The World Mission Headquarters presented two letters addressed to True Mother, sent from Taoyuan Church in Taiwan and Antipolo Church in the Philippines, during the Cheon Shim Won Vigil Prayer on January 20, 2025.
From Rev. Li-chun Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan)
Dear Beloved True Parents of heaven, earth, and humankind,
This letter is to report on the witnessing, education, and ministry of the Taoyuan Church.
Through the past seven months of witnessing and the monthly three-day Divine Principle workshops, we have met 19 new guests who were guided by Heavenly Parent. These guests are students at Chung Yuan University and Central University, which are two prestigious universities in Taiwan, and young adults who have already started their professional lives.
We felt that we needed to develop an education course for the new members that is centred on spirit and truth, and a life of faith and practice, as True Mother hoped. So we redesigned the post-Divine Principles course, which has resulted in 16 new members since April last year.
Seven of the new members, young adults, participated in a blessing retreat organised by the Taiwan Association in the last week of December. We are sincerely sorry that our results were so inadequate in the face of True Mother’s love and sincerity to save all mankind. Nevertheless, we are sincerely grateful that True Parents, who cherish and save each and every one of their children, accepted the souls of the young adults with tears of gratitude.
We hope that one day these new members will be able to meet True Mother in person, and we will continue to work hard to make that happen. We also continue to do visitation activities to reactivate the inactive second generation members. One inactive second generation has been through many painful situations and has developed some unhealthy habits.
We visited his home, tidied up his room, and listened to his story in detail. Today, this young man comes to church every day to study, pray, and devote himself to a new start. Visiting inactive second generation members gave me the deepest sense of True Parents’ being and heart.
Whenever I meet second generation who have been out of the church for seven, ten, or more years, and hear about the many pains and hurts they carry deep within their hearts, I repeatedly make an internal resolution within myself. I vow to never stop walking this path until all the young second generation are restored.
I sincerely thank True Mother for her hard work for the Cheon Won Gung entrance ceremony. We will work harder in the church to witness more people and to visit the inactive first and second generation members.
Beyond nurturing young students so that they can grow and mature and receive the Blessing, we want to transform Taoyuan Church into a healthy church that embodies the culture of filial piety in Cheon Il Guk.
True Mother, we sincerely thank you for your love and sacrifice. We pray for your health and well-being.
From Rev. Froilan Matbagan Jr. (Antipolo, Philippines)
To our beloved True Mother,
Happy New Year! We feel so hopeful that we come to conclude the year of 2024 full of hope and inspiration as we welcome this New Year of 2025 with your great guidance to all of us.
True Mother, as Antipolo Church was selected as a Strategic Growth Church in October of last year, we set a goal to increase the number of regular members and worship attendance by the time of the Cheon Won Gung Entrance Ceremony.
In order to fulfill the goal we promised to Heaven, we tried to convey the love of Heavenly Parent and True Parents by personally visiting one family after another. During our visits, we found that many families were practicing their life of faith and attending to Heavenly Parent and True Parents in their homes through Hoon Dok life of worshiping. I have many memories of being overwhelmed by the number of blessed families who worship Heaven. During my visits, I prayed with the families in their homes and educated them on the importance of attending to Heavenly Parent and True Parents substantially through consistent worship attendance, church activities, and tithing. Many of the families lived far away from the church, but as I searched for them one by one, they gathered under the guidance of Heavenly Parent and True Parents, and now the number of regular members has reached 108, and 181 attend worship every week, fulfilling the goal we promised to Heaven.
True Mother, our church is also focused on witnessing young people and leading them to receive the Blessing. Last month, the Morong witnessing team held a three-day Divine Principle workshop for college students, with 11 people completing the entire three-day program. The Pure Water Heavenly Top Gun missionaries sent by True Mother lectured on True Parents’ words and life course, deeply moving the young adults in attendance, and they were moved to tears and determined to put into practice the True Parents’ words in their own lives. Although we have not yet fulfilled our goal of witnessing 16 people, we believe that if we continue to move forward in unity with True Mother during the remaining three months of the Entrance Ceremony, Heaven will surely work through us!
Lastly, I would like to report on the 2024 Heavenly Asia-Pacific Cheonbo event held in Antipolo City last December. The event was a great opportunity for all members to receive the grace of faith revival and spiritual healing, and a fitting way to welcome the 13th year of Cheon Il Guk. However, it was not easy to hold the event in December. Since the Philippines is a Christian country, December is a time when everyone is busy preparing for Christmas and New Year celebrations. Despite these challenges, all Blessed Families, especially the Cheonbo Couples, were determined to mobilize the maximum number of participants to bring True Father, Dae Mo Nim, Hyo Jin Nim, and Heung Jin Nim to Antipolo, Philippines, and to gather their hearts for the sake of the country and Heavenly Asia Pacific.
True Mother, the Antipolo Church was able to mobilize 300 participants through the initiative and responsibility of the Cheonbo Couples focusing on guiding their respective tribes to the event. In total, 3,921 people attended the event, including regular members, new members, witnessing guests, and VIPs including the mayor, who received healing of the spirit and body through True Mother’s grace of Cheon Shim Won. Through the Cheonbo event, all the Blessed families became united in their determination to bring joy to True Parents by offering them tangible results of church growth. Thank you, True Parents, for the grace of the Cheon Shim Won. We will continue to pursue unity with our beloved True Mother.
True Mother, thank you! We love you!
Thank you so much True Mother we love you!