{"id":1683,"date":"2008-04-01T19:26:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T19:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2010-12-22T12:27:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T17:27:03","slug":"6200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2008\/04\/01\/6200\/","title":{"rendered":"ECC Shows Strong Presence at Asian American Leadership Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FULLERTON, CA (April 1, 2008) \u2013 Five Covenant ministers and administrators led workshops in the recent Asian American Leadership Conference, which drew 350 participants from around the country.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>David Gibbons, pastor of <a title=\"New Song\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsong.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Song Church<\/a> in Irvine, California, was a plenary speaker at the event. Other Covenanters led workshops: ordination candidate Nancy Sugikawa facilitated \u201cOvercoming Small Group Challenges in Asian American Culture.\u201d Soong-Chan Rah, associate professor of church growth and evangelism at <a title=\"NPTS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/npts\" target=\"_blank\">North Park Theological Seminary<\/a>, spoke on \u201cBiblical Justice in the Asian American Christian Context.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The strong presence of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) at the event is due in large part to the denomination\u2019s commitment to diversity and church planting, says Gideon Tsang, pastor of <a title=\"Vox Veniae\" href=\"http:\/\/voxveniae.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vox Veniae,<\/a> an Austin, Texas, congregation being adopted into the ECC. Tsang co-led a workshop on \u201cEmerging into Mission: The Substance and Over Hype of the Emerging Church\u201d with Eugene Cho, pastor of <a title=\"Quest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlequest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quest Covenant Church<\/a> in Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Tsang says the Covenant is developing a good reputation among the Asian American community, as evidenced by the number of times that people suggested Vox Veniae join the denomination. \u201cSeveral friends told me I should check it out,\u201d he recalls. \u201cBeing a non-denominational type community, we weren\u2019t interested. By the third referral, which was unrelated to the first two, I decided to make a phone call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After meeting with Garth Bolinder, superintendent of the Midsouth Conference, he began to think more seriously about joining. He then discussed the denomination with Jeff Black, pastor of <a title=\"St. Barnabas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stbarnabas-austin.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Barnabas Covenant Church<\/a>, another church in the Austin area that had joined the ECC in recent years. Tsang says, \u201cIt further affirmed my suspicion that it truly is a denomination filled with great friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tsang\u2019s story is increasingly common says Greg Yee, associate superintendent of the Pacific Southwest Conference, who led the workshop \u201cAsian Americans and Multiethnic Ministries: More Than Right Theology or Good Intentions.\u201d The denomination is attracting Asian Americans as it builds on its own past to reach out to others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it has to do with our Pietistic roots given to deep devotion and fervor,\u201d Yee says. \u201cIt\u2019s also about the Covenant\u2019s immigrant theology and how that plays into the Asian American story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds, \u201cIt\u2019s because of our commitment to a high theology of community and being connectional. It\u2019s because we genuinely struggle with the call of the whole gospel, especially as it relates to social justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others are seeing that the Covenant is raising up Asian American leaders within the denomination who are speaking prophetically, says Yee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=1683&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FULLERTON, CA (April 1, 2008) \u2013 Five Covenant ministers and administrators led workshops in the recent Asian American Leadership Conference, which drew 350 participants from around the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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