• The research found that only three types of outreach are offered by U.S. Protestant churches.
  • Food oriented donations tops the list at 73 percent of churches
  • Vacation Bible School (68 percent) 
  • Holiday food programs for poor families during Christmas or Thanksgiving (65 percent).
• Other types of community outreach offered by much smaller proportions of churches in the last year include:
  • prison ministry (25 percent)
  • homeless outreach (24 percent)
  • Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts (20 percent)
  • blood drives (17 percent)
  • after-school programs for kids (14 percent)

These people—the Southeast Asians, the South Asians, and the Pacific Asians—are from different multiethnic and multinational Asian groups. They bring to North America their varying languages, religions, cultures, and subcultures. One may come from Christianized Manila, Philippines; another from one of the still-animistic tribal villages of Laos. One Asian may come from the overcrowded Buddhist city of Bombay, India; one from the multireligious modern city of Tokyo, Japan; one from the culturally traditional island of Tonga; and still another from a Muslim town of Pakistan. They keep coming because of the open doors of migration, and the military, marriage, and money-making opportunities under the umbrella of freedom and justice. They become part of the American mosaic and experience the confusing and dividing tensions of religious, social, political, and cultural changes in their new country.