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Available in 9 different Asian languages, How to Report a Hate Crime visual booklets are essential to the elderly immigrants who may do not know how to access the internet or use their phone. They include useful English phrases to flash to a bystander to seek help during an attack if they are not able to speak English. PDF downloads also available on the website.

Today is Yook-Ee-Oh (6.25), an ominous day that Koreans remember as the beginning of the Korean War 71 years ago. Countless people inside and outside Korea have been advocating for the official end of the Korean War and the signing of a peace treaty. It has been long overdue. Koreans and the Korean Diaspora carry the "han" of this division. We long for this deep woundedness to mend and this collective man-made suffering to end. We pray for renewed strength and resolve to t...ake steps- small and big- to promote peace through diplomacy, dialogue and humanitarian assistance. If you live in the United States, one of the ways you can promote peace is to contact your Member of Congress to ask them to support: H.R.3446, the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act, which calls for serious, urgent diplomacy in pursuit of a binding peace agreement to formally end the Korean War H.R. 1504/S. 690, the Enhancing North Korean Humanitarian Assistance Act, which aims to ease the impact of sanctions on much-needed humanitarian aid to North Korea Lifting the current US travel ban to North Korea, which impedes the reunion of divided families and other people-to-people exchanges that are important for peacebuilding. If you don't know your representative, you can find through this link: https://www.house.gov/representati/find-your-representative "Massacre in Korea," by Picasso (1951)

We need to take care of ourselves through this time of collective trauma.

To all the fathers who loved us well, to those who didn’t know how, to those who have been learning the burden and blessing of fatherhood, to those who have longed to be a father, and to those who have stepped in and shown deep compassion and care like a father we longed for, we see and celebrate you. Happy Father’s Day.

One of our favorite Asian North American artists, of course, is the fabulous Dona Park who interned with us when she was attending Goshen College. Dona is a brilliant illustrator and graphic designer living in Vancouver, BC. She was born in South Korea but lived, studied and worked in Canada and the United States. She has worked intensively on art for peacebuilding initiatives in Cambodia. She writes, I pull inspiration from personal experience to my cross cultural experien...ces, travels, and living abroad, particularly interacting with nature and women from all over the world. Most of my illustrations capture a magical element and strength of youth, women, and nature from everyday moments to envisioning hope for humanity. https://donapark.com/

One isn’t melancholy simply because of the experience of racism, Cheng suggests; melancholy, and its dynamics of loss and recovery, are the foundations for racial identity. https://www.newyorker.com//the-stories-we-tell-and-don/amp

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Hyun shares about the work of ReconciliAsian at Korean Business as Mission (KBM) retreat held at Sorak Mountain.

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We are excited to announce the upcoming webinar series - Immigration, Trauma & Hybridity. How many of us have connected the dots between immigration and trauma? How can we come to understand the trauma of being uprooted and living in a foreign land? This webinar is an introduction to what it looks like to embody trauma as immigrants and to live as both an Insider-Outsider outlook. Please use this link below to register for this webinar. https://docs.google.com//1oJ3WLZc9HiboYH282i2CTa/viewform This webinar will be in Korean.

For those of you who want to access the video recordings of Immigration and migration series: http://reconciliasian.org/immigration

SAVE THE DATE - For the upcoming webinar series Part 2 on Immigration & Migration. This webinar series will focus closely on Immigration Trauma and Cultural hybridity. Stay tuned for more information on how to register The seminar will be in Korean.

Remember: What is and is not considered a "crime" is dictated by those with power and by an institution that was never created to protect and honor the lives an...d dignity of Black people. So yeah, from that perspective, the killing of Breonna Taylor is not a "crime." In the same way that slavery was not a "crime." In the same way that segregation was not a "crime." Those things were "legal." What we need is not the indictment of any individual cops, what we need is an indictment of the system itself. Any system that says that what happened to Breonna is not criminal is a fundamentally broken system. #BreonnaTaylor #BlackLiveMatter

Why don’t immigrant churches address immigration? If our churches embrace our identity as an immigrant church, not just replicate the church of our motherland, our mission will become clearer. -Rev. Taehwan Son, National Network of Korean American Sanctuary Churches Rev. Son gave an inspiring and challenging presentation on the sanctuary movement and the beautiful ways Korean American churches have organized fo meet the needs of the most vulnerable amongst us.

Webinar on sanctuary church movement with Rev. Taehwan Son happening now!

We are pleased to introduce Rev. Taehwan Son, our last webinar speaker of Immigration & Migration Part 1. Rev. Son and his church focuses on a ministry that engages with immigrant church communities. While his ministry is anchored with three pillars: word of God, meditation and living and interacting with the world, he finds the poetics of dailyness and consecrating the everyday compelling and inspiring to his ministry. "To be an immigrant means to practice living as strang...ers in this world. God has called us as sojourners to this world and that identity leads to a command to love all strangers. Therefore, loving and protecting immigrants in this society, especially undocumented people is directly connected to the question of who we are as Christians." This seminar will take place on Thursday, September 17th at 5pm PT/8pm ET. The seminar will be presented in Korean. Register Here: https://docs.google.com//1HN7TazgIbEMnh-rW2LAuSe/viewform

We are pleased to introduce Dr. Jinyoung Choi, our third webinar speaker on immigration and migration. Dr. Choi's research engages in interpreting biblical stories through the lens of Asian American feminism. Her hope is that through the inquiries of her research to bring diverse voices and perspectives to the white mainstream biblical academia and make an effort to contribute a small change to the church and society through such Bible studies and theological education. She i...s currently a professor at the Baptist Missionary Training School of New Testament at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (NY). " Being an immigrant is to leave home and find a new home. And in this new home, I don’t feel at home. It is an experience of being the other. Because of this experience, I can see and better understand other others in my community and society." This seminar will take place on Thursdayday, September 10th at 5pm PT/8pm ET. The seminar will be presented in Korean. Register Here: https://docs.google.com//1HN7TazgIbEMnh-rW2LAuSe/viewform

Dr.Sanggon Nam’s talk on immigrant health disparities is going on now. What is public health, health immigrant effect, immigrant health inequality and disability rate of immigrants? How does the model minority myth, English proficiency, and median income impact the reality of Korean Americans and their mental health? How can we reduce the health disparities and promote minority health?