Suk-Chung Yu on Asian Endowment Board

The Rev. Suk-Chong Yu - district superintendent for the Nevada-Sierra District from 1999 to 2006 - has been named to the Endowment Fund Committee of the National Federation of Asian American United Methodists.

His call to ministry came when Korea, his home country, was undergoing reconstruction after the Korean War, and he realized that rebuilding the devastated country needed spiritual strength of people rather than military build-up. This realization was strongly influenced by his mother, a local pastor, and his Methodist pastor father who was taken by the Communists and never returned home.

In 1968 he came to the United States as a United Methodist Crusade Scholar. He returned to Korea as a professor and an editor of a Christian journal. He returned to United States as a pastor in Washington state, and later California-Nevada, where he was appointed to Korean UMC in San Francisco from 1988-1999.

[Journal of the Endowment Fund, National Federation of Asian American United Methodists, Spring 2009.]