Episode 24 (S2): This Co-Pastor's Life

Oakland x Asian x Mom Podcast

This is our second episode in a three-part series talking to Asian American moms who are faith and spiritual leaders in Oakland and the East Bay. In this episode, we talk to Erina (@erinakimeubanks), a second generation Korean American mom of Black and Korean kids. Erina is a co-pastor, with her husband, of Bethel Community Church (@bethelcommunitysl) in San Leandro. We learn about how Bethel was an aging congregation on the brink of closure when Erina and her husband were invited to be part of reviving the community. Erina talks to us about how copastoring models a move away from hierarchy to shared leadership, collaboration, and cocreation, how she infuses pastoral care with Korean American values of hospitality, and how to engage church communities in racial and social justice work by starting with the question of how to be a good neighbor.

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Thank you to New Hope Covenant Church in Oakland for sponsoring this episode as part of its True Home grant.

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