Asian Women's Resource Centre for Culture and Theology (AWRC) was conceived at the Asian Women Theologians' Conference in Singapore in November 1987 by a group of women theologians. AWRC was officially inaugurated in September 1988 in Hong Kong. The AWRC office operates from wherever the coordinator resides: Hong Kong (1988 to 1990), Seoul (1990 to1994), Kuala Lumpur (1995 to 2009) and now Yogyakarta, Indonesia.  AWRC envisions a community of women, men and children who are valued and value each other as equally created in the image of God, and who, together with the rest of God’s creation, relate to one another in mutual respect, care and responsibility. AWRC is deeply committed to solidarity with women most oppressed by race, gender and class discrimination while also striving to liberate Asian churches from the sexist and patriarchal structures and theology.

Some six years before the establishment of the AWRC, Sun Ai Lee Park founded the theological journal, In God’s Image. The journal became part of the AWRC when the latter was formally organised in 1988. Sun Ai had followed her husband to the Christian Conference of Asia in Singapore and, as a poet, ordained minister and theologian in her own right, she struggled to contribute to society rather than be stereotyped as the wife of an ecumenical leader. Along with a group of women in Singapore who shared concern about the situation of Asian women, she gave birth to In God’s Image, “an Asian Christian women’s effort to provide a forum for expressing our reality, our struggles, our faith reflections and aspirations for change” in the form of prose, poetry, stories, analytical essays, liturgies, and visual art forms.