ReGenerant Network is not just for any church planter, this is focused on multi-Asian/multi-ethnic church planting by Asian American pastors and/or those intentionally reaching the fastest-growing demographic of Asian Americans. (cf. commentary by DJ Chuang – Value of an Asian American church planting network)

Our goal is to start 12 churches in Greater Los Angeles and we would love for you to be a part of the journey.

LA Asian American Church Planting Project

Thousands of people attend megachurches and are able to make a large impact through involvement in their ministries. However, mega churches can’t do everything. As Tim Keller often points out, what we need in order to truly change the culture are gospel movements. These movements need to consist not only of mega churches, but also of multiple smaller, ordinary churches that are connected with one another, sharing resources, and working together.

The aim of this project is to develop and launch 12 Asian American pastors to plant churches in urban Los Angeles. The goal is to plant healthy churches that go on to reproduce churches in strategic locations, and to develop and cultivate young, emerging, Asian American leaders. This will be a joint project between Ambassador Network and the ReGenerant Network led by Dr. Ray Chang.

Read the article (guest blog post) by Ray Chang: “Empowering Across Ethnicities in the Body of Christ: Racial and cultural differences must not keep us from empowering our brothers and sisters in Christ.”

Ray Chang added: “I’d love your feedback about this article. Please connect with us at AmbassadorNet.org. Ambassador Network was founded with the vision of becoming a catalyst to support a multi-ethnic church planting movement by investing in young leaders. Through Ambassador Network, we are able to also help existing churches with their current ministry needs like church health, church staffing, as well as church consulting. If you would like to further interact with Ambassador Network, you can email me at ray.chang@ambassadornet.org.”

Ambassador Church has a Church Planting Residency Program that is a church planter training program. It has been designed for called and qualified church planters to complete prior to full-time church planting work. The ACP Residency aims to equip the resident by instilling in him the biblical convictions, and by providing opportunities to observe how these convictions are lived out in the life of the local church.

Time

The ACP Residency Program is a full-time one-year program based at Ambassador Church, Brea, CA. The program begins August 1 yearly and ends July 31 of the following year.

Qualifications

Applicants are required to submit a completed application with personal and pastoral references. Preference will be given to applicants with pastoral ministry experience and to those having completed a Master of Divinity or similar theological degree program.

Process

Applicants will be screened, assessed and interviewed by the Church Planting Committee after submitting an application. Please click here to request an application.

Due Date

Applications for the TCT Church Planting Residency Program are due by May 1 of each year.

Components of the Residency

The Residency program is made up of the following components:

• supervised ministry
• TBI seminars
• a mentoring relationship
• a year-end assessment and evaluation

Field Education Credit

The Residency program is structured such that it meets the requirements for Field Education typically required to receive a Master of Divinity degree.

Questions

For any further questions and/or comments, please contact Pastor Ray Chang below:

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Ethan Hedberg currently serves as the senior pastor of Ambassador Church.

Hope City Church in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Philip Yung launched Hope City Church in September of 2014!

After establishing Ambassador Bible Church and returning to his native area of Southern California, Pastor Ray Chang was hired by First Evangelical Free in 2000 as their Pastor of Outreach with a passion to reach a church-going slice of Orange County – the young-adult children of first-generation Asian immigrants. While many Orange County Hispanics attend either Catholic or Pentecostal churches, Chinese and Korean immigrants flocked to North Orange County. In search of good schools, they founded large Asian-language evangelical churches throughout Fullerton and Anaheim.

Now, as the sons and daughters of those immigrants enter their 30s and 40s, many find themselves alienated from their parents’ formal, hierarchical Asian-language churches but culturally uncomfortable in largely white congregations. As a result, Pastor Ray began a Sunday morning Bible study at EV Free Fullerton which attracted a large number of young Asian-Americans. They had the conviction to avoid being defined by a race or culture but rather by a common passion to reaching all nationalities and cultures for Christ.

As a result, Pastors Dale Burke and Ray decided that the best way to foster the mission and vision God had given Ray was to plant a church. What followed was Ambassador Church, guided by the mission:

Our mission at Ambassador Church is to make and equip disciples of all nationalities to be Christ’s ambassadors to all the nations by loving God, one another and the world.

Since that time Ambassador Church has had three different facilities, adopted another church, has planted three churches, and continues to be passionate about being a Church that is Missional, Multi-ethnic, and Multiplying.
We would love for you to join with us as we seek to accomplish the Mission and Vision that the Lord has set before us.

In the past few years, Ambassador Church has been actively engaged in developing young leaders, planting churches and consulting (assisting) other churches with a like-minded mission.  As this role is expanding, Ray decided to establish a non-profit ministry that would focus solely on these tasks. Rather than trying to put everything under the umbrella of the Ambassador Church, for the sake of ministry effectiveness, a separate entity was created in January 2011.

It is the mission of Ambassador Network to launch a movement of multiplying, multiethnic, and missional churches, both locally and globally.  To accomplish this mission, Ambassador Network will provide comprehensive consultation, training, coaching, and equipping for new church plants and existing churches.  Ambassador Network is not interested in simply producing a service for our clients. We believe in creating a long-term relationship with them so that we can partner with these church to multiply a movement that reaches every man, woman, and child with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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If you would like to be part of the Ambassador Network, please let us know.