Pastoral coach Wayne Wong’s ministry challenge is in meeting the needs of Asian-Canadians, especially in the area of family reconciliation between overseas born parents and their locally born or raised kids. Out of his own experience of reconciling with his family, Wayne completed a masters thesis entitled "The Challenge of Doing Inter-generational Chinese Ministries in Greater Vancouver: A Reconciliation Ministry." Fellow coach Dann challenged him to turn his thesis into a ministry, which began in 1998 and sought "to strengthen and harmonize Asian-Canadian families, one heart and one family at a time."

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Asian-Canadians need to work out identity issues by first reconciling their bi-cultural identity, notes Wayne. "This may seem like an impossible task since Asian and Canadian cultures appear to be irreconcilable. For example, how do you blend the Asian thinking of putting family-first and obeying parents, with Western individualism?" asks Wayne. "We don’t have to reject one culture in order to embrace another in the process of resolving our identity, but rather integrating the best of both worlds into one harmonious identity," Wayne says. Just like Paul’s exhortation to the body of Christ in 1 Corinthians 12 to strive towards unity within diversity, Wayne says that Waves could become like that. "This means that Waves needs to become inter-generational as well as intra-cultural, weaving the best of the pre-modern and modern era with the present postmodern world."

During your Waves experience at Yummy Tea House, you might've tasted a Bubble Tea drink for the very first time, while you listened to BiComm and participated in H & H on this grand TsunamiSunday. What did you think? How can the church effectively minister to our post-modern generation? First century followers of Christ met in caves and other out-of-the-way places for church. What will the 21st century gathering of believers look like? Email your thoughts to: hmmm@waves.ca.

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