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Providing resources and spaces to help
Asian Americans grow in their ethnic and spiritual journeys.
Asian Americans grow in their ethnic and spiritual journeys.
Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This month was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. Check back here for upcoming events to celebrate the contributions of Asian Americans.
This 2019 documentary Chinatown Rising is now available free for viewing on their website till June 25. My thanks to Tim Tseng who hosted a viewing of the film recently for making me aware of this. Chinatown Rising is about student and grass roots ministerial activism in San Francisco's Chinatown that led to real social change from the 1960s to the 1980s. Former Youth Director and later Executive Director of Cameron House, Rev. Harry Chuck was the catalyst for multiple citywide efforts that benefit San Francisco’s Chinatown community to this very day. He and his son Josh produced this film some forty-five years later.
I attended this interesting talk on Mae Ngai's new book The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (W.W. Norton and Company, 2021) with Beth Lew-Williams, Associate Professor of History at Princeton University sponsored by MOCA on March 2nd. This book won the 2022 Bancroft Prize in history and narrates a complex history of the economic, social, and cultural circumstances around the mid-19th century gold rushes in America, South Africa, and Australia, and their impact on the Chinese diaspora. Mae M. Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University. Special thanks to MOCA for sponsoring this.
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Summer Ministry Internship
Third Space is currently seeking one college-aged young adult to serve in a local church this summer in the NY or NJ area. Ideally, the student will use this opportunity to gain some experience in ministry as part of a discernment process for a ministry call. Activities usually include two ministry responsibilities on the weekends and some mentoring during the week. A stipend plus reimbursement for materials and expenses are included in cooperation with the local church. Contact Milton at miltoneng@thirdspaceaa.org for more details and consideration.
Israel 2023
Third Space will be sponsoring a group tour to Israel for nine days, January 7-15, 2023 with an optional add-on tour to Petra (considered one of the Seven new Wonders of the World). Further details will be forthcoming but the basic price will be $3560 and $868 for Petra, air and land, all-inclusive out of NY. Tour guide will be Mark Ziese, a retired professor of OT from Johnson University and professional archaeologist as well as yours truly, Milton PhD in Hebrew Bible. Tour arrangements through the Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies. Click here for the full color brochure and registration.
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