Applications are now open for our Fall 2025 cohort of Asian American Christian Leaders identity reading and discussion process group.

 

Asian American Christian Identity reading and discussion process group with Dr. Jermaine Ma and Unity Collective’s Liz Chang, LMFT

This reading and discussion process group is designed for Asian American church leaders and therapists and will explore and utilize the Asian American Quadrilateral—the intersection of 4 themes salient to understanding, identifying and organizing Asian American-ness (Asian heritage, migration experiences, American culture, and racialization).

We will be utilizing Daniel Lee's Doing Asian American Theology: A Contextual Framework for Faith and Praxis, as we unpack and discuss the Asian American Quadrilateral and its implications for our lives, ministries and practices together.

From this contextual framework, participants will explore the ways in which these themes impact their individual story, identity, theology and spirituality as Asian Americans, and also those they serve.

Over the course of this 6 week reading and discussion group, participants will be invited to consider the ways they embody their own stories/nuanced identities (the particularities of who they are) in relating to God and others, and also we will aim to foster an environment for us to support each other in places we find ourselves, individually and collectively.

Meeting Details:
VIRTUAL via Zoom
DATES: 10/3, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, 11/7
TIME: 10:30AM-12PM PST
COST: $360 total, scholarships available

 

Jermaine Ma, PhD

Currently teaches at The Seattle School as Affiliate Faculty. She returned to the Seattle area in 2021 after studying in Turkey for over a decade. Her research interests include interpersonal trust, and the intersection of faith and culture in crosscutural contexts. As a third-generation Chinese American she is currently researching her family’s history and immigration story from China to Hawaii, and the role of the evangelical church, and also intergenerational trauma especially among Asian Americans. She has served in domestic and international ministry for 24 years.