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Minister Diane Ujiiye is a Co-director of API RISE (www.api-rise.org) - Her background includes over twenty years of working  in the fields of substance abuse, mental health, HIV/AIDS, gang  prevention intervention, and re-entry in multi-ethnic LA County. She has  conducted civil rights and public policy advocacy for Asians, Native  Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in California, resulting in the  successful passage of state legislation. She serves as board president  for Healing Urban Barrios, a gang intervention and re-entry program in  East Los Angeles. Diane served as an appointee to the California Highway  Patrol (CHP) Citizens Oversight Committee after the 1992 uprising and  as chair of the California Commission on Asian Pacific Islander American  Affairs. She has facilitated an array of group processes designed to  address the causes and symptoms of division. Diane is  currently building solidarity with the Black community in Los Angeles  with mostly formerly incarcerated API’s and Blacks. She holds a Master  of Divinity (Mdiv’) degree from Fuller Theological Seminary.

Eugene is the Founder of New Wine Collective (newwinecollective.org). Eugene has been in church ministry for over 25 years. After spending 17  years helping to build a church from a young start up into a large  established church with multiple locations, he discerned it was time to  step outside the familiar in order to reimagine church and spirituality  from the ground up.

An in-depth conversation about DEI work and the Church with Sophia Agtarap: a pathfinder, a 1.5 generation Filipina American and intercultural communicator who values curiosity and wonder. She works alongside communities in the areas of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, as they do the brave and hard work of imagining the world they want to build, and animating others to join them in creating a more just society  where all may thrive. Get to know Sophia at https://www.sophiakristina.co

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Lisa Wright is our guest for this episode - she is the CEO & President for Inland Southern California United Way and Inland Southern California 211+ located in the Inland Empire.  Her greatest mission in life is to help make her community a kinder place to live, work, learn and grow.

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James asks Josh: "Are you a master of divinity?"

Josh Lopez-Reyes is Executive Director of Echo Park Immigration Center (EPIC) -- epicla.org

How about calling for those with more than one ethnic identity? Or, for third culture kids? Or, for the culturally hybrid? It simply would not be the way that we usually think of it in The Church and academia.

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The full article is here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00344087.2021.1989562?fbclid=IwAR0BNeykZMRYbJkxqN75Sx1RiPcg22z6XxcZE6QyttAhKNieYFFlmSfZBhY&journalCode=urea20

How can ministry start multi-ethnic? What kind of attitude does it take, in addition to the skills? Church planter Paul Park explains the way he does it at Free Life Community Church in Orange County, CA.