Empower seeks to meet real needs of Asian-American Seventh-day Adventist churches, particularly the needs of the English-speaking generation.
In most Asian-American churches, this generation is struggling without stable leadership. In 80% of all Asian-American churches, this generation is served by part-time pastors and volunteers that change from year to year. Even in churches with full-time pastors, the change of pastors occurs usually within 2-3 years. As a result, leadership in Asian-American congregations has been suffering deeply.
In April 2002, Empower Ministry was launched as an initiative of concerned Asian-American pastors and church leaders who desire to alleviate this crisis in leadership.
In short, we are about empowering church leadership---particularly lay leadership---for ministry so that the second, third, and fourth generation Asian-American Adventists can be nurtured and trained for God's Kingdom.
Empower Ministry Group, Inc., is a non-profit organization registered in the
state of California. It is an IRS Code 501(c)(3), tax-exempt organization.
Empower Ministry is governed by its board of directors:
Executive Director
Treasurer
Directors of Publications:
Directors of Conferences:
Director
of Productions:
Chin Kim
Susie Kwon
Joey Oh
Seong Cho, Richard Lee, Julius Nam, Jonathan Park, Robin Park
Mike Chung