The United Methodist Church may have a new star. He is Bishop Eduard Khegay of the Eurasia Episcopal Area elected to the episcopacy in 2012 to preside over the small but growing United Methodist churches across 11 times zones in the former Soviet republics, including Russia and Ukraine. Recently he offered a prayer for troubled Ukraine.
An ethnic Korean born of Communist parents in Kazakhstan, Khegay is the first United Methodist bishop originally from the Eurasian Area. Educated at Wesley and Candler Seminaries in the U.S., he came to Christ as a young student in Russia, influenced by a Methodist missionary. He will soon turn age 44.
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