UNITED STATES
Christianity Today
RACHAEL LEE SEP 26, 2016
About 50 Korean American pastors gathered at Cerritos Mission Church earlier this month for a ‘Crisis Management Seminar’ hosted by Dr. Benjamin Shin, the director of the Asian American Doctor of Ministry cohort at Biola University’s Talbot School of Theology.
The seminar was split into two parts, the first which featured Dave Carder, a counselor who has dealt with hundreds of cases of extra-marital affairs, sexual abuse, and other related incidents. Shin spoke during the second portion, sharing updates on an incident that occurred in July in a mission team sent by the college ministry Korean American Campus Mission (KCM), an incident which Shin said triggered this seminar.
“We wanted to provide this time to provide resources for Korean American pastors, especially since they don’t go over this in most seminaries,” said Shin, who shared a list of counselors, lawyers, and police officers who could help in similar situations.
For many involved in the KCM incident, which involved allegations that a pastor engaged in inappropriate conduct during the mission trip, this was their first such experience dealing with moral failure among ministry leaders. For Shin, who helped KCM’s leaders throughout the handling of the incident, it was his seventh time.
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