Multicultural //

Following Jesus into

Multicultural Community

Throughout the Bible, we see Christ reaching across commonly accepted cultural boundaries to invite all kinds of people into his kingdom. In fact, if not for his command to make disciples of all nations, few people reading these words would have come to know him at all. Each of us who have called Christ our savior have done so because someone at some time took the worthwhile risk of reaching outside their cultural comfort zone.

God envisions a multicultural kingdom. We are one people, free to fully express our distinct ethnic cultures, who worship God in loving community with each other. This kingdom is God’s answer to the ethnic hostility in our world. We are called to help heal breaches among ethnic groups in our community. A growing disciple does not lose their culture; their sanctified culture is part of their identity in the Kingdom of God. Having multiple people groups display their sanctified cultures is good for the spiritual health of our entire church. Together, we embrace the complex beauty of our cultural differences and our shared identity in Christ.

Culture-Specific Communities

We recognize the need for people of various cultures to enjoy times and spaces to share common language, foods, traditions, values, and sense of home that they may not get to experience on a daily basis living as a minority within a majority culture. We recharge, support one another, and celebrate what God is doing in our culture. Blackhawk’s Black / African American Ministry, Chinese Ministry, Asian American Ministry, and Spanish-Speaking Ministry are leading edges in our effort to develop culturally-specific communities within our multicultural vision.