Silent Exodus

Silent Exodus
Author: Zalmaï Ahad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781597110778

Forty-year-old university professor Stuart Treece is rather set in his ways, and in the midst of the changing attitudes of the ’50s, his encounters with the younger generation are making him feel decidedly alien. When he falls disastrously in love with one of his students all his efforts to acclimatize are hilariously undermined. Timeless and brilliant, Eating People is Wrong is Malcolm Bradbury’s first novel, and established him as a master of satire.

Gatherings in Diaspora

Gatherings in Diaspora
Author: Stephen Warner
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1998-04-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781439901526

The new religious communities of the United States in their churches, mosques, temples, home meetings, and festivals, being built by immigrants.

Scattered and Gathered

Scattered and Gathered
Author: Sadiri Joy Tira
Publisher: Langham Global Library
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2020-07-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1783688165

The twenty-first century is marked by mass migration. Massive population movements of the last century have radically challenged our study and practice of mission. Where the church once rallied to go out into “the regions beyond,” Christian mission is currently required to respond and adapt to “missions around.” As a result, leaders in this field have been developing diaspora missiology to provide a missiological framework for understanding and participating in God’s redemptive mission among peoples living outside their places of origin. In this volume, experts in diaspora missiology from across the globe analyze the development of missions to migrants and add to our understanding of the contemporary church’s opportunities and responsibilities for mission amongst diaspora groups.

Preaching to Second Generation Korean Americans

Preaching to Second Generation Korean Americans
Author: Matthew D. Kim
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2007
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781433100048

This in-depth study on preaching to second generation Korean Americans, the first of its kind, is based on empirical and ethnographic fieldwork. Matthew D. Kim conducted surveys and semi-structured qualitative interviews with Korean American pastors and second generation young adult respondents in three geographic regions of the United States: the Midwest, the West Coast, and the East Coast. His primary conceptual framework employs social psychologists Hazel Markus and Paula Nurius' theory of possible selves to facilitate the process of congregational exegesis in the second generation Korean American church context. This book offers a new contextual homiletic model that enables Korean American preachers to engage in deeper levels of ethnic and cultural analysis in their sermonic preparation. Simultaneously, the author reconstructs conventional preaching roles of Korean American preachers and second generation listeners so that they may co-creatively imagine new possible selves that radically advance Christian mission and practice in the world. This book will serve as a primary or secondary source for upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate courses on preaching, communication studies, ethnic and racial studies, cross-cultural ministry, or social psychology.

How Am I Going to Grow Up?

How Am I Going to Grow Up?
Author: Enoch Wong
Publisher: Langham Monographs
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1839736364

Second-generation Chinese Canadian evangelicals inhabit a complex liminal space, positioned between the world of their parents and broader Canadian society. In this study, Dr. Enoch Wong explores the “silent exodus” of these Canadian-born Chinese from their parents’ churches, tracing their journeys to negotiate their cultural, ethnic, and faith identities for themselves. Utilizing both sociology of religion and leadership studies, Wong’s research engages Robert Greenleaf’s concept of foresight in servant leadership to examine the role of church leaders in mediating (or failing to mediate) these transitions for children raised in immigrant churches. This multi-case inquiry offers insight into the concerns of Canadian-born Chinese evangelicals and the cultural and generational conflicts that prompt them to search for new communities capable of understanding their identities and supporting their yearnings – whether inside or outside of the church.

Solving the Immigrant Church Crisis

Solving the Immigrant Church Crisis
Author: Ronald M. Rothenberg
Publisher: Ronald M. Rothenberg
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2016-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Solving the Immigrant Church Crisis: The Biblical Solution of Parallel Ministry (Acts 6:1-7) addresses the crisis of the immigrant church in which complex cultural and linguistic factors create a reticence on the part of immigrants to transfer financial and decision-making authority to succeeding generations, and this results in a culturally irrelevant ministry to those generations, an exodus of believers from the church, a spiritually immature remnant, and an inability to reach the lost. The thesis of this book is that parallel ministry, based on Acts 6:1-7, is the biblical solution to the crisis in the immigrant church. While there are at least two main aspects of this crisis, a spiritual-relational and an ecclesiastical aspect, this book focuses on the ecclesiastical aspect of defining the biblical structure of church government. Specifically, this book is for immigrant churches primarily in the United States and offers them a biblical and practical solution to the problem plaguing them for over two centuries of how to minister effectively to the succeeding generations.

Silent Exodus: A First-hand Experience and Academic Exploration of the Complicated Challenges of Leading a Latino Church in the Twent

Silent Exodus: A First-hand Experience and Academic Exploration of the Complicated Challenges of Leading a Latino Church in the Twent
Author: Steve Pinto
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2021-03-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781662805011

There is a silent exodus of emerging generations from Latino churches in America. It is a crisis of infertility and preservation, an inability to retain and reclaim the second-and third-generation due primarily to changing demographics, an increase of influence of post-modernistic thought, a void of relevant leadership, and recent challenges with technological advances. Unless the church takes Latino teenagers and emerging adults-who are the primary targets of these challenges- more seriously, the Latino church's future is in doubt. Leading strategically in a Latino church context requires critically engaging the complexities of Latino culture, theology, and multi-generational realities. Today's Latino churches face the challenge of making space for multi-generational identities and developing the leadership skills to embrace predominantly Latino communities that are increasingly becoming more monolingual and multicultural. Latino churches that do not accommodate experience the silent exodus. This book focuses on equipping pastors and emerging leaders on counteracting the silent exodus. This is a first-hand experience and academic exploration of the complicated challenges of being part of, serving in, and developing a Latino church in the twenty-first century. The book provides a leadership approach that directly engages technology, globalization, and communicating the gospel in a post-Christian world from a Latino perspective. Dr. Steve Pinto serves as the Associate Pastor of Faro Church, a multicultural and bilingual fellowship. His knowledge of God's Word and love for people, mixed with his high energy and sense of humor, has been a powerful tool in God's hands as a keynote speaker at various youth events, camps, and conventions. Additionally, he functions as an adjunct professor at Vanguard University and LABI College. His primary teaching areas are Christian Worldview, Youth Ministry, Effective Leadership, Discipleship Making, and Expository Preaching. He and his wife, Diane, live in Southern California with their children, Alexi and Nathan.

Finding Our Voice

Finding Our Voice
Author: Matthew D. Kim
Publisher: Lexham Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2020-06-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1683593790

No one preaches in a cultural vacuum. The message of what God has done in Christ is good news to all, but to have the greatest impact on its hearers--or even to be understood at all--it must be culturally contextualized. Finding Our Voice speaks clearly to an issue that has largely been ignored: preaching to Asian North American (ANA) contexts. In addition to reworking hermeneutics, theology, and homiletics for these overlooked contexts, Kim and Wong include examples of culturally-specific sermons and instructive questions for contextualizing one's own sermons. Finding Our Voice is essential reading for all who preach and teach in ANA contexts. But by examining this kind of contextualization in action, all who preach in their own unique contexts will benefit from this approach.

Asian American Youth

Asian American Youth
Author: Jennifer Lee
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2004
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780415946681

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Silence

Silence
Author: David W.F. Wong
Publisher: Graceworks
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2022-05-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9811462631

A book to help readers find a pause in noise, a time for silence, and a word from God who speaks to all who will be quiet enough to listen.