1. Cross-Culture Immigrant Ministries USA Program Missions Ministry Team You’ll watch outsiders stream in from east, west, north, and south and sit down at the table of God’s kingdom. Luke 13:29

2. Cross-Culture Immigrant Ministries USA program Missions Ministry Team Some Pharisees and Sadducees were on him again, pressing him to prove himself to them. He told them, “You have a saying that goes, ‘Red sky at night, sailor’s delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning.’ You find it easy enough to forecast the weather—why can’t you read the signs of the times? Mat 16:1-3

3. Cross-Culture Immigrant Ministries USA program Missions Ministry Team Interpreting the signs of the times is a task that nobody but people led by God can do. To interpret the sings of the times we need to have the vision of God for the world.

4. Cross-Culture Immigrant Ministries USA program Missions Ministry Team People from different countries, languages, and cultures see the United States as a new home, a new place to live in harmony with other in the midst of a great diversity!

5. Cross-Culture Immigrant Ministries USA program Missions Ministry Team The presence of Cross-Culture ministries in the US is becoming a new, fresh, and challenging expression of Christianity within the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and it is teaching us (in part) about what a global church looks like!

6. Culture It is an organized system of values, attitudes, beliefs, and meanings that are related to each other and to the context (Cultural intelligence location 528)

7. Cross-Culture Ministries USA program Missions Ministry Team The term cross-culture, in this context, refers to churches and groups outside the dominant/majority Anglo or English culture within the United States. These churches primarily consist of immigrants from different nations and children of immigrants.

8. Cross-Culture Immigrant Ministries USA program Missions Ministry Team The Cross-Culture Ministries US Program was created to assist presbyteries in the United States to start new cross- culture churches.

9. Cross-Culture Immigrant Ministries USA program Missions Ministry Team Part of my job is to serve as a liaison between Presbyteries and the different Cross-Cultural ministries (probationers, ministers, probes, NCDs, churches) and potential new explorations.

10. Cross-Culture Immigrant Ministries USA program Missions Ministry Team The program also helps with the process of assimilation of non CP pastors and congregations interested on becoming Cumberland Presbyterians through belonging to a presbytery according to our regional boundaries or language..

11. Cross-Culture Immigrant Ministries USA program Missions Ministry Team There are currently 47 Cumberland Presbyterian cross- culture churches and groups in the United States. We have Chinese, Japanese, Sudanese, Korean, Liberian, and Latino Ministries in the US. There are more than 15 different nationalities represented in our cross culture churches.

12. Cross-Culture Immigrant Ministries USA program Missions Ministry Team The youngest presbytery of the denomination is the Cumberland East Coast Korean Presbytery located in the East Coast of the US. It is the first cross-culture presbytery in the US and it is predominately Korean.