Second Generation Ethnic Church Planting

RaymondY.ChangBA,MDiv,ThM,DMin

MyStory

PersonalJourney

•  Culture Closely Tied the Faith •  Culture More Important than

Gospel (Preservation of Ethnic Identity)

•  Conflict in Church was Norm •  Lack of Mentoring/Discipleship

MinistryJourney(Ping-Pong)•  Ethnic Church •  White Evangelical Experience –  Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa •  Ethnic Church Youth Pastor •  White Evangelical –  First Evangelical Free Church of America •  Ethnic English Ministry Pastor

What is the Future for the Ethnic America?

SociologicalReality

SociologicalReality

“AsianAmericansarethehighest-income,best-educatedandfastest-growingracialgroupintheU.S,withAsiansnowmakingupthelargestshareofrecentimmigrants.”–PewResearch’sRiseofAsianAmericans,August2012

Models

“Parents assumed that if you just sent the kids to church through high school, they’d come out being good Christians. We all thought our kids would go to church in college. That was a very naïve thought.” !!Rev. Daniel Lee (1st gen, Global Mission Church, Maryland), quoted in “Silent Exodus,” Christianity Today, 1996.

“Silent Exodus” of the Second-Generations

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Next-Generation Multi-Asian Churches

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$50,000

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TransiMontoMulM-Ethnic

•  LeadershipisKey•  UnderstandYourContext&Culture•  StateYourVision•  StaffYourVision•  StageYourVision

ChallengesforSecondGeneraMon

•  EstablishedversusEmerging•  Mono-culturalversusMulM-cultural•  ImmigrantchurchesversusMissionalchurches•  AssimilaMonversusMarginalizaMon

WayForward

•  Movingfrommono-ethnictomulM-ethnicchurches

•  Reviewmissionalfocus•  Otherwaystopassonheritage•  IncarnaMonandTransformaMon

FuturefortheEthnicSecondGen

•  ImmigraMonwillconMnue•  SilentExodusofSecond-GeneraMon•  PopulaMonGrowthandDiversity•  UnchurchedPost-ChrisManAmerica•  Missionfieldacrossthestreetandacrosstheseas

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