On August 30th, 2016, Pastor Wilson Wang (Renew Church OC in Fullerton, California) was our special guest on a Thirty.Network webinar powered by Facebook Live and we talked about the topic of humility in leadership and power.
That webinar was recorded and available for on-demand viewing at Thirty.Network Live with Wilson Wang.
The aspiration for this Thirty.Network blog is to be a collection of resources that we can share with Asian American pastors. But not just any generic ministry teachings, for there are plenty of good resources from mainstream evangelical Christian preachers and teachers, like churchleaders.com and pastors.com and blogs.thegospelcoalition.org.
What we’d love to see is more learnings and insights from Asian American pastors, by Asian American pastors, for Asian Americans and other Americans and all peoples. We know that pastoral ministry is very demanding, and many pastors do not have the extra time and energy it takes to develop an online platform that’d be a channel flowing constantly and regularly with fresh content.
John Shin here. I’ve been thinking about the some things on faith, evangelism, reading, church, Jesus, passion, life, missions, and community. I recently shared my thoughts on my Facebook timeline in 8 short reflections that are compiled together into this 1 article:
“Think different.”
This was ad campaign that launched the rise of Apple Computer. Its rallying cry was to “…the ones who see things differently . . . because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
This phrase encapsulates the experience of many of us who are called to ministry. Not only do we “think different,” but we “ARE different.” In fact, to some people, we are downright weird!
How many Asian American pastors can you name that are nationally-recognized in the Christian community?
Maybe one — Francis Chan.
Even though Asian Americans are one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in America (18 million) with over 7,000 churches, there are only a few Asian American pastors who are well known and being invited to large Christian conferences.
Why is that?