Prepared by FFWPU Asia
Our Peace Festival organized by the Heavenly Parent’s Holy Community of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification joined with the International Association of Youth and Students for Peace with the theme “Practicing Culture of Giving for Building One World Family”. The event was held on December 26, 2021, brought over 2,000 families and youth from over 20 nations across the Heavenly Asia Pacific Region 1. (313 On Zoom. 1,604 Viewers on YouTube and Facebook)
Our VIP participants were:
- Pres. Demian Dunkley, Regional President of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification-Asia Pacific 1
- Dr. Tang Kimsruy, President of the IAYSP-Asia Pacific 1
- Rev. Kajikuri Masatate, Subregional Director to FFWPU-Greater China Subregion
- Rev. Yoon Cha Wook, Subregional Director to FFWPU-Central Asia Subregion
- Rev. Santosh K. Paudel, Deputy Subregional Director to FFWPU-South Asia
- Rev. Hajime Saito, Deputy Subregional Director to FFWPU-Indochina
Regional President of the FFWPU-AP1, President Demian Dunkley and Mrs. Yumiko Dunkley said that “within the family everything is there, why we talking about this point? Because we should understand regardless of our historical religious practices until now, we must understand our responsibility are today. Our blessed is directly related to our responsibility of Cheonbo” He furthered said that “What is the blessing today? It is attendance.” He added “Right now, we are the builders of the Heavenly Kingdom through attendance of the Heavenly Parent and True Parents through the Hyojeong Love Offering.”
This festival had connected youth and families to the Heavenly Parent and True Parents through Hyojeong testimonies from various happy families, Youth as well as the Hyojeong performances to entertain the viewers, and the Hyojeong story between Parents and children to inspire the family through the culture of giving for building One World Family. This festival also helped the families and young people to deeper understand their mission and their responsivities to create a happy family, Cheonbo and to contribute to build a peaceful society centering on Heavenly Parent and True Parents. During this festival, we also promoted the Mother of Peace book which available in various Asian languages such as: Thai, Khmer, Laotian, Burmese, Mongolian, Hindi and Nepali as well as starting the project to translate 9 others South Asian and Central Asian languages: Bengali, Urdu, Sinhalese, Dzonkha, Dhivihi, Tamil, Tajiki, Uzbek, and Kazakh.
