~ 4 Comments
Video number 4 from the Jet Set Vision Trip in Taiwan all goes down during a cab ride through Taipei as Ray Chang and I talk about how second generation immigrant churches in America can be involved in God's global mission. Ray is the pastor of Ambassador Church (an Evangelical Free congregation) in Brea, CA. Watch and listen as a second generation Asian American leader talks about his vision for the nations. It's worth your time! If you missed the earlier videos, they are listed below. Taiwan Video 1: Meeting and Learning from Pastor Chen Posted on September 23, 2009 at 11:10 PM ~ 4 Comments Tagged with: mission, missions, Taiwan, upstream Subscribe via RSS or Follow us on Twitter
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Thanks for posting this interview - there is something that Asian Americans can and do uniquely bring to the missional effort globally, and certainly specifically to Asian places like Taiwan. Ray Chang's been blogging about his trip over at http://transformission.wordpress.com/ , and which reviewing the blog posts there and here, it dawned on me that Ray's the sole Asian Amerian on this vision trip. Is he representing us well? :)
DJ,
He is making much of Jesus!
Ed
I'm a first time visitor to this blog, but I just spent the last two hours reading the articles, looking at the video links, and just thanking God for the work already done and praying for more to be done through Him. I'm a Taiwanese-American and I could identify with many of the issues raised. When I attended an all-Chinese-American church, I was perplexed as to how I should invite my non-Asian friend to the church. I hope to see more joined churches, multi-ethnic churches, treating traditional/contemporary preferences as secondary, etc. After all, Jesus' last big prayer topic was on church unity, "May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me" (Jn 17) It would be great to see Asian-American Christians fully integrated with other American churches.
Secondly, Pastor Ray is spot on as to how many resources Asian-Americans have. As second-generation Asians become college campus ministry leaders, while being equipped in education and job skills, some should prayerfully consider tentmaking/church planting work in Asian countries, as many are in that unreached 10/40 window. The advantage is mainly twofold - they are not seen as "outsiders" PLUS they can forego language training since many grew up speaking the language at home.
These are just some of my thoughts. Thank you for this website. Will keep praying.
Ray's insights are right on. I've served with him since he was on our staff at EV Free Fullerton. Good insights on multi-cultural aspect of Asian churches.