The Protestant Ethnic Problem

All within a short drive of my house:

Evangelical Chinese Church
Bethel Chinese Lutheran Church
Chinese Southern Baptist
Chinese Assembly of God
Chinese Baptist Church
Filipino Christian Church
Seattle Filipino American Baptist
1st Filipino American United Methodist Church
Samoan Christian Congregation Church
Samoan Congregational Church
Samoam Community Church
New Life Samoan Church
White Center Samoan Assembly of God
High Point Lighthouse Samoan Assembly of God
Solid Rock Samoan Assembly
Samoan Christian Fellowship
Korean Kirkland Covenant Church
Korean Catholic Church (GASP! The Catholics still have ethnic problems in America!)
Korean Presb Church
Korean Emmanuel Church
Korean United Presbyterian Church of Seattle
Elim Korean Presbyterian
One Spirit Korean Baptist Church
Everett Korean Church
Korean Presbyterian Church
Seattle Taiwanese Christian Church
First Taiwanese Presbyterian Church
Kirkland Chinese Church of the Nazarene
Bethel Ethiopian Church of Seattle
Medhane-Alem Evangelical Church
Japanese Baptist Church
Japanese Presbyterian Church: Office
Japanese Community Church
Japanese Congregational Church
Japanese International Baptist Church of Tacoma
Vietnamese Christian Fellowship Church
Vietnamese Thien-An Baptist Church
Vietnamese Presby Church
Vietnamese Baptist Church of Tacoma
Vietnamese Alliance Church
Ukrainian Christian Center
Ukrainian Assembly of God
Cambodian Fellowship
Haitian Christian Church
Asamblea de Dios de Renton
Englesia De Dios Pentecostal
Evangelical Spanish Church
Christian Iranian Church in Seattle
Indonesian Church

This is but a small taste. For a "complete" list, check out THIS page.

Amazingly enough, I note that in their list they make no mention of "Greek" and under "Romanian" and "Russian/Ukrainian" there are no listings for Orthodox. So, you can see clearly that it is not US who have an "ethnic problem" but THEM!

:)~

Comments

fdj said…
BTW, I have taken the liberty of emailing "ethnic harvest" to let them know that I can provide contact information for the local Orthodox Churches.

Also...do you suppose the absence of evangelical Greek churches might mean that evangelicals are not doing well with converting the Greeks? :)

OPA!
8:19 AM
Anonymous said…
Beat you to the punch...I listed the Seattle/King County churches. Let's see what they do with it ;-)

OPA!

Liz
9:38 AM
Anonymous said…
LOL
Thats a Problem the Evangelicals have to deal with.
10:19 AM
Beniy said…
That's pretty mindblowing, even though it should have been obvious. Thanks.
2:25 PM
Anonymous said…
"The most segregated hour in America is Sunday morning at 10 o'clock."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
3:17 PM
David said…
This is not funny. This is sad. As long as it remains “us” and “them” then “we” remain “you” and “I” and not “we” in “christ”.
6:15 PM
fdj said…
Yep, not funny...except that it is usually the Orthodox who get slapped with the accusation of ethnic problems. This was the point.

Ummm...David, lamenting the sin of our separation is inherent in Orthodox ecclesiology. The ECUSA's solution (e.g.) in their own ranks has been simply to find the absolute lowest common denominator of unity and run with it. Where does that leave them? The ecclesial equivalent of "don't ask, don't tell" in matters of...well...ummm...EVERYTHING!

We cannot pretend and put up facades. How can we claim not to be "us" and "them" when "us" and "them" believe different things, practice different practices, and don't see each other on sunday mornings?

And so, point of fact: we are "us" and "them" and to say otherwise is to become virtual agnostics. If we begin with THIS understanding then perhaps we can work on it...but to start with a false belief that unity can exist simply by saying so will yield nothing.

See the WCC and the NCC.
8:57 AM
Anonymous said…
It is probably also instructive that I can pretty much guarantee we have more non-Serbs at St. Sava than there are non-Koreans at the Korean Baptist Church...

Rade
10:45 AM
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