A Time In History When Women Can Be the Turning Point for Peace

Sun Jin Moon
November 15, 2019
Keynote Address at the launch of Global Women's Peace Network in Washington DC

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Beloved, esteemed, and exemplary women leaders! WFWP colleagues and global change-makers,
Welcome to the GWPN 2019 conference, here in the great capital city of Washington. DC.

We gather here today as part of an inspiring and transformative movement for peace, a movement led by women who live for the sake of others, and at a time in history when women can be "the turning point for peace."

As we launch the Global Women's Peace Network here in the Mid-Atlantic Region, I would like to convey to you the heartfelt best wishes, love and congratulations from our founder and leader, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, who also happens to be my amazing mother!!!

During the inaugural WFWP Global Women's Peace Network Conference in Las Vegas in 2012, I had the honor of delivering the founder's address on behalf of Mother Moon. And last month I had the pleasure of delivering the keynote address at the GWPN inaugural conference in Chicago, representing the Midwest region.

I am moved by the growth of GWPN throughout the world since that time, and I am excited that it is taking substantial form here in the heartland of America. I believe we are standing on the proud legacy and shoulders of the 27-year history of WFWP's accomplishments as a movement that has expanded globally, with established, highly-respected chapters in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North and South America, Oceania, and Asia.

As I look out on this audience, I am very impressed, seeing so many people from diverse backgrounds gathered. Not only women, but also men (hi husband), from various religious, ethnic, racial, professional, and cultural backgrounds.

I want to acknowledge the presence of many of the leaders of our host organization, Women's Federation for World Peace, including WFWP USA President Angelika Selle.

I also want to thank Dr. Ki Hoon Kim, the Chairman of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification USA. You have all done a magnificent job preparing for this event.

As many of you know, my parents, Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, devoted their lives to promoting a vision of universal peace based on the principle of living for the sake of others. They continuously spoke of creating one family under God, a world in which we all live together as brothers and sisters, members of one global family who share a common origin in God, our Heavenly Parent.

For 52 years, working tirelessly side by side, my parents devoted themselves steadfastly to their global commitment to bring peace to this world, and to bring an end to the suffering of all 7.7 billion people on earth. They are our beloved parents who have worked to unite people from all across the globe, guided by their vision of peace, universal values, interdependence, and mutual prosperity for all people and for all generations to come.

I am deeply honored and proud to serve with all of you in advancing this great legacy of peace. I am equally proud to serve in supporting and carrying forward my Mother's foundation, opening a new era in which the long-awaited shift towards balance and dignity for all womankind, families, and the whole of creation shall be realized.

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However, in order to achieve that momentous goal, we must understand our basic start. We must consider from where we came and where we stand today to get to our final destination. From simple starts to grand goals, to keep us all engaged I will engage in QandA, a Socratic method of sorts. No answer is wrong, given we have the brightest minds and deepest hearts here in this forum. So do not hesitate to have your beautiful voices heard!

So where did we all have our beginning? What is our origin or genesis? Furthermore, from the time of that beginning point, was there an underlying purpose for the creation of this world, and all of us? What do you think? Then how were we created?

I think we can all agree on one thing: we all are here because of our parents. We each had a mother and a father, and before them our grandparents, and before them our ancestral generations, all dating back, according to DNA records, to Africa more than 200,000 years ago; in fact, it seems we may all derive from a single "Mitochondrial Eve" in Africa.

We can also consider biblical chronology, or the 6,000 years of biblical history. According to the teachings of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, our roots may be traced back to Adam and Eve. Whether or not you believe in science or religion, we were each conceived by a mother and a father, two equal halves---male and female---of one united whole.

But who created Adam and Eve or our maternal and paternal ancestor? Some may say they were created by the Big Bang, and they emerged out of a long process of natural selection over time. Some may say we originate from Heavenly Parent, God, Allah, or a divine being.

Which of these two narratives is correct? Are we merely cosmic dust or are we children of higher entity? Well, in reality, we may be both. That is, it may not be only one or the other. The unimaginably powerful force and the explosive energy of a Big Bang may have been generated by a divine being of true love as the means to prepare a foundation to conceive life on earth.

Regardless of what we believe about our origins, we are all undeniably here. And this leads to another question; that is, WHY are we here? Why do any of us live our lives? Is it just to live and die, without meaning or purpose? Without love? I don't think so. We all aspire for something greater than bare material existence or just survival.

Regardless of our religion, race, status, gender, make or mold, we all strive to find love, create joy, happiness, goodness, positive relationships and give and take partnerships with family, friends, communities, and with creatures large and small. We aspire to live in harmony and beauty with creation.

This is an aspiration, an ideal we all share, right? Of course!

Actually, the reason we all hope and dream to live a life filled with love, joy, oneness, and peace, is because we inherited that desire from God. In other words, having such a dream is not only our dream, but it is a dream rooted in the original character and heart of our Creator.

However, although love is the explosive transcending energy that empowers and inspires all of us and creation, can we say that this current world reflects or manifests this original ideal?

Sadly, we know that the answer is no. Everywhere we look we see that humanity is divided, and the divisions seem to be growing exponentially wider day by day. Sometimes it seems like we are living in a nightmare rather than a peace-loving dream. We see inequity, ignorance, violence, hate and division tear apart our homes, schools, workplaces, governments, churches, and institutions.

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We have tipped the scales of humanity's future off the charts. We are so out of balance, leaning either too far left or too far to the right, or we are simply exhausted, despondent, or uncomfortably complacent. We know in our mind, body and soul that the present reality is not the ideal. And yet we may doubt there is any solution.

We observe that the very fabric that binds humanity and creation together is coming apart or dissolving. There is no true peace, higher love, and unity in the world at large. That is why every single man, woman and child in this room is providentially pivotal. Because we all gathered here for true peace and prosperity. Let us each become a true compass, a person who can enlighten and liberate others. Let us connect to the highest consciousness of the divine, and live by the logic of true love. Can we do it? Yes!

Now I have another question for you. It is a tough one.But let's think about it logically and rationally. Is God a masculine being or a feminine being? How many of you think God is masculine? Feminine?

Think about it. In order to be parents, we need male and female. If we are made in God's image and 50% of the world is female, does it make sense that God is only masculine? When we do the math, think of your DNA, what do you get? 50% female and 50% male. Parents are male and female, and on this foundation there arises the family, the tribe, the nation and the world. In every sphere of life women are essential. Without women we cannot have completion, wholeness, birth or life! Isn't that true?

However, throughout history we generally have a male-centered understanding of divinity, the Heavenly father and son. So where is womankind in divinity and history? She is missing for the most part, right? Sometimes she is portrayed as amorphous, without form, or at times as a life-giving fire, a creator of earth and living beings; at times symbolized as a dove, or maybe the holy spirit or as the divine feminine or mother.

Of course there have been many holy and saintly women in providential history. We think of Rachel, Rebecca, Sarah, Tamar, Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and others. At other times the feminine has been demonized or portrayed as fallen, as we see in figures like Eve, Lilith, Shakti or Shekhina. But good or bad, most of these figures have often been in subordinate or supporting positions.

Of course there are exceptions to this pattern and there have been many, many women spiritual leaders, evangelists, saints and even founders of religions, like Mother Anne Lee Stanley or Mary Baker Eddy which give us a glimpse of a hopeful future. And of course, Mother Mary has been exalted most highly by Christians and Muslims.

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Yet, for the most part, religions, especially those holding leading positions, have had men at the top of the leadership, holding the holiest of seats. And the root cause of this disparity lies in our understanding of God, an understanding that inadequately appreciates God's essential feminine nature. When we think of the root causes of this inequity or the lack of gender parity for women we must consider this point. Herein lies the seed of the inequity, unbalance, and subordination.

This lack of representation of the feminine has resulted in God's feminine characteristics being hidden or suppressed, more shadowy, and without incarnate existence. That is one important reason why the history of women is out of balance, without complete representation, or without form, sometimes perceived as lacking in divine value. If we are to reach for equality or gender parity we must know our divine essence in its entirety.

My parents have always taught that God has feminine characteristics equal to the masculine characteristics, and this pattern or equal complementarity is manifest throughout the creation. After all, there can be no one family under God without the complete unity of man and womankind.

We must reverse this incomplete history, and re-establish the harmony and balance that manifests the love and order of a complete picture of God. With such a complete understanding of God there can be order, balance and universal love.

The solution requires that we turn our hearts and minds to recover and understand the divine truth that we are all one global family under our Heavenly Parent. Heavenly Parent is the complete form of our creator, male and female. Only when we come to understand this divine truth can womankind finally be liberated in mind, body, and soul.

When we can realize this absolute truth, we can begin to take the necessary steps toward healing. We can begin to provide the necessary aid, service, restoration, and reconciliation that the world needs, as we fully and sincerely come to affirm the basic human rights and dignity of every man, woman, and child; and as we come to fully appreciate, love, and care for the creation as desired from the beginning of time.

It is only when we come to recognize the depth of God's reality, and the divine dignity of each person, that we each can become a radiant light, providing a compass that shows the way out of the chaos that surrounds us, our families and communities. If we are to change this world, we must come to realize our original true nature as divine sons and daughters of our Heavenly Parent, created to love and live in peace.

It is only in living according to this divine truth that the virtues of our creator---love, forgiveness, unity, peace and harmony---- can heal our hearts and souls and lead us away from the path of hate, revenge, resentment, war, violence and division.

WFWP was founded to announce the arrival of what my parents termed the "Era of Women," calling on all women to play a more pivotal role in making peace a reality. After all, just as in any family, a true mother's nurturing and unconditionally loving heart has the power to heal the deep wounds of humanity that we witness today.

I would like to take a moment to share with you some words from my Father's memoirs, entitled, A Peace-Loving Global Citizen. In this excerpt, he speaks about his dream of peace, the same dream that mybeloved and courageous Mother has carried forward throughout her own life, especially since the time of his passing. It is this dream, this vision that has brought us all together in this great peace forum today.

Throughout history, women have been persecuted, but I predict this will change. The coming world will be one of reconciliation and peace based on women's maternal character, love, and sociability. The time is coming when the power of women will save the world. Unfortunately, today, many women's organizations apparently believe that standing in opposition to men is the way to demonstrate the power of women. The result is an environment of competition and conflict. The women's organizations my wife leads, on the other hand, seek to bring about peace on the principle that women should work together, take initiative, and empower one another across traditional lines of race, culture, and religion to create healthy families as the cornerstone of the culture of peace. The organizations she works with do not call for a liberation of women from men and families. Instead, they call for women to develop and maintain families filled with love. My wife's dream is to see all women raised as true daughters with filial hearts who can create peace at home, in our communities, in our nations, and in the world. The women's movement being carried out by my wife serves the goal of true families, which are the root of peace in all areas of life.

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Wow, what an amazing vision my father had! He foresaw the great works my mother would carry out!

For a man born in North Korea in the 1920s, he was a revolutionary thinker; he understood the true eternal, divine nature, and gift from God that womankind is to the world. He exalts the true role of women as an essential source of all life, love, lineage, unity, oneness, and peace in the family, society, nation and world!

He even prophesied that "The time is coming when the power of women will save the world!" That is revolutionary! Can we give him a round of applause? Aju! (a Korean term similar to Amen)

WFWP was founded to announce the arrival of the era of women, and create a movement of women dedicated to creating a global family. As women and men learn to live together in harmony, true love, and equality--- in the home, in the workplace, in the centers of political and economic power, and in the places of worship---we will be able to create a society of true interdependence, mutual prosperity and universal love.

It is time for the voices of women, the perspectives of women, the wisdom of women, and the capacities of women to be included, welcomed, and encouraged.

If we aspire to peace, we must become the unifiers who lead with the logic of love, forming one global family under God and working together in harmony as brothers and sisters to realize this ideal of peace. We will need all available human capacities, all human assets, all the social capital we can pull together.

If we are to change and transform a world of selfishness into a world of true love, women must play a leading role. And I am not talking merely about external power. We must first master the arts of divine internal power, the power of unconditional, absolute, true love.

The world needs a movement of life givers, liberators and leaders, who are harmonizers and reconcilers. Basically, we need Super Moms! We need to bridge gaps and divisions, between men and women, parents and children, between the right and the left, humanity and creation.

And ultimately, we need Heavenly Parent to do this. I did not always realize this point. You know I grew up in a super religious home, but I didn't always resonate with religion. It was only later that I came to a deeper understanding of God by understanding my parents' teachings, and by observing their lifestyle and example.

They have always lived for the sake of others. I barely saw them as I was growing up---maybe one month out of a year---due to their global ministry and continual speaking tours. As a child I resented their global mission because it took away my only parents. I could not understand how they could leave our family.

What I've come to realize, however, is that they were serving other families around the globe. I came to realize that, through their ministry, even though it meant I could not always be with them, I received the blessing of inheriting a global family of brothers and sisters who live with true love and who live for the sake of others and who work tirelessly to make peace a reality for all life and creation. They as true parents were teaching the world that all children are sons and daughters of a Heavenly Parent. The complete ideal of family is balanced, harmonious, filled with love and dignity for all.

When I asked them why they took such a difficult path? They said that humankind alone, without understanding the true nature of God, could never achieve peace. They were, therefore, called to awaken the world to Heavenly Parent's balanced truth and eternal love.

I know that Mother Moon wants all the women of the world to realize and know their own unique value as God's divine daughters.

The following is a quote from Mother Moon that encapsulates her vision for women and peacebuilders.

Enlightened women are the center of the love, peace and service that preserve the family, and a sound, healthy family is the school of love and virtue. The starting point of world peace lies with the mothers at the center of such families, families that perfect and bring to fruition God's true love. We must all push ahead in the conviction that no matter how wounded and scarred this world becomes, it can be healed and cleansed by the substantial work of a WFWP united in the vision of God's true love. Aju!

Let us work together to create a transcendent, glorious, culture of peace, here in Washington DC, throughout the United States and beyond! As my father stated "The time (is here) when the power of women will save this world!" For our younger ladies, as Ariana Grande sings, "God is a woman" and that power is in each of you and WFWP! Aju!

I pray that Heavenly Parent's blessings and eternal love be with you and your precious families. Thank you for the great work you are carrying out for the benefit of all womankind and humanity! Thank you very much! Namaste

Sun Jin Moon's Question-and-Answer Sunday Service at Chicago Family Church

Kunihiro Sagisaka
October 20, 2019

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An air of excitement lingered among the congregation of the Chicago Family Church at Sunday service on October 20. The day before, a Peace Starts With Me gala and JAM concert was underway at the Marriott Marquis Chicago hotel as part of the 24th annual True Family Values (TFV) Awards Banquet organized by the American Clergy Leadership Conference (ACLC). A spirit of peace and love enveloped more than 1,300 people who attended, many of whom reflected on the celebration at the service with guest speaker Dr. Sun Jin Moon, senior vice president of Women’s Federation for World Peace International (WFWPI).

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“We must become one heavenly family under God,” said Sun Jin Moon, as she shared the inspirational words of her late father Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon, who co-founded Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) with his wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon. “Parents and children must become one to be happy,” she said. “Without unity, there is no happiness.” She spoke to the audience about God’s hope for humanity and a world of peace, sharing the mission of her parents to cultivate peace and true love among people. “There is no happiness without love and no unity without love.”

Sun Jin Moon held a question-and-answer style service with the crowd, touching on how to develop a deeper connection with God and her parents. She suggested reading Unificationist scripture to tap into greater understanding and connection, and to pray for others, including any enemy. Her personable and conversational approach resonated with many people. “I personally went through struggles myself,” said Jeff Schmidt, a young Unificationist. “I’m feeling grateful to be in a place where I feel free and can worship openly and I will continue this in my life.”

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Congregants and guests enjoyed a gift of more than 200 donuts at the service while celebrating the success of the gala where Sun Jin Moon was also the keynote speaker. “It’s been an incredible weekend here in Chicago,” said ACLC Midwest Chairman Rev. David Rendel. “The energy, the hope, the vision, and the confidence that we have now is really fantastic. We can really use our faith to do something great within society.” The gala and concert brought together people of various cultures and backgrounds, as they enjoyed entertainment from several performers including renowned gospel choir Soul Children of Chicago and The Jesse White Tumblers. “It’s exciting; the new friendships and just the love—there’s a lot of love here,” said Walt Whitman, who attended the Sunday service and is the founder and director of the Soul Children of Chicago.

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This latest success has built momentum toward even greater things to come. “It feels amazing,” said Unificationist Margaret Repke, a Generation Peace Academy (GPA) staff member. “I’m helping to figure out how to bring all of GPA to the rally so we can really be supportive and give that energy and that love.” Hundreds of GPA participants will be among an anticipated crowd of 30,000 clergy and other esteemed guests coming to hear Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon speak at an upcoming Peace Starts With Me rally in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, Dec. 28.

WFWP USA welcomes new International Senior Vice President Sun Jin Moon

Angelika Selle
September 1, 2019

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At a recent international leaders gathering in South Korea, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon appointed Dr. Sun Jin Moon as Senior Vice President of Women's Federation for World Peace International (WFWPI), with particular focus on North and South America as well as Europe. Dr. Sun Jin Moon gladly accepted her new position, ready to work in close collaboration with WFWP International President Mrs. Julia Moon.

Less than two weeks after her appointment, on September 1st, around 55 women -- among them 10 chairwomen -- gathered at the WFWP USA national office to warmly welcome Sun Jin Moon and her husband In Sup Park to WFWP. It was an unexpectedly large turnout, particularly since it was Labor Day weekend in the United States, when most people spend time with their families and enjoy the last days of summer before school starts. The new international senior vice president and her husband were greeted warmly and enthusiastically as soon as they entered the meeting room.

Following a brief gifting of flowers and cake cutting, Angelika Selle, President of WFWP USA, introduced the leaders and participants and then proceeded to give a presentation of the structure, goals and strategy of WFWP USA leading to 2020 and beyond.

Then Dr. Moon sincerely thanked everyone for the warm welcome. She articulated that she wants to learn from these women and support the wonderful and substantial work that has been accomplished. She emphasized the importance of women's work and thanked all the women in attendance for their sacrifice, service and investment over the past decades. She then opened up the floor for questions and was met with an abundance of responses, personal testimonies, and queries.

One such query was a request for Dr. Moon to conduct a meditation session, as she is well-known for her practice of yoga and spirituality. She gracefully improvised a most beautiful and deep meditation with the focus on deep breathing, which took a lot of stress and worries away from everyone's heart, and made us all feel the love of God more deeply.

During the QandA and testimonies, she listened to each person with respect, understanding and compassion, and responded with love, sometimes tears, and always with a hug. Personal stories were shared that brought liberation and healing to several of the ladies present. In closing, Dr. Moon expressed her gratitude for the rich love of the women in WFWP and that she looks forward to working together for peace.

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WFWP Official Announcement: Sun Jin Moon Appointed Senior Vice President

Carolyn Handschin
August 26, 2019

Dr. Sun Jin Moon

Dr. Sun Jin Moon

WFWP International headquarters is pleased to announce that on August 26, 2019, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, Founder of WFWPI, appointed Dr. Sun Jin Moon to the position of Senior Vice President for WFWPI. Dr. Sun Jin Moon's regions of activity will include North and South America, and Europe. She will liaise with our WFWPI partners and also work closely with all WFWP chapters and leaders within those three regions.

We are confident that Dr. Sun Jin Moon's leadership and personality will not only benefit Women's Federation for World Peace, but all organizations and people with whom she will be in contact.

Welcome Dr. Sun Jin Moon!

Love, joy and cheers for our heavenly heroes! God is great! True Parents are great!

Sun Jin Moon
August 18, 2019
2019 Cheon Il Guk Leaders' Assembly - Keynote Address

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Greetings

Beloved leaders, great elders, our most precious brothers and sisters.

Participants in this August 2019 Cheon Il Guk Leaders Assembly!

Welcome back home to our true holy land, here in True Parents' homeland of Korea, and our heaven on earth! We have missed all of you dearly and know that all your sincere devotion and great works in your regions are making a profound impact in realizing Heavenly Parent's dream.

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Just as our Leaders Assembly theme indicates, you are the "shining rays of hope" lighting up the world "with a filial heart for heaven."

There isn't a day that passes by when your accomplishments and victories aren't reverberating across the planet and shining out to the heavens and bringing Heavenly Parent and True Parents so much joy!

So, let us begin this Cheon Il Guk Leaders' Assembly 2019 by celebrating with that joy! May we all rise and give a great cheer for every single great leader in this room! Please all rise for a standing ovation for all of your amazing true love, sincere faith, pure sacrifice, heavenly vision, and absolute victory! Please, all rise and give a loud, resounding cheer!

Let us also send our greatest love to our ultimate leader and visionary, our beloved True Mother. She will be with us tomorrow, and she is watching this Cheon Il Guk Leaders' Assembly with great interest. All together let us say: cham Omoni salanghamnida, kamsahamnida!

Love, joy and cheers for our heavenly heroes! God is great! True Parents are great! And, you are great! And may Heavenly Parent bless us all as we move toward vision 2020! Kindly find your seats. You've given out a lot energy already, so now you may sit back and relax. Namaste.

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True Father's Seonghwa Anniversary

Brothers and sisters, we have just concluded the Seonghwa Anniversary celebration in honor of our beloved, unforgettable True Father. Wasn't that a magnificent program?

Wasn't our True Mother glorious, gorgeous, regal and divine. What a miracle of beauty, love, joy, and Hyo Jeong heart! I know True Father is deeply moved by it all.

Our True Father lived a life that shook heaven and earth. There is no area of endeavor, no country, town or village where he did not leave his mark. In 92 years, he emerged from a small, tiny village in Korea, to lead the greatest providential movement the world has ever known. What a life! What an inspiration! What an example! What an accomplishment!

Our True Father, together with our beloved True Mother and heaven's only begotten daughter, have paved an irreversible pathway and opening through the jungles of hell. Now that path is getting wider and wider, day by day, week by week, month by month.

True Mother is paving that road and she is creating many off and on ramps that lead deeper into the forests, transforming villages and cities and nations, creating "heavenly cities", "heavenly nations" and a "heavenly world." The momentum is unstoppable and miraculous!

Even if we consider the work that has been done over the past 6 months, since our last Cheon Il Guk Leaders' Assembly in February, following the World Summit 2019 and the Sunhak Peace Prize Award Ceremony, we are awe-inspired.

During my last Cheon Il Guk Leaders' Assembly speech I paid appropriate tribute to each Regional Group, one by one. My expression of appreciation to each one of you was sincere and heartfelt, and rose from the bottom of my heart. Thank you brothers and sisters.

I feel that same heart as I greet you on this day. You are my heavenly champions!

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Since February I know that each one of you, centering on the FFWPU Regional Groups Chairs, the UPF Chairs and the providential leaders in each Region, are working day and night to prepare for an unprecedented "pull out all the stops" victory next February 2020, when we will celebrate True Father's Centenary, True Mother's 77th Birthday, the World Summit 2020, the Sunhak Peace Prize Award Ceremony 2020, the Holy Blessing Ceremony, and many other programs, all marking as well the fulfillment of Vision 2020 and the 8th year of Cheon Il Guk.

VIPs from all across the world, more than ever have been assembled in Korea, will gather. It will be the greatest celebration our movement has ever undertaken.

And, rightfully so.

Are you ready? Are you excited? I hope so.

I know our True Mother is going forward 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year, working round the clock. She's living in all time zones all at once.

In May of this year, our True Mother spoke at the KINTEX center in Seoul, for an event organized by Region One here in Korea, centering on Rev. Lee and Rev. Joo. More than 100,000 gathered, including about 200 VIPs from the USA and Japan and other parts of the world. It was a huge success. At this same time, there was also a UPF International Leadership Conference dedicated to the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula, involving many leading experts, scholars, and political leaders from Korea, Japan and the USA. Even the mayor of Seoul attended. Korea is on holy fire, and the light of true love is spreading. Thank you Rev. Lee. Thank you Yeon Ah onni. You are turning this nation upside down, or should I say "right side up" centering on True Mother.

Many of you watched the live stream from the Africa Summit in June and the Blessing Ceremony in Soweto's Orlando Stadium, near Johannesburg. More than 100,000 couples gathered in a joyful, holy, meaningful celebration of true love and true family. True Mother was embraced and wholeheartedly welcomed and supported by Prophet Dr. Radebe, a wonderful leader of millions of believers who embrace the roots of African spirituality, while at the same time being open to all religions. He is a great unifier. Most importantly, he loves True Mother and has the highest respect for our movement.

At that time, in Johannesburg, True Mother also delivered her Founder's Address during the Opening Plenary of the Africa Summit, and she inaugurated the International Summit Council for Peace of Africa. She appointed former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan as the Chair of ISCP Africa. President Jonathan was here with us for the ILC that just took place and he gave congratulatory remarks yesterday during the Seonghwa Anniversary.

Africa is truly on the providential "main street". Mrs. McDevitt, Dr. Yoon, Rev. Camara, Mrs. Rigney, thank you for your great attendance to our True Mother.

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And, looking ahead, I know you are preparing for a major effort in Sao Tome in September. Then I understand there are worldwide plans for major programs in Albania, Cambodia, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, then back to Johannesburg in December for another, even larger and more spectacular Blessing Ceremony. Plus, also in December, to close out the year, True Mother wants to assemble 20,000 Christian clergy in the USA to form the World Clergy Leadership Association. Wow.

And, at the same time, you are mobilizing VIPs from all across the world for the World Summit 2020.

It was right after True Mother's victory in Johannesburg that she travelled directly to Las Vegas for the Peace Starts with Me Rally at the MGM Grand. More than 10,000 gathered, including 1000 clergy members from UPF and ACLC. True Mother gave a wonderful message to a packed house. Bishop Noel Jones introduced True Mother. Prophet Radebe was on hand to support True Mother. It was a super success. Dr. Kim. Rev. Dunkley. Rev. Jackson. A big congratulations to you and to the entire USA team.

I had the honor to be with True Mother at that time, and I can testify that she was so happy and pleased.

During this recent ILC, centering on UPF, VIP leaders from around the world gathered for two days to discuss and prepare for World Summit 2020. True Mother has not only initiated the IAPP, and the IAPD, and, more recently, the ISCP, but she is now proposing to inaugurate, during World Summit 2020, three new associations which will also work within the UPF framework. These are the International Media Association for Peace, which will build on the foundation of TWT, the Segye Ilbo and the Sekai Nippo; the International Association for Peace and Economic Development, which will build on the business foundation of our movement, including the Hyo Jeong Magnolia Foundation; and the International Association of Academicians for Peace which carries forward True Parents work over many decades with scholars and professors. I also understand that True Mother intends to eventually build into this UPF system a few other sectors, including first ladies and university presidents.

We can see True Mother is building the system and structure of a global peace movement that will work to solve global problems, drawing on the capacities, assets and experience of leading experts and leaders from a wide range of sectors. It is an amazing vision. It is UN-like in its scope and vision, with UPF in the role of the "Abel-UN." True Mother is finding a way to include all the key stakeholders, including of course WFWP, centering on Hoon Suk onni, and YSP, centering on Dr. Kittle. Altogether, along with Tribal Messiahs, you are collaborating together across national, ethnic, cultural, religious lines, in order to constructively and effectively solve global problems.

True Mother is amazing! Only a being divinely anointed and appointed by Heavenly Parent can do the impossible mission she carries forward each day. I watch as she pushes herself to pure exhaustion every moment, driven by concern for the world. She can never rest, even after each victorious event. She is always thinking of the next one, in order to reach all 7.6 billion people. She will not stop until she offers complete victory to HP and True Father. As long as one child on earth or in heaven is lost she can never be at peace. This is the heart of Heavenly Parent and True Parents. She pours out her heart and soul, loving and giving her life-force to all living beings on earth and in heaven. She is out in front, leading the march toward victory for the sake of providence. She works with intense passion to complete this mission so all future generations can be liberated, and learn to live in joy, peace, and prosperity. So, I ask you all, as true filial sons and daughters of True Parents', to help lead the charge and to be victorious in your respective areas of responsibility. It is only in this way that our True Mother and True Father can be completely liberated. It is up to each one of us to take full responsibility to usher in one unified peaceful world under Heavenly Parent. I have no doubt that we can do this! We must be confident, positively secure, without any doubt, that we shall overcome all obstacles and be victorious! Can we do it! Yes!…We must do it because earth and humanity are on the brink of extreme disaster and loss.

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Indeed, we have our work cut out for us.

Consider the fact that in this past decade alone, humanity has been maxing outside the safety range of many historical, scientifically recorded norms on this planet. There are so many threats and challenges that we face, including the climate crisis, poverty, inequality, conflict, growing authoritarianism across the globe, interreligious disharmony, food insecurity, pollution and chemicals causing disease and suffering, technology that is not only going to change the landscape of jobs but which is also changing how we socialize and interact. With no true model of true love, aberrant forms of false love emerge, like child molestation in our churches or even the boy scouts, or the human trafficking affecting 30 million children and youth in the world; rampant pornography, prostitution, gender confusion, less confidence in marriage, imbalance of fertility rates. The list goes on.

The absence of True Love in our world is a creating an inner hole of anxiety, depression, addiction, selfharm, alienation, and lack of empathy for others. At the same time we see a world with an outer band of hatred, religious discrimination, racism, nationalism, war, with contempt, violence, corruption, and greed, harming all other living beings and creation. This black hole of hate is gripping the world and may cause it to self-implode.

The seed of this sad reality is false leadership. It is the leader of a nation that sets the tone and conduct on a global stage. We are at the brink of a world that has lost its true compass. We are in a frenzy of vacillation between left and right, and we can no longer navigate peace on the planet. A world that does not know Heavenly Parent and True Parents is doomed to meet its last days.

The headlines are filled with news of mass shootings in the United States. The rise of nationalism and disputes over border control defy basic human rights. Corruption in the capitols and our business conglomerates all contribute to the destruction and depletion of our planet, record setting temperatures all over the globe, increase in flooding and destructive weather, record breaking heat indexes, mass species extinctions, super bugs and diseases, the threat of war on every horizon, as nuclear armament and more military might takes center stage. Escalating tensions and protests in Hong Kong, hostile trade wars, unstable economies; more drastic divisions and deep-seated anger and hatred emerge, causing ever more friction, even tensions are rising between our beloved mother and father nations of Korea and Japan.

Extreme individualism and hatred have taken over globalism and the vision of one family under god. We are broken at every level, individual, family, tribe, nation and world.

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It feels like we are in the Last Days, right?

At times it seems quite bleak and discouraging. But, despite these challenges, we have hope. The darkest hour is just before the dawn. The Last Days bring an end to an old era, and the dawn of a new era. That era is being ushered in by our True Parents. By our True Mother. And by each one of you as Cheon Il Guk leaders. You are their victorious, filial sons and daughters and light of the world.

If the world embraces Divine Principle, all can be transformed. Divine Principle teaches us (DP pg 239) that True father would come and meet his bride, the True Mother, and together they would embrace humanity and give rebirth, "as a hen gathers her brood under her wings." Restoration would then be complete.

That day has come, the Only Begotten Daughter and our True Father have completed everything!

Now more than ever our roles in history as Cheon Il Guk leaders are more profoundly important. You are True Mother's "brood under her wings" on the road to complete victory! All who pledge to do this please stand tall and give a great cheer for our global family! Let us be the ones to fly to every corner of this world, universe, cosmos and beyond carrying our Heavenly Parent's, True Parents', True Father's True Mother's, and FFWPU's victory to all in heaven and on the earth! AJU!

We hold Heavenly Parent's divine truth, the keys to liberation, freedom, wisdom, blessing, grace, unity, harmony, and peace. We have the power to embrace this globe with True Parents' Blessing, True Love, head wing ideology, and Principled thought and practice. We hold the cure and antidote to all the sickness and the toxins that plague this world! You are all heavenly champions who will bring victory and peace to this planet! Can we do it! Must we do it! Then there is no question. We will have victory 2020! Aju.

True Mother has taught us repeatedly that this is a glorious time and the "Golden Age" of our one and only True Parents.

Heavenly Parent deeply rejoiced on the day of True Parents Holy Wedding. It was a glorious day -- the fulfillment of the marriage supper of the lamb -- since it gave hope of salvation to all of humanity. As God's children, humanity can finally have the hope of reuniting with Heavenly Parent's loving embrace.

On the road to fulfilling this goal, I want to deeply thank each and every one of our leaders gathered here today for your absolute love and unity with True Parents.

Each and every one of you went through your own trials and tribulations and have overcome many obstacles with deep faith, courage, and wisdom to make a restored nation a closer reality in each of your regions.

Also, as a "True Child" and as a member of "True Family", I want to offer my sincere apology to our True Parents especially to True Mother for not being able to do more to lessen her burden and not being able to do more to prevent unfathomable difficulties in her providential mission.

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I am deeply grateful to our True Mother for being my True Love hero and greatest champion to forgive, love, and unite all of us.

I know all of us aspire to be great leaders that Heavenly Parent and True Parents can be proud of.

Of course, we continually need to upgrade our own skill set and capacities, individually and as a movement.

Although there are many aspects to and models for good leadership, I would like to share with you some recent research related to the characteristics of great leadership.

According to researchers who have studied over 4,000 companies including Fortune 500 companies and who have had discussions with over 200 CEOs, they have discovered and distilled three key components that characterize great leaders.

Are you curious to know what they are? Yes?

First of all, great leaders are able to anticipate the next big change in their organization's operating model? Great leaders anticipate opportunities and threats to the organization and prepare for them in advance. Great leaders try to shape the future rather than just reacting to it.

Consider what True Mother has done. For example, over the past 7 years, she has anticipated the climate crisis and pioneered initiatives to create clean energy, harmony, stewardship, and balance, for a sustainable planet. She is a visionary who works to complete the 3rd blessing for our future generations. She is mother nature's super hero and my #1 cosmic super hero!

Secondly, great leaders welcome diversity in their personal and professional networks. They expand their capacity to create a network of people who are very different from themselves, people who are outside their comfort zone. The differences can be biological, physical, political, cultural, socioeconomic, etc. Even with these differences, great leaders can elicit trust and cooperation from this diverse network and move toward achieving a common goal.

Great leaders know that the diversity of their network can help them achieve greater capacities for anticipating the future and especially for developing responsive and effective solutions. Sound like someone we know? Well, all I have to say is that True Mother has been a heavenly globe trotter bringing us all together as OFUG, connecting us on a higher divine level of truth and building a brighter future.

Third, great leaders have the courage to be different. They are willing to take risks and even abandon past practices with courageous leaps. They go beyond what is familiar and comfortable, especially when they recognize and anticipate that change is happening. Once again, consider our True Mother. She has taught us about her position as the Only Begotten Daughter, and she is educating and liberating the entire world and all our ancestors and descendants so that no one has to live any longer in the realm of indemnity; instead everyone will enjoy complete liberation and vertical communion with our HP.

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Great leaders go beyond what is predictable, and they prepare for dealing with the changing realities of today and the future.

Isn't that what our True Mother does? Don't these traits all characterize True Mother? Absolutely.

She is always looking into the future with the great diversity of our worldwide leadership focused on a common goal of national restoration. Also, as we all know, True Mother is bold and courageous!!

Let's give a cheer for our True Mother!

For daily inspiration and to connect deeply in heart with True Mother, please continue to read True Mother's words, especially her anthology of speeches. Those volumes are filled with vision and inspiration. Moreover, in November, True Mother's biography will be published. I have begged for True Mother to write her biography for years. True Father's Peace Loving Global Citizen gave me a profound life changing understanding of who my father was. I never had the chance to truly know True Father during his lifetime on earth because he was witnessing to the world, but through his autobiography he witnessed to me. I feel him in spirit, he is eternally with me through his words. He is the greatest Father and Teacher I have ever known. Being able to serve True Mother on earth has been my greatest blessing and and the best training I have ever received. I know True Mother's biography will not only enlighten me, but will liberate the world and cosmos!

Looking ahead over the next six months, leading up to February 2020, I know that each Region is totally focused. I pray for the success of the many programs for which you are all preparing over the next six months, and beyond.

I still have my bags packed and I'm sure you all do as well. Please have safe travels and take good care of your health, for you all have the greatest mission on earth, to be victorious! And on your way to victory, please give love, big hugs, encouragement, and empowerment to your spouses and children because they are our precious future.

In conclusion, brothers and sisters, I have only eternal love and only gratitude to all of you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You are my ultimate heroes and heroines of providential history.

I pray this Cheon Il Guk Leaders' Assembly goes well and is productive and that, after we meet True Mother tomorrow we can all leave here divinely inspired, wholeheartedly dedicated, and blissfully committed to welcome absolute victory 2020 and world peace around the globe. I am not going to ask can we do it? What shall we do? We MUST do it! Yes! Aju!

Kamsahamnida, salanghamnida, Namaste!

Your Cosmic Answer - A Poem to True Father

Sun Jin Moon
August 17, 2019
Seonghwa Festival Commemorating the 7th Anniversary of the Holy Ascension Ceremony of True Father

Sun Jin Nim read this poem during the Seonghwa Festival Commemorating the 7th Anniversary of the Holy Ascension Ceremony of True Father on August 17, 2019.

Sun Jin Nim read this poem during the Seonghwa Festival Commemorating the 7th Anniversary of the Holy Ascension Ceremony of True Father on August 17, 2019.

Your Cosmic Answer

Under the limitless dark expanse of the Hawaiian night sky sparkling gem-like stars adorn Heavenly Parent's magical portrait of his eternal unconditional true love for all humankind and creation

Before the break of dawn

We walk with you in our hearts, True Father,
praying for peace on earth

Each step is a blessing

Every breath we receive is Heavenly Parent's grace

We walk as one united family

Forever is your memory leading our path

As we strive to walk in your glorious footsteps

This walk is a meditation

Each step brings you closer to our hearts

We start at the eastern corner of the beach where turtles came to greet our beloved True Mother

The sand is cool and conforms like down pillows nestling our feet

The waves ebb and flow whispering to us to come closer as they gently plant wet kisses on our toes

Every drop of the ocean is Heavenly Parent's love baptizing us with new life

All I have is gratitude in my heart

Each moment reminds me of you and True Mother

The ocean dances and displays its waves like the roll of the Little Angel's fan dance

They crest, fizzle, and bubble, and foam up with joy onto the shore,
jubilantly spraying out as gentle mists that hug and surround us
invigorating our mind, body, senses and soul

I am complete and whole in your magnificent creation

The cool salty breeze tingles and tantalizes our slow-waking start

The air is pure, crisp, and crystal clean
refreshing our spirits

Each moment is lifted with an even greater gift of beauty
as a symphony of birds sings out in joyful song with
harmonious notes from a myriad of species
a choral masterpiece
all to welcome us and usher in another glorious day

Looking out into the expanse
the deep blue waters ripple endlessly into the deeper black sky
melding together with no borders

The universe and the cosmos
infinity and beyond
meet at the horizon where earth and heaven unite

The moon and stars offer their closing bows
as the sun rises to claim the starring role

In this moment of moonset and sunrise I look up in the sky to see you both shining down on us

The sun and the moon both balanced, full, and complete in the heavens
like a miracle of truth inscribed on the celestial canvas
the perfect union, our True Father and our True Mother, forever One

Your love is everywhere

It echoes in our hearts
and the whole of creation resonates and sings with your blessing

So much beauty and joy!

Nevertheless, True Mother, as I witness this glorious harmony of creation

I know your heart rises heavy each morning with the burden of all those who suffer, and who are orphaned, lost, and destitute.

I see you push beyond your earthly limits to save each and every child and to return us all back home as
one family under God

How your heart must have ached and longed for our True Father during these arduous seven years

Yet despite all your pain you still valiantly and wholeheartedly marched across globe to build a world of peace

True Mother, I know True Father is so proud of you

True Mother, we are all so proud of you! (All rise for TM Standing ovation)

I know and have witnessed True Father singing his love songs to you from the zenith of the cosmos

Father shines millions of diamonds,
dazzling, sparkling, prisms of luminosity and brilliance

Each night he masters and crafts each phase of the moon cycle
to complete the perfect sphere of the luminous full moon
spot-lighting this dark earth with his beacon of love

Each moment in this moonlight I can feel True Father's absolute gratitude to you True Mother

His heart-beams, highlighting the greatest love story since the beginning of time
his eternal love for you lights the heaven's each night

I feel True Father's longing to shower you with all the precious jewels creation can offer

In the night sky I see his masterpiece of undying love and gratitude
and each morning I'm reminded of how much he wants to be at your side

I hear him whisper as the new day begins, Omma Komawa, dangshin salanhae yo…

My heart is complete and at peace in your glorious absolute eternal unchanging union

The cycles of life, the ever-changing phases of our cosmos, night and day

Your oneness is our divine truth

Forever blessing us with True Love, True Life and True Lineage

Only gratitude and love beats in my heart as we walk and witness the glory of Heavenly Parent's creation on this miraculous planet

As you shine in heaven

All life renews itself again with pure gratitude, grace, and rebirth

True Parents, to life's questions, you are heaven and earth's only true answer

Like the light of day, you never fail to rise and shine forth with true love, pure light, divine truth, absolute peace, abundant joy, infinite grace, heartfelt compassion, sincere goodness, dutiful faith, filial heart, profound wisdom and exceptional beauty

With all the love in our hearts we wish to serve and bring joy and victory to you, True Mother; to you,
True Father, and to you, our Heavenly Parent

We shall be one family under Heavenly Parent and True Parents. Yes! AJU!

All together kamsahamnida salanghamnida

International President Sun-jin Moon's Special Lecture at Great Works

Gi Seong Lee
August 16, 2019

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As International President Sun-jin Moon entered the main hall of the Cheonseong Wanglim Palace to deliver her special lecture on the first day of the Great Works (August 16), she was greeted with warm applause by the members who filled the hall.

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She sat on the stage and raised one of the questions she had received in advance from the trainees, "Who is God and where can we find Him?" In response to this question, she gave a hoondok reading from

"Talking about the Universe with the Insects" from As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen:

"Spending time in the forest cleanses the mind. The sound of leaves rustling in the wind, the sound of the wind blowing through the reeds, the sound of frogs croaking in the ponds: All you can hear are the sounds of nature; no extraneous thoughts enter the mind. If you empty your mind and receive nature into your entire being, there is no separation between you and nature. Nature comes into you, and you become completely one with nature. In the moment that the boundary between you and nature disappears, you feel a profound sense of joy. Then nature becomes you, and you become nature. Nature comes into you, and you become completely one with nature. In the moment that the boundary between you and nature disappears, you feel a profound sense of joy. Then nature becomes you, and you become nature.

I have always treasured such experiences in my life. Even now, I close my eyes and enter a state in which I am one with nature. Some refer to this as anātman, or "not-self," but to me it is more than that, because nature enters and settles into the place that has been made empty."

Following the reading, International President Moon explained further, "Since Heavenly Parent created the universe out of love, and True Parents are the substantial embodiments of Heavenly Parent, such that their dreams are completely one, we should love each other and all things as filial sons and daughters united with True Parents."

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3 New UPF associations coming: Professors, Journalists and Business Leaders

Sun Jin Moon
August 15, 2019
UPF International Leadership Conference
Jamshil Lotte Hotel, Seoul, South Korea

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen.

Excellency President Jonathan. Hon. Speaker De Venecia. Distinguished participants in this International Leadership Conference sponsored by the Universal Peace Federation, and participants in HJ Magnolia Foundation Conference.

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It is my pleasure to welcome all of you this evening, and especially to offer warmest greetings on behalf of my Mother, UPF Founder, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, who has great hopes in this conference, as it is the spring board for a victorious World Summit 2020 next February.

The 2020 World Summit will be the culmination of not only my Father's eminent legacy and profound works over his 92 years on this earth serving God and humanity, but also the culmination of my Mother's equally grand and inspired visionary work over these past 7 years that is exponentially expanding their lifetime scope of works for higher enlightenment, mutual prosperity and an end to suffering around the globe.

Moreover, my Mother is preparing for the inauguration of three new associations under the UPF umbrella. One focused on Academicians and scholars, one focused on Media professionals and journalists, and one focused on business leaders and entrepreneurs.

We are honored to have you all attend and join us to pay tribute to the anniversary of my Father's passing, 7 years ago. In our movement, passing on is not a sad loss of a loved one but rather a celebration of their eternal life that has peacefully returned home with our HP. There is no a day that goes by that my Mother and the world wide FFWPU is not inspired and committed to whole heartedly continue to work with him in spirit to realize our shared dream of OFUG.

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In a world with so much division, conflict, and strife, being in this room with such distinguished peaceloving people gives us great breath of hope that our collective dream of peace is on the horizon. There is nothing that would please him more than to witness our collaboration and committed efforts to transform this world, putting an end to war, violence, conflict, poverty, injustice, and the devastation of our holy earth. I know that everyone in this room has dedicated their lives to serve to aid, relieve, reconcile, reform, and rectify the sufferings of humanity. I know that your tireless and sincere efforts to be ambassadors and leaders of peace has changed the course of history towards that mutual goal that we can all be grateful for. Our hopes tonight is to take all our collective efforts and synergize, share, and unite as one coalition of peace building citizens of the world and turn the tide of division, instability, and our shared destruction to meet its end not at a wall, but rather bridges, tunnels and roads that peacefully bring us together. I guarantee our peaceful road trip will far exceed a perilous drive toward barricades, war zones, refuges, and human suffering any day. We welcome you again on such a journey!

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I understand that we have leaders of the International Summit Council for Peace, such as former president Jonathan of Nigeria and former president Paz of Bolivia [Paz means peace; what a great name]. And leader of the IAPP, such as speaker and Mrs. Devencia, Congressman Doolittle, and others. Religious leaders such as Rev. Johannson and Archbishop Stallings.

All of you who are gathered as part of the Magnolia Conference, welcome!

I hope your deliberations are productive and uplifting. Your work is so important. The World Summit 2020 will be the greatest and most significant event every carried out by our movement, and perhaps something the world has never seen in terms of an assembly of world leaders from so many backgrounds and fields.

I look forward to seeing all of you the day after tomorrow at the Cheongshim Peace Center. You will all be guests of honor and my Mother will be comforted and inspired to see all of you there.

I wish you a successful conference. Thank you for being here, and God bless you and your families. We are "one family under God."