Five Management Rules
Kook Jin Moon
February 25, 2007
Chungshim Youth Center
Chung Pyung, Korea
These are the five rules of management we presented to our group: We asked our managers to choose results over status, to choose accountability over popularity, to choose clarity over certainty, to choose productive conflict over harmony and to choose trust over invulnerability.
One of the major problems we've had in the Unification Movement is that many of our organizations and leaders were more interested in preserving their position and their status than focusing on delivering actual, substantial, measurable results for the sake of our entire church. Since they were interested in protecting their status, they were not willing to face reality. As a result, reports were distorted, there were exaggerations, and dissent was basically not allowed. What we have tried to do here in the Korean Foundation and in the Tongil Group is bring in more openness. We are trying for transparency; being truthful and sharing data with all of our church. The remarkable thing is that when you show trust, respect and honesty; you get those things back.
Ours has been the work of helping people to become free and honest with themselves; helping them to become free and honest in serving our True parents and in making substantial results. That is what I would like to share with you today -- how we can become free, because today we are living in the time of liberation. Our responsibility is not to enslave people, but to free them spiritually so that they can all enter the kingdom of heaven and all become children of God.
This is the definition of Six Sigma: "It's a way of measuring processes with a goal of near perfection, represented by 3.4 Defects per Million Opportunities (DFMO); it's an approach to changing the culture of an organization. Most accurately; though, Six Sigma is defined as a broad and comprehensive system for building and sustaining business performance, success and leadership."'
There are six major themes in Six Sigma -- a genuine focus on the customer; data and fact-driven management; process-focused management and improvement; proactive management; "boundaryless" collaboration; and a drive for perfection, yet a tolerance for failure.
My brothers and sisters, we have all come together; we have all been brought together by our True Parents; and we all have been brought together by the Divine Principle and the teachings of this church. The Principle teaches us that with the advent of our True Parents this is the age of perfection. My friends, my brothers, my sisters, if this is the substantial age of perfection, don't you think that God has introduced concepts to achieve perfection on earth, perfection in organizations today -- at the same time that He has revealed the spiritual truth of the Divine Principle to our True Parents, so that both the spiritual side and the external side can together harmoniously achieve perfection in this age?...
My brothers and sisters, perfection is achievable today. It is. But it is achievable through failure. In Six Sigma and in Continuous Improvement, in order for us to improve, we have to fail. So, when Jesus came to the earth as the Messiah, he preached to all the people of the world, "Judge not, lest you be judged." He taught us to love and forgive sinners, to embrace those who have fallen from God. All the people of the world are children of God, and it is our responsibility in this age to gather all of God's children and lead them all to the kingdom of heaven.
The process of continuous improvement is found in Six Sigma philosophy. This flow chart is called a "closed loop" system; it's a circular system -- hence, continuous improvement. How does this work? First, you pick a process; then you pick a key objective. You pick key indicators. You develop change concepts. You plan. You do. You study and you act. You implement those concepts and study and observe the results. Let me show you how it works.
Continuous improvement
The Foundation business group is the process we are dealing with here. Our key objective is to make profit. The key indicator is operating profit. Our change concept is to sell or liquidate unprofitable companies that cannot be easily fixed.
We now need to implement the change concept we developed. We plan. We do the market valuation of all the companies in our business group. We decide which money-losing companies are too difficult to fix, decide which companies to dispose of. We dispose of the companies we planned on disposing of. We review the results and their effect on the operating income of the group. If the effect is good, we record the change concept as a standard operating policy (SOP) of the business group.
This is the result of the first operation of the Continuous Improvement Cycle:
We sold the following: Wacom, INP, Hyundai Industries, and Sung Shin Investments. We liquidated or bankrupted: Hwa Shin, Plastic Software, Prime Silt, and Sung Won King Krill.
I don't know, my brothers and sisters, some people say that businesses sell themselves. But they weren't that easy to sell or dispose of. Our group is getting better because we are doing specific things and executing these change concepts.
This was the first cycle. We made substantial improvement by doing this. Our operating loss was reduced substantially; by this, there was a huge reduction in operating loss.
Now that we have executed and done the first cycle, we have to come up with a new change concept. The first cycle was to liquidate or sell businesses that are hard to fix. That stays as our standard operating policy; we don't throw that away. If we see the same situation again in the future, we use that standard operating policy.
Continuous improvement -- the second cycle
In order to improve our group further we need to come up with a new change concept. The process stays the same. The key objective is the same. The key indicator is the same, but the change concept changes.
Here we have it again -- continuous improvement: Foundation business group; key objective, make profit; key indicator, operating profit; change concept, restructure unprofitable business to make profit or reduce loss.
I don't know how many of you have done business restructuring, but in the field of management, restructuring is one of the most difficult jobs to do. To do successful business restructuring is even harder. I can tell you that for a fact because I spent countless hours working on these restructuring projects. I interviewed hundreds of people and had to make hundreds of decisions on who to fire. My friends, people do not fire themselves. This is the hard work we've been doing for two years.
The PDSA cycle: We develop a restructuring plan for the companies that are unprofitable or have low profitability. We execute the plan. We review the results and their effect on the operating income of the group. If the effect is good, we record the change concept as a standard operating policy of the business group.
We restructured the following companies: Il Hwa, II Shin, the Segye Times, and TIC companies.
My vice-chairman gave you the report this morning. You can see the quality of management we've brought together. We have very good professionals working for us now.
As a result of the second round of the Continuous Improvement Cycle, our group experienced greater, additional reduction in operating loss and improvement in our profitability. Now that we have completed two of the Continuous Improvement Cycles, we have to come up with a new change concept.
A key point to understand is that business improvement, organizational development, is done deliberately. Nothing in business organization happens by chance. It all has to be planned to be successful.
Continuous improvement -- the third cycle
Again the process is the Foundation business group; the key objective is to make profit, the key indicator is operating profit. The change concept is to grow businesses to improve low-profit businesses.
Then we go to our PDSA cycle? We make a plan to grow revenues in a profitable manner to take greater effective advantage of fixed expenses. We implement the plan and review the results on the operating income of the group. If the effect is good, we record the concept as a standard operating policy of our business group.
As a result, we improved, through growth, the operating profit of Yong Pyong Resort and Sun Won Construction. All the businesses in that group have improved. Not one has gotten worse. Did this happen by chance?
Let's be reasonable now; we are all grown-ups. We can make the Tongil Group outstandingly successful. The world movement, our Unification Movement, can be outstandingly successful. But in order to realize our potential, we have to become honest with ourselves.
Based on three rounds of the Continuous Improvement Cycle, we now have three standard operating policies. We will sell or liquidate unprofitable companies that cannot be easily fixed. We will restructure unprofitable business to make profit or reduce loss, and we will grow business to improve low-profit businesses.
We've done, for example, one restructuring already in the Segye Times. The president of the company worked hard and had to make many difficult decisions to do that restructuring. All of us in the Tongil Foundation and in the entire Tongil Movement appreciate his effort in making those changes. We should all give the president of the Segye Times, President Lee, a big round of applause.
But, my friends, what is our second operating policy? It is restructuring unprofitable business to make profit or reduce loss. Although we have reduced the loss at the Segye Times, it is still substantial. That's not good enough. According to our standard operating policy; we will do restructuring until we get the proper mix of human and fixed resources, so that we can make this organization sustainable. We have made much progress, but our work is just beginning. It is not finished -- this is just a start.
Now that we have done three rounds of the Continuous Improvement Cycle, what is the next challenge? We must come up with a new change concept to do another cycle, a fourth cycle. Once we complete the fourth cycle, we do a fifth, sixth, seventh. Continuous improvement goes on forever. It never stops. Organizations today are able to achieve near perfection in the quality of their manufactured products because they are continuously incrementally making themselves, their organization and their products better. My brothers and sisters, this is truly the age of perfection. We are seeing perfection being achieved in this day, in this hour, at this time, in substance.
You've already seen the results from the accountants' statements. Those are the facts. Nobody's making those numbers up. They have all been reviewed by qualified accountants, both internal and external.
Continuous improvement -- God's providence
But my brothers and sisters, we are not heir to talk about business. We are here to talk about our True Parents, about God's providence and God's will on the earth. Don't you believe that God is continuously working throughout history and through all of us to bring all of us closer to Him? Don't you think God wants to save all His children, bring the entire family of man together as one family under God, without excluding one single person? My friends, my brothers and sisters, I too, share that conviction, with you. [Applause]
It is interesting that when we look at our Divine Principle and when we look at the Continuous Improvement Cycle, we can see Six Sigma and the Continuous Improvement Cycle in the Divine Principle that we read every day.
Our True Parents have already taught us everything. All the truth is right before our very eyes, but we are blind; we do not see what is there. Now is the time to throw away our prejudices, our intolerance, our greed and our selfishness and truly embrace the truth of God, of True Parents as the True Parents of all humanity, of all the people.
Look again at the Continuous Improvement Cycle. The process we pick this time is the providence of restoration. The key objective -- restoring God's dominion; establishing Abraham as the Father of Israel; the key indicator -- accomplishing the foundation of faith by a successful offering, and the change concept -- make Abraham the father of God's chosen people. This is the Principle.
PDSA Cycle: Pick Abraham as the father of the Israelite people; make him and his descendants prove their faith in God. Do -- establish the foundation of faith through offerings of a heifer, ram and dove. Study -- review the results and their effects on the providence of restoration. If the effect is good, record the change concept as a standard operating policy of the providence. Result -- Abraham cut the bull and ram as God directed but failed to cut the dove. The dove was taken by Satan. Because of the failure of the first offering, his descendants were condemned to four hundred years of slavery.
So we failed, okay. What do we do? Do it again. This is continuous improvement. The process is the providence of restoration. The key objective -- restore God's dominion; establish Abraham as the Father of Israel; the key indicator -- accomplish the foundation of faith by a successful offering; make Abraham the father of God's chosen people.
Pick Abraham as the father of the Israelite people; make him and his descendants prove their faith in God. Do -- establish a foundation of faith through offering Isaac. Study -- review the results and their effects on the process of restoration. If the effect is good, record the change concept as a standard operating policy of the providence.
Result -- Abraham succeeded in offering Isaac. God continued working through Isaac and his descendants to win substantial victory over Satan. The foundation of faith was fulfilled.
Continuous improvement in the process of restoration -- the next cycle: Key objective -- restore God's dominion, resolve the Cain-Abel conflict at the family level. Key indicator -- accomplish foundation of substance by bringing Esau to voluntary surrender to Jacob. Change-concept -- By restoring the Cain-Abel relationship, create the formula for successfully subjugating Satan and lay the foundation for the coming of the Messiah.
PDSA: Pick Jacob as the new Abel and Esau as the new Cain. Establish the foundation of substance through Esau voluntarily submitting to Jacob. Review the results and their effect on the providence of restoration. If the effect is good, record the change concept as a standard operating policy of the providence.
What was the result? Jacob succeeded in subjugating Esau through love. Jacob established the foundation of substance; through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, God gained victory over Satan and established the root for Israel. The foundation for the coming of the Messiah was established.
From the Continuous Improvement Cycle we get the standard operating procedure; follow Jacob's course to subjugate Satan. Fulfill a faith offering to separate from Satan and accomplish the foundation of faith. Bring Cain to voluntary surrender to fulfill the foundation of substance.
This is the standard operating policy of the providence. Moses followed Jacob's course at the national level. He fulfilled a forty-based faith condition and subjugated the nation of Israel through three courses.
Jesus followed Jacob's course to become the Messiah. He fulfilled a forty-based faith condition and established the foundation of substance.
Brothers and sisters, this is the Principle. God is working through history and all of us to continuously improve us. Continuous improvement is not about exclusion but about inclusion. It's not about intolerance but about tolerance. It's not about punishment; it's about forgiveness. These are things which Jesus brought to us and which Father is now teaching. I ask you: Why are you so reluctant to open your eyes to this?
Becoming the stewards of a nation
I have a question for you. What is Cheon II Guk? It is the nation where the subjugation of Cain by Abel occurs naturally and continuously. What does this mean? When we look at the transition of power in democracies, we see this transition. Cain, represented by the party in power, bloodlessly and automatically relinquishes power to Abel, represented by the new party; which has the love and support of the people.
In this age of completion, where is God? God is with all the people. If we take this process of natural subjugation and infinitely speed it up, Cheon II Guk is a place where all are Abel. Because in the kingdom of heaven, people who serve themselves and are only selfish cannot rise and hold positions of authority.
I have not come here on my own authority. I am here only because True Parents asked me to come here. Today I stand here before you only in service to our church and all of our members. I did not come to judge all of you; instead, my responsibility is to be judged by you. That is the responsibility of all our leadership...
To make Korea our nation is very simple. We just need to make 50 percent of the people of this nation our members. It's a democracy. No individual or organization is going to give us power. If we want to become the stewards of the nation, we need to make all of the people of the nation our people.
How can we do this? The problem is not the outside world. The problem is not the satanic world. The problem is us. We are the problem. The reason we have not been able to expand our church is because we have reached a limit in ourselves. We do not grasp our True Parents' comprehension of the Principle and the truth. That is the gap. The gap is between our perception and True Parents' perception; it's between our perception and God's perception.
In the world today; VIPs and thousands of other people respect our True Parents, but they will not join our movement. The reason is simple. They know our organization is still immature. It is not capable of digesting organizations at a higher level of development. Our leaders are still immature. They have not yet risen to a level where they have truly abandoned their ambitions and their greed. Our leaders have memorized and studied the Principle hundreds of times and probably know it by heart; yet they miss the essence. Just like the Jews at the time of Jesus Christ, who knew the teachings and the Mosaic Law by heart but missed the essence. The course of indemnity is the course of a foundation-level religion. That is our current status. Ours is the course of a foundation-level, tribal-level, religion -- like Judaism.
We have to get rid of the past in order for us to enter a new age where we truly universalize our church and become a growth-level then a perfection-level religion and organization. This is our struggle and our challenge today; here and now.
Investment for a time of transition
My brothers and sisters, if we can create an institution that is fair, based on policies and procedures that protect the rights of individuals' accomplishments, which seek to do justice rather than exert authority, there are many churches, thousands -- tens of thousands -- of churches, that will join our movement. This is the direction that I believe our True Parents are leading us in. We just need to open our eyes and see it.
The Foundation's goals in terms of business are very simple. They are to increase the market value of Foundation companies, to increase the market value of Foundation property and to provide cash flow to support church growth. We can do it.
This is a good illustration of compounded growth rates.
This is where we started from fifty years ago. This is where we are today. If we truly follow our True Father's intent, where can we he fifty years from now? This is a graph showing compounded growth rates over fifty years. If we have started out with one billion dollars of church assets, if we grow at ten percent, after fifty years, we will have 120 billion dollars.
Over fifty years, if we grow at 12.5 percent, starting with one billion today, we will have over 360 billion. If we grow at 15 percent, we will have more than one thousand billion.
The lesson is very clear. Moderate rates of return over a long time will produce exponential growth in investment value. It is more important to stay in the game than to win big. You stay in the game by avoiding risk and preserving capital. The preservation of capital is the fundamental building block of investment strategies. Our failure is not that we invested too little; it is that we invested too much. We should remember this point.
This is a slide showing the indemnity period versus liberation. There is a clear divide. It is very different. The times of God's providence before Jesus came and after Jesus came are very different. The same is true of our situation. The times of the Unification Movement on the foundation level and on the growth level are very different. We have to make this transition for us to realize God's will and True Parents' vision. In the indemnity period we have the process of making the foundation of faith and substance, Noah building the ark, Abraham's offering, Moses in the wilderness -- a period of absolute obedience to irrational orders.
The period of liberation is different. It is a period of the coming of the Messiah and his acceptance, the period of understanding God's intent rather than following the letter of the law, the period where man governs himself by his own conscience, a period of brotherhood and universal acceptance...
What does this mean for me? We have all suffered. I have suffered, you have suffered -- but we have to remember that we suffer so that others do not have to. Unification Church members must learn to be more open and embracing and universal. It is a period without discrimination, a period when all people can inherit God's blessing and the kingdom of heaven because of True Parents' sacrifices.
I will leave you with one last slide. These are Tire Parents' words from God's Ideal Family and the Responsibility the Citizens of Cheon Il Guk are Called to Fulfill.
The main attributes of God's true love are that it is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal, so whoever practices true love will live with God, share His happiness, and enjoy the right to participate as an equal in His work and the right of inheritance. Therefore, a life lived for the sake of others, a life of true love, is the absolute prerequisite for entering the kingdom of heaven.
Our True Parents and God have given us the keys to the kingdom of heaven. All we need to do is practice it.
Live For The Sake Of Others
Kook Jin Moon
February 25, 2007
us.chungpyung.org
Kook Jin Nim giving a passionate speech, Cheon Il Guk Leaders Assembly.
2nd day of Cheon Il Guk Leaders Assembly
The 'Cheon Il Guk Leaders Assembly 2007' (Feb. 24 – 26) welcoming True Parents and True Children was held at Chungshim Youth Center (Chung-a Camp) with around 1,500 leaders from around the world attended. After Hyun Jin Nim's speech on the 2nd day, Kook Jin Nim gave a speech for an hour from 5 p.m.. The leaders listened to Kook Jin Nim's passionate speech and gave huge applauses in between the speech. Kook Jin Nim talked about the importance of a continuous reformation as well as the living for the sake of others.
A success is never achieved unexpectedly. A great result cannot be achieved easily. I have confidence that our Unification Movement can achieve great achievements. We have already had small achievements. However, that is just the beginning. We must maintain a continuous reformation.
Through the Salvation Providence God has worked to create us, His sons and daughters. He has worked to save every single one of us. Through maintaining the continuous reformation God has developed the providence. So we must be patient and follow this path. That is the path of amnesty.
Cheon Il Guk is the place where Cain submits naturally to Abel. If we all live that way of natural submission, we can become patriots. Those people who solely live for them selves cannot survive in Cheon Il Guk.
You must become a person trusted by a country. We must make the citizens to follow us. The problem is neither Satan nor the world. It is our responsibility.
I didn't come to Korea for myself. True Parents called me here. I am standing here to support you members. Because that is my responsibility.
Heaven is a world living for the sake of others. It's a world where one person's joy is a joy for the whole. The absolute condition required to enter Heaven is to live for the sake of others. We must practice this way of living.
Supporting The Growth Of Our Church
Kook Jin Moon
December 7, 2006
The following is excerpted froin the speech Kook-jin nim is giving to members during his ongoing tour of 720 churches in Korea.
My brothers and sisters, God desires for us to become his children. As our True Parents explain we do this in two stages, by becoming engrafted into the lineage of True Parents through the blessing, and by inheriting the essence of God's true love.
In this spirit, I have come here to Korea to serve our True Parents and all of you as the chairman of the Tongil Foundation. When I arrived, I toured the businesses in our group and found a very difficult situation. For forty years our Tongil Group lost money. The situation was bad and not getting better, but with True Parents' blessing, I was able to turn the business group around and make a profit in 2005. Our business group continues to improve this year. The second half of this year will be more challenging because we suffered $55 million in damages through the flood at Yong Pyong Resort. Nonetheless, I am confident that we will be able to overcome this setback and build an even better resort there.
With the improvement of our business, the Foundation has contributed money for the Kintex rallies, for other rallies held in the cities of Korea, and for the palace entrance celebrations.
We also built a new church in Maier.
So how did we go from losing money to making money? First, we practiced the five rules of management and we introduced new management tools for our managers to follow: Theory of Constraint, Six Sigma, Net Present Value and KPI (Key Performance Indicators). We invested in new IT infrastructure; we brought in a groupware system for the Foundation and its businesses. We installed a group-level management information system. We hired over two dozen certified public accountants, attorneys, and other professionals from the best firms in Korea. Then, we interviewed all the middle management of all our companies, and promoted those who were qualified to higher positions. People who were not qualified were asked to move on. We then sold and disposed of non-performing non-strategic assets.
The goal for our Tongil Business Group is very simple. It is to make money for the Unification Movement, to increase the market value of the Foundation's companies, and to generate cash flow for the Foundation's activities...
In 1963 when True Father started the Foundation, he gave it three primary missions. First to actualize a Unification Nation; second to aid in the reunification of North and South Korea; third, to restore all material things back to God. If these are goals that we want to pursue, then my recommendation is that we become people that a nation's citizens will want to entrust the country to.
To become people that a country can trust, we should first show that we can prudently manage and grow the wealth of our church. By showing the nation that we are capable of managing the wealth of the church, we can gain confidence from the nation's people that we are able to be stewards of the nation. Once we win the trust of the nation, we can work to reunify North and South Korea through diplomacy and communication. By serving our church and our nation we can bring the people of Korea to respect, love, and follow the teachings of our Parents and in doing so we can restore all material things back to God.
I would like all of you to know that what I have accomplished here in Korea is not my doing, but all the credit goes to our True Parents. They, made all the difficult decisions that enabled our group to improve. As the CEO of the Tongil Foundation, all that I do will be for the benefit of our Parents and our church. In my position, I want all of you to know that the Foundation will be managed in accordance with True Parents' intent and according to the practice of living for the sake of the greater good. I will do my best to listen to and honor those who faithfully represent our Parents' words.
My commitment to you is to be a leader that can represent all our members. I have come hem to serve and have received no compensation for my work.
Nonetheless, I have been rewarded by the love and affection that you all have shown me, and by the inspirational work of many of our brothers and sisters who sacrificed material comforts to teach True Parents words and to minister to all of you. I thank all of you for the support that you have given me in my work and for loving and following our True Parents all of these years. I know that because of your commitment you suffered and were persecuted. but now we can see before us the fruits of our work. The Tongil Group is profitable and will continue to become more successful.
May God bless you and your families!
Thank you.
Walking With A True Son - Kook Jin Moon
September 2006
Enrique Ledesma
UPF Secretary General, Oceania
Sydney Australia
After greeting True Mother and entourage at the airport, the national leader, Rev. Mclnerheney; drove True Mother's car and I sat in the passenger seat as we took lice Mother and Kook-jin nim to the hotel. We had a very relaxed and informal discussion in which Kook-jin nim asked many questions about our situation. True Mother was listening and making comments in Korean, and we could sense how Kook-jin nim was intensely curious about our circumstances. With every question and comment he was digging deeper to understand our reality, our heart and feelings. He asked about ambassadors for peace, spoke about how to succeed in business and asked us about our business and financial situations, about how many members we had, how many in our second generation, how many blessed couples. He was so free and direct. he expected the same from us. He did not want spin or diplomatic answers but the truth. 1 felt it was wonderful to have such a noble son of True Parents so interested in our situation.
True Mother was also asking him to translate some of what we were saying, although she seemed to catch most of it. As I looked back to see True Mother's reaction, she gave us such a warm knowing smile, as if she already knew that and much more!
We arrived at the hotel where the True Family members were greeted by many members. After bows and flower presentations and realizing that we were all so busy to prepare, True Mother sent us all out in a soft voice and said she would rest a little.
Kook-jin nim had about two and a half hours before he would have to board a plane for Melbourne. The plan was that he would join True Mother for lunch and then leave for the airport.
A little while later, I was informed that Kook-jin nim wanted to go out for some fresh air and take a walk and he wanted to go with someone. Since there was no one really available and he didn't want to go with security, logically I was the one to go. I went and knocked on his door.
He said "Yes, I want to go for a brisk walk anywhere" Then the asked, "Do you know this area?" I said, "Yes," which was partly true, and then he looked at me and said "1 like to walk kind of fast. Is that okay with you?
"No worries," I replied.
We left the hotel room. He asked, "So where are we going?" I said "Let's go left past the parliament house (my mind was racing to think where the best route to Sydney Opera House was), and we will head down to the ocean."
"Great! 1Ne will get to see the ocean, that's great!" He walked very fast. People would stop at the red lights, but he was itching to go. I was a little worried because traffic comes from a different direction than in the States. I was starting to break a sweat.
He mentioned about how the trip was so long and difficult on everyone, so the best thing is to get out and get your heart pumping. "Isn't this great? I want to walk fast for an hour straight. So when do we get to the opera house?"
"Just a little further," I said. I could see the water in the distance, and felt hope that we were heading in the right direction. As he walked, he asked if I knew anything about his business in America. Luckily, I knew something because I had read an article about how successful it was. He gave me many statistics about it.
I ignorantly asked him if he had bought the business when the price was good.
"Bought the business? I started it from scratch!" he replied. "Now I can't keep up with demand, that's my problem. So I am about to diversify into life-style products. I can't stop! I have to keep going and diversify. I have a great team that supports me. I have to trust their creativity and keep them motivated. People that work for my company are happy people! Unification Church members should be the happiest people, right?" He stopped for a moment and looked at me with eyes that scanned my spirit respectfully but penetratingly.
Untruths and phoniness falter, lies stumble. Only truth is permitted. I felt so clearly True Father's spirit through those eyes.
Kook-jin nim is full of conviction. He is passionate, knowledgeable, and a very persuasive person, to say the least.
He walked very fast the whole way. Often I had to run to catch up. He would chose stairs wherever he could find them, climbing two or three steps at a time. All the way he was speaking about things like Starbucks and why competition is good for a company and what the necessary ingredients for success are in our modern world. He said, "We have the best message on earth, but we have not marketed ourselves well. We haven't studied our market well enough. If Starbucks fails to be innovative and creative they will fall behind in no time. They have been successful in branding themselves, but that is not enough. If they don't keep up with their competition, they will not survive. (I felt, maybe that this is the meaning of my experience today -- keeping up with Kook-jin nim, keeping up mentally adjusting myself spiritually to the wave of the future.) Finally, we arrived at our destination.
"Wow, so this is the Sydney Opera House?"
"We made it, thank God and all the spirit world." I thought. He tried finding a way to have a peek in but you had to join a tour. I was completely soaked with sweat. He was also sweating profusely.
"I like this city. It's unique! Pity though, these tours are like, in and out, you know what 1 mean? It would he nice to spend some time here."
"So how are you doing?" he asked. "Are you game for some more walking?" Feeling the blisters on my feet (I wore dress shoes) and my aching lumbar, l said "Sure, why not? If you get tired, we could always grab a taxi back for lunch," I offered.... He smiled and kept walking.
"Let's go a different way back that follows the water," Kook-jin nim said.
We found the entrance to the botanical gardens. In the distance he saw a long, I mean a long flight of stairs, and he started running towards them. "Come on let's go!" I sucked some air in and went for it. Somehow, this was part of the whole experience. I had to give 110 percent and go beyond any concept or comfort zone.
I received a call on my mobile from my wife working on hospitality and from security asking what Kook-jin nim's plan was for lunch because True Mother was about to eat. I explained that to Kook-jin nim, but he said, "Let's go grab a bite to eat somewhere out then."
"What kind of food would you prefer?" I asked.
He said" I want to eat a real Australian burger. Do you know where we can find such a thing?" I started walking down Martin Place and I saw a place that looked to have good food. I asked the waitress and she said "We have the best burgers right here. Just take a seat."
While we were waiting, Kook-jin nim spoke of his time spent in Korea restructuring Tongil Group, which had been losing money, yet within three years was in profit. This is an amazing accomplishment. He spoke in a rather detailed manner of the causes of this problem and what he had to do to reverse the hemorrhaging.
He asked me what was the most successful business our movement has in Australia. I told him Mr. Arai's business. And he asked me why I thought it was successful. I answered that, in my opinion, it was due to wise business practices accumulated over years and the fact that he could focus on business for so long. He agreed, but added that another important reason was that it was independent from the church. He said that business and church should grow toward the same goal but separately.
At this point his voice became almost a whisper and the look in his eves was almost vulnerable. (1 felt deeply the miserable position our True Children were in.) He doesn't know me, but he was sharing his heart so that we as members of True Parents' lineage could understand hint and his family and support him. He wanted us to know how he thought and where he was going and his hope that we would unite with him.
Since I am a leader in Oceania, I am sure he was sharing this not for my sake only but that many of us could understand his position.
He asked what I did before coming to Oceania. I replied that I worked as general manager of our newspaper in Ecuador, Tiempos del Mundo.
He spoke of how important it is to have an impact in the developed nations. Don't only think of having an impact in small, poor nations. "We have to move the big guns. We need to study Australian character and thinking and not expect them to fit into a program that would be accepted in the smaller, poorer nations. We have to find out where they are at and what they are interested in and meet them then-, not expect them to accept what we want to teach them."
Later on, I had a conversation with Kim Young-jun who said the exact same thing. Kim Young-jun and his wife work as the head of the Blessed Family Department in Korea and he works as one of the main assistants for Hyun-jin nim and World CARP. He is a very perceptive person who said that Australians are not such overtly religious people, so we have to find away to appeal to their best sensibilities and righteous character. "If you speak about God too much in the beginning. you will lose them. There's no need to. Meet them on their turf, where they feel comfortable. Gradually, you can bring them higher and they won't resist you."
Kook-jin nim spoke a lot about a new type of leader that must emerge. In the past, leadership was understood as "you must follow and respect me because I have this position." We lost many of our best people because of this style," he said. (Actually, even though I offered to carry his jacket he refused to let ace. When I offered to pay the meal he insisted on paying.)
I never felt that he expected any special treatment from me or anyone even though he is True Parents' son, a Harvard graduate, the leader of a multi-million dollar company, restructured, single-handedly in three years, a billion dollar company on the verge of bankruptcy). If anyone deserves our total respect, it is Kook-jin nim.
"A leader will only draw the kind of people that will accept the culture he has created. Why aren't people joining us? Not because we don't witness, but because of the culture we have created. That's what has to be looked at first.
What our movement needs is the synergistic leader who knows how to draw out the best in each and every person. We are all limited but when a leader of a business or community is able to tap into the creative synergistic, unlimited power of his team there is no limit to what can he done. This is based on trust and respect for the God-given potential in each person. Businesses that can draw from this reservoir will grow. The same is true for a movement like ours."
"But," he said, "Things are not all bad." Because of the change of culture he has created in our businesses in Korea a new kind of person is now joining. "There is incredible hope!" he added.
After restructuring our businesses he said there will be a total restructuring of our church and its culture, from external to internal.
We finished the burger, and went back to the hotel. On the way back we saw a Starbucks and he said "speaking of Starbucks, I would like to have a latte, is that okay, do we still have time?" he asked.
Still soaked in sweat but looking healthy, he said, "Well, I guess I better get ready, huh? Thanks a lot for the walk. It's good to pump the heart isn't it?"
After arriving at the hotel, he showered in five minutes, kissed True Mother and left with Mr. Arai for Melbourne.
Dedication Ceremony of Shin Su Nim of Kook Jin Nim's Family
Ji Ye Moon
May 17, 2006
Dedication Ceremony of Shin Su Nim, at Chungshim Village, May 17, 2006)
The Dedication Ceremony of Shin Su Nim to Heaven was held in Chungshim Village (Retirement Home) at 7:00 in the morning of May 17. Sin Su Nim was born in Chungshim Hospital in the morning of May 10.
An altar was prepared at the Dedication Ceremony, with the Seven Star Candle and a Congratulatory Cake. Instead of Kook Jin Nim, who is accompanying True Mother on her Tour in Japan, Ji Ye Nim's parents participated in the Dedication Ceremony.
In Ji Ye Nim's prayer; "I earnestly pray that Shin Sun Nim will practice True Love for the providence of God and True Parents, and also she will grow to become a women who can give and take as well as reborn all humankind in front of Heaven."
Then ended the prayer; "We deeply appreciate the grace that True Parents has bestowed us with. As a model family of The Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World will improve our family on the love foundation of absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal."
Rules of Management - Sigma Concepts - Improvement - Our Mission
Kook Jin Moon
February 25, 2005
It is good to see you all today. I’d like to discuss five major topics. First I’ll briefly go over the five rules of management that we’ve been employing at the Tongil foundation. I’d like to introduce the concept of six sigma and then go into more detail and explain the process of continuous improvement. Then I’d like to discuss the foundation’s mission, compounded growth rates and finally the period of liberation.
Here are the five rules of management which we presented to our group.
They are to:
1. Choose results over status
2. Choose accountability over popularity
3. Choose clarity over certainty
4. Choose productive conflict over harmony
5. Choose trust over invulnerability
One of the major problems we’ve had in the unification movement is many of our organizations and leaders unfortunately were more interested in preserving their position and status rather than being focused on delivering actual substantial measurable results for the sake of our entire church.
As a result, since they were interested in preserving their status, they were not willing to face reality. And as a result reports got distorted, there were exaggerations and dissent was basically not allowed. So what we’ve tried to do in the foundation in the Tongil group, we try to bring in more openness, trying to be transparent, truthful and show data to our leaders and members of our church and movement.
The remarkable thing is that when you show and give trust, respect and honesty, you get those things back. So our work has been to help people, helping people to become free and honest with themselves, helping them to become free and honest in serving our True Parents and then making substantial results.
That is what I’d like to share with you today, is how we can become free, because today we are in the time of liberation, our responsibility is not to enslave people, but to free them; to free them spiritual so that they can all enter the kingdom of heaven, and all become the children of God.
This is the definition of six sigma: "It is a way of measuring processes, a goal of near perfection, represented by 3 or 4 defects per million opportunities (DPMO), an approach to changing the culture of an organization. Most accurately, though, six sigma is defined as a broad and comprehensive system for building and sustaining business performance, success, and leadership." (Six Sigma Way p. 77)
There are 6 major themes in six sigma:
A genuine focus on the customer
Data and fact driven management
Process focused management, and improvement
Proactive management
"Boundary less" collaboration
A drive for perfection, and yet a tolerance for failure
My brothers and sisters, we have all come together and have been brought together here by our parents and by our Divine Principle and the teachings of this church. And the principle is teaching us that now, with the advent of True Parents, this is the age of perfection.
My friends, my brother and sisters, if this is the substantial age of perfection, don’t you think that God has introduced concepts to achieve perfection on this earth, perfection in organizations today? At the same time he’s revealed the spiritual truth to our True Parents so that both the spiritual side and the external side can work together harmoniously reach perfection in this age.
It is very interesting, if you look at the Bible, on the seventh day God created man, when we study the principle we know that the number 6 if there hadn’t been the fall, represents the number of perfection. Isn’t it interesting that today, the substantial way to achieve perfection is found in six sigma philosophy.
My brothers and sisters, perfection is achievable today, it is, but it is achievable through failure. In six sigma and in continuous improvement, in order for us to improve, we have to fail. So when Jesus came to earth as the messiah, he preached to all the people of the world, judge not lest you be judged. He taught us to love and forgive the sinners, to embrace those who had fallen from God. All the people of the world are children of God. It is our responsibility in this age to gather all of God’s children and lead them to the kingdom of heaven.
This is a process improvement flow chart. The process of continuous improvement is found in six sigma philosophy. Basically in this flow chart this is what we call a closed loop system, it’s a circular system, hence a continuous process.
Let me show you how it works:
Process: foundation business group
Key objective: Make profit
Key indicator: operating profit
Change Concept: sell or liquidate unprofitable companies which cannot be easily fixed
How do we implement this concept?
PDSA
Plan: do market value evaluation of all companies in business group, decide which money losing companies are too difficult to fix. Decide which companies to dispose of
Do: dispose of the planned companies
Study: review the results and their effect on the operating income of the group
Act: If the effect is good then record the change concept as a SOP (Standard Operating Policy) of the business group.
This is the result of the first operation of the continuous improvement cycle.
We sold the following:
Wacom
INP
Hyundai industries
Il sung leisure
Sung shin investments
We liquidated or bankrupted:
Hwa shin
Plastic software
Prime salt
Sung won king krill
I don’t know my brothers and sisters. People say that somehow businesses sell themselves, but it wasn’t that easy to sell and dispose of.
Our group is getting better because we are doing specific things and executing these changed concepts. So this was the first cycle, so we made a substantial improvement, by doing this our operating costs were reduced substantially. By this we have a nearly a 60 million reduction in operating loss.
Now that we’ve executed and finished the first cycle, now we have to come up with a new change concept. But we know that the first cycle is to liquidate or sell businesses that are hard to fix, so that stays as our standard operating policy we don’t throw that away, if we see that situation again in the future, then we implement our standard operating policy.
Now in order to improve our group further we have to come up with a new change concept, the process stays the same, the key objectives stay the same, the key indicators stay the same, but the change concept changes. So here we have it again.
Continuous improvement
Process: foundation business group
Key objective: make profit
Key indicator: operating profit
Change concept: restructure unprofitable business to make profit or reduce loss
I don’t know how many of you have done business restructuring, but in the field of management, business restructuring is one of the most difficult jobs to do. And to do successful business restructuring is even harder. I can tell you for a fact because I spent countless hours working on these restructuring projects, interviewing hundreds of people and making hundreds of difficult decisions on who to fire. My friends, people do not fire themselves, this is the hard work we’ve been doing for two years.
PDSA cycle
Plan: develop a restructuring plan for the companies that are unprofitable or have low profitability
Do: execute the restructuring plan
Study: review the results and their effect on the operating income of the group
Act: If the effect is good then record the change concept as a SOP of the business group
We restructured the following companies:
Ilwa
Il Shin
Sae Gyea Times
TIC companies
My vice chairman gave a report this morning. You can see the quality of management we’ve brought together. We have very good professionals working for us now.
So as a result of the second improvement cycle, our business group experienced a greater reduction in operating loss and improvement in our profitability.
Now that we’ve accomplished two cycles, we have to come up with new change concepts. A key point to understand is that business improvement and organizational development is done deliberately, nothing in a business organization happens by chance. All has to be planned to become successful.
Third cycle
Change concept is to grow businesses and to improve low profit business.
Then we go to our PDSA cycle. We make a plan to grow revenues in a profitable manner to more effectively take advantage of fixed expenses. We implement the plan, and review the results and their effect on the operating income of the group. If the effect is good then we record the change concept as a SOP of the business group.
The result, as a result we improved through growth
Central City
Young Pyong
Il Sung construction
Sun Won construction
All the businesses in our group have improved, not one has gotten worse. Is this by chance? Let’s be reasonable, we’re all grownups. Outstandingly successful, the world movement, our Unification Movement can be outstandingly successful. But in order to realize our potential we have to become honest with ourselves.
Now we have three standard operating policies:
Sell or liquidate unprofitable companies which cannot be easily fixed
Restructure unprofitable business to make profit or reduce loss
Grow business to improve low profit business
We’ve done, for example, one restructuring already in Sae Gyae Times. And the president of that company worked hard and had to make many difficult decisions to do that restructuring. All of us in the Tongil foundation and in the entire movement appreciate his efforts to make those changes. We all should give the president of Sae Gyae Times a big round of applause.
But my friends, what is our second operating policy? Although we have reduced the loss, the loss is still substantial. Nearly 20 million dollars a year. We started at 30 million and now we’re at 20. That’s not good enough. According to our SOP we will continue to do restructuring until we get the proper mix of human and fixed resources so we can make this organization sustainable.
We have made a lot of progress, but our work is just beginning. It is not finished. This is just the start. Now that we did four cycles of the continuous improvement cycle what is the next challenge? We must come up with a new cycle. Once we complete the fourth cycle then we do a fifth, sixth, seventh, and the continuous improvement goes on forever, it never stops.
This is the reason why organizations today are able to achieve near perfection in the quality of their product; because their continuously, incrementally making themselves and their organization and their product better. Brothers and sisters, this is truly the age of perfection, we are seeing perfection being achieved in this date, in this hour, in this time; In substance.
My brothers and sisters, we are not here to talk about business, we’re here to talk about our True Parents, we’re here to talk about the providence of humanity, God’s providence, and God’s will for the earth.
My brothers and sisters, don’t you believe that God is constantly working throughout history and through all of us to bring all of us closer to him. Don’t you think God wants to save all his children and bring the entire family of man together as one family under God, without excluding one single person?
My friends, my brothers and sister, I too share that conviction with you. It is an interesting thing, because when we look at our Divine Principle, and when we look at the continuous improvement cycle, we can see the six sigma continuous improvement cycle in the Divine Principle that we read every day.
Our True Parents have already taught us everything, all the truth is right before our very eyes, but we are blind, we do not see what is there. Now is the time to throw away our prejudices, our intolerance, our greed and our selfishness, and truly embrace the truth of God, of our True Parents, as a true parent of all humanity, of all the people.
When we look at continuous improvement:
Process: providence of restoration
Key objective: restore God’s dominion; establish Abraham as the father of Israel
Key indicator: accomplish the foundation of faith by successful offering
Change concept: make Abraham the father of God’s chosen people
This is the principle
PDSA cycle
Plan: pick Abraham as the father of the Israeli people, make him and his descendents prove their faith in God
Do: establish foundation of faith through offering of heifer, ram, and dove
Study: review the results and their effect on the providence of restoration If the effect is good then record the change concept as a SOP of providence
Result
Abraham cut the bull and ram as God requested but failed to cut the dove
Dove taken by Satan
Because of the failure of the first offering his descendents were condemned to 400 years of slavery
So we failed, ok, what do we do? Do it again, this is continuous improvement.
Process: providence of restoration
Key objective: restore God’s dominion; establish Abraham as the father of Israel
Key indicator: accomplish the foundation of faith by successful offering
Change concept: make Abraham the father of God’s chosen people
PDSA cycle
Plan: pick Abraham as the father of the Israeli people, make him and his descendents prove their faith in God
Do: establish foundation of faith through offering of Isaac
Study: review the results and their effect on the providence of restoration
If the effect is good then record the change concept as a SOP of providence
Result
Abraham succeeded in offering Isaac
God continued to work through Isaac and his descendants to win substantial victory over Satan
Foundation of faith fulfilled
Next cycle
Process: providence of restoration
Key objective: restore God’s dominion: resolve Cain Abel conflict at the family level
Key indicator: accomplish foundation of substance by bringing Esau to voluntary surrender to Jacob
Change concept: by restoring the Cain Abel relationship create the formula for successfully subjugating Satan and lay the foundation for the coming of the messiah
PDSA
P: pick Jacob as the new able and Esau as the new Cain
D: establish foundation of substance through Jacob voluntarily subjugating Esau
S: review the results and their effect on the providence of restoration
If the effect is good then record the change concept as a SOP of providence
Result
Jacob succeeded in subjugating Cain through love
Jacob established foundation of substance
Through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob God gained victory over Satan and established the root for Israel,
Foundation for the messiah was established
This is the SOP of providence.
Follow Jacob’s course to subjugate Satan.
Fulfill faith offering to separate from Satan and fulfill the foundation of faith
Bring Cain to voluntary surrender to fulfill foundation of substance
Moses followed Jacob’s course at the national level
Fulfilled 40 based faith condition and subjugated nation of Israel through 3 courses
Jesus followed Jacob’s course to become the messiah
Fulfilled 40 based faith condition and established spiritual foundation of substance
My friends, this is the principle. God is working through history and all of us to improve us. Continuous improvement isn’t about exclusion, but about inclusion. It’s not about intolerance, but tolerance. It’s not about punishment, but forgiving. These are the things that Jesus taught us and that now father is teaching us. I ask you, why are you so reluctant to open your eyes to this?
Now I have a question for you, what is Cheon Il Guk?
It is the nation where the natural subjugation of Cain by Abel occurs naturally and continuously.
What does this mean? When we look at the transition of power in democracies we see this transition. Cain represented by the defeated party bloodlessly and automatically relinquishes power to Abel represented by the new party which has the support and the love of the people.
In this process where is God? God is in all the people. If we take this process of natural subjugation and infinitely speed it up then Cheon Il Guk is a place where all become "Abel" because in the kingdom of heaven, people that serve only themselves cannot rise and hold positions of authority.
I have not come here on my own authority. I have come here only because True Parents have asked me to come here, and today I stand here before you only in service of our church and our members. In my position, I did not come here to judge you or all of you; instead my responsibility is to be judged by you. That is the responsibility of all our leadership.
Here is a quote from our True Parents from:
"God’s ideal family and the responsibility the citizens of Cheon Il Guk are called to fulfill"
"The kingdom of heaven is a natural world where all people live for the sake of one another. Consequently, antagonism and jealousy cannot be found anywhere in that world. It is a world that is not governed by money, position, or power. There, the success of every person represents the success of the whole, the likes of every person represents the likes of the whole, and the joy of every person represents the joy of the whole."
I am not a theologian, I have not graduated from seminary, how do I know this? I think to answer that question, you should answer, you are the ministers
The foundation’s mission is very simple, it is the mission given to us by our True Parents in 1963, nothing else. It is:
To substantiate the unification nation
To aid in the reunification of north and south Korea
To restore all material things back to God
How can we do this? It is very simple. We can do this by becoming a people that can win the trust of the nation. We need to show that we are capable of managing and growing the wealth of the church. We need to show an increase the wealth of our church to represent a significant percentage of the nation’s economy. We need to increase the number of church members to be a significant percentage of the population. We can do this. We can do this if we show integrity and transparency in the management of our public resources.
To make this nation of Korea our nation is very simple, we just need to make 50% of the population our members, this is a democracy, no one individual or organization is going to give us power. If we want to become the stewards of the nation, we need to make all the nations people our people. How can we do this?
The problem is not the outside world, the problem is not the satanic world, the problem is us, we are the problem, the reason we have not been able to expand our church is because we have reached the limit in ourselves. We do not grasp our True Parents comprehension of the principle and the truth. That is the gap, the gap between our perception and True Parents perception and God’s perception.
In the world today there are VIPs and thousands of people who respect our True Parents, but they will not join our movement, the reason is simple, they know that our organization is still immature, it is not capable of digesting organizations at higher levels of development, our leaders are still immature.
They have not yet risen to a level where they have truly abandoned their ambitions and their greed. Our leaders have memorized and studied the principle hundreds of times and probably know it by heart, but yet they miss the essence, just like the Jews at the time of Jesus Christ.
They knew the teachings and the Mosaic Law by heart but they missed the essence, the course of indemnity is the course of the formation level religion. That is our current status. In order for us to enter the new age, we have to get rid of the past and enter a new age in which we truly universalize our church and become a truly growth level and perfection level religion and organization. This is our struggle and our challenge today, here and now.
My brothers and sisters, if we can create an institution that is fair, based on policies and procedures, that protect the rights of an individual’s accomplishments, which seeks to do justice rather than to exert it’s authority, then there are many churches, thousands, tens of thousands of churches, that will join our movement.
This is the direction that I believe our True Parents are leading us in. we just need to open our eyes and see it.
The foundation’s goal in terms of business is very simple; it is to increase the market value of the Tongil foundation companies, to increase the market value of Tongil foundation properties, and to provide cash flows to support church growth.
We can do it. This is a good illustration of compounded growth rates (pictures of father’s first church of mud next to the original palace). This is where we started from 50 years ago this is where we are today.
If we truly follow our true father’s intent, where can we be 50 years from now?
This is a graph of compounded growth rates. Over 50 years if we start with $1 billion in church assets, and grow at 10%, after 50 years we will have $120 billion. Over 50 years if we grow at 12.5%, we will have over 360 billion, if we grow at 15%, we will have over 1000 billion.
The lesson is very clear, moderate rates of return over long periods of time will produce exponential growth in investment value. It is more important to stay in the game than to win big, you stay in the game by avoiding risk and by preserving capital. Preservation of capital is the fundamental building block of investment strategies. Our failure in businesses is not that we invested too little but it is that we invested too much. We should remember this point.
This is a slide that compares the indemnity period versus the period of liberation. There is a clear divide, it’s very different. The time of God’s providence before Jesus came and after is very different. It’s the same thing for our situation. The foundation of the Unification Movement in the formation level and the growth level are very different. We have to make this transition to be able to realize God’s will and True Parents vision.
Indemnity period
Making the foundation of faith and substance
Noah building the ark
Abraham’s offerings
Moses and the wilderness
Period of absolute obedience to irrational orders
The period of liberation is different.
Period of the coming of the messiah and his acceptance
Period of understanding God’s intent rather than following the letter of the law
Period where man governs himself through his own conscience
Period of brotherhood and universal acceptance
Here are quotes from the bible (not included), read them yourselves. It’s very obvious, Jesus cured the sick during Sabbath, associated with the tax collectors and sinners, ultimately the laws that were designed by God to bring the people closer to him and free them from sin. What does this mean for me?
We have all suffered, I have suffered, you have suffered, but we have to remember that we suffer so that others do not have to. Unification members must learn to be more open, embracing and "universal". It is a period without discrimination a period when all people can inherit God’s blessing and the kingdom of heaven because of the sacrifices of True Parents.
I will leave you with one last slide, these are True Parents words
"God’s Ideal Family and the Responsibility the Citizens of Cheon Il Guk are Called to Fulfill"
"The main attributes of God’s true love are that it is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal, so whoever practices true love will live with God, share his happiness, enjoy the right to participate as an equal in his work, and the right of inheritance. Therefore, a life lived for the sake of others, a life of true love, is the absolute prerequisite for entering the kingdom of heaven."
Our True Parents and God have given us the keys to the kingdom of heaven, it is written in our True Parents words; all we need to do is practice them. Thank you.
Philippine Leader's Meeting
Kook Jin Moon
April 1, 1998
National Leaders' Meeting
Manila, Philippines
. . . Thank you. . . Mrs. --- thank you for your generous words, To tell you the truth, I think you spoke too flatteringly of me.
The truth is I'm still very young and I still have much to learn, and I hope to continue to be able to learn from all of you and from our leaders here who are trying to work on behalf of True Parents will. And yes it's true True Parents has asked me to assist in supervising how and advising on how the donations will be disbursed to the Korean Foundation. And of course I'm sure you all know that the Foundations situation is very very difficult. That's the honest truth of the situation. However we've discussed the strategy to create a way in which even though the foundation may go through the ultimate difficulty that we can in some ways save those assets and properties which True Parents truly have shed their blood and sweat and their tears for. And True Parents has spoken that the donations that go to the Foundation for the goal which has been set for this year, once it is accomplished will be the last donations specifically to the Korean Chedang ? Foundation.
So, we had discussed with Vice Chairman Sulahan---------? a method in which to make sure that regardless of how the Korean situation develops that we must truly protect this money which True Father has dedicated for investment for the development of Providence in Korea. Although I maybe lacking in experience in many ways, one determination which I do have is that the sacrifice that our brothers and sisters here in Japan make will not be wasted and will be preserved. And I would like to show/share? to all of you that our True Parents truly understands and appreciates the commitment and the sacrifice which our members our
brothers and sisters are making here on behalf of the worldwide providence. That things set I would also like to add that for me personally it has been a great privilege and an honor to come here before our brothers and sisters here in Japan. Because here in this country through our blood, sweat and tears we have been able to contribute for the sake of the worldwide providence. And although we have sacrificed much, in terms of material, I believe by coming here I truly can feel that we have more than gain that than the spiritual life and the spirit of our community here in Japan. I just hope that throughout the world that other nations can also someday have the opportunity to be able to contribute to the progress of the worldwide providence so that they also can gain the life and the spirit from truly giving for the sake of . . .? world without asking anything in return.
And for my coming here and being able to meet all of you and being able to see the life and the spirit of our Movement here in Japan, this experience, this understanding, I would like to take care ( carry it with you ) with you for the rest of my life and share with our brothers and sisters throughout the world and the other nations in which our providential work is being done. So I thank all of you for giving, for letting me learn and letting me see that . . . And I hope that you can also see, and I hope that my understanding and my learning can also help you and console you in your sacrifice. Because still the way of Providence and the responsibility of providence and the mission of our True Parents is still great. Still everyday our True Parents is working so hard struggling everyday to bring the Providential message the word of the new lineage of the new love to all the nations of the world. Our True Parents even having to abandon their own family has traveled to South America to undeveloped country where they have worked together in the frontline with our missionaries thereto spread the message of the True Love of God and of the True Lineage, the True Eternal Lineage which Heavenly Father desires to re-establish on this earth.
For me, as a child growing up it has of course it was very difficult and has been very difficult to understand why our True Parents have always been away and why our Parents have not been there like other parents and other families. As a child, it is difficult not to be able to have time to share your difficulties with your parents to gain from them by that communication, their understanding and their wisdom, it is difficult not to be able to have that kind of opportunity or relationship with your parents. But after many years of reflection, and even internal struggle I am beginning to understand why our parents had to live their life as they have lived. And a big part of that to why they had to live the way they lived is right here in this room today, in all of us. It is here in our life and in our spirit and in the new life and in the new spirit that we have received and gained through the Blessing and the grace of our True Parents and Heavenly Father.
So truly, I have to thank all of you for helping me learn so much. And I hope and I pray that together that we can work together to continue this work of spreading the word of providence and of our True Parents and the blessing they bring to all this world . Because I say to you truly the work that we do is good. It is good. The work that we do will bring true happiness and the true joy to all of mankind.
So please have courage and have confidence in the work that you're doing, and please take pride, take great pride in the good work that you are doing for all of mankind. Thank you very much.