Posted in reflections, tagged church, pastoral ministry on June 6, 2018| Leave a Comment »
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By Ajung Sojwal
By choice, for the last few years I have been involved in interim ministry. After a particularly difficult call to a church as a newly ordained clergy, I was at a point where I was ready to renounce my ordination vows. Church ministry was nothing like I had imagined it to be.
I found myself asking what it meant for Jesus to say, “Feed my sheep.” (more…)
Posted in reflections, Uncategorized, tagged church, theology, women in ministry on June 27, 2017| Leave a Comment »
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By Debbie Gin
Both my ethnicity (that I am Korean American) and my race (that I am Asian American) affect my faith and its outworking. I see God in ways that are unique, based on some amalgam of my Confucian, immigrant-family, community-centric, individualistic upbringing and values. (more…)
Posted in reflections, tagged church, foster care, nonprofit on July 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »
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By Sarah D. Park
If you are 25 years of age or older and pass an application process, you are able to house a stranger’s child for a certain period of time. I was at first astounded at how easy it is to become a foster family, and in Orange and Los Angeles County, there is a growing need for Asian American families and individuals to sign up. (more…)
Posted in reflections, tagged church, city, cross-culture, hospitality on June 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »
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By Maria Liu Wong
The theme of “broadening worldviews” is near and dear to my heart and my life’s work. Since being mistaken more than twenty years ago — a young Chinese-American woman teaching music in a south Bronx public school — as a “take-out” cook by second graders in my class, opening up possibilities for others to see more than what they expect or know has been of critical importance. I can think of three ways I have had the privilege to engage in this. (more…)
Posted in reflections, tagged church, fellowship, food on June 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »
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By Young Lee Hertig
Last year when visiting Korea, I read a newspaper article on the plane about a growing open table fellowship phenomenon at some restaurants in Seoul. Urbanization having displaced a large population from their families, many live as migrants to big cities which robs them of table fellowship with their families. Rapidly more people in Seoul have become strangers and lone diners. (more…)
Posted in reflections, tagged church, parenting, school, youth on February 17, 2015| 1 Comment »
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By Eun Joo Angela Ryo
I recently attended a seminar for the parents at a Korean immigrant church I was visiting last month. The title of the seminar was “God and Grades.” As a mother of a teenager and a preteen, I thought it would be helpful to check it out. The seminar, as it turned out, should have been more accurately titled “Church Vs. School” rather than “God and Grades.” (more…)
Posted in reflections, tagged church, questions on July 30, 2013| 4 Comments »
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By Eun Joo Angela Ryo
It was another typical Friday night at the Korean church where I serve. I hung out with the youth group and my kids were at their children’s Bible study. After church, we were headed home when I asked them about their Bible study. (more…)
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