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Can Multiethnic Churches Become the ‘New Normal’?Alumnus Bryan Loritts is leading a movement to build multiethnic unity in the body of Christ (Biola Magazine, Spring 2015) In late 2014, race became the conversation in America. A pair of controversial decisions not to prosecute police officers for the high-profile deaths of black men in Ferguson, Mo., …
Mosaix Leaders Summit Sets Ambitious Goal of Planting 1,000 Multi-Ethnic Churches in 10 Years by Michael Gryboski (Christian Post — March 20, 2015) A first-of-its-kind gathering of over 25 different influential Christian organizations and leaders, including the Southern Baptist Convention and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Charlotte), convened this week to discuss and trade ideas on how …
Do we need to integrate our churches? by Naomi Schaefer Riley (New York Post – February 23, 2015) ‘When it comes to race, our churches must reflect the united kingdom of Christ more than the divided states of America.” That’s the mission of a Southern Baptist Convention-hosted conference in Nashville next month. In the wake …
Fostering multiethnic churches easier said than done, pastors say: Congregations must make racial diversity a core value that guides hiring decisions, worship planning and every other facet of church life, Baptist ministers say. by Jeff Brumley (Baptist News Global — January 29, 2015) The Southern Baptist Convention can cure the nation’s racial tensions if its churches …
Young Pastor a Bridge for Multi-Ethnic Community by Heather Sells, CBN News Reporter (Christian Broadcasting Network News – December 31, 2014) WASHINGTON — Latinos in the United States are expected to triple in size by the year 2050, when they’ll make up close to 30 percent of the population. That trend is one reason why …
How the Multiethnic Church Can Help Solve the Social Divide by Corey Widmer (V3 Church Planting Movement — December 2014) … in light of the recent events in Ferguson, New York, and Cleveland, our youth pastor decided to have some open conversations with our youth to help them process all that was happening. Though our …
Evangelical Leaders Ponder America’s Race Problem: Is the Multiethnic Church the Solution? by Alex Murashko (Christian Post, December 17, 2014) Evangelical pastors and leaders agreed during a panel discussion livestreamed on Tuesday from the historic Lorraine Motel and National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis about the need for the church in America to be more …
How Churches Are Slowly Becoming Less Segregated: Pastors Seeking Racially Diverse Congregations Cope With Culture Clashes; Should Children Be Shushed? (Wall Street Journal — October 13, 2014) CINCINNATI—As voices and music swelled on a recent Sunday morning, bringing a traditional 19th-century hymn to an arena-rock crescendo, hands of all hues reached toward the heavens. “This is …
Multi-Ethnic Churches Lament America’s Racial Injustice: The American church must do better in providing spiritual leadership toward a healing response. Gabriel Salguero, J. Mark DeYmaz, Le Que Vu-Heidkamp, Jeanette Salguero, Bryan Loritts, David Anderson, Eugene Cho (TIME Magazine, August 25, 2014) Throughout this past week the attention of our nation has been rightly set on Ferguson, Missouri. Tragedy and tensions in this small …
New Church Growth Strategy: Intentional Ethnic Diversity: How some traditionally white churches and denominations are staving off attendance decline through diversification strategies. by Helen Lee (OnFaith — May 2014) At First Covenant Church (FCC) in St. Paul, Minnesota, a church with longstanding roots in the city’s East Side neighborhood, you can still find families with …