Asians love to eat, especially at banquets, which sometimes have as many as 12 or more people around each dinner table. And if you have eaten at such banquets, you’re identifying further with billions of people all over the world, over many thousands of years, who have done something similar, at least at times of celebrations! It’s a very human…

“David Livingstone was poised with his rifle, kneeling down to watch out for the marauding lion, when suddenly, out of nowhere, the lion jumped into the air and landed directly on him. The lion roared, and opened his gaping mouth widely, over the head of David Livingstone, and………. I’m soooo sorry, but tiiiime’s up!” A huge sigh of disappointment rippled…

In January, 1981, the brothers and sisters of the Cincinnati Chinese Church felt God’s burden on their hearts to have a Vacation Bible School of our own. Many years ago we had helped our Caucasian brothers and sisters in their Vacation Bible Schools, but over the years, this interest and involvement had dwindled. “Start our own Vacation Bible School?” “Who’s…

Many people seem to think that we could just “hire” a minister to solve the problems in our church. I hear this comment often, and I’m rather uncomfortable with the word “hire” and its implications. In our church, we have an unusual tradition, “since we don’t hire ministers, we cannot fire them.” 很多人认为我们只需要“雇佣”一位全职传道人就可以解决我们教会的问题。每次听到这样的提议，对于`“雇佣”这个字眼和字后面的含义，心中常有不平静的反感。我们教会有个不寻常的传统：我们不”雇佣“传道人，所以我们也就没有”解雇“传道人的程序。 This sounds very strange at first, and…

The Cincinnati Chinese Church (CCC) was started in October 1970, 45 years ago. We have had a truly harmonious church and church leadership over the years, and we are glad to share some of our thoughts about our structure and function, which might be helpful for others. 辛城華人教會開始於1970年的十月。四十五年以來，我們真實地保持著教會領導的和諧，會眾的合一。我們很願意分享一些我們教會的結構和治理的經驗，或許能提供一些助益。 In general, our church does not have a specific denominational bias, since…

5 min Coffee with Uncle Reggie Stories URS: Do Asians not answer questions in public? 曾叔叔讲故事：亚洲人不爱在大庭广众之下回答问题吗？ (Dixia 翻译) Translation By: Dixia Coffee Reggiegram: do you think Asians and non-Asians communicate in different ways? Or is it just the environment? 曾叔叔短短信：你觉得亚裔与非亚裔沟通方式有差别吗？抑或只是环境不同 East is east and west is west? I love to teach, and I have been teaching for 50 years, in…