David Park
David Park, son of John and Bo-young Park, husband to Sunita Iyengar, and owner of dog Oreo.
Currently resides in Avondale Estates, Georgia.
Has work experience as:
- host of sushi bar
- teller of credit union
- SAT tutor
- retail saleman of knives and razors
- luggage and gifts retail salesman
- sold perfume for a week
- assistant photographer
- worked at service merchandise for a day
- production assistant of recording project
- IT desktop support analyst
- market research intern
- home healthcare application analyst
- freelance business writer
- footwear marketing manager
- marketing and sales director for soccer company
- brand coordinator at marketing agency
- marketing specialist at healthcare software company
- seminary student
Born in Dallas, TX. Born again in Broken Arrow, OK. Revived in Riverside, CA. Disenchanted in Nashville, TN. Fell away in Antioch, TN. Reminded in Yanbian, CHINA. Refreshed in Busan, Korea. Rebelled in Jacksonville, FL. Broken in Nashville, TN. Redeemed in Nashville, TN. Restored in Nashville, TN. Reformed in Nashville, TN. Married in Duluth, GA. Served in Roswell, GA. Studying in Decatur, GA.
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cool blog. will be back to read more.
David-
Thanks for coming by my site and leaving comments. I look forward to being in contact with you…
I just realized “NextGenerAsianChurch.” Very creative, David!
Having sat and talked with you before visting your site I can see that it is a great mirror of you are - authentic, insigtful, genuine, unprententious (mostly).
I’ll look forward to coming back between pizza meetings.
TI
Thanks Tim for your kind comments. Pizza does tend to bring out the pretentious in me, so perhaps we’ll go for some other cuisine for our next lunch.
Looking forward to growing in friendship as work to see the Kingdom grow in Atlanta.
Hi, I’m a regular (and appreciative) reader, and I was wondering if you could please contact me. There’s no email links on this site, and I’d like to talk to you about starting an inter-blog conversation about worship. Email me and I can explain further and hopefully get you involved. I’d love to get your perspective on things.
Hi David,
I’m posting this here (I had posted this under “Glossary” by mistake.) Thanks again.
Thank you for putting up this site; it is exactly what I have been looking for. I am an Asian (Chinese) American who is from Hawaii. My home church in HI is very multi-ethnic, and I’ve had no trouble fitting in there. But, since I moved to the mainland U.S. (primarily midwest), I haven’t been able to find a church that I feel comfortable or fit in. The churches in the midwest tend to be either too Asian (immigrants) or too American (White). I had trouble relating to either side and had more trouble meeting the different expectations from both camps. At one point I even attended a primarily “White” church because it embraced diversity (gays included). While I felt accepted and welcomed in the church, I eventually left the church because I felt I had to compromise my spiritual principles to be there. Sorry for such a long intro. Anyway, I saw from your site that you had spent sometime in Nashville, TN. My sister and brother-in-law are planning to move there in the Fall and I am wondering if I should tag along. I have been praying about this and feel the need to do some homework on my own, too. FYI, I’ve lived in MN, MI, and IA primarily for school and have worked part-time off campus. I have to say that I didn’t always feel like people accepted me for who I am…I often have to clarify that I am an American citizen from HI, otherwise, the folks there think that I’m an immigrant, etc. My spiritual growth/well-being is very important to me, so I really want to find a great home-church wherever I’m to go next. So, any thoughts and church home recommendations that you feel comfortable sharing would be greatly appreciated. In particular, I’d like to know why you left Nashville. Thanks again for any help and insights you might have about living as an Asian American in Nashville, TN. God Bless you and Sunita, Elaine
hi elaine… i’m not asian (as you can see from my blog) but David is a buddy of mine and I live in Nashville. So I have nothing to contribute in terms of what’s an AA woman to do, but it would be great to meet up with you if you do move.
dear.
the first ugandan presbyterian church has 36 churches in different district in uganda is a relief and development church about evangelisme, which was reated in the end 2003 in uganda the church is working under anon government organization statue 1989 as of june12,2003 registration no.1047/1634 certificate of registration no.3672.
the problem ;
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1. being a young organization and not having financial possibilities to upkeep our ministries.
2. many people in the area do not know god and we have to help them to know him.
the answer l wait your assistance like bible for teaching the word of god being africa in uganda general undeveloped it becomes a problems for us rev. and pastor to get bible to distribute the people who need to know more of thatjesus did and what jesus is doing.
hoping that your assistance will be a blessing from god.
god bless you and l wait you very soon.
rev. peter
Dearly beloved brethren,
Greetings to all our readers in the most holy and precious name of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.
We wish you all a blessed and peaceful New Year.
John Baptist Ministry is with a purpose of brings the gospel to the people of
10/40 window.
We wish to undertake various services as instructed by God.
Our
future actives are: a. Church planting
b. Establishing educational institutions for the poor
c. Orphanages/hostel for the destitute/old age homes.
d. Health campaigns (HIV/AIDS, other communicable diseases, and malnutrition
(diseases).
CLIC on this link to see some of our activities pictures:
http://www.missionjb.africa-web.org/activites.html
e. Starting a Mission’s School for training , equipping the servants of the Lord and send them to the 10/40 widow.
f. Conducting mass miracle/gospel meetings/conferences.
g. Socio-economic development of the villages.
We need your support Financial,material,spritual.
For more information,
Contact the Director at :
JOHN BAPTIST MISSION
13 P.O.BOX :79 Lome 13
TOGO
Phone :(00228)9076663 or (00228)9632785
Email :missionchrist@yahoo.fr
Msn :missionchrist@hotmail.com
May God bless you
We can represent your ministry or partner with you .
Dear Pastor in the Lord Jesus Christ Greetings,
I come through this message to greet you.
I am a young missionary named NYONATO Yawovi founder of John Baptist Mission in the vine of God as you with a vision to reach the people unfulfilled and I reside in Togo in West Africa.
I write to you this message right to weave serious relation with you.
As the support of mission is a team work, I come to you of proposing to you to affiliate my mission JEAN BAPTIST with your church or I can represent your church here in Togo. to extend the Gospel in the whole world.
This is my website: http://www.missionjb.africa-web.org
I work with young people here and we live by the faith. We needed people like you for achieving our vision well. We are ready to represent your mission here.
We had a vision to training and to send the African missionaries to the world to reach the people unfulfilled and to establish the churches but we miss means to achieve this goal.
We are in the search of a church, mission like yours making sit a school of training of the disciples of Christ in TOGO West Africa, equip them and send them.
We thank you for your engagement towards us and in waiting for a favourable continuation. May God bless you,
Yours in The Lord,
NYONATO Yawovi
13 P.O.BOX:79 Lome 13
TOGO WEST AFRICA
http://www.missionjb.africa-web.org
Email:missionchrist@yahoo.fr
Phone:(00228)9076663
[...] end this comment with a quote from David Park of Next Gener.Asian Church (though admittedly, I’ve taken this quote out of context): “So many [...]
Dear brother David,
It gives me joy to see young men and women working with the Lord in these last days especially you and your family.You are a blessing to your generation.
Have you ever thought of visiting Africa with your team or even sending a missionary,here is your oportunity.I want to use this oportunity to invite you to Sierra Leone or anyone you know that will love to come.
Lokking forward to a healthy working relationship that willbring glory to God.
Here is my website http://www.lewisgo.multiply.com
david,
found your comments on race and faith very challenging. we are looking for some writing on this topic for an ezine…this week. do you have other material?
tom
How do I email you privately? I want to send you a link to see what you think?
http://nextgenerasianchurch.com/2006/03/01/why-asian-americans-cant-sing-gospel/
As much good feedback as you receive in general, I came across this one on one of my random “comb through the Internet for racist stereotypes against Asians” stints and this one came up on a search of “Asian’s can’t sing” on Google. I can not and will not accept this article in any way as truth and I ask that you re-evaluate your views on the matter. I’ll see to it something changes even if I have to drag you into a voice call with me to hear how Asians CAN sing Gospel to make you do it. It’s bad enough we have William Hung setting back our mainstream musical potential in the States. We don’t need to set unconscious boundaries for ourselves as well.
Robert,
thanks for the feedback. i left a comment in response on the post that you mentioned. i’m certainly not for guys like william hung setting the bar for asian american artistic standards nor am i trying to say asian americans can’t do something in technical terms. as with most things on this blog, it’s a statement about how we do church. hope you understand.
In that case, game on cause I’m not done with you yet.
Hey David,
I happend to come across your blog site through google (don’t remember what i typed in to search). i’ve read a couple of your entries and was drawn in. I wanted to leave my thanks for sharing your thoughts. They’re VERY interesting~~~
Thanks Skim. I appreciate the comment and glad you found the reading worthwhile~.