Hi MB, Im really not the expert to speak on that. Christ Church, Oxford; Edit. Big smiles from this multiethnic family too. The three-day gathering (March 2 to 4, 2023) will feature several . One day, during Gongs freshman year at Brigham Young University, he tried to take his life. But the Gongs explained their project was an opportunity for all the children. One, he is unfailingly kind, she said. Elder Gong isnt part-anything. Yes, I have the most beautiful grandchildren. This white British woman with Japanese husband and two children is with you all the way on this one. My last post must have sounded like trolling as it has disappeared. Latter-day Saint apostle Gerrit W. Gong speaks to members of the media in Salt Lake City in June 2018. This is the very purpose for which God created the heavens and the earth and saw that they were good. As a missionary in Taiwan. Join thousands already receiving our daily newsletter. Of his new assignment, Elder Gong said it was overwhelming to have President Nelson tenderly take my hands in his and extend a call to the apostleship. As I said at the last time new apostles were chosenI would have preferred to have seen three Caucasian apostles from outside North America than three apostles of color who were born and raised in Utah. Download Photo. Although it is 2018 and one would hope the simple fact of an apostle in a interracial marriage wouldnt be abig dealanymore, it is. You were referring to citizenship and location of childhood ambient culture. 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Bright colors and vivid images filled the once-blank cinder block wall of the soup kitchen in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia. We were grateful others were excited for children to have creative opportunities.. Calling these two men to the Quorum of the Twelve is a landmark moment, but in terms of what the church really needs, its just a halting first step. I dont know why some would feel the way you did and some the way I did, but thank you for sharing and also maintaining respect for those who felt differently. His father joined the Church after attending Stanford University, where his parents met and dated. The apostle choices here should be celebrated and I would say without much qualification for progressive mormons. As of June 2018, he was serving as chair of the church's Scriptures Committee (which, among other things, oversees the translation of the scriptures) and as a member of the Leadership and Training Committee, the Priesthood and Family Executive Council, and the Outreach Committee. Its disingenuous to portray the Churchs historic concern with inter-racial marriages as a simple matter of possible incompatibility. Similarly, we were happy and hopeful to learn of President Nelsons ties to this wonderful land. Pressure from Mormon Blogosphere/Political Correctness: 0. Here are 6 fun facts about Elder Gong. Perhaps social support could be encouraged rather than interracial marriage being discouraged. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. After the meeting we entered a large room, where on chairs on three sides of the room priesthood leaders were ordained one by one, recalled Sister Gong. they wondered. Leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, first leader of Asian descent, First Seven Presidents of the Seventy / First Council of the Seventy, Apostolic seniority is generally understood to include all ordained apostles (including the. They will share some of their stories at Family Discovery Day during RootsTech 2023. Steven J. Lund. Its impossible to have any credibility as a global church if we have almost no cultural and ethnic diversity among the most senior leaders. Elder Gong loves learning and spending time with family. 1. Love the Gongs. What I hope for is a group that comes from different cultural backgrounds that can consider and represent a worldwide church. Even though there are many things we dont understand, we know in Gods plan theres a place for every person in [the church].. In the Saturday afternoon session of the April 2022 general conference, Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles gave a talk titled "We Each Have a Story" in which he encouraged his listeners to work on their family history. David A. Bednar. By Emily Ashcraft, KSL.com | Posted - Feb. 27, 2023 at 5:46 p.m. Elder Gerrit W. Gong and Sister Susan Gong will be the keynote speakers for Family Discovery Day at RootsTech on Saturday. That means not only that he has experience with multiple cultures, it also means that his grandchildren will likely be raised in the same country where he lives, which means that it will be a little easier for him and his wife to spend time with them as present and well known grandparents. Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife, Sister Susan Gong, will attend the event There is a misconception that Asians and Asian-Americans do not experience racism in the US, because their model minority status casts them as the ideal scholars and citizens. (Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) :) Hope all is well. I forgive you, he says. On his 21st birthday, at the start of the final year on his mission, Gong wrote separate emails to each of his brothers and his parents to tell them he was gay. Big smiles in the Hedgehog home. Its pretty easy to support and sustain what were used to; harder when there is a significant shift. :). Mikayla Thatcher is here with Beehive Girl to tell you that it was amazing beyond your wildest dreams. Bright colors and vivid images filled the once-blank cinder block wall of the soup kitchen in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia. Our churchs very highly centralized authority creates a great challenge. People dont know their own blind spots until theyre pointed out to them. And thus he came to see his gay self as a weed in the Latter-day Saint garden. Race dynamics and categories in the US and Brazil are each independently complicated and fraught, and also very different from each other in subtle ways. Well, my point was that the churchs mission requires deep, sensitive and reciprocal engagement with all of the worlds cultures in a way that most commercial organizations do not. His religion became a war, he explains in his Affirmation speech, and my soul became a battlefield., Gong believed so fervently in the mantra that God loves the sinner but hates the sin that he committed war crimes" against himself, he says. That our interactions would be nitpicked to brand us as avatars of ideologies, Gong writes on a Facebook post. My heart ached also for Elder Gong and Elder Soares as I realized that they too probably wonder if their call came from God or if they are token minorities in a corporation that has to factor in the opinions and philosophies of the world in its decision making. Hopefully Im not missing anyone, but I do not see that any of the members of the Quorum of the Twelve married Native American women. I never thought of myself as nonwhite but as ethnically ambiguous, Gong says in an interview. I have had a testimony of the Church and gospel since I was very young, said Elder Gong. Ask Peter. I confess Im a bit surprised that the OP is so vehemently opposed to suggestions of caution when approaching an interracial marriage. His known family tree is extensive (bless the tradition of Chinese family genealogy record-keeping) and is 100% Chinese. John. Its not a Chinese, Mormon or academic dinner-table topic. The 2023 Temple and Family History Leadership Instruction of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints premieres online on Thursday, March 2, 2023. He will be a good fit with the brethren. July 10, 2022. It is our fervent hope and prayer that someday soon the Lord will open the way for the spread of the gospel here in China. Additional instruction will be provided by Area Presidencies. With all the comments here I echo the joy in seeing a diverse Quorum. The following is a summary of what he said. church instruction manuals for institute and youth. I have five other children that have married Caucasians as well. I hope that we will all gain greater appreciation for the struggles, courage, faith and sacrifice of those who have gone before. (Haight had helped to overcome some of the misgivings some family members had about the interracial marriage. I confronted and broke down the lies I had been told about what it means to be queer. Then whatever is revealed is always so outside a lot of peoples realm of what, who, or how things should be that murmuring is inevitable. He encouraged listeners to connect with ancestors and descendants in uniting God's family. The Gongs will speak at 1:30 p.m., walking listeners through some of their personal family story, previously recorded on location in their homelands of Ireland and Hawaii. Now as a newly sustained member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles he will share a different kind of light with Gods children throughout the world. Instead, the purpose of . Very happy about these calls for all sorts of reasons; thanks for adding another very cogent one to the pile! That being said, my thoughts are that we may be making more of Elder Gongs lineage than is really there. Love your family. The Q15 are smart men, and they have an intellectual understanding of the churchs diversity, but culturally they are almost all the same: old white men from the Mormon Belt. Cynthia, Those interested in participating in the conference can register online at https://rootstech.org. Come join us on an international journey of connection and belonging at @Rootstech Family Discovery Day any time March 4 after 1:30 p.m. (MST). I genuinely feel this way and am not in any way trying to be disruptive or to be a troll. If my voice is silenced (deleted) I will take the hint that Im not welcome here and will quietly go away. Both Elder and Sister Gong served as full-time missionaries in Taiwan; the couple married in January 1980 in the Salt Lake Temple. His Chinese American family was also highly academic both parents have advanced degrees and had wide-ranging conversations, even heated debates. (Courtesy photo by Ryan Di Spaltro) Come discover yours. I dont know how it came to us; it just did, said Sister Susan Gong. Im thrilled by the picks, but I seriously doubt they had anything g to do with me or others like me. Gong had just been named an apostle. Love you. Reading through all the comments has been interesting. Enter your email address to follow BCC and receive new posts by email. I agree that people should go into an interracial marriage being mindful of the challenges. Mica Nicole is sure she had encountered one but was out and about and couldnt recall the specifics for me. We need to learn to love so unconditionally that we do not see race anymore, nor genders, nor other marginalization great and small. Gerrit W Gong; Education. . Its most likely that any individual called into the Q12 is pretty socially conservative. I also suspect that some of these people are forgetting that the world is not lacking in socially conservative Hispanics or Asian Americans. From one who knows nothing, I couldnt help but see Elder Gong being placed in position to help open up China. They began dating a few years later, in the summer when Gong had returned from Oxford to spend a few weeks with his parents, during a time his father was a BYU professor. This has been a great day in my long life! Much of this post is good, though the backdrop of white supremacy is a bit much. I will update the post as I get further information. I have personally experienced stinging examples of this bias: confusion about our children, surprise about us being together, and even comments along the lines that I did it backwards by being a white woman married to my Korean-American husband. Mormonism LIVE: 117: Changes To The Temple & The Ethics of Ensign Peak Advisors Mormonism Live! A variety of banchan Korean appetizers are offered to precede the main courses served with white rice. But its something a couple should acknowledge and prepare for. Bensen, recounting your personal experience with a few interracial marriages in [your] own family and supposing you can generalize from those experiences with those few particular people to arrive at broad statements about how race functions in marriage is, at the very least, a trifle naive. Its also more than a trifle condescending, considering that youre trying to correct someone who has actual first-hand experience of the potential issues youre describing. in 1980. Members of Elder Gerrit W. Gongs family and the army of street children they enlisted to help them paint the scene stood back and examined the work. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/black-in-latin-america/featured/black-in-latin-america-full-episode-brazil-a-racial-paradise/224/. [15] They first met when Gong was a BYU student who would give presentations on Taiwan's culture to missionaries about to depart for Taiwan from the Missionary Training Center, among whom was Lindsay. Gong had the same dreams as other young Latter-day Saints, serving in callings with a wife and children, and spending eternity in heaven with his family. Brazilians, in the USA, dont like getting lumped in with latinos. Fred: and that is the value of diversity, across every possible category. Having people who know about petroleum extraction is always useful! Until he was 10, Matt Gong, the familys fourth of four sons, lived in the Washington, D.C., area, where his dad worked at a policy think tank. I suspect that beneath much of the positive chatter Im hearing about these two appointments is the belief that these men will somehow bring more than just racial diversity to church government. As far as Soares goes, He looks like a fairly typical Euro-Brazilian. He hasnt aged at all. Elder Gong as a baby with his parents. Such ties can bring help from the other side of the veil." Gerrit W. Gong We Each Have a Story "If you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. Representation matters! As part of RootsTech 2023, Elder David A. Bednar and Elder Gerrit W. Gong will provide instruction to stake and ward leaders in the annual Temple and Family History Leadership Instruction. Gerrit was named after Gerrit de Jong because his mother had lived with de Jong and his family while she was a student at BYU. I hope that we will each make an effort to discover our own family stories, to record them and to share them with our children and grandchildren. Even if you werent aware of all these nuances, youve probably absorbed from US culture the idea that its more normal or expected for a woman of Asian descent to be married to a white man, than for a white woman to be married to a man of Asian descent. Sane liberals in the church dont have any illusions about their influence.). Every member of the Gong family had a special role in the project, from creating the sketch to mixing the paint to organizing the children. Their circumstances are different, but their faith and testimonies are in many ways the same, he said. Their children had a hard time in Korean schools because of the round eyes. Does that mean they never should have gotten married? Please come find your family, all your generations, and bring them home.". Gerrit W. Gong is a famous Mormon leader. While for *me* its not a big deal to see two races come together in marriage, to pretend its *objectively* not a factor at all is a trifle naive. And he still didnt know how to love himself. Ask those who believed in the 1978 Official Declaration long before it came. Learn more about guidelines and necessary forms. Gong is married to Susan Lindsay, a daughter of Richard P. Lindsay. Feel free to delete this comment after the edit.). Johnif all are alike unto God, then you should expect that there are people worthy to be apostles from all racial backgrounds, not just one. Today blessed us a beautiful moment. With his wife, Susan, Elder Gong helps build Gods kingdom by serving all of His children. The hard thing for ALL of us is to cope with (possibly) inspired decisions that conflict with our own political and philosophical intuitions. Also, I suspect President Nelsons very special interest in China may have played a role in the case of Elder Gong. for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.. Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles spoke during the Saturday afternoon session of April 2022 general conference. I also know that its possible to find joy and peace in the church even when we find ourselves with a minority opinion. There is joy and warmth as my boyfriend pulls me close for a hug, and I marvel at the easy laughs and unqualified smiles that we share as we sit on the couch watching TV., There is celebration, he says, in my families of both queer and of birth., Though Gong still claims aspects of Mormonism in his spirituality, he has added theistic Taoism, Zen Buddhism and any parts of a religion that seem resonant civility, care, forgiveness, treating humans with dignity and compassion., He learned those principles from growing up Mormon, he says, but they are not unique to the church., The churchs patterns and behaviors of abuse, he says, dont have to be there; they are not inherent in the doctrine.. Weeds, she told him, were plants growing where they werent wanted., His queerness, the opposite of his religious ethnicity, was something I was born with but not into, Gong says in an LGBTQ Affirmation conference speech, I had to discover it, like a secret birthright.. I believe inspiration comes to those who seek, as does revelation-like who to call to be apostles. Assigned to organize the second stake in Bangkok, Thailand, Elder Gong participated in the calling of priesthood leaders. Its just good to have people from outside of the Western US. His first name is "Gerrit" and his last name is . However Im not excited about the call because of his increasing the racial diversity in the Quorum of the Twelve (which he doesnt) but rather because he brings a -cultural- diversity that is very welcomed. Connecting with God and to one another is so important. The following is from FamilySearch: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAHElder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his wife, Susan Gong, will be the featured keynote speakers for Family Discovery Day at RootsTech 2023. Now as a newly sustained member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles he will share a different kind of light with Gods children throughout the world. And that, I believe, is a blessing for all concerned. So, when I talk about the Church, I mean the Church. When I talk about my father, hes just my father.. This means that Gong is the first member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in a multi-racial marriage. His fear was that people would politicize me and my dad. Elder and Sister Gong said it was wonderful to join members from across the world for general conference, to sustain President Russell M. Nelson and the First Presidency, and to witness continuing revelation bless the members of the Church in all their many circumstances. [11] Gong was a professor at various times at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University. And Fred, it is interesting to me your physiological response to their call. 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