📢 Calling all formation group past participants: If you participated in a spiritual formation group through the Asian American Center, we want to hear from you!
The AAC team is gathering testimonials and stories to celebrate 10 years of community, growth, and formation across traditions and seasons of life. Whether your experience was transformative, challenging, or somewhere in between—your story matters and belongs in this conversation.
As we step into our next decade, we are committed to listening deeply and growing alongside our community. Your honest reflections—the highs, the tensions, the questions—will help shape how we serve and walk with future participants.
🔗 Share your story at the link in bio or bit.ly/fulleraacfeedback
Ten years ago, we started building something. A center. A community. A movement.
We're marking that decade with something you can wear.
Introducing the AAC x Gene Luen Yang x 1587 Sneakers collab tee — designed around a phrase that sits at the heart of our voice: I Speak Asian American.
Gene Luen Yang is an award-winning graphic novelist and one of the most important voices in Asian American storytelling. 1587 Sneakers is an Asian American-owned brand rooted in culture, identity, and community — making them a natural home for this collaboration. We're honored to have Gene's art on this shirt, and even more honored that it exists to support the AAC's next chapter.
All proceeds go directly to the Asian American Center. Link in bio to grab yours.
How we do something is just as important as what we do.
As we continue this series for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we wanted to name the values that guide everything at the AAC—not as a performance, but as a commitment to integrity.
Gospel • Critical Knowledge • Well-Being • Partnership
These aren't a destination we've arrived at. They're a direction we're always moving toward—together.
Read "How We Do the Work: The Four Values Guiding the Asian American Center at Fuller Seminary" on our Substack (link in bio).
The AAC and the Asian American Student Fellowship (AASF) invite Fuller students, faculty, and staff to a potluck lunch celebrating APAHM, next Wednesday, May 20, 12:30 p.m. at the AAC office.
Email [email protected] to RSVP!
The language we use to tell our stories matters. 🙏🏽
During Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we're inviting you to lean into what it means to "speak Asian American"—through a tool we call the Asian American Quadrilateral (AAQ).
Living as an Asian American gives you experience. But lived experience alone doesn't always give you the vocabulary to make sense of it.
The AAQ—Asian heritage, migration, American culture, and racialization—helps us name the full complexity of who we are. And when we can name ourselves more fully, we offer more of ourselves to God.
Read Beyond "So Asian"—Finding a Language for Your Story by Dr. Daniel Lee on our Substack. Link in bio.
#AsianAmericanChristian #APAHeritageMonth #FullerSeminary #AsianAmericanCenter #AAQ #SpeakAsianAmerican #FaithAndIdentity
You are invited to join us for the the Asian American Center's Graduation Banquet—a special evening to honor the Class of 2026 with meaningful stories, graduation stoles, and a shared dinner table with family, friends, and Fuller faculty.
📆 June 11
🕗 6–8 p.m.
📍Payton 101, Fuller Seminary
🎟️ Tickets for graduates are $25 and include a limited-edition stole + dinner for you and one guest. Additional guests/current students $15.
➡️ If you cannot attend but still would like a stole for graduation, those can be ordered for $20—email Gillian at [email protected] to arrange pick-up and/or shipping.
We are so exited to celebrate this incredible milestone and our graduates!
RSVP by June 1: tinyurl.com/AACgrad26
+ 👩🏻🎓tag a 2026 grad!
Episode 2 of the Burma Diaspora
Christianity Project podcast series, brought to you by an APARRI Working Grant and the American Baptist Home Mission Societies.
Before Buddhism. Before Christianity.
Burma was alive with the Nat-powerful spirits woven into the land, the community, and everyday life. This episode asks: what really happened when the cross arrived?
The big idea:
Catholic missionaries absorbed folk traditions. Protestant missionaries condemned them. Neither fully succeeded.
Beneath the surface of Burmese Christianity — in its rituals, fears, and spiritual imagination — the ancient cosmology endured.
Why it matters today:
For Burmese diaspora Christians in America, this isn't just history.
It's identity.
The spirit-filled worldview their ancestors carried didn't disappear at baptism — it shaped how they understand community, protection, and God.
Listen at the PearlDive.net
What does it mean to bring your whole self to Christ? 🙏🏽
At @fullerseminarychapel last week, Dr. Daniel D. Lee reminded us that Paul didn't ignore who he was when he preached the gospel—his heritage, his background, his story all became fuel for it.
Centering your identity in Christ doesn't erase your particularity. It transforms it.
We were also blessed by student testimonies and a benediction from @kami.at.fuller director, Alex Jun, pictured here. Watch the full replay—and head to our Substack (link in bio) for key takeaways and next steps to help you reflect on what it looks like to live this out in your own life and ministry.
#AsianAmericanChristian #APAHeritageMonth #FullerSeminary #AsianAmericanCenter #ChristCrucified #FaithAndIdentity #ChristianLeadership #AAC
What happens when something rooted in God, becomes a god? Dr. Daniel Lee talks about how it's easy to fall for an abstraction of God.
Our recent Open Forum is a must-watch for pastors, leaders, and anyone navigating their faith —with @lee.daniel.dh , @prof.tgivens , @drjoyjohnsonministries and @fulleraac . Link in bio.
Is God a means to a nice life? What happens when communal life and Christian life are interchangeable? Dr. Daniel Lee breaks down the historical context worldwide and how it affects us today.
Watch our Open Forum now, featuring @lee.daniel.dh , @prof.tgivens with @drjoyjohnsonministries and @fulleraac . Link in bio.
Welcome to episode one of our series discussing the history of Burmese Christianity! This Pearl Dive episode, part of Fuller’s Burma Diaspora Christianity Project led by Dr. Joseph Cheah and Dr. David Moe, explores the intertwined histories of Catholic and Protestant missions in Burma/Myanmar within a predominantly Buddhist context. It traces early 16th-century Portuguese Catholic missions (Franciscans, Jesuits, Augustinians) centered around Syriam/Thanlyin and reliant on mercenaries and traders, then contrasts them with 19th-century Protestant efforts such as Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson, whose work benefited from British colonial protections but also linked Christianity to colonial rule. Go to PearlDive.net
