Mark DeYmaz - Leading a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church: Seven Common Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Provides not only practical advice for those navigating the waters of racially diverse ministry but also an overview of the place of the multiracial movement in the larger Christian context. These are words that must be heard by all who want to create racially relevant ministries.

Dr. George Yancey, University of North Texas

Gives us all a vision and a charge to continue the hard but rewarding work of multi-ethnic ministry as we overcome the challenges of uniculturalism and racial segregation in church.

Dr. David Anderson, Pastor, Bridgeway Community Church, and Author, Multicultural Ministry and Gracism

By sharing personal experiences and biblical insights, DeYmaz and Li equip and encourage leaders of multi-ethnic churches to overcome obstacles that surely will surface.

Bruce Menning

Such an important study for anyone in church leadership.

Dr. Darryl DelHousaye, President, Phoenix Seminary

Tells the stories of pioneering pastors who have taken their church into uncharted territory to become multi-ethnic by reaching all peoples right in their own community, and shares practical examples of how this works itself out.

DJ Chuang, Director, Leadership Network

God called us to reach people, love people, and help people grow in Christ, no matter what their background is. This book helps us to recapture that vision in a powerful way.

Jonathan Falwell, Pastor, Thomas Road Baptist Church

DeYmaz and Li share their vision. But more important, they also spell out for all who want to join them the real-world challenges and the spiritual rewards, as well as the practical steps that can turn the dream into reality.

Larry Osborne, Pastor and Author, North Coast Church

This is one of the few books that help us to figure out, and consequently live out, the multicolored, multifaceted, missional experiment that is the church.

Alan Hirsch, Author (www.theforgottenways.org)

A must-read for helping churches overcome the many obstacles that divide us. I will be requiring the church planters that we train to read this book.

Brian Bloye, Lead Pastor, West Ridge Church

Boldly puts forward an informed pastoral approach to help church planters, pastors, and emerging pioneers diversify their congregations.

Gerardo Marti, Sociologist, and Author, A Mosaic of Believers

Every brave planter who chooses to pursue the Revelation 7 vision of all people will benefit from the trail these pioneers have blazed.

George Klippenes, Starting Churches Director, Evangelical Free Church

For those doing the hard and important work of helping to build the ethnically diverse church, this book offers much-needed encouragement and a road map forward.

Soong-Chan Rah, Author, and Professor, North Park Theological Seminary

A must-read for those who are serious about the church becoming a taste on earth of what it will be in heaven.

Rodney L. Cooper, Professor, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

If you have ever struggled with the homogenous principle as sociology trumping theology, this book will resonate with you.

Eric Geiger, Executive Pastor, Christ Fellowship Miami

This book is an essential resource for anyone working to build a multi-ethnic church.

Major Mary Hammerly, Director of Multicultural Ministries Department, Salvation Army

An indispensable guide for making diversity a permanent, and thus more authentic, part of our personal and congregational lives.

Edward Gilbreath, Editor, UrbanFaith.com, and Author, Reconciliation Blues

An encyclopedia of multi-ethnic church knowledge developed by two of the best practioners today.

Tom Cheyney, Team Leader, Church Planting Group, North American Mission Board

A Christ-centered road map that offers practical wisdom on how to form multi-ethnic congregations. DeYmaz and Li are redemptive voices crying out in a wilderness of homogeneity for the church in all its ethnic diversity to be one as God is one.

Paul Louis Metzger, Professor, Multnomah Biblical Seminary, and Author, Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church

An excellent and timely book for every Christian who wants to be a part of the multi-ethnic revolution.

Chad Brennan, Founder and Director, ReNew Partnerships and TheNewCulture.org

Lays out a tremendous vision with solid theological reasoning for the purpose of building churches that are ethnically diverse while giving practical suggestions for overcoming the obstacles we face along the way.

Dave Ferguson, Lead Pastor, Community Christian Church, and Author, Exponential