Two Korean Church Plants Recognized by General Church

The two newest church plants on the Missouri District have been given official CTM (Church Type Mission) status by Nazarene Headquarters. This means they are both now official church plants. Harvester Korean Church of the Nazarene, pastored by Jong Koo Cho, is meeting in the Harvester church's facilities. The True Light Korean Church of the Nazarene, pastored by Jin Sik Kang, is meeting in the St. Louis Southwest Church of the Nazarene's facilities.

In new survey released by The Barna Group, and cited in Focus on the Family’s, The Pastor's Weekly Briefing (Mar. 23, 2007), Barna noted that Asians were doubled the national average of being unchurched. According to Barna, 63 percent of the Asian population have not attended a religious service of any type during the past six months.