English Ministry Crisis In Chinese Canadian Churches

Author : Matthew Richard Sheldon Todd
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498208840

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English Ministry Crisis in Chinese Canadian Churches by Matthew Richard Sheldon Todd Pdf

In this book, Dr. Matthew Todd looks into the anecdotal reporting of high numbers of Canadian-born Chinese leaving Western Canadian Chinese churches--what is termed the silent exodus. Some of the fastest-growing Canadian churches are Chinese, yet reportedly the highest dropout rates are among Chinese and Asian church adult ministries. This book recommends solutions towards the retention of Canadian-born Chinese adults in Chinese bicultural churches through empowerment. To address retention, the key factors that contribute to a silent exodus are established through qualitative research with participants of diverse church affiliations. Todd examines various models and proposed solutions the Chinese church has used to retain its English-speaking congregants, and gives attention to a theological basis for being inclusive in mission initiatives and for empowerment through passing the leadership baton. Todd makes some recommendations on the new wave of an emerging congregational model that requires negotiation with Chinese church leadership to give power away to English ministry leaders and congregations. He anticipates that this will permit transformational leadership practices that contribute to shalom, community transformation, and lasting congregations.

Author : Matthew R. S. Todd
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Chinese
ISBN : 9781460287675

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Developing a Transformational English Ministry in Chinese Churches by Matthew R. S. Todd Pdf

If you want to discuss development and transitions of a growing English ministry you've come to the right book. If recruiting and training youth workers, or development of worship, discipleship and mentoring is your concern - you'll find ideas here. Many Chinese churches lack a long vision for their English ministry rooted in the Great commission. The author explores maturing English congregational models, the Silent Exodus, and why partnering is imperative. A celebration is given to the Chinese churches multicultural potential and challenge to reconcile the CBC hybrid culture. This volume has one goal - healthier churches to the glory of God....

Author : Matthew R. S. Todd
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781460287682

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Developing a Transformational English Ministry in Chinese Churches by Matthew R. S. Todd Pdf

If you want to discuss development and transitions of a growing English ministry you’ve come to the right book. If recruiting and training youth workers, or development of worship, discipleship and mentoring is your concern – you’ll find ideas here. Many Chinese churches lack a long vision for their English ministry rooted in the Great commission. The author explores maturing English congregational models, the Silent Exodus, and why partnering is imperative. A celebration is given to the Chinese churches multicultural potential and challenge to reconcile the CBC hybrid culture. This volume has one goal – healthier churches to the glory of God.

Author : Nam Soon Song,Ben C. H. Kuo,Dong-Ha Kim,In Kee Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725253209

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People of Faith, People of Jeong (Qing) by Nam Soon Song,Ben C. H. Kuo,Dong-Ha Kim,In Kee Kim Pdf

This book, People of Faith, People of Jeong (Qing), seeks to reveal and understand the current state and the future prospective of Asian Canadian immigrant churches (ACIC), including Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean churches. Starting with a brief chronicle of ACIC history, this book shares the journeys and the stories of current members of lay and clergy from various ACIC. The chapters attempt to explain the influence and the impact that jeong and faith have on these churches, to envisage the future of ACIC, and to draw relevant implications for the betterment of these churches going into the future. This book reflects the real voices and sentiments of the first- and the second-generation members of these ethnic Asian immigrant churches in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). It is original, authentic, comprehensive, and inclusive in its perspectives--the first book of its kind on Asian immigrant churches in Canada. The book will serve as an inspiration and a practical guide for immigrant churches in cross-cultural and cross-generational transitions. It offers laypeople, church leaders, and clergies a critical reference as they navigate through the future of churches in North America and beyond.

Author : Nam Soon Song,Ben C. H. Kuo,Dong-Ha Kim,In Kee Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725253186

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People of Faith, People of Jeong (Qing) by Nam Soon Song,Ben C. H. Kuo,Dong-Ha Kim,In Kee Kim Pdf

This book, People of Faith, People of Jeong (Qing), seeks to reveal and understand the current state and the future prospective of Asian Canadian immigrant churches (ACIC), including Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean churches. Starting with a brief chronicle of ACIC history, this book shares the journeys and the stories of current members of lay and clergy from various ACIC. The chapters attempt to explain the influence and the impact that jeong and faith have on these churches, to envisage the future of ACIC, and to draw relevant implications for the betterment of these churches going into the future. This book reflects the real voices and sentiments of the first- and the second-generation members of these ethnic Asian immigrant churches in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). It is original, authentic, comprehensive, and inclusive in its perspectives—the first book of its kind on Asian immigrant churches in Canada. The book will serve as an inspiration and a practical guide for immigrant churches in cross-cultural and cross-generational transitions. It offers laypeople, church leaders, and clergies a critical reference as they navigate through the future of churches in North America and beyond.

Author : Alexander Chow,Easten Law
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030730697

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Ecclesial Diversity in Chinese Christianity by Alexander Chow,Easten Law Pdf

This volume explores Chinese Christianity—or Chinese Christianities—in a variety of forms and expressions, including those from outside the geopolitical boundaries of mainland China. Advancing a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of Chinese churches, the essays collected here engage many historical, sociological, cultural, and theological contingencies. The collection includes historical discussions of the early-20th-century encounters of Protestant and Catholic missionaries in China and the rise of Christianity among Malaysian Chinese and British Chinese communities. Essays examine the thinking of K. H. Ting (or Ding Guangxun), often remembered for his leadership in the Three-Self Patriotic Movement in the 1980s–90s, by revisiting his earlier theology and approach to the Bible in the 1930s–50s. These retrospectives give way to contemporary explorations into how Chinese churches negotiate their urban identities amidst the complexities of globalization in Chengdu and Shanghai, as well as in Vancouver, Canada. Taken as a whole, this collection offers close examinations into various aspects of Chinese Christianity’s complex picture, helping readers to recognize the many shades and colors of the global Chinese Church.

Author : Sadiri Joy Tira,Juliet Lee Uytanlet
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781645082910

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A Hybrid World by Sadiri Joy Tira,Juliet Lee Uytanlet Pdf

Linking . . . Blending . . . Intermixing with Divine Purpose People are on the move. As individuals and people groups are constantly migrating, the unreached have become part of our communities. This reality provides local Christ-followers with the challenge and opportunity of navigating both the global diaspora and mixed ethnicities. A Hybrid World is the product of a global consultation of church and mission leaders who discussed the implications of hybridity in the mission of God. The contributors draw from their collective experiences and perspectives, explore emerging concepts and initiatives, and ground them in authoritative Scripture for application to the challenges that hybridity presents to global missions. This book honestly wrestles with the challenges of ethnic hybridity and ultimately encourages the global church to celebrate the opportunities that our sovereign and loving God provides for the world’s scattered people to be gathered to himself.

Author : Weichong Joshua Tan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chinese
ISBN : OCLC:1127819023

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Cross, Culture, Confusion by Weichong Joshua Tan Pdf

Through oral history, this project studies a church congregation consisting of families from Hong Kong who came to Canada after the 1970s, professing Chinese ethnicity, while laying claims also to Canadian and Christian identities. As congregants made lives and raised children in both Chinese and Canadian cultures, they changed the way they imagined themselves as a community. Their divergent Chinese, Christian, and Canadian self-identifications affected their varied understandings and experiences of community life at the church. Members conflicted in 2006 when they could not agree whether being Chinese was a defining characteristic of the congregation. Research suggests that the church was for many older, Cantonese-speaking members an important community institution that kept alive their sense of being Chinese. Younger, English-speaking congregants, however, saw a community rooted in multicultural Vancouver. This study can offer insight into questions of personal and national identities, and the role community institutions play in sustaining identity.

Author : Jeanne Wu
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783681785

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Mission through Diaspora by Jeanne Wu Pdf

The Chinese diaspora is well known for transnational economic activity, but less so for the impact of the diasporic Chinese church in the USA and elsewhere in the world. Surveying 652 US Chinese churches about their mission activities, along with interviews of a sub-set of respondents, Dr Wu provides analysis and explanation of mission activities using diaspora theories. The trend for Chinese diaspora church mission to take a “Chinese first” approach capitalizes on shared language, culture and transnational networks to advance the gospel. In this era of globalization, diaspora mission has never been so prescient. With special emphasis on the context of short-term missions, this book presents fascinating insight to a significant element of the ministry of the global church. This case of the Chinese church in the USA has many applications in the consideration of global missions outside of the Chinese diaspora.

Author : Enoch Wong
Publisher : Langham Monographs
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781839736360

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How Am I Going to Grow Up? by Enoch Wong Pdf

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.

Author : Alvyn Austin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015011365403

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Saving China by Alvyn Austin Pdf

Author : Canadian Council of Churches. Canada China Programme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : China
ISBN : UIUC:30112063860842

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A New Beginning by Canadian Council of Churches. Canada China Programme Pdf

Author : Matthew R. S. Todd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995198306

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Hope Alive by Matthew R. S. Todd Pdf

Hope Alive is a compilation of personal narratives from Matthew Todd's life as a husband, father, pastor, and professional which led him to reflect on human suffering. Todd offers no simple answers-apart from the comforting thought that God is always with us.

Author : Enoch Kin On Wong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Chinese
ISBN : 1839736380

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How Am I Going to Grow Up? by Enoch Kin On Wong Pdf

Ethnicity, Religion, and Incorporation -- Ethnicity -- Ethnicity, Religion, and the Incorporation Process -- Incorporation Process -- Canadian Multiculturalism and Incorporation -- Summary -- Congregational Transition of Second-Generation Asian American Evangelicals in the Ethnic Churches -- Silent Exodus: The Emergent Phenomenon of Departureand Transition of the Asian North American Second-Generation from Their Parents' Church -- Congregational Transition at the North AmericanEthnic Churches -- Summary -- Leadership -- Evolution of Modern Leadership Studies.

Author : Koon Kau Leung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Chinese Canadian churches
ISBN : OCLC:951613554

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Introducing Kenotic Conversation and Assessing Its Impact Among Cantonese and English Generations in Markham Chinese Presbyterian Church, Toronto, Canada by Koon Kau Leung Pdf