| 词条 | Wilcrest Baptist Church |
| 释义 |
Wilcrest Baptist Church is a church in Houston Texas. It is known for a degree of racial diversity that is unusually high as compared with other churches in the United States. It operates under the mission statement:
Wilcrest was founded in 1970 in what was then the primarily Caucasian suburb of Alief, Texas, later annexed as part of Houston.[1] The congregation matched the racial make-up of the community. However, during the 1980s the neighborhood had changed due to a phenomenon sometimes called white flight[3] and had become primarily African-American. In 1989, the New York Times profiled a wedding conducted in Mandarin, between two graduate students from China whose parents could not attend because of travel restrictions in the wake of the Tiananmen Square Massacre [2] By the early 21st Century the neighborhood around Wilcrest had not only multi-generational blacks, whites, and Latinos, but also new immigrants from Mexico, Nigeria, Cuba, Haiti, and Vietnam.[1] Former pastor Rodney Woo took over the church in 1992, by which time church membership was only 180 members[3] and attendance was down to 200 per service.[4] Himself interracial (his mother is white; his father part Chinese-American), Woo attended an all-black high school in Port Arthur, Texas.[5] Although there were some calls from members to keep the church segregated, Woo quickly convinced the church to reach out to Christians from many backgrounds,[3] and eventually built attendance up to about 500,[5] including members from 47 nations.[3][4] Dr. Woo was called to the International Baptist Church in Singapore during the Spring of 2010. In 2009, Dr. Rodney Woo wrote, The Color of Church: A Biblical and Practical Paradigm for Multiracial Churches,[6] a book that documents the story of Wilcrest Baptist Church and how other churches can learn to develop more multi-ethnic church congregations.[7] In June 2011 Jonathan Williams was called and accepted the position as the senior pastor of Wilcrest Baptist Church. References1. ^1 {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pxQpDlAO8H4C&pg=PA1&dq=wilcrest+baptist+church&sig=ACfU3U0mRp23qu5rPAPFagw0yHBu2n7_Kg|title=People Of The Dream: Multiracial Congregations In The United States|author=Michael O. Emerson, Rodney M. Woo|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2006|isbn=0-691-12451-5}} 2. ^{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE2D6103CF936A15751C1A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1|title=Wedding Binds Students But Separates Families|author=Lisa Belkin|date=1989-12-25|publisher=New York Times}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|url=http://www.baptiststandard.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3463&Itemid=134|publisher=the Baptist Standard|date=2005-04-29|title=Prayer, vision smooth church transition to multiculturalism|author=George Henson}} 4. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-15996985_ITM|title=Making diverse worship a reality is hard work.|author=Sam Hodges|publisher=Dallas Morning News|date=06-07-19}} 5. ^1 2 {{cite news|publisher=CNN|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/08/04/segregated.sundays/|title=Why many Americans prefer their Sundays segregated|date=2008-08-04}} 6. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UlZ__A1x4CUC&pg=PT7&dq=wilcrest+baptist+church&ei=iC2YSrLvFIrgkwSHseiQAQ#v=onepage&q=wilcrest%20baptist%20church&f=false|title=The Color of Church: A Biblical and Practical Paradigm for Multiracial Churches|author=Rodney M. Woo|publisher=Nashville: Broadman and Holman|year=2009|isbn=0-8054-4839-X}} 7. ^David Tate, SONlight Foundation http://www.sonspots.org/interviews/the-color-of-church.html External links
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