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Resources for Chinese American pastors and church leaders

Learn more about the history and learnings from the earlier English ministry pastors and church leaders that were in the ethnic Chinese churches of the United States. English Ministry (EM) pastors of Korean American churches and other Asian American ethnicities will find these articles as a reference of research.

Fellowship of American Chinese Evangelicals (FACE)

FACE published a quarterly newsletter, AboutFACE, from 1979-2003; cf. Timothy Tseng's commentary and analysis about FACE (in Semeia, 2002.)  The entire archive can be downloaded at mediafire.com/aboutface

This collection of articles was adapted and published as a book in 2009, "Completing the FACE of the Chinese Church in America: the ABC Handbook: Promoting Effective Ministries to American-Born Chinese” by William L. Eng, Joseph C. Wong, Wayland Wong, David K. Woo and Peter Yuen.

Chinese American Christians (CAC) Forum

The CAC Forum was an active discussion forum that ran from 1995 to 2002. The CAC Forum archives provide a historical knowledge base about Chinese/Asian American Christianity. View the archive of the CAC Forum.

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