The two newest members of a top Mormon governing panel said this week that they hope to bring a new perspective as the first Latin American and the first Asian American to a previously all-white top leadership group that helps make church policy, the Fox News website reports today (June 30, 2018).
Ulisses Soares of Brazil and Gerrit Gong, a Chinese American, made the comments during their first media interviews since being chosen for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' leadership panel called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles earlier this year.
Soares, 59, said the religion's direction won't change because that is always led by Jesus Christ, but he said he and Gong can enhance the church's capacity to meet the needs of an increasingly global religion that now has more than half of its 16 million members outside the United States.
Gong, 64, was born in Redwood City, California, but his grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from China. "The more places we go, the more people we understand and meet with, the greater we see that love which is a universal love," Gong said.
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