By FFWPU Thailand
FFWPU and YSP Thailand welcome the GPA USA team to Thailand for training in front line in witnessing, the life of faith and cultural exchange from February 10 to 29, 2024. We welcome them to Sunday Service in Bangkok. They divided into 3 groups to do missions in Bangkok, Chiangmai, and Surin.
In Bangkok, 10 GPA members are working with the 2nd generation team and CARP members, they go out together almost every day to do witnessing in campuses. They did service activities and organized a 1-day YSP workshop in high school. All of them have good experiences by meeting with God through witnessing that they can experience Heavenly Parent and True Parents’ hearts through people they met on the front line, even though there were so many challenges because of rejection, differences in culture, languages, and climates.
Finally, many guests attended 3 days’ workshop. All guests, GPA members, and staff transformed together by experiencing the original mind through the workshop. All guests want to continue to attend the next step workshop and become members of FFWPU. GPA members grew a lot in their hearts by experiencing God’s love in Thailand. Also, Thai members can feel so much love and conviction from HP and TP through working together with GPA members from the USA.
Reflections
Josef Buergi:
My time here in Bangkok, Thailand has been very helpful for me to grow my gratitude and realize the power of witnessing and Jeong-Seong conditions.
As we witnessed every day, I realized more and more what witnessing was. I realized it was more about loving people and getting to know them… establishing a common base. But on the second last day, I realized it’s all about Jeong-Seong, offering, and heart. Witnessing is truly a spiritual activity.
For 10 days 2 hours per day, I witnessed with no result. I never witnessed before with center life. Lots of negative thoughts came to my mind and felt I was simply talking to people without any clear direction. But on the 2nd last day of witnessing Pi Mai (witnessing leader) told us the end is nearing so the battle between God and Satan is at its peak. With these inspiring pictures in my mind, my team Pi Mae and Masao made our internal goal Total Investment.
Bangkok was an amazing place filled with many unforgettable precious memories. Even though I wasn’t intentional in the first week and may have caused a burden to You-Won and Martin형. I feel I was able to become more intentional in my growth and work on sincerely investing with witnessing, sharing, and developing relationships with Thai members/guests.
Thank you, God and True Parents, for all the love Thai people have expressed to GPA. I am so grateful for inheriting a little more of this heartistic culture and experiencing the heart of a missionary. To become a vessel for God’s love to flow to his lost sons and daughters. I felt so much joy in this workshop and hope the guests were able to feel the same way.
The fact that we are leaving Thailand is challenging to accept. I received so much sincere, genuine, unconditional love here that I haven’t experienced before in my life. I truly feel Thailand is my second home. When I tell the Thai members I am going to stay in Thailand or come back to visit again is because they moved my heart. The amount of food they cooked and served. They dried and hung up the laundry for us without saying a word. The number of times they offered to pay for food, drinks, and more. I truly felt a sense of the KoH in Thailand where people are constantly serving and loving each other.
Thank you, God, True Parents, Rev Kamol, Martin형, Kenzosan, Thailand, Thai leaders and members, and GPA for making this an unforgettable experience! I truly will never forget the love I received in Thailand and the experiences God and TP provided.