Churches reaching next gen Asian Americans, presented by DJ Chuang 3/13/08 at SEAC www.seacleaders.com www.L2Foundation.org

1. How Churches are Reaching Asian Americans DJ Chuang Executive Director L 2 Foundation www.L2Foundation.org

7. Four stages of organizational decline Cf. Mark Driscoll’s Confessions of a Reformission Rev pp.141-144 http://www.encounterthis.com/blog/?p=142

8. window of opportunity

9. 5% of the US Population is Asian American (July 2004) http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/006587.html

10. 14.4M Asian Americans in the US (July 2005)

11. 33.4M Asian Americans by 2050 (projected)

12. 49% of Asian Americans are college graduates (age 25 and older)

13. 20% of Asian Americans have graduate degrees (Masters, Ph.D., M.D.)

14. $61,094 Highest median household income of any racial group

15. 11.1% Poverty rate for single-race Asians (up from 9.8% in 2004)

16. 17.9% without health insurance: single-race Asians (up from 16.5% in 2004)

17. 2000 U.S. Census, cf. wikipedia entry on “Asian American”

18. 2000 U.S. Census, cf. wikipedia entry on “Asian American”

19. 80,000 in San Jose 140,000 in Orange County Vietnamese Americans

20. 36% Vietnamese Americans born in the USA cf. wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_American

21. 33% Vietnamese Americans live in California cf. 2000 Census http://www.asian-nation.org/vietnamese-community.shtml

22. 20% Vietnamese Americans under 18 in Orange County cf. 2000 Census http://modelminority.com/article471.html

23. 30% Vietnamese Americans who are Catholic http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/national/11priests.html

24. 70,000 Vietnamese Americans who attended Marian Days in Carthage, Missouri (August 2007) http://www.columbiatribune.com/2007/Aug/20070811Feat001.asp

25. 10,552 in Bay area 20,000 in MA 17,396 in Long Beach 12,391 in Seattle 70,232 in CA Cambodian Americans U.S. Census 2000 http://www.hmongstudies.org/USCambodianResidentialDistribution.html

26. 65% unemployment rate of Cambodians in Los Angeles County (1996) from Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America by Karen Leonard, p.138

27. 54% Cambodian families living below federal poverty rate in Seattle (2001) from Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America by Karen Leonard, p.138

28. 8,686 in MI 49,200 in MN 38,949 in WI 71,244 in CA Hmong Americans 2006 American Community Survey http://www.hmongstudies.org/SEA2006ACS.html

29. 19.1 median age of Hmong-Americans (2006) from http://www.hmongstudies.org/SEA2006ACS.html

30. 94% Hmong speak a language other than English at home (2006) from http://www.hmongstudies.org/SEA2006ACS.html

31. C&MA Hmong churches with 29,437 members (2003) 81 from http://www.hmongdistrict.org/aboutus.htm

32. Southern Baptist Hmong churches (2003) 31 from http://www.churchplantingvillage.net/site/c.iiJTKZPEJpH/b.991807/k.9CC8/Hmong_Americans.htm

33. 12,717 in MN 13,174 in TX 11,331 in WA 65,874 in CA Lao Americans 2006 American Community Survey http://www.hmongstudies.org/SEA2006ACS.html

34. 6,233 in FL 6,658 in NY 7,384 in TX 5,833 in IL 36,525 in CA Thai Americans 2000 Census http://media.premierstudios.com/nazarene/docs/USCensusThai.pdf

35. 66% Thai-Americans live in Los Angeles (more likely 50%) from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_American

36. 199,559 Thai-American population [alone or in any combination] (2006) from 2006 American Community Survey http://urltea.com/2waa

37. http:// www.aasp.uiuc.edu/SEAsianDiaspora /

39. house “ one big happy family” http://www.flickr.com/photos/arnar/402574248/

40. duplex “ two ministries under one roof” http://flickr.com/photos/sidereal/111616256/

41. townhouse “ two churches on one campus” http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohadby/151741368/

42. mansion “ many peoples as one family”

43. hotel “ many ministries under one brand” http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/94025957/

44. multiplex “ multiple venues, one management” http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckyuan/1004839506/

52. $50,000 Sarang Community Church’s annual fund for church planting by 2 nd Generation Koreans and other minorities http://blog.l2foundation.org/2007/08/29/multiethnic-church-planting-fund/

57. http://flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/139376081/ http://flickr.com/photos/sadaqah/426291086/

58. these slides + more @ http://blog.L2Foundation.org DJ Chuang L 2 Foundation www.L2Foundation.org [email_address] 949-870-5726