BIO
Joseph Yoo currently works as a Church Planter and Episcopalian priest at Mosaic Episcopal Church in Pearland, Texas. He has served as a member of the clergy in multiple states in the US, including Hawaii and California. Born in Korea in 1980, he immigrated to the United States in 1986 and has lived in multiple states throughout his childhood and adult life. He received his BA in Psychology from the University of Hawaii, Manoa in 2003 and his M.Div from Wesley Theological Seminary in 2006. He got his priesthood in 2021 from the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. He currently lives with his wife and family in Pearland. This interview covers his and his family’s immigration to the United States, his experience growing up Korean in different parts of the country, and how his father’s work as a pastor impacted his childhood and adolescence growing up in the Korean church. He also discusses what it was like attending seminary school and his views on the impacts and shortcomings on the Korean American church.