Category: Church Planting

  • Strategies for Cross-Cultural Music and Worship

    So many changes have taken place in worship in just my lifetime. I was born in 1950 and it was in that decade that Billy Graham came to New York for the Madison Square Garden Crusade....

  • Intentionality in Multicultural Ministry

     I can say that we care about breaking down walls, stereotypes, and institutional racism, but if I fail to demonstrate it, then it’s all just talk. Intentionality plays a big part in my job.

  • The 150% Person

    For us as the followers of Christ, we are called, as Paul said in Philippians 2, to have the same attitude of Christ. We humbly enter into the world and culture around us and become 'babies' in order to become one in spirit and purpose. This is one of the core values of New City Fellowship. Racial reconciliation is a process of humbly submitting ourselves to each other in love and unity through having open and teachable hearts. The authors of this book believed that Jesus becoming the 200% person was something impossible for anyone but God. They postulate that we can't give up more that 75% of our original culture, but we strive to adopt 75% of the new culture. We are called to be a kind 150% person.