National Survey of Asian American Church Leadership Practices

Innovative Space for Asian American Christianity (ISAAC) National Survey of Asian American Church Leadership Practices Asian American Christians are invisible in most research. People without data are not people. Therefore, there is an urgency to survey and collect data to identify and locate Asian Americans. When there is no quantifiable data other than relying on anecdotal observations, it is impossible to chart the history and trends of Asian American Christianity and confront emerging challenges. By 2065 Asian Americans are projected to be the largest minority group in the US. Yet: • There are no organizations studying Asian American Christians in an evidence-based systematic fashion. • There are no foundations and well-established funding groups that study Asian American Christians. • The only group supporting Asian American religion research is one organization studying Muslim Americans, almost half of whom are Asian. • There isn’t any nationally-representative data reflecting Asian American Christian concerns.