1/ Example: I've been working part-time for MNA for about a year now. There's a prevailing consensus (not monolithic) amongst the Korean American brothers that much of MNA's assessment standards are unhelpful, unrealistic, or inapplicable for Korean-American planters. https://twitter.com/derekradney/status/1329850063493992455

2/ Money: Most of our churches and presbyteries are still mostly immigrant populated with little extra funds for supporting church planters or RUF TEs. It's not realistic to fundraise the amount MNA/RUF sometimes requires us to or for our wives not to work.

3/ Preaching: Many of us are used to contextualized preaching that addresses the immediate needs of our congregants, whose lives are more drastically affected by politics than those in the majority culture. So when we preach real-life issues, it's inevitable to sound political.

4/ Fellowship: Code-switching is exhausting. That's why Asians flock to other Asians, Blacks to other Blacks, etc. in multi-ethnic settings bc it's a space where we can be ourselves. Too often we're judged for being too loud, emotional, uneducated, etc. when we are ourselves.

5/ Mental Health: When a BIPOC says they're feeling stressed, most of the time what they mean is they're feeling anxious. The normalization of mental health issues in BIPOC communities is at least a generation behind majority culture Christians.

6/ Praise: Many BIPOC worship traditions use different chords for worship music. It's less triumphalistic, covers a wider range of genres, and more frequently includes songs of lament.

7/ Missions: I've been volunteering as a member of RAAD for MTW for almost a year now. MTW has made great progress overall, but middle-management has a lot more to go. Listening to some stories by former BIPOC MTW employees makes me weep for our denomination.

8/ Collectivist: Many BIPOC cultures are very comfortable with collectivism. The Bible's context is collectivist so we get the narratives pretty intuitively at times. Theologies rooted in individualism, personal fulfillment, etc. can sometimes sound pretty hollow.

9/ Tokenization: Minorities are often treated like a monolith. One church might have a significant Asian minority but only bring in Black guest speakers or a church with a Black minority might hire an Asian guy and check off the diversity box. This teeters on white saviorism.

10/ Territorialism: RUF is the most obvious example of this. One generic RUF can't reach all people under an umbrella of white cultural normativity. Cru is the best at this: Epic movement for Asians, Impact Movement for Black studnets, Cru for everyone, etc.

11/ Voices: If you only choose to listen to the minority voices that you already agree with, then you're not pursuing racial reconciliation/justice. We need to appreciate voices from a wide spectrum of BIPOCs insofar as they abide to our confessional standards.