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Voices with Ed Stetzer: Standing Between White Privilege and Black Disprivilege: An Asian American Perspective

During this pandemic, my Chinatown church has intentionally served our community and reached out to surrounding neighborhoods. We’ve distributed food to Chinese and Latinos alike, who line up for hours outside our church. We’ve delivered food and masks to African American organizations in Chicago who better know how to distribute these items to those in need in their communities. We’ve also had teams help shop owners sweep up broken glass and restore some semblance of order to their looted stores. We’re slowly abandoning our insular attitude as we attempt to transform “the other” into “one another.”

These efforts are miniscule compared to the task ahead of us. Most importantly, this is what Jesus calls us to do as we collaborate with others “to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”