by Mrs. Sa Gil-ja The following is taken from a talk given to American members at a home church meeting on June 16, 1987, at the World Mission Center (now the New Yorker Hotel), New York City. Mrs. Sa is the wife of Eu Hyo-won, who was the first president of our church...
By Rev. Won Pil Kim Won Pil Kim first met True Father in 1946 in Pyongyang. Father was 26 years old and Won Pil Kim was 18. During the winter of 1950-51, in the midst of the Korean War, Won Pil Kim accompanied True Father on his journey south to Busan. The...
By Anne Inoue We will really miss Dr. Pak after all the support he gave us at Universal Ballet. He tried to attend every one of our performances. I don’t mean one performance of every season or series. I mean every performance. If we had five performances of Giselle, he would come...
By Yo-Han Lee (1916-2019) Reverend Yo Han Lee was born on September 4, 1916. On December 1, 1952, he joined the fledgling Unification Church in Beomnaetgol, Busan city during the Korean War, while True Father was still a refugee living in poverty. At the time, Rev. Lee was a Christian minister. He received...
By Ulrike Baecker, 1975 German Missionary to Algeria At the time of True Father’s 60th birthday, he asked the almost 300 missionaries that had gone out around the world five years previously to write a report of their experience. The reader may recall that True Parents had assigned one missionary from Japan,...
By Ken Owens Article to a Lynchburg, Virginia newspaper published July 30, 1980 The following article was written by then 40-day pioneer Ken Owens and published in the local newspaper of the town he was witnessing in. Much controversy has arisen in the past eight years in America concerning the...
The history of our movement begins with members being deeply by God’s love and expressing that love among themselves and to others. In the earliest years, members went to many towns and cities throughout South Korea and helped local farmers, and taught English and mathematics to school children. This was “Enlightenment witnessing.”...
We are a witnessing movement. We long to heal the world of its pain and help the world’s people experience God’s presence and true love. This desire is rooted in our movement’s history. It was in 1957 that Father launched the first 40-day summer witnessing drive. Members went to many towns and...
It was in 1954, not a year after the end of the carnage of the Korean War, that True Father moved the headquarters of his still small church to Seoul and officially named it. Notable people joined then in those formative years, but it was 1957 when Father launched the first summer...
Part 3 Forgiveness, Prayer and Love for Others Dr. Pak’s life has been an adventurous one. He has been a heavenly general standing up to defend True Parents and working to break through barriers to assist them in fulfilling their mission (for example, with their work in relation to North Korea), and...
Zambia: 21-Day Leadership Workshop
19 Feb, 2019
Cameroon: Character Education Workshop For Teachers
19 Feb, 2019
Cameroon: YSP Educators’ Training
19 Feb, 2019
Czech Republic: World Interfaith Harmony Week
19 Feb, 2019
Germany: World Interfaith Harmony Week
19 Feb, 2019
