For this essay‘s particular purposes, the tribe of 19th century immigrant Chinese have been chosen because I am a  Chinese American born of immigrants.11 Chinese English language preaching serves as our discussion‘s focus homiletic practice. Focus upon the practice of English preaching amongst American  Chinese proclaims is vital for exploring several theologically rich avenues such as social acceptance, assimilation, inculturation, cultural transformation, and identity and belonging, not only  within a new land, but in relation to the body of Christ. We may or may not be able to fully attend to these concerns here.  Nevertheless, it is paradoxically crucial and redundant to assert that despite or rather, because of its imprecise nature, language helps to create the ―illusion and ―reality of historical  moments  like Chin Toy‘s missionary address, especially for ones for whom  invisibility is not conceptual within a gaze, but actual