Is God changing the face of the church in North America today? The secularization thesis makes it appear that churches are inevitably declining in membership and influence. Too often, however, this assumption of decline is based on only watching the denominations that were "church plants of Western Christendom" in North America. Christianity: An Asian Religion in Vancouver focuses on the context of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and notes through a mixed-methods study including interviews and participant observation that many churches in Vancouver with predominantly Asian composition are growing both in size and influence. What might we learn about God's transforming power by looking to Asia rather than Europe to predict the future of Christian witness in the Pacific Northwest of North America?
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Jason Byassee is the senior minister of Eaton Memorial Church, Toronto, and the former Butler Chair in Homiletics and Biblical Hermeneutics at Vancouver School of Theology.
Albert Y. S. Chu is the director of the Centre for Missional Leadership at St. Andrew's Hall and the lead pastor of The Tapestry Church in Richmond, British Columbia.
Ross A. Lockhart is dean of St. Andrew's Hall and professor of Mission Studies at Vancouver School of Theology.