I want to point you to a valuable resource, one of few related to reaching the unreached nations among us. Ethnic Embrace USA is a book that you will want to add to your collection. Part information, part devotional, part prayer guide, this book turns our focus to several of the upgs who have migrated to the world’s largest immigrant receiving country. 
Since the publication of Strangers Next Door, people have asked me about practical resources to assist in reaching the nations among us. Unfortunately, few exist at this time. Ethnic Embrace USA, with its focus on prayer, helps fill this need. I recently ordered copies for our church’s elders and small group leaders. I hope you get this book and put it to use with your leaders and church.
I recently communicated with the author and editor, Brian Considine, about this work. In today’s post, I want you to hear from him.
Why did you write Ethnic Embrace USA?
This work really originates in a conversation I had with Cindy Wiles, of Kinnexus Network, in April 2012. Cindy and I were discussing the Perspectives Study Program and the need for an “easy on-ramp” for more folks to understand the mission of God. Many folks today are talking about living “missionally” or “radically,” but at the time other than Perspectives, the only work that I was aware of that developed the grand metanarrative of Scripture was Christopher Wright’s The Mission of God, which is a tome. So the question was, “How can we equip more folks to understand the mission of God’s story.” At the same time, I was in discussion about the need for more focus on the diaspora peoples of the USA, which is a new chapter in what God is doing today. I wrote Ethnic Embrace USA to try to bring these two ideas together in an approachable way.
What do you hope the reader will get from this book?
We have a great need in Evangelicalism today to become learners, especially as it relates to other peoples of the world, or as you call them – “strangers who live next door.” It is a sad fact today that 60% or more of non-Christians in the USA say they do not know a Christian. I think the challenge for the Church is that we just haven’t learned how to be good “welcomers.” We need to learn about the importance God places on welcoming the foreigner. Jesus did say, “I was a stranger and you welcomed me in.” That should motivate us to learn about these New Americans. I think it’s also important to learn, or better grasp, the story we are living in – or as like I call it “His-story” – God’s plan for the nations. By understanding these two ideas together, I think we can respond better to what God is doing in bringing us the nations, the unreached people groups of the world.
Who is the audience for Ethnic Embrace USA?
I wrote this with the local church in mind, for the person sitting in the pew wondering what God has for them to do, as a way for local churches to learn together and then mobilize to respond to what they are learning. Toward that end, we are offering churches the opportunity to put this in the hands of their folks at discounted prices. My hope it that many churches will take this journey together to bless the nations among them in their cities.
Where can we order Ethnic Embrace USA?
Orders can be placed through our website www.EthnicEmbraceUSA.net.
