While Asian American churches tend to get lumped together, there are actually important distinctions between them. To facilitate more dialogue about the needs and growth of ethnic-specific churches, SOLA Network hosted a conversation with four Chinese American pastors about the Chinese heritage church. Check out Part 1 and Part 2, featuring pastors Casey Young, Hanley Liu, Ben Pun, and Joey Chen.
2020 looked promising for David Yoon, also known as Kindred Worship. He had dropped his EP, Edmund, the previous year, and he would be leading worship for SOLA Conference 2020. Then the pandemic hit. I spoke with David about Worship Artistry and Worship Leading in COVID-19. We talk about his journey in creating Kindred Worship, leading worship through a pandemic, and how the church can better support worship leaders and worship artists.
We may have done an exceptional job on Mother’s Day, but how can we continue to love and cherish our mothers throughout the rest of the year? Our editor, Hannah Chao, shared Ten Questions to Ask Your Mom After Mother’s Day. Don’t forget to view our new Moms and Motherhood collection, and check out our monthly newsletter for more popular articles — read it now and join for free. If you have an article or link to share, reach me on Twitter or Instagram.
Articles From Around The Web
1. Matthew D. Kim and Daniel L. Wong: Preaching to the Heart of the Asian American Experience
“To love our neighbor means to speak up for the voiceless and those who need our defense. To love our neighbor means sacrificing our rights and freedom to care for the other person. To love our neighbor means not protecting our comfort, but seeking out opportunities to promote reconciliation, harmony, and peace.”
2. Eric Constanzo: 7 Ways to Serve Our Immigrant and Refugee Neighbors During a Pandemic
“We can demonstrate the love of Christ to our immigrant and refugee neighbors by helping to meet their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs in his name, and share with them the most important message they could ever hear.”
3. Liz Wann: Mothering at the End of Me
“God used the challenges of motherhood to expose my self-sufficiency in motherhood.”
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. SOLA Network: Leaders One Day Video Recap
A long year of pandemic, social unrest, and lockdown have left many church leaders discouraged, confused and tired. SOLA Network invited a select group of leaders to gather to break bread, listen and collaborate. We also filmed several plenary and panel sessions for an upcoming digital event! Watch this new short video recap, graciously provided by Hannah Kim and Living Hope Community Church.
2. For the Church: Adam McClendon on Counseling Those With Porn Use
“The key thing that he needs to remember is recovery is possible. Freedom is possible. You do not have to live in this addiction.”
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Summer Sessions: Turn Your Eyes, It Was Finished Upon That Cross, Yet Not I, and more. Book Reviews: Brave by Faith by Alistair Begg, A Brief Theology of Periods (Yes, really) by Rachel Jones, and 7 Reasons to (Re)Consider Christianity by Ben Shaw. Like our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Aaron Lee and David Yoon: Worship Artistry and Worship Leading in COVID-19: An Interview with Kindred Worship
“What we’re seeing in this season is that corporate worship is so important and so necessary for the believer.”
2. Casey Young, Hanley Liu, Ben Pun, and Joey Chen: The Future of the Chinese Heritage Church (Part 2)
The pastors talk about how their Chinese heritage has helped shape their identity, whether Chinese churches should become multiethnic, and their hopes for the Chinese heritage church.
3. Casey Young, Hanley Liu, Ben Pun, and Joey Chen: The Future of the Chinese Heritage Church (Part 1)
While Asian American churches tend to get lumped together, they are actually important distinctions between them. A Chinese heritage church is ethnically Chinese with congregations that speak in Chinese dialects while also developing and growing in an Asian American context.
4. Hannah Chao: Ten Questions to Ask Your Mom After Mother’s Day
“See your mom not only as a parent but as a woman made in the image of God who you are called to love and serve.”
5. TGIF: Roundup for May 7, 2021
Your One Wild and Precious Life / Survey: Half of U.S. ‘Christians’ Say Casual Sex Is Acceptable / Young Mom, You Can Read the Bible
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