2022 Internship Opportunity - Hanami Hope

Seeking students to help build a non-profit that fosters human rights through humor, story telling and education. Stipends may be provided. And food will be provided.

Hanami Hope, a new nonprofit organization, and the law firm of Laurie Shigekuni & Associates are pleased to announce a five-week internship program. Internship seminars will run every Tuesday in June, 2022 and on July 12, 2022, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Grace Fellowship Community Church is generously providing use of their church building for the meetings. 3265 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

From 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. we will learn about the stories and poems of Hiroshi Kashiwagi, a renowned Japanese American who turned anguished moments in his personal journey into thought-provoking reflections. We will hear from learned Asian Americans about how history forms personalities. Then we will share and reflect and create video clips to combat anti- Asian hate with humor and ordinary anecdotes.

From 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., for those interested in an optional legal track, we will learn about some basic estate planning and social service issues and provide outreach regarding new Medi-Cal laws to local community groups.

For details see calestateplanning.com and hanamihope.org.

Contact office@calestateplanning with questions or to sign up. It is not necessary to come every week. Zoom recording will be available and zoom participation is an option.

Ellington Winter 2021 Update

Our friends and partners the Ellingtons send their update. They were recipients of our Christmas offering this past year. They also hope to return to Zambia by July!

Bayview Opera House Thank You

We received a thank you from the Bayview Opera House for our Alternative Gifts offering to them back in February, you can see and read the PDF below:

Asian American Church Class Winter 2020-2021

11/29 - Asian American Churches

PREPARE by reading The Boomerang Effect: The generation of the 'silent exodus' has now started coming back (2014) by Helen Lee
and 'Silent Exodus' from Korean American Churches As Younger Parishioners Find Community Elsewhere (2018) by Paulina Cachero

Categories from Russell Jeung's book, Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches (2004)

• Asian American Ethnic church

• Panethnic Asian American Evangelical church

• Panethnic Asian American Mainline church

• Asian American-led Multi-ethnic church

12/6 - Community for Asian American Women

In “Being Community”, Season Four of Centering, Hmong American minister Der Lor and Indian American therapist Melba Mathew dive into the many ways Asian American Christian communities can be nurtured, built, and supported.

Asian Americans: “a variety of mutually-illuminating experiences” ~Der Lor

Guest of Episode 4: Kathy Moua, Hmong American minister, functioning 1.5 generation, child of refugee family, speaks on racism, patriarchy, and community.

PREPARE by listening to "4x04 - Community for Asian American Women" podcast [Spotify] [Apple]

12/13 - The Language of Asian American Christianity

In the final episode of their season, Der and Melba are joined by Hmong American pastor Second Yang to discuss the surprising and overlooked ways that language can have an impact on our faith, fellowship, and worshipping communities.

PREPARE by listening to "4x08 - The Language of Asian American Christianity" podcast [Spotify] [Apple]

12/20 - NO CLASS (OUTDOOR WORSHIP)

12/27 - Panethnicity and Asian American Church

PREPARE by listening to Tim Tseng on "Panethnicity and Asian American Church" [Spotify] [YouTube] [SoundCloud]

Tim Tseng’s Categories

• Imposed Panethnicity (“orientals”; other stereotypes)

• Assimilated Non-Ethnicity (“just American” or “just Christian”; model minority; white normativity)

• Reformist Panethnicity (different ethnic groups choosing “Asian American” identity for purpose of coalition building)

1/3 - Is “Asian” a race?

PREPARE by reading: Official 2020 Census guide on how to answer race.

1/10 - Ancestral Religions and Christian Faith

PREPARE by listening to "4x06 - Ancestral Religions and Christian Faith" podcast [Spotify] [Apple}

1/17 - Decolonizing Worship for Asian Americans

PREPARE by listening to "2x01 - Decolonizing Worship for Asian Americans" podcast [Spotify] [Soundcloud]

1/24 - Do We Need Asian American Churches?

PREPARE by listening to "1x08 - Do We Need Asian American Churches?" podcast [Spotify] [Soundcloud]

1/31 - NO CLASS (OUTDOOR WORSHIP)

2/7 - What is “Asian American”?

PREPARE by listening to “1x03 - What is ‘Asian American’?” podcast [Spotify] [Soundcloud]
Slides on Asian American Quadrilateral (aka buckets and terms): [Slide Deck]

2/14 - Wrap Up

Bonus material

Listen to two local (San Francisco and Berkeley) Korean American Lead Pastors of Presbyterian Churches in “Ep. 10 - Breaking the ‘Stained Glass’ Ceiling” podcast [Spotify] [Apple]

Read Article on The Asian American Christian Collaborative’s efforts to confront anti-Asian racism in the church

Maranatha Easter 2021 Update

Marantha was one of the recipient’s of our 2021 Easter Offering. Hear their update and prayer requests below:

Cana Couples Retreats in May/June

Join the One-Day Hybrid Retreat: “The Risk of Loving” on Sat May 8 (virtual session in the morning, in-person option in the afternoon), or CANA Week 2021, a week-long couples retreat June 19-25 at Hartstone Bible Camp in Northern California. Register by 5/1

Sunrise March 2021 Newsletter

Susan from Sunrise’s ministry in Cambodia shares this update. You can read the full newsletter here:

Hi, friends,

Recently, Sunrise was able to work with one of our client families to improve their home.

• What was the creepy-crawly motivation for this work?

• What loss occurred before the work was competed? (middle of page 2)

• What was almost lost before the family knew Sunrise? (bottom paragraph on page 1) 

Read the above letter to find out!

Please consider printing the prayer requests and stuffing them in your Bible or posting somewhere you will see often.

Here are a couple links referenced in the letter:

https://cne.wtf/2019/05/11/cambodias-deadliest-snakes/

https://cne.wtf/2019/05/13/twelve-non-deadly-snakes-of-cambodia/

https://www.novo.org/projects (to partner with Sunrise, type “Sunrise” in the box)

Construction is progressing on the new Kampong Cham prison.  This spring, some prisoners will be moved here from the Tbong Khmom prison where Sunrise has worked for years (formerly Kampong Cham before the split the province in two).

Chhun doing some tutoring with greater than and less than with a few kids.

The child is pointing to “3 > 1”.

Underneath says “1 = 1”.

Khmer numbers look different—so beautiful!

 We had a Thank You note party one morning.  This is something I got way behind in while homeschooling and working at the same time.  I’m hoping to rectify that!  It is taking a while to get our first results to the US because there’s no airmail (Covid), but coming!

Top to bottom: Yeng, Sidon, Chhun, Sidon

Sunday Agang Update 2/13

We received another update from Sunday Agang, his email is as follows:

Dear Gospel Ministry Partners,

I hope you are doing well and staying safe during this second wave of COVID-19 pandemic. May God keep you protected from any form of harm ways. Please find attached above Ron's blog with a YouTube video clip of my vision for the seminary. Do feel free to share it with your contacts and prayer groups. Thank you very for the important role you have been playing in my ministry in Nigeria and beyond.

With much love and prayers,

Sunday Bobai Agang