Multiply home groups which can achieve Heavenly Parent’s dream.
By Jeon, Yu-sang, The pastor of Suwon church
Given at the Leaders’ Assembly 2015
There are four steps to run a DIY healing HG:
- Making conditions
- Making relationships
- Inviting
- Harvesting
I explain about the actual know-how which I acquired through running my Home Group.
1. Making good conditions
Members of our HG made two conditions: First, for the fulfillment of each other’s own vision and dreams. In order to do this, we wrote, shared and prayed for each other’s dreams every day. Second, for each other’s VIPs. I had Home Group members write, share and pray for their one witnessing contact. And every 2 months, we added one more person to whom we want to witness.
In my case, I made a condition to witness to a Christian woman witnessing leader, and after 4 months of making conditions, she visited our church and listened to a DP lecture and filled out the registration form to become a Unificationist in December, 2013. Also, I prayed for the HG’s vice leader’s son who doesn’t come to church. He came to church within 2 months and I heard that their parent-child relationship became better. One manager in our church, who has been separated from her husband for 10 years, also prayed for her husband as a witnessing contact and nowadays, he participates in Wednesday service and Sunday service. Furthermore, HG members’ resting husbands recently began to participate in our HG and even church service.
In this way, I have been realizing the fulfillment of wishes through making conditions together for each other and have experienced the power of making good conditions through doing Home Group.
2. Making relationships
I want to explain about making relationships in two different ways, internally and externally. Making relationships internally means building relationships with HG members and making external relationships means building relationships with witnessing contacts.
When you practice HG, you can generally feel a friendly atmosphere and the spirit of understanding and encouraging each other’s situation is created. So the relationships in HG go well in most HGs. But it is difficult to make relationships with your guests, so there are a lot of HGs which gave up trying to do it.
So my HG is using cultural activities to make a relationship with our community. We have about 12 activities which are conducted enjoyably and meaningfully to make a connection with our guests. We think that giving a work of art to our guests which we make during the HG meeting is also part of HG activity. Every week, HG members have to make a relationship with their guests. This is different from existing cultural programs. In other words, the work which you made at HG is for your guest and making relationship with him or her.
3. Inviting
It is basic to invite the guests with whom you have made a relationship, but we add a ‘healing day’ every month. The healing day we is not done indoors but outside on the street. We give a demonstration to the people we meet on the street and invite them. Through this process, HG members get rid of their stress and heal themselves.
4. Harvesting
We harvest guests in various ways. The last step of cultural activity is studying about happiness, which makes guests think about happiness. We are then able to invite them to 4 weeks of the happy seminar course. Also, we are sending 10 minutes of DP lecture through Kakaotalk messenger. Plus, every Sunday we have a new member’s class, and currently, 15~20 people are participating. Lastly, we also educate our guests with Divine Principle one- to-one in order to harvest them as a member.
5. Main points
- (1) The key to making conditions is not doing it by yourself to fulfill your dream and bring your guest, but Home Group members have to make conditions for each other.
- (2) Through making relationships internally, you should share sincere heart with HG members and finally fulfill your mission to give your work of art to your guest.
- (3) Inviting is not only inviting the people you have made relationship with through the healing day (which is held every month), but when you are doing it, you can inform people about your HG and you also experience being healed.
- (4) Harvesting
* 10 Minutes of DP lecture Kakaotalk service, one-to-one DP education, and new member’s school is going on every week.