Los Angeles Times
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Monday, July 23, 2007 |
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Title: There’s no place like home, these Christians say
Small gatherings in believers’ houses are attended by 1 in 11 U.S. adults, a survey finds. Compared with huge church services, it’s ‘like a conversation. It’s somebody talking to you,’ one devotee say |
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Friday, March 30, 2001 |
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Title: Fastest Growth of Any Ethnic Group in State - Biggest increase was in the suburbs. Southern California’s expansion was geographic and economic.
In Southern California and statewide, Asian Americans outpaced every other ethnic group in the rate of population growth during the 1990s, with some of the most dramatic jumps occurring in suburbs, 2000 census data show. California’s Asian American population grew 38% in the last decade, surpassing the growth rate of the state’s Latino population, which was 35%… |
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Saturday, January 1, 2000 |
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Title: What’s Ahead? - OC2000 Looking Forward
Looking forward - How will housing, transportation, education, politics, religion and the economy change? How will sports and the arts evolve? We ask some of Orange County’s citizens and leaders to share their thoughts on what the future might hold. Here’s what they say… |
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Saturday, December 25, 1999 |
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Title: Little Saigon Shows Its Own Christmas Spirit - Christian or Buddhist, Vietnamese Americans are embracing the American holiday traditions.
In Orange County’s Little Saigon, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The hub of Southern California’s Vietnamese emigre community, home to many raised in Buddhist traditions of the East, is increasingly embracing America’s Christmas celebration–in its own way, community members say… |
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Monday, March 8, 1999 |
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Title: Pan-Asian Churches Emerging - Some Southland congregations break the mold, courting other ethnic groups rather than staying insular to preserve culture. Scholars see a blueprint for the region’s future.
On a recent Sunday morning, a predominantly Asian, young and casually dressed crowd spilled into the Elks Lodge in Santa Ana. The excited buzz, and the rock band on stage, suggested a college party. In fact, it was the start of services at Newsong Community Church, one of a new generation of Korean American congregations that is drawing together the disparate segments of Southern California’s burgeoning Asian population… |
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Sunday, December 28, 1997 |
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Title: Congregation Loses Lease, but Members Keep Faith - Religion: Newsong church must move by Jan. 18. ‘The main thing about this church is the people, not the building,’ a parishioner says.
In only three years, Rev. Dave Gibbons’ congregation has grown from 25 friends who huddled in his apartment to more than 500 parishioners who travel from as far as South Gate to worship together. Although times have been good for Gibbons’ Newsong Community Church, a nondenominational, multiethnic church that boasts a Generation X congregation, the new year brings a troubling new challenge: On Jan. 18, the Newsong congregation will be homeless… |
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Monday, November 14, 1994 |
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Title: Seeking Souls of O.C. Korean Americans - Religion: Pioneering pastor offers the young an alternative to tradition
The church is borrowed, the hymnals donated and the preacher subsidized by worried East Coast and South Korean congregations that are praying vigorously for the far-flung missionary outpost in suburban Orange County… |
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May 9, 1994 |
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Title: Trying to Halt `Silent Exodus’
More Korean American ministers are reaching out to keep younger immigrants. They offer more relevant Sunday services and a cultural bridge to U.S. life.
Somewhere in a room with a freeway view at the Irvine Holiday Inn, the Rev. David Gibbons was struck by divine revelation. Psalm 40… |
Christian Post, Los Angeles
Relevant Magazine :: College Edition
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Fall 2005 |
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Title: THE HOT SPOT
We all know that the west side has brought us Snoop Dogg, Hollywood stars and, of course, The O.C. What you might not know is that there is a spiritual renewal in the Irvine, Calif. area thanks to Newsong Church. |
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Leadership Journal
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Summer 2008 |
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Title: On the Verge
His understanding of the gospel led him to build a multi-ethnic megachurch. And now it’s leading him to build smaller churches he calls “verges.”
an interview with David Gibbons |
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Fall 2004 |
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Title: Not Your Mama’s Church - A multi-ethnic movement to reach leaders of the next generation.
People at Newsong like to describe themselves by saying, “We ain’t your mama’s church.” Translated, the truth of God may not change, but each generation may need a different conversation starter about spiritual matters. The good news is that a rising generation of ethnic leaders is available to reach those neglected communities. |
Associated Press
Christianity Today
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November 11, 1996 |
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Title: Up & Comers - Fifty evangelical leaders 40 and under.
What will evangelicalism look like in the next century? No one can paint the future, of course, but one good indicator is the quality and vitality of a movement’s younger leaders–those who will shape and reshape the founders’ original vision… |
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August 12, 1996 |
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Title: Silent Exodus - Can the East Asian church in America reverse flight of its next generation?
On top of the intense attention paid to native language, ethnic discrimination, and immigrant needs, Asian-American Christians grapple with additional pressure points concerning the demands for leadership equality, the role of ethnic identity in the church, and the importance of spiritual development. Unless theses added difficulties are solved, they have the potential to hinder church growth among younger people… |
The Evangelical Covenant Church
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November 25, 2001 |
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Title: Newsong (CA) Completes Move into New Facility
Newsong Community Church has made the transition from a 28,000-square-foot building to one with 65,000 square feet, moving five miles from Tustin to Irvine and adding to its congregation of around 1,500. |
KOREAM Journal
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December 1999 |
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Title: The Greatest Need for the 21st Century
“There is an enormous need to build, - I call it the person - That’s more than self-respect; it’s also the awareness that there is something beyond you, and something beyond the moment, and something that is not only greater than you but different than you.”… |
San Francisco Chronicle
A Duke Graduate Student
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November 11, 2001 |
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Title: Reflections from an Outsider Allowed Inside
During the Summer of 2001, I spent 10 weeks as a pastoral intern at Newsong Church in Irvine. I did not know much about Newsong beyond what I had heard vicariously through those with some level of connection. I had met Pastor Dave Gibbons a few times and intuited that he was a person from whom much could be learned. The little I knew about Pastor Dave and the growing popularity of Newsong made Newsong an attractive possibility for my seminary-required internship… |
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