Hak Ja Han
September 8, 2016
Today, we gather at the groundbreaking of the Cheonji Sunhak Won in beautiful Chung Pyung, where we can show Your dreams and hopes to humanity.
Two thousand years ago, You sent Your only begotten son, the Messiah, to fallen humankind after a long Providential period of four thousand years. However, Judaism and the nation of Israel did not take responsibility. The reason why our Heavenly Parent sent the only begotten son was to fulfill His dream that His son would take the place of True Parents in front of humankind. Despite Heavenly Parent's efforts, and the suffering He experienced in sending His only begotten son, the 2,000 year history of Christianity started out centered around the people who crucified the only begotten son, and the disciples of Jesus. It has been passed down to the present without people knowing the true nature of Jesus or the providence of Heaven.
Throughout 6,000 years of Your repeated efforts and love, You built the Korean nation and gave birth here to Your only begotten daughter, so that humankind's True Parents would manifest and new providential history would begin. You have opened the pathway for all people around the world to go forward as children of the Heavenly Parent. How miraculous is this? I am however truly sorry that the world is still unaware of this amazing fact. Therefore, in the name of True Parents we will quickly build Cheonji Sunhak Won, for the sake of the members and future generations of the Unificationist family, the citizens of Cheon Il Guk. Cheonji Sunhak Won will show them, in a stimulating way, True Parents' love and True Parents' providential work.
Loving Heavenly Parent, thank you. I am so grateful and thankful to You for Your hard work. You did not forsake such ignorant people, but instead have continued to lead them. With regards to the tremendously hard work You have invested, we are so sorry and yet so grateful. Heavenly Parent, now, through True Parents who are fulfilling Your original dream, a foundation for the settlement of Cheon Il Guk has been laid. Through constructing this facility, we will now advance toward the day when this people will be awakened, and all the people of the world will be able to return thanks and glory to Heaven with a shimjeong (heart) of hyojeong.
Heavenly Parent, if You are with us, we will accomplish this without fail. This will be a starting point for the sake of that day. Father, Please preside over all the events of today. All these things I give thanks for and pray in the name of the True Parents. Aju!"
True Parents' Life and Works Educational Center "CheonJi SunHak Won"
True Parents' time on earth is limited by the human life span. Moreover, within a comparatively small number of years, everyone who worked together with True Parents, heard them speak or greeted them even once at a public event, will have departed this earthly life and be in the spirit world. Within a few decades our movement will be totally made up of people who never met or saw True Parents in the flesh.
Knowing this, True Mother -- who perhaps more than anyone is aware of the speed at which time passes - - decided that an educational exhibition center and archive devoted to the lives of True Parents and to the movement they initiated and inspired, should be created while they are still on earth and while all that they have accomplished is still well within living memory.
In 2014, Mother announced that the CheonJi SunHak Won would be built in HJ Cheonwon (the Chung Pyung complex), and established a planning committee. Last year, Mother mentioned the following to a large crowd gathered at the Chung Pyung Azalea Festival:
"At the center of the Chung Pyung development, which can fulfill the hopes and dreams of our Heavenly Parent and True Parents, I will construct the CheonJi SunHak Won, to be unique and at the highest standard, ready to show these hopes and dreams to the world. It will be a place where you and your descendants can experience the True Parents' love, and a holy place where you can return eternal thanks to Heavenly Parent." May 7, 2016 (Azalea Festival)
CheonJi SunHak Won will have four basement levels and two stories above ground. The first and second floors will host some 6,600 square meters of exhibition space. Displayed there, in 13 thematic zones will be the story of True Parents' lives, from their births to the foundation of Cheon Il Guk. The lower levels will have models of the houses in which True Parents were born and there will be artifact storage arch.