'WATERWIND' CONFERENCE TO EXPLORE WORSHIP

Contextualizing worship for Asian American ministry settings is the theme of the 2003 Drexler Lectures, to be held March 22 at ABSW.

“Waterwind: An Asian American Worship Conference” is sponsored by the seminary’s Asian American Center.

Dr. Ken Fong, senior pastor of Evergreen Baptist Church in Los Angeles, will be the keynote speaker. Dr. Russell Yee, formerly pastor at New Life Christian Fellowship in Castro Valley, Calif., will also speak. Last fall Yee taught an ABSW course on worship in Asian American settings and is the driving force behind the conference.

“The Waterwind conference is meant to help meet the urgent need for an Asian American ‘voice’ in worship,” says Dr. Tim Tseng, associate professor of American religious history and director of the Asian American Center. “We hope it will inspire a network of exceptional Asian American worship leaders in the Bay Area.”

Dr. Frederic I. Drexler helped found California Baptist Theological Seminary, which merged with Berkeley Baptist Divinity School to form ABSW. This endowed lectureship seeks to honor Dr. Drexler’s particular passions for evangelism and spiritual formation among seminarians.

To learn more about the conference, contact the Asian American Center at 510-841-1905 or send e-mail to asiancenter@absw.edu. The center’s web address is www.asianamericancenter.org.