Hak Ja Han
October 26, 2014
Cheongshim Peace World Center
Chung Pyung Korea
Victory in our quest to achieve Vision 2020! The Global Worship began at 10:30 AM on October 26 (9.3 by the heavenly calendar) at the Cheongshim Peace World Center. In attendance were around thirty thousand people including True Parents, some True Children and True Grandchildren, church leaders and blessed members.
Dr. Man Ho Kim, secretary general of the FFWPU International Headquarters, was the master of ceremonies. After beginning the worship service, the program went in the following order: We sang the Cheon Il Guk anthem and recited the Family Pledge. Rev. Kyeong Seuk Lu of FFWPU prayed.
We viewed a video report on new tribal messiahs' activities. Chung Sik Yong, True Parents' Special Emissary to Asia, gave a progress report. True Mother entered.
Everyone bowed. Yong Cheon Song, president of the Federation of Blessed Families in Japan, and his wife presented flowers. We watched a video of Mother's recent messages. True Mother, in person, gave the sermon for this service. We held a ceremony to express determination. A choir sang "A man of the Wilderness." Chairman Joon Ho Seuk led cheers of eog-mansei, bringing the service to an end.
True Grandchildren during the resolution reading
Blessed families, the water of life Through her message on this day, referring to successful members in the Philippines and Thailand, True Mother stated, "In his final prayer, as he was leaving us, Father asked that we fulfill our responsibilities as tribal messiahs. How seriously have you been putting that into practice in your lives? Today, in two nations, tribal messiahs, who have been carrying out their responsibilities alongside all other members worldwide, have accomplished the restoration of four hundred and thirty families.
Today, we have all come together. Let us all congratulate and encourage them. May today become a day of determination for every single one of us to achieve the same objective."
She then blessed members by saying, "If the fallen world is a polluted and stale world, blessed families are like fresh, clear water. You are like the water of life." Then she said, "Even if you are like clear water, what happens if water remains stagnant? Its quality will deteriorate.
Therefore, it must move. It must flow toward the ocean. Livings beings that are dying will revive wherever this true water of life flows. That is why it is necessary for tribal messiahs to act upon their responsibilities." She concluded her message by exhorting members to "become victorious, devoted and loyal sons or daughters." In his report prayer, President Lu of FFWPU-Korea, beseeched God, "I sincerely thank you for allowing the global joint service to be held here in the Cheongshim Peace World Center to spur the completion of our missions as new tribal messiahs, in the presence of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, who are the substantiation of the word and the hometown of the deep heart.
Mrs. Hai Ok Lee offers flowers to True Mother.
Please enable us to never forget True Parents' noble lives. With tears, they followed a thorn-strewn path, fighting billions of demons to benefit our inadequate lives and for humankind's salvation. Enable every single one of us, who have received new life through the love of True Parents -- regarded by myriads of people as the king and queen of peace -- to refresh our determination through this global joint service. Please guide us so that we can render glory and joy to you by fulfilling our mission as new tribal messiahs and by fulfilling Vision 2020 for the substantiation of Cheon Il Guk."
Following this, everyone watched a ten-minute introductory video on new tribal messiah activities, which began with True Father's statement, "Shouldn't we die in a nation that God can protect? It has been my lifelong wish to find this nation before I die and live there at least for a day." The video presented True Parents' focus on tribal restoration and members' activities in the Philippines and Thailand, where new tribal messiahs fulfilled their missions. It also highlighted activities in Korea, Japan, the United States and other regions. Among the activities shown on the video, reports of the church in Taiwan receiving their government's Best religious Group Award and Central America and South America actively carrying out home-group activities and other projects were included.
True Mother gave away personal belongings and shared her deep heart with members globally.
Heavenly fortune coming in earnest
Then Special Emissary Yong came onstage to give a report on his region's activities. He said, "In the Philippines, the Interfaith Peace Blessing Festival began from Mindanao, in General Santos City southeast of Manila, in March and has been held in fifteen cities under the slogan, Let Us reconstruct Our Nation and realize World Peace through the Power of the Family! Around thirty thousand people went through these Blessing Ceremonies.
Resolution Readers Discernable in this Photograph: Front row: Kathy Rigney, No Hi Pak, Lan Young Moon, Hideo Oyamada, Sang Pil Moon, Katsumichi Motoyama, Kwang Kee Sa, Chang Shik Yang, Chung Sik Yong, Robert Kittel; Back, from left: Jin Hwa Chung, Ki Hoon Kim, Kyeong Seuk Lu
In Thailand, our church is expanding its agreement with the government regarding their supporting our True Family Movement education and the blessing in major cities." He then went on to introduce Thai tribal messiah, "Dr. Lek Thaveetermsakul, the chairman of UPF-Thailand, who was the very first person to fulfill the tribal messiah mission by restoring 430 families, and who is actively carrying out activities to make his hometown into an ideal, peaceful community."
Man Ho Kim
Special Emissary Yong then said, "Both in the Philippines and Thailand, around four hundred to five hundred people come every morning to do Hoon Dok Hae. Through regular Divine Principle seminars, families are experiencing changes." He also forecasted, "Now that our faith is on fire, I believe that the number of members will exponentially increase starting from next month, when registration of tribal messiahs begins." He then said, "True Mother has asked us to complete the realization of Cheon Il Guk by 2020, which would have been the year of True Father's hundredth birthday, and she has obligated us to complete our new tribal messiah missions.
In alignment with this command, Asia has been carrying out new tribal messiah activities." Testifying to the advance of heavenly fortune, he said, "The flames of victory are moving beyond the Philippines, Thailand and Nepal and spreading throughout Asia."
Following the report, True Mother entered the stadium and all participants bowed to True Parents. Next, rev. and Mrs. Song offered bouquets of flowers to True Parents. Next, an onstage drawing took place for two handbags that True Mother had used. The winners: Mr. Jong Gwan Yu, a Korean elder and Bishop Reynaldo Christobal, from the Philippines, an Asian Clergy Leadership Council member, who recently completed, with his wife, ceremonies related to his blessing. Next, the audience watched a video of quotations from Mother's recent speeches. Then, True Mother gave the message of the day, asking blessed families worldwide to fulfill their mission as tribal messiahs.
Kyeong Seuk Lu
At that point, special emissaries, regional presidents and members working in different fields moved to the platform to recite a resolution. representing the group and members everywhere, Mr. Sang Pil Moon, president of CARP-Korea; and Mr. Katsumichi Motoyama, president of CARP-Japan; read the resolution aloud:
We offer our deep gratitude to our Heavenly Parent and True Parents for opening the Cheon Il Guk era. We will become true owners of Cheon Il Guk that practice true love in resemblance of our Heavenly Parent, the Creator.
We will emulate True Parents, the Messiah, the returning Lord and Savior, who have liberated our Heavenly Parent and we will become true parents, true teachers, true owners of our tribes as new tribal messiahs. We will attain unity of the heart, body and harmonization in thought with True Parents. We will become blessed central families that achieve the three great blessings. We will build Cheon Il Guk noble families by witnessing to young people and restoring 430 families.
Chung Sik Yong
We will actively work toward the realization of Cheon Il Guk, one world of freedom, peace, unity and joy under our Heavenly Parent through forgiveness, love and unity, until we take our very last breath.
Following the resolution, everyone stood up, waved flags and sang, "A Man in the Wilderness." The entire service concluded with three cheers of eog mansei.
As part of the program before the main event, a holy song team comprising students from Universal Peace Academy, a training center for Cheon Il Guk leaders, had led the audience in songs. They sang Korean holy songs numbers eight, twenty-seven and thirty. Bringing the atmosphere to a climax, supported by the applause of the congregation, a team of Seonghwa youth and students from northern Tokyo, consisting of around sixty people, then performed dynamic dances. Audiences in five nations -- the United States, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand and Japan -- were connected to the global service by webcast, through which audiences of the service in many nations could see the atmosphere among the members in those five nations, who were absorbing the global service taking place in Korea.
Another drawing took place for presents from True Parents. Then, the International and Multi-Cultural Federation choir, comprising around a hundred choristers, led by Ms. Jeong Hwa Kwon, a gospel singer and second-generation member, sang "Lord, Thank You." The Sun Moon University CARP Praise Team performed "Heungtaryeong."