Esperanza USA is a network of Hispanic Christians, churches, and ministries. It is based in Philadelphia. Jodi Reynhout is media contact.

Jonathan Kim is associate professor of Christian education at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, Calif., and author of “The role of Christian education in the Korean church” in the Jan. 1, 2003, special edition of Christian Today newspaper.

Russell Jeung is assistant professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University and author of Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches (Rutgers University Press, 2004).

Eugene Eung-Chun Park is Robert S. Dollar Professor of New Testament at San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, Calif., and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.

Edmond Yee is a professor of Asian studies at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, Calif., and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He wrote The Soaring Crane: Stories of Asian Lutherans in North America (Augsburg Fortress, 2002).

Boyung Lee is assistant professor of educational ministries at Pacific School of Religion and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif.

Young Lee-Hertig is co-founder and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity in Castro Valley, Calif., which fosters research into Asian-American religion, including that of Koreans.

Antony W. Alumkal is an assistant professor of sociology of religion at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver and author of Asian American Evangelical Churches: Race, Ethnicity and Assimilation in the Second Generation (LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2003).

Peter T. Cha is associate professor of pastoral theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill., and co-author of Following Jesus Without Dishonoring Your Parents: Asian American Discipleship (InterVarsity Press, 1998). He also co-edited Growing Healthy Asian American Churches (IVP, 2006).