What is the current situation with the Chinese heritage church? What does its future look like? How can it grow more leaders and encourage its pastors?

While Asian American churches tend to get lumped together, they are actually important distinctions between them. To facilitate more dialogue about the needs and growth of ethnic-specific churches, the SOLA Network hosted a conversation with four Chinese American pastors about the Chinese heritage church.

A Chinese heritage church is ethnically Chinese with congregations that speak in Chinese dialects while also developing and growing in an Asian American context.

To this end, Casey Young, who currently serves on the English staff of First Chinese Baptist Church in Los Angeles and is a SOLA’s Conference Team member, moderated a discussion with three other Chinese pastors: Hanley Liu, the English pastor at First Chinese Baptist Church of Walnut; Ben Pun, lead pastor at Anchor Community Church in Walnut; and Joey Chen, lead English pastor at Sunset Church in San Francisco.

We hope this conversation will be informative to the church and especially encouraging to fellow Chinese American Christians who have grown up with or serve in Chinese heritage churches.

Watch the video on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/1D0tIkIxZ-U

Read the transcript:

https://sola.network/article/future-of-chinese-heritage-church-part-1

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