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Product Description: The Asian American church is in transition. Congregations face the challenges of preserving ethnic culture and heritage while contextualizing their ministry to younger generations and the unchurched. Many Asian American church leaders struggle with issues like leadership development, community dynamics and intergenerational conflict...read more

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A successful model reveals the natural herbal remedies handed down from her Chinese heritage that combine health and beauty to restore balance to the body's natural yin-yang, and includes solutions that can be created from accessible ingredients to cure allergies, obesity, fatigue, wrinkles, and more. Original.

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