True Grandchildren

Hyo Jin Moon, Ye Jin Moon, and In Jin Moon
February 26, 1987

Gearing up for the CARP Convention

Hyo Jin Moon
November 1986

Almost all CARP members from all over America have been arriving in New York since August to help organize and campaign for the success of the Third Annual CARP Convention of World Students, scheduled for October 9-15 in New York.

The purpose of the convention is "to create an international forum in order to establish unity and provide a clear vision as a global student community." Hyo Jin Nim, as World CARP president, will be making his first public speech in America. An international student symposium will provide an opportunity for the discussion of several current world issues and the creation of vital task forces. A march and rally at the United Nations will emphasize the for all the nations of the world to tackle the international drug trafficking problem. As at the first two conventions, one of the highlights will be the World Student Olympics, and CARP members from all over the world have been training for this event for months.

Congratulatory remarks and best wishes for a successful convention have already poured in -- from professors and legislators, from the minister of education in Japan, and even from New York Governor Mario Cuomo.

Entries for the World Students' Arts Competition have been received over the past several months from many countries of the world. Essays, poetry, graphics, paintings, and sculpture relating to the convention theme "New Vision: Creating a New Student Movement:' have already been judged, and the best in each category will be exhibited at the main convention and festival on October 11 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center.

CARP members mobilized to New York have been divided up into crews to promote the convention, scheduled to be the biggest yet. They have spread out to all the major campuses and set up tables to tell students and professors about the convention and its larger purpose and to sell tickets to the Oct. 11 event.

An intense campaign spirit is being generated as CARP members gather every night in the Bamboo Room at the World Mission Center, the campaign headquarters. Most of the newest young CARP members working on the campaign joined in workshops in California and Hawaii, since CARP activities have been going on steadily in those areas for the last couple of years.

Members offer testimonies every night of their challenges and their victories in getting support for the convention. Afterwards there are spirited pep talks followed by intense prayer for the success of this monumental event. The collective gearing up for this exciting week is tremendously inspiring for the CARP members only a few months old in the family, who are catching the great campaign spirit the movement experienced in the early 70s.

Says Ann Vargas, CARP California, originally from Sweden, "This event is bigger than I am able to comprehend right now. I mean not even the conference itself so much, but the effect and the impact it will have and what comes afterwards." 

The Third Carp Convention of World Students Closing Banquet

Hyo Jin Moon
October 14, 1986
World Mission Center

Hyo Jin Nim, with Dr. Joon Ho Seuk at his side, holds up the trophies received by the winning teams in the Han Ma Dang Games.

Hyo Jin Nim, with Dr. Joon Ho Seuk at his side, holds up the trophies received by the winning teams in the Han Ma Dang Games.

How do you feel about going back to your homes and your countries? Do you want to stay longer? For the past few days, I've seen many, many beautiful things. When you say "beautiful thing',' the first people think about is a flower, something with a beautiful fragrance, something exotic. But I've felt beauty here in many different ways. I have found it in you. To some people's eyes a majestic mountain is beautiful, and to some people's eyes a cloud floating on a blue sky is beautiful. We all share different kinds of beauty within us. As children of God, we have to be able to taste all that beauty and be nourished by the beautiful things we see. Then we have to transform that into our own image of true beauty that God sees in each one of us.

I saw so many students get excited by the musicians at the CARP convention, especially by the Third World group. Everybody in that auditorium was standing up and cheering and dancing! I could see people dancing in the aisles! Before that, there were many speeches by many distinguished guests, and everyone was very serious, but when the music began, everybody got up! All the Doubting Thomases, who were just sitting and looking around, got up and started dancing and cheering! Even those people who knew nothing about our CARP Principle and had come here out of curiosity listened to the music and deep inside experienced it as joy.

Everyone has had some kind of experience of joy. It may be fallen ways of joy, but everyone has felt something. When people enjoy the taste of something they think they're feeling joy. American people like hamburgers and steak. When they go to McDonald's and eat a Big Mac or a Quarter Pounder they feel happy inside. Their stomach is saying, "I am happy, give me some more." And when people see beautiful things, they also feel joy. People find their moments of joyfulness in their own ways. For athletes it's the same. When they do their exercises, when they do their sports, they feel exhilarated, they feel happy, they feel contented. They find something worthwhile in their abilities.

The Greater Joy That's what we have to find. Here in this CARP movement, we are generating that kind of joy and making it a God -- centered joy. Before you joined CARP, your joy was individual joy. Some of it didn't relate to God, even though you felt joy with your five senses. You could relate only to what you could feel. But what is important in our mission is to reflect the kind of joy that is within God's domain.

You need to do that when you go back to your nations and back to your campuses. Reflect the joy within God's domain; that is the greater joy. It can be in dancing, in singing, when you do sports, even when you eat. You can bring in new members and cook for them. You should cook with your own hands. A sushi party's okay, if you're an expert at making sushi! I want you to do that. Make them taste your sushi! That would be something very special compared to sushi you buy at a restaurant. That's the kind of thing we all must do. That is important. Then we can feel true joy.

Also, you have to be courageous. You have to be confident. Even when you're tired, you have to try to make the goal. During the soccer tournament, many African members looked pretty tired because they had played so many games. Their physical bodies were exhausted, but they were trying up to the last moment. They still had the confidence that says, "Okay, I can do it, I can still make that goal." This is important.

It's always great if we can bring results right away, but sometimes it takes time. We cannot forget about the confidence that we have within us. It's like a seed. The potential for life is inside that seed. God has planted a blueprint for growth inside that seed. But it has to sprout, it has to work through the ground. Think about the little seed trying to break through that packed ground. How much suffering, just to break through that hard shell! That is suffering itself. But to try to break through ground that has been packed down is very, very difficult. After all that, it still has to grow! It has to survive the competition that is all around, because many weeds try to suck away all its nutrition. But after it has blossomed, it can give life to others. A seed that has blossomed into a flower can give life to the eyes of a beholder. When you see a beautiful flower, you see a beautiful life that has blossomed from a little seed.

So in everything we do, we have to develop our individual confidence, then progress through the family and national levels and ultimately understand the love of God. Our confidence must help us reach that goal. We cannot be satisfied with the confidence we have in expressing only our physical abilities. We must go beyond that and reach the love of God. That's when we can truly say, "I'm within God. I have received the love of God, and I'm confident that I can accomplish anything and overcome everything in my life

At the closing banquet a huge cake in the shape of the Jacob Javits Center is presented to Hyo Jin Nim and Nan Sook Nim.

At the closing banquet a huge cake in the shape of the Jacob Javits Center is presented to Hyo Jin Nim and Nan Sook Nim.

Going Beyond Our Limits

I saw many of you doing martial arts. That is good, but you have to build your strength beyond your physical capabilities. Your physical abilities are like a launching pad, but your destiny is way beyond that launching pad. When you do your martial arts or any other activities, you're getting the fuel ready, but you cannot just lie on that launching pad. You have to be fired up into space to your destiny. Many, many members I see have that potential.

When I was doing martial arts and playing the guitar, I thought I was the best in the world. I only cared about exercising every day and going to martial arts class. But since then, I have seen something greater in myself than just that potential, that level of confidence. Those activities were part of my learning process. That was my launching pad; I could not stay where I was. I had to go beyond that. Father expects more and God expects more, and I know I have the ability to give and share more. I need to receive more and more of the love of God that He is trying to give me. All of you have that potential; that's why we can all be leaders. But we have to know the path in order to lead. We have to really feel it.

I'm learning with you, but you too must try desperately -- with your whole heart and total commitment -- to go beyond. With that, you can expand and grow. Then others will feel your heart. So I want to encourage you, you older members especially, to inspire each other and challenge yourselves. Expand into the music field, into the academic field -- into every field that you can feel and touch. All the world is eagerly waiting to meet people like you so they can understand and relate more deeply to life. I want that to happen. I want to grow in that way, and I also want you to grow and touch the hearts of the young people of this world.

And also, you have to be humble. Many people -- "realistic kids" who think in "realistic" ways -- say, "Hey! You can't be humble in this kind of society; you have to be alert. You have to be arrogant sometimes and act like you know everything. Don't blink -- just stand there and let them know you're confident. Then you will get away with many things in life. They may be right, living in this world. But that's not where we're at; that's not what we're aiming for. That's why we have to be humble. When we're humble, we have the potential to grow more. When you're arrogant, you stop growing. You draw a line within yourself, saying, "I don't want to grow any more. I know everything"

Satan is limited. His world is limited. In Harvard and the other Ivy League schools, where pride is based on knowledge, students achieve only a very limited level of excellence. They cannot excel beyond that, they cannot see beyond it. They cannot reach God, because they are focused exclusively on attaining knowledge from the satanic world. They are proud of their knowledge and riding high on that knowledge, but it leads to a dead end; it's not eternal. In order to expand eternally, you must embrace God. Without God, there are always limits or horizons beyond which we cannot pass.

Hyo Jin Nim conveyed his energy and compassion in his songs.

Hyo Jin Nim conveyed his energy and compassion in his songs.

The Need for a Standard

But now even some of the professors are changing; people are coming back and realizing that there must be, there has to be, some kind of absolute standard somewhere that can be a foundation for value. Without it, people realize they're drifting; any kind of little wind or storm will just tip them over. We must have some kind of standard. You cannot do your normal daily routine without a functioning mind. Even with your so-called freedom you must have a structured mind, a center. Without that, you will just wander into space. You will be like a vegetable. Vegetable freedom.

It will ultimately lead people to vegetableness! That is why we have to have a center. Some of the professors are realizing there has to be an absolute center, because without it people don't think about their country.

In America, pride and patriotism have been lost, but now they say America is coming back to patriotism. We were sleeping, but we're waking up little by little. We're finally realizing the importance of basic fundamental ethics. Patriotism is coming back, our understanding of moral values is coming back, and ultimately people will be ready to receive the understanding of the existence of God. They're realizing, they're opening their eyes, and we have so much to give them. They're slowly waking up, but we have to shake them, wake them up a little faster: "You must get up!"

That's why we're here, that's what CARP is for. We have to wake up and start fresh. Who is better prepared for this than you -- the younger generation? You have that kind of vitality. With your strength and exhilaration and enthusiasm, you can wake up America. That is the greatest thing you can do for yourself and for God. It's much greater than earning a million dollars. How far do you think a million dollars will go? But how valuable do you think it will be when you wake up the young people, when you wake up your generation? Your deeds will live on forever. Your heart, your love, will live on forever. You can have an eternal spirit to treasure in yourself. If you really treasure it, what more can you give to yourself than that? What more is there to offer within this world? What will outshine that greatness?

Totally Devote Yourselves

Your physical body doesn't last long; I know that. Our eternal spirit is what we have. That's the greatest gift from God, and that's the greatest gift you can give to your descendants and reflect into the world. Ultimately, the love you give will come back to you. You will be the inheritor. That is why we must really commit ourselves. When we truly realize this vision, there's nothing that can stop us.

I really want you to take this time to make a strong pledge: "I will commit myself 100 percent. I will march forward with confidence, and I'll be strong. I'll show the joy of God to the people who need it, who are waiting, just waiting for it have seen so many people wandering, waiting to feel something new, something joyful." We have to show them something different that will last forever. All the fashions and trends will pass on. The only true thing is God's love. I know there are many, many committed young people out there, and I'm sure you know that too. That's why you have to totally devote yourself.

You must take time to pray. Prayer gives you more room to expand your physical horizons because your mind is eternal, unlimited, boundless. Through prayer you are giving and investing time while your physical body catches up. That's why you need to pray. Investing that kind of time will help a lot, I'm sure, and through that you can grow much more.

Try to understand Father's heart and try to understand each other. You must love each other, because all the people you work with are so precious. They're your brothers and sisters. Like you, they have been born again through Principle; they're alive again. In a way, you share the same blood in God's eyes. And you know, blood is thicker than water. You have that kind of relationship among yourselves and transcend race. You have to focus on that kind of heart. I have confidence in you, and I know God is waiting for you to just wake up and go, to wake up the people around you. He's eager to bless you with so many inspiring messages and inspiring visions.

I want to share this with you, and I want you to inspire me also with your heart and your visions. That's why I'm here too. I want to grow with you. I want to see inspiring things coming from you, and I want you to give them to me, so I can give more to other people. Give and take. So you must really work hard. Then I'll be stuffed with your inspiration! I have so many people to inspire me. I'm just myself, but you are so many. Maybe that is why Father told me, "You are the happiest person in the world" He was right. I'm realizing this more and more as I spend time with you, as I grow with you. I want you to grow up with me and share your heart and give your inspiration to the people around you. That is our mission, and that is the greatest thing we can do for this world and for God.

Thank you very much. 

CARP Convention Keynote Speech

Hyo Jin Moon
October 11, 1986
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center

My fellow students and honored guests: I am truly grateful to God for the opportunity to speak to all of you at this beautiful convention center here in New York. I believe it is quite significant that this third annual World Student Convention, which CARP has sponsored, is taking place in America. This year commemorates 210 years of freedom, hope, and cultural diversity in America. Nowhere else in the world is there such freedom of opportunity; people from all nations come here to find success and prosperity. This month also marks the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, which stands in the harbor as a testimony to the hopes and dreams that can be realized here.

Yet the degree of freedom here has brought serious problems as well. Many people amass tremendous wealth, with little concern for those around them who are less fortunate. Others decide that the world affords them too little happiness and resort to drugs, alcohol abuse, and physical indulgence to fulfill that crying need.

These problems have persisted for so long that many today feel it is hopeless to find real, permanent solutions. Can we solve global problems with a Ph.D. in philosophy or economics? So far, no matter how brilliant people are, no matter how powerful a nation is, no one has been able to solve these most pressing problems.

An Innovative Solution

Answers based on material help alone have proven themselves insufficient to solve such global problems. But I invite you to try an innovative solution: God's love. The love of God is so overwhelming that anyone affected by it doesn't need an artificial high. My father once said that "man is meant to be intoxicated by the love of God:' He explained that when captured by the love of God, your entire body feels enraptured in a glorious state of joy. God's love knows no racial, cultural, or national boundaries. When you feel God's love you experience true human dignity.

But the love of God isn't merely a personal experience. Godly love is special because it is selfless. It thinks of others first. It cannot tolerate the unhappiness of others. A person filled with God's love treats everyone as his own brother or sister. He simply can't settle for less. With the love of God, helping others is as natural as waking up in the morning. By practicing God's love we can maintain true human value and bring about a prosperous, harmonious world community.

Equally important in achieving true happiness is a universal system of values. In the past, the great scholars and religious leaders of the world have taken important steps toward such a universal value system. Today, however, we need to complete this process with a new understanding that can embrace all persons, all religions, and all cultures, while preserving the unique value of each individual.

The most important thing for us to learn as college students is how to demonstrate God's love and universal values in our daily lives. The campus community is a great place to start, because it contains such a wealth of creativity and idealism. Students have the potential to be the vanguard, bringing positive solutions to the problems of mankind. The youth of every era have been the hope of their generation. In ancient biblical times, the young prophet Joshua led the new generation of Israelites into the Promised Land. And the American patriot Nathan Hale was only 21 years old when he inspired his countrymen with these last words: "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country:' But today we cannot be satisfied with the progress of a single nation or people. Our challenge is to unite all races, nations and religions to establish a truly peaceful world.

Time to Take Action

In order to accomplish this task, we need a new kind of student movement. Student movements of the past were filled with idealism but had no direction or focus. Today we must learn from the past and work with united effort to find new vision and deal effectively with the challenges of the present.

One area in which our help is desperately needed is the area of drug abuse. Nancy Reagan said last month that drugs "take and take, until finally every time a drug goes into a child, something else is forced out, like love and hope and trust and confidence. Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare"

The biggest crime today is that drug abuse is infecting a lower and lower age group. Drugs are now available to many children in elementary school. They are losing their hope and their chance to improve our society even before they are old enough to make wise choices.

When our own younger brothers and sisters are being corrupted by the drug menace, it's time to take action. Let us work together with community leaders, teachers, and parents to show all young people that there is a better high than drugs -- the high of service to others. For when we extend ourselves to other people our own character develops and we are all the better for the effort. But you here already know this, for you are the leadership for our generation. Our challenge is to pass on the message that love and service are the bywords of the eighties.

International Cooperation

Besides attacking drug abuse, we are also initiating a World Student Service Corps, with the hope of creating an international volunteer network that can provide a way for students to assist in the development of any other nation. The World Student Service Corps offers an opportunity for students to take their ideas and their energy and invest them on the national or the global level.

We can talk and talk about needing respect for people of other cultures and nationalities. But good ideas must be put into practice to show their real value. Working with people of other countries, in service to those who need help, is the best way to prove that people who are different from ourselves are just as beautiful as we are.

This world volunteer service work will become a model of international cooperation for the sake of those in need. It will broaden our education through the experience with other cultures, beliefs, and ways of life. If world peace is to come, we students must be able to lead the way. I challenge you to involve yourselves in this project and thereby show a standard of love and service beyond nationality to promote and achieve world peace.

Let us truly make this third CARP Convention of World Students a starting point for a new student movement based upon new vision for students all over the world. Let us show the world that we can make a difference. And let us unite together as a worldwide family to become the herald of a new world of love and value.

Thank you very much. May God bless you. 

Hyo Jin nim leads CARP to the Berlin Wall

Joon Ho Seuk
October 1986

Hyo Jin nim ascended at 9:43 on the morning of March 17, 2008

Hyo Jin nim ascended at 9:43 on the morning of March 17, 2008

Last August, I was in Korea when Father called me to come to American to accompany Hyo Jin nim to Berlin for the fourth CARP Convention of World Students. That convention, in Berlin, was very dangerous. We faced a lot of opposition from communists. There were bombing threats and many negative newspaper articles. The beautiful facility that had been reserved for the main convention cancelled the event When CARP then reserved the International Congress Hall, they too cancel led. We sued them in court and won.

There was so much opposition that Father advised Hyo Jin nim not to attend the rally but to attend only the main convention and quickly return to America. CARP leaders urged him to do that, but he not only wanted to attend the rally, he insisted on leading the march.

I deeply feared for his safety, leading so many people in a march of almost two hours duration but he was so courageous. CARP is now more academic, but we used to have many in the United States. We were more demonstrative then and were frequently misunderstood. Sometimes, we got into fights. We had forty-nine different rallies in a month during the KAL 007 incident protests. We made a national and international impression. But in Berlin for the first time, I was very scared for Hyo Jin nim's life. There were many bomb threats.

On the day of the march, heavily armed German police and twenty vans escorted and protected CARP members on both sides. This was not just a CARP event; all the European church members were mobilized, led by Rev. Won Pil Kim. I questioned myself internally: In case something happened to Hyo Jin nim, if a bullet comes, am I ready to protect him at the cost of my life? I was determined to walk with him side by side. People were throwing eggs and paint at us. Hyo Jin nim said, "My life is in God's hands." He didn't care; he didn't worry; he just courageously marched forward. I was so inspired and I learned so much from him during this time about courage, strength and boldness. When we arrived at the Berlin Wall, he delivered a beautiful, inspiring speech.

East German territory is six or seven meters from the Wall and the West German police can do nothing in that area. So the communists tried to disrupt us with a counter-rally there. We had to confront them and push them away from blocking the Wall. The next day, the newspapers said that the Unification Church pushed the Leftists into East German territory. At the end, Hyo Jin nim went to the Berlin Wall and prayed so fervently that his face became thoroughly wet with tears. I did not pray; not because I did not want to, but because I wanted to watch. Therefore, I could see his face as he prayed and I could feel his deep commitment.

Father and Mother were so happy to hear of the experience at the Wall. It was a major victory because for the first time, international students came together to demand the destruction of the Berlin Wall. It made an impression globally. Father and Mother called us to go to Alaska directly from Germany and when we got there, Father came back early to hear our report.

In October 1986: Hyo Jin nim leads CARP to the Berlin Wall
Joon Ho Seuk

Last August, I was in Korea when Father called me to come to American to accompany Hyo Jin nim to Berlin for the fourth CARP Convention of World Students. That convention, in Berlin, was very dangerous. We faced a lot of opposition from communists. There were bombing threats and many negative newspaper articles. The beautiful facility that had been reserved for the main convention cancelled the event When CARP then reserved the International Congress Hall, they too cancel led. We sued them in court and won.

There was so much opposition that Father advised Hyo Jin nim not to attend the rally but to attend only the main convention and quickly return to America. CARP leaders urged him to do that, but he not only wanted to attend the rally, he insisted on leading the march.

I deeply feared for his safety, leading so many people in a march of almost two hours duration but he was so courageous. CARP is now more academic, but we used to have many in the United States. We were more demonstrative then and were frequently misunderstood. Sometimes, we got into fights. We had forty-nine different rallies in a month during the KAL 007 incident protests. We made a national and international impression. But in Berlin for the first time, I was very scared for Hyo Jin nim's life. There were many bomb threats.

On the day of the march, heavily armed German police and twenty vans escorted and protected CARP members on both sides. This was not just a CARP event; all the European church members were mobilized, led by Rev. Won Pil Kim. I questioned myself internally: In case something happened to Hyo Jin nim, if a bullet comes, am I ready to protect him at the cost of my life? I was determined to walk with him side by side. People were throwing eggs and paint at us. Hyo Jin nim said, "My life is in God's hands." He didn't care; he didn't worry; he just courageously marched forward. I was so inspired and I learned so much from him during this time about courage, strength and boldness. When we arrived at the Berlin Wall, he delivered a beautiful, inspiring speech.

East German territory is six or seven meters from the Wall and the West German police can do nothing in that area. So the communists tried to disrupt us with a counter-rally there. We had to confront them and push them away from blocking the Wall. The next day, the newspapers said that the Unification Church pushed the Leftists into East German territory. At the end, Hyo Jin nim went to the Berlin Wall and prayed so fervently that his face became thoroughly wet with tears. I did not pray; not because I did not want to, but because I wanted to watch. Therefore, I could see his face as he prayed and I could feel his deep commitment.

Father and Mother were so happy to hear of the experience at the Wall. It was a major victory because for the first time, international students came together to demand the destruction of the Berlin Wall. It made an impression globally. Father and Mother called us to go to Alaska directly from Germany and when we got there, Father came back early to hear our report.