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"Wait a minute, Jesus wasn't White!?"
Justin Lau joins Jessie on this episode of ACross Culture, discussing identity, East Asian theology, images of God, decolonising faith & worship and reconciling his Christian faith with his East Asian identity.
Justin is a Third Culture Kid who grew up in Japan to Singaporean parents. He is a worship & discipleship pastor at a church in East London.
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Justin's newsletter: ā https://decolonisingmyfaith.substack.com/
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"3 out of 4 non-Christian students would go to church if a friend invited them." - [research from 2023]
Aaron Nayagam joins Jessie on ACross Culture in a episode all about students! Aaron is the Head of Mission of Fusion with a huge passion for students and catalysing the local church to reach out to students in their areas.
Aaron is Indian Tamil living and working in the midlands. They also talk about diaspora churches, culture and diverse perspectives of God.
Listen to this episode to get fired up about mission.
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Fusion website http://fusionmovement.org/
Fusion IG: @hellofusionmovement
Follow Aaron on IG: @anayagam26
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Joining Jessie on ACross Culture this time is Wonu Adefala, a Nigerian living in the UK, pastor of Salem South London, involved in Eleuthera and is the Intercultural Engagement Coordinator for Global Connections. She describes herself as a wonderful hybrid, and in this episode they discuss 1.5-2nd/3rd generation immigrants, culture, diaspora churches and intercultural ministry. Listen to this and you'll definitely be encouraged to keep going in your ministry.
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Wonu's website Ā ā ā ā https://www.wonuadefala.com/
Global Connections https://globalconnections.org.uk/
Follow Wonu @WonuAdefala on social media
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Rani Joshi grew up in a Hindu Gujarati family and became a Christian as an adult. She joins Jessie on the podcast to talk about identity crisis, her work with the South Asian Forum, experiences in intercultural worship and gives insights into following Jesus when coming from another faith.
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South Asian Forum Ā ā ā https://www.eauk.org/what-we-do/networks/south-asian-forum
Couch Conversations podcast https://anchor.fm/conversationswithrani
InstagramĀ ā ā https://www.instagram.com/raniraine/
More links https://linktr.ee/Raniraine
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Jaewoo Kim, Ministry Development + Director of Networking at Proskuneo, loves connecting people and worshipping communities locally and globally to spark friendship and partnership. He joins Jessie on the podcast to discuss culture and identity, taking up space, Proskuneo Ministries and doing multicultural ministry as a Korean-American introvert.
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Proskuneo Ministries websiteĀ ā https://proskuneo.org/ā
YouTubeĀ ā https://www.youtube.com/@ProskuneoMinistriesā
InstagramĀ ā https://www.instagram.com/proskuneoministries/ā
FacebookĀ ā https://www.facebook.com/proskuneoministries/ā
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Dr Daniel D. Lee, professor at Fuller Seminary joins Jessie for this episode of ACross Culture, where they talk about identity, being Asian American/British Chinese and doing theology as embodied beings.
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Daniel's book - Doing Asian American Theology
Book edited by Daniel - The Theologies of Asian Americans and Pacific Peoples
https://www.fuller.edu/asian-american-center/
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Cultural identity or Christian identity? Can you have both? Which comes first?
Explore some of these questions with Jessie and Yinxuan in this episode of ACross Culture. Yinxuan calls himself a Christian, Chinese and a scholar. He shares his testimony of coming to faith from an atheist family with one parent in the Communist Party, and talks about his research - giving us insight into the effects of recent Hong Kong migration to the UK on Chinese churches.
Yinxuan reads from 2 Corinthians 4:7-9 at the end of the ep.
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https://www.biblesociety.org.uk/latest/news/with-the-chinese-church-in-the-uk-at-a-crossroads-now-is-the-time-to-act/
https://lst.ac.uk/the-bible-and-the-chinese-community-in-britain/
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/october/british-chinese-survey-hong-kong-churches.html
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ACross Culture is back!
Paula hosts two podcasts - SheHH and Hermosas Chicas Negras.Ā
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https://www.instagram.com/paulamelissaxx/
https://www.instagram.com/shehhpodcast/
https://www.instagram.com/hermosaschicasnegras/Ā
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Christopher Mazen is Jessie's guest for this episode of ACross Culture. Mazen shares about his journey and practice in worship music across three continents.Ā This episode ends with a clip of Anta Atheemun, an Arabic song which translates as 'You are so awesome'. Lyrics and chords can be found here.
He also has a podcast called Divine Immigrant The Podcast.
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Mazen's Instagram: @divineimmigrant
Mazen's Facebook: christopher.mazen
You can also support Mazen's album on bandcamp.Ā
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Dayalan Mahesan joins Jessie as her guest for the final episode of the series. Dayalan is an entrepreneur who mainly works in property and is also working with Evangelical Alliance's South Asian Forum.Ā
Listen to this episode where they talk about setting up businesses, ministry, monoethnic diaspora churches, multiethnic communities, identity and more.Ā
Dayalan also shares a word of encouragement based on Psalm 103:15-16 and recommends the book 'Redeeming Your Time' by Jordan Raynor.Ā
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Click to read an article written by Dayalan for Tamil Heritage Month.
Dayalan's Instagram: @dayalanmahesan_kw
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