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Asian Americans in Global Missions

Explore the role of Asian Americans in the changing landscape of global missions and how they can engage both locally and internationally. Discover advantages and challenges, and be part of this transformative story.

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Asian Americans in Global Missions

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  1. Asian Americans in Global Missions You are Called for a Time Such as This

  2. The Context of Missions While traditional mission agencies in North America are facing serious funding and recruitment issues, the gospel continues its rapid growth in the global world. How can Asian Americans participate in this new missions context both at home and overseas, and what can you do to be part of this exciting story?

  3. The Context of Global Missions “Christianity in its Global Context: Mission and Society.” Center for Study of Global Christianity, GCTS 2010, p 76

  4. Context of Mission in America The Southern Baptist Convention plans to slowly let go of up to 800 personnel in the International Mission Board (IMB) due to a $21 million shortage in revenue, according to an announcement on Thursday. “We cannot continue to overspend. For the sake of short-term financial responsibility and long-term organizational stability we must act.“ David Platt, Author of Radical & President of IMB. 8/27/2015

  5. America: Mission Sending Future • Decreasing Funding & Influence • The rises of “Nones”: Secularizing of young Americans • Increasing Student Debts • Association with Imperialism/ Colonialism

  6. The Context of Asian Americans Currently 5% of US population By 2050: 9% of US Population

  7. Asian American Christians http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2013/november/9-things-about-asian-american-christianity.html

  8. Asian American Immigrant Church • 7,123 Asian American ethnic churches  • 4,000 are Korean • 1,200 are Chinese http://l2foundation.org/2009/how-many-asian-american-churches-in-the-usa

  9. Young Asian American Christians • Christian Fellowship on Campus disproportionally Asian American • 2006 Christianity Today article, ”The Tiger in the Academy: Asian Americans populate America's elite colleges more than ever—and campus ministries even more than that” • InterVarsity Christian Fellowship: President Tom Lin

  10. Potential Missionaries • Urbana 2009: 24.4% Asian Americans • Urbana 2012: 39% Asian Americans • Spiritual • Financial

  11. Advantage: Cultural • Knowing / Identifying culturally with the largest population of non-Christians: Asia • Able to Contextualize the best from the West into the Eastern Context • Not exactly “Asian”, Not exactly “American”

  12. Disadvantages: Cultural • Issue of Identity • Issue of Self-Loathing • More expectation of you speaking the local language

  13. Advantage: Not White • No association with Imperialism/ Colonialism • Increasing Good Will from the global world toward Asians • Attract less unwanted attention – especially in East Asian Countries (Creative Access Nations)

  14. Disadvantage: Not White • Attract less attention • Perception: Your English is not as good • The traditional North American missions agencies are still mostly white – lonely for Asian Americans

  15. Asian American Missionary Confession “I am an Asian American, born and raised in the States, a child of immigrants. Growing up, my faith was deeply influenced by Western Christian thought, but always experienced in the context of immigrant churches. Ethnic identity, far from being ignored and irrelevant to my faith, was recognized and celebrated. Then I became a missionary. And my ethnicity that was once recognized and celebrated within the minority church now frequently left me feeling ignored and irrelevant within the predominantly white missions community….”

  16. Advantage: Financial • The legacy resources of Asian American Immigrant Christians • Financial: Less Student Debt & more Financial freedom

  17. Disadvantage: Model Minority • Expectation from family • Expectation from peers • The American Dream

  18. Future for Asian American Missions • Increasing in number • Creative models: BAM • Grass-root, new mission agency formation with Asian American leadership • Emerging Asian American financial resources for missions

  19. Asian Americans in Global Missions You are Called for a Time Such as This

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