A million-dollar grant will establish three clergy cohorts in Southern California
by Mike Ferguson | Presbyterian News Service
LOUISVILLE — For the past few years, the Rev. Dr. Young Lee Hertig, founder and director of the Innovative Space for Asian American Christianity (ISAAC), has been making what she calls “bricks without much straw.”

the Rev. Dr. Young Lee Hertig
With financial backing from a $1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. through the Center for Asian American Theology and Ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary, she can now step up her brick-making production.
ISAAC is launching PastoraLab, which will be made up of three cohorts of Asian American women across Southern California who will follow a curriculum designed to help them develop their own Asian American field-based hermeneutics, the interpretation of biblical texts. PastoraLab will also encourage mutual growth in personal integration, ministerial practices and constructive theological articulation, according to an ISAAC news release announcing the formation of PastoraLab, adding it will also collect quantitative data on the status of Asian American women ministers in Asian American congregations — first in Southern California and then nationwide.

the Rev. Dr. Marion Park