from Exponential Conference 2015 presented by Ray Chang of ReGenerant Network regenerant.org

2. Second Generation
Ethnic Church Planting
Raymond Y. Chang
BA, MDiv, ThM, DMin

3. My Story

4. Personal Journey
• Culture Closely Tied the Faith
• Culture More Important than
Gospel (Preservation of Ethnic
Identity)
• Conflict in Church was Norm
• Lack of Mentoring/Discipleship

5. Ministry Journey (Ping-Pong)
• Ethnic Church
• White Evangelical Experience
– Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa
• Ethnic Church Youth Pastor
• White Evangelical
– First Evangelical Free Church of America
• Ethnic English Ministry Pastor

7. What is the Future for the
Ethnic America?

9. Sociological Reality

10. Sociological Reality

12. “Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-
growing racial group in the U.S, with Asians now making up the largest share
of recent immigrants.” – Pew Research’s Rise of Asian Americans, August
2012

13. Models

21. “Parents assumed that if you just sent the kids
to church through high school, they’d come out
being good Christians. We all thought our kids
would go to church in college. That was a very
naïve thought.” !
!
Rev. Daniel Lee (1st gen, Global Mission Church, Maryland), quoted in
“Silent Exodus,” Christianity Today, 1996.
“Silent Exodus” of the Second-Generations

22. 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2013
246
227
150
79
40
17
Next-Generation Multi-Asian Churches

23. Sarang Community
Church’s annual fund for
church planMng by 2nd
GeneraMon and other
minoriMes
$50,000

24. hPp://djchuang.com/ocr

26. TransiMon to MulM-Ethnic
• Leadership is Key
• Understand Your Context & Culture
• State Your Vision
• Staff Your Vision
• Stage Your Vision

27. Challenges for Second GeneraMon
• Established versus Emerging
• Mono-cultural versus MulM-cultural
• Immigrant churches versus Missional churches
• AssimilaMon versus MarginalizaMon

28. Way Forward
• Moving from mono-ethnic to mulM-ethnic
churches
• Review missional focus
• Other ways to pass on heritage
• IncarnaMon and TransformaMon

29. Future for the Ethnic Second Gen
• ImmigraMon will conMnue
• Silent Exodus of Second-GeneraMon
• PopulaMon Growth and Diversity
• Unchurched Post-ChrisMan America
• Mission field across the street and across the
seas

31. Pastor Ray Chang
Ambassador Church & Regenerant Network
ReGenerant.org | Ambassador Church
ray@regenerant.org 714-706-1106