You were very gracious in how you described the person who asked the question of why “they” always stick together. I think it’s probably more reasonable to ask why “they” in the majority (who have access to power, resources, etc.) don’t reach out to those different from themselves.

I get the feeling that even first-gen Korean Americans can live missionally in community and minister to those outside the Korean context. Now, I’d be hard-pressed to give a concrete example of an entire institutional church that does this, but I’ve seen pockets of it in many different places across the country. People who love Jesus and want to join in God’s mission, wherever that might be (esp. at their workplaces).

The reality is, even second and third gen Asian Americans will still need a place to be accepted solely as “insider” — the triple consciousness that Soong-Chan Rah describes in The Next Evangelicalism. I agree with you, though: the next gen is the key. Can we *be* the church for a broken and hurting world; can we be humble enough to recognize that we’re not “bringing Jesus” anywhere, but that God is very much at work already, and can our pain lead to past alienation and into empathetic understanding of others who are not like us (whether ethnically, socio-economically, politically, etc.)?