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API Women, Faith & Action: Rev. Tofa Amosa
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API Women, Faith and Action. Fourteen oral histories of Asian Pacific Islander women and their faith-based activism. Interview by Siouleolelei Paogofie. The Rev. Tofaifaleula Tosi Amosa. Is the first Samoan woman in history to serve as a formally ordained Christian minister. She was ordained on July 16, 2006, at Kanana Fou Theological Seminary. In American Samoa, as a pastor of the Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa (CCCAS). Tofa is a graduate of Pacific Theological College. After the arri...
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API Women, Faith & Action: Rev. Mele Laufilitonga Luani
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API Women, Faith and Action. Fourteen oral histories of Asian Pacific Islander women and their faith-based activism. Rev Mele Laufilitonga Luani. Interview by Sina Uipi. Church was a place for community fellowship and worship. Mele and her family were very involved in the church. She was a Sunday school secretary, a teacher, and the choir conductor. Mele’s strong Methodist background has been a foundation for her ministry. Queen Salote College seal. Bold Woman = Bold Moves. Quote: “When I came to A...
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API Women, Faith & Action: The Women
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API Women, Faith and Action. Fourteen oral histories of Asian Pacific Islander women and their faith-based activism. Our team of eight oral history researchers. Interviewed a total of fourteen API women leaders for this project. Click on the individual names below to see photos, video, interview excerpts, and more. Rev Tofaifaleula Tosi Amosa (Tofa). Rev Wako Puanani Burgess. Choeung Chuord and Sarou Vong. Cynthia “Cindy” Joe. And the Presbyterian Church in Chinatown. Manufou Liaiga-Anoa'i: a native San ...
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API Women, Faith & Action: Yuri Morita
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API Women, Faith and Action. Fourteen oral histories of Asian Pacific Islander women and their faith-based activism. Interview by Deborah Lee. Yuri leading a workshop in 2010. http:/ www.peaceboat.org/english/voyg/69/lob/100706/index.html. College and the Social Movement in Japan:. During the time that Yuri was in high school and college the labor movement, women’s movement and other social movements were active in Japan. Yuri in Guatemala in her mid-20s. Connecting to Native Struggles:. Native leader, B...
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API Women, Faith & Action: Manufou Liaiga-Anoa'i
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API Women, Faith and Action. Fourteen oral histories of Asian Pacific Islander women and their faith-based activism. Interview by Crystal Talitonu. Is a native of San Francisco, of Samoan heritage. She has been an active leader in political and community organizations in the Samoan American community of the Bay Area. Manufou helped to found several organizations, such as the Pacific Islander Youth Alliance (1996), SF Friends of American Samoa and Samoa (2009) and Parents In Action (1997). 8221; “ t...
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API Women, Faith & Action: Comments and Reflections
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API Women, Faith and Action. Fourteen oral histories of Asian Pacific Islander women and their faith-based activism. Want to add your own thoughts, stories, questions? Post a comment here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Choeung Chuord and Sarou Vong. Share your own reflections and experiences. Some of our own thoughts and learnings appear on the Reflections. Page; we hope you will share yours on the Comments page. This project was made possible by the R2W/Critical Faith. Community, Pitzer College.
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API Women, Faith & Action: Jean Ishibashi
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API Women, Faith and Action. Fourteen oral histories of Asian Pacific Islander women and their faith-based activism. Interviewed by Jun Stinson. Interdisciplinary Studies Dept at CCSF. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Choeung Chuord and Sarou Vong. Share your own reflections and experiences. Some of our own thoughts and learnings appear on the Reflections. Page; we hope you will share yours on the Comments page. This project was made possible by the R2W/Critical Faith. Community, Pitzer College.
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API Women, Faith & Action: Doreen Der McLeod
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API Women, Faith and Action. Fourteen oral histories of Asian Pacific Islander women and their faith-based activism. Interview by Lauren Quock. Growing up and finding church in the Bay Area. Doreen attended church from the time she was a young child, but she did not join the church without hesitation. She recalled saying to her Sunday School teacher, “Well, America has a lot of surplus, why can’t we just share it [with impoverished nations]? Doreen leading a workshop at Asian Presbyterian Caucus in 1970.
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API Women, Faith & Action: The History
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API Women, Faith and Action. Fourteen oral histories of Asian Pacific Islander women and their faith-based activism. We pooled our notes to create a chronological context- a history of API women activists of faith, and of the life stories of our interviewees. 1830s: Wesleyan Methodist missionaries convert Chief Taufa’ahau Tupou of Tonga. Who in turn converts fellow islanders. 1832: Missionaries from the London Missionary Society arrive in Tutuila (now American Samoa.). 1901: The indigenous Japanese Chris...
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API Women, Faith & Action: The Project
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API Women, Faith and Action. Fourteen oral histories of Asian Pacific Islander women and their faith-based activism. Women, Faith, and Action: Asian Pacific Islander Women and Their Faith-Based Activism. Through interviews, digital archives and public forums this project documents the stories of Asian American and Pacific Islander women who, informed by their spirituality and faith traditions, were engaged in the U.S. movement for civil and human rights from the 1960s through the 1990s. How does politica...
