All Stories

 

You can look under specific sections under Missions or Special Times or at this page where all stories and testimonies are gathered in the order they were submitted. Here you find the whole jar of jelly beans mixed together. Enjoy the different flavors, and then share yours!

Teacher, looking for room with garden

by Sam Harley March 4, 2018 Did you ever have an experience like this? Where you could only do one thing, but somehow it was enough? Six years ago, when my blessing broke up and we lost our house, I had to find a room to stay in. A blessed couple who lived in the same...

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My first God’s Day

by Walter Lowe February 19, 2018 The first major holiday was quite different for me. Jan 1st, 1977. I was in Miami, Florida with Larry Ross, learning to do the ginseng business. The church center there had only three members: an 1800 couple (Mr and Mrs Midorikawa), we...

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After going to Korea writes article in newspaper

by Robert Brown February 25, 2018 Robert went to Korea in 2003 for two weeks when Father asked for 1200 Americans to work for reunification of Korea. At the time he worked for the main newspaper of Ventura, California, the Ventura County Star. He was given permission...

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Spent several days in jail, foreigner past her visa

by Caroline Cecile February 25, 2018 Caroline shares how she was caught as a foreigner here past her visa of two weeks and went to jail. She share her stew with another jail mate and felt Father's heart. She was almost deported several times but remained to this day,...

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I was just about to punch him

by Jose Fragosa February 25, 2018 Jose, as a new member was on the Los Angeles witnessing team under Rev. Paul Warner. One day he had a bad headache and didn't want to get out of his sleeping bag to go out witnessing. He almost got in a fight with Rev. Warner's son...

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Sleeping under the stars

by Caroline Cecile February 25, 2018 Caroline shares how she was the only sister on a fundraising team so she slept in the van while the brothers slept in a motel room. But she felt special sleeping under the stars.

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Nice coat you have there

by Jose Fragosa February 25, 2018 Jose shares how he was sent to deliver something to Boston, but on arriving there, is told he is staying here and joining a fundraising team. He is told his stuff will be sent later, only to later see his former coat on a new...

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Cain is our savior

by Jose Fragosa February 25, 2018 Jose shares some experiences that show that Cain and Abel is most challenging and that we are saved, not by the Messiah, but rather by Cain.

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Selling frozen roses

by Sam Harley, Robert Brown, Caroline Cecile and Jose Fragosa February 25, 2018 The group discusses selling frozen roses out on flower stands, perhaps a new Olympic winter sport.

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Brother fundraising in rain while team goes to the movies

by Sam Harley February 25, 2018 Sam shares how one brother on MFT was left out fundraising in the rain while the team went to a movie. But he had a powerful experience with God, so when he was picked up he felt sorry for the members who saw a movie...

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Beginning the new year in prayer

by Sam Harley February 25, 2018 Sam shares what it was like waiting for the God's Day prayer, comparing the holy atmosphere inside with the loud crazy scene on the streets of New York outside the New Yorker.

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What are your memories of holy days?

by Sam Harley February 17, 2018 When I first joined, holy days were a welcome relief from the lonely front line battlegrounds. It was such a joy to be with brothers and sisters from all over the world, together as a family with our True Parents. God’s Day was the only...

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Hitchhiking to a spiritual community

by Sam Harley February 4, 2018 40 years ago today, I was standing on a streetcorner in LA, wondering why I couldn't move my feet, when a guy in a 3 piece suit walked up to me and asked if I was traveling. I said "Yes, I'm hitchhiking up north to find a spiritual...

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Indemnity or Indumbnity

by Sam Harley February 2, 2018 Indemnity is a word that is familiar to most of us old Moonies, ahem scuse me, Unificationists. Usually it means something like paying sincerely to make up for past sins or failings, whether it's our own, our ancestors' or just...

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Some memories of the 1275 Couple Blessing

by Sam Harley January 13, 2018 ARRIVAL We arrived in Korea in the middle of the night, and boarded a bus to take us to the McCol factory in Yongin. We arrived in the quiet of the early hours, and the seminary brothers were shown to a large hall at the top of the...

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When God’s Day was January 1st

. Shared by Sam Harley December 31, 2017 Sam looks back when Father began a new year exactly at 12 midnight and that began God's Day. How special it was to spend that time with True Parents and begin the new year in a Holy way.

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Protecting Father and his newspaper

Shared by Susana Ginze December 31, 2017 Susana shares about working for Noticious del Mundo in New York. One Cuban man who was the Director of Advertising tried to take over the newspaper so that he could target news against Castro in Cuba. Susana reported this...

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The New California Times newspaper in L.A. area

Shared by Robert Brown December 31, 2017 Robert shares how he was invited to do the entire production work for a newspaper started in Los Angeles area, the New California Times, that was originally meant to compare with the Washington Times. The paper was a 40 page...

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Making a film about the Blessing

Shared by Stephen Goldberg December 31, 2017 Stephen shares how he was approached by WFWP leader, Emma Reed, to make a film about the Blessing.

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I love this church

Shared by Merce Goldberg December 31, 2017 Merce shares how she loves this church and how she and her husband, Stephen, live by faith.

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Sam Harley’s second Blessing

Shared by Sam Harley December 31, 2017 Sam was Blessed a second time to a sister who was also in Performing Arts, as he was, though he didn't remember her until they were Matched.

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Sam Harley’s first Blessing to a Welsh sister

Shared by Sam Harley December 31, 2017 Sam shares about his first Blessing to a Welsh sister in the 1982 Madison Square Garden Blessing. She left the church but he was ready to stay with her and welcome her back until he was Blessed again.

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Channeling Heung Jin Nim after 1275 Blessing in Korea

by Sam Harley December 9, 2017 A day or two after the 1275 Couple Blessing ceremony, Jenny Tanabe arranged a bus to Heung Jin Nim's won jeun. On the way there, Marilyn Kerins stood up in front of the bus of seminary students, and asked if anyone felt moved to be a...

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Nuns write the Lord of Second Advent is Sun Myung Moon

Sharing by Stan Paczynski December 3, 2017 Stan shares how he lived on a farm near a small town in Canada. He went to a Catholic school and one nun, Sister Leona, would write on the blackboard that the Lord of the Second Advent was Sun Myung Moon. This was a direction...

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Meeting family, fear of being kidnapped

by Sam Harley December 2, 2017 Nowadays we go to church, dressed up nicely. If anyone doesn't like our church, they might give us a look. How different that is from the early days. The week that I joined the church, my spiritual father was kidnapped by deprogrammers...

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First person to join in Iran

Sharing from Mohammed (Matt) Jam December 3, 2007 Mohammed shares about being the first person to join in Iran in the 1970s. Susan Fefferman was instrumental in witnessing and keeping everything going in Iran. Other missionaries came from Germany and Japan but had...

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Help young people live a life of faith in Christ

by Matthew Goldberg November 27, 2017   I decided to join the Unification Church in San Francisco, California. It was late summer of 1976, shortly after my 28th birthday. Within less than a year I found myself fundraising in Michigan with a Mobile Flower (sic)...

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Reaching the zero point

by Sam Harley November 25, 2017 When we were in our separation period (remember those?) I was lecturing in Washington, DC and she was touring Russian students around the States. We would see each other every three months or so, which was normal for that time. So...

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Defends Japanese sister in bar

by Randall Lay Tin November 19, 2017 Night life meant going to pubs and restaurants selling flowers or whatever. At a restaurant, a guy didn’t like us and I asked why. “You’re all brainwashed on low protein diets.” I pulled out a spare chair at his table and said, “Oh...

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Crawling in a fancy Italian restaurant

by Gregory Davis November 11, 2017 There was no normal. When it came to the late night “blitz”. We were “commandos”. Brazen fearless. Whatever it took to “do” the place. I remember one “classy place” Italian I think, in Philadelphia. (all my best stories seem to come...

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Moonie Normal

by Sam Harley November 19, 2017 Theme: “Fallen world normal” and “Moonie normal” We were determined not to do anything to the 'fallen world standard'. So our normal was not everyone else's normal. When I first did a mall booth at Christmas for Original World Products,...

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Home Church and working with our newspapers

Jose Fragosa shares about working in Home Church and how much he loved the people. Then he started delivering our newspaper in New York. The opportunity came to join Washington Times from the very beginning.

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Pt. 3 Working in desolate Mongolia

Jules Hack shares about working in Mongolia, only paved roads in the cities, all others dirt roads or having to take a jeep cross country. Yurts, horses, people who look very much like America's native peoples make up Mongolia.

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Disciple for Christ

Wolfgang Schawaller's Biography: Disciple for Christ I use the words „Disciple for Christ, because I have accepted the Unification Principle, the religious teachings of the Unification movement and Rev. and Mrs. Moon who are the founders in October of 1974 in Germany....

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Blessing cleans up nightmares

by Sam Harley October 27, 2017 Some dreams don't come true, some nightmares get worked out and never return. This is a story of how that worked in our blessing. Part I When our first child was born, it was a big moment. I had dreamed of it, prayed for it and it had...

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Free at last

Stephen Goldstein shares about reaching out to churches, comparing a dry Lutheran service to a spirited black congregation.

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Singing holy song to the fishermen on Christmas

Mackay Holmes shares about working in the fishing business in Alabama. It was very hard work, sleeping little out on a ship for two to three weeks straight. They couldn't witness for fear of jeopardizing Father's business so one Christmas Mackay sang a holy song at...

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Chant: Become a child of True Parents

Keith McCarthy shares how he didn't know much about the Matching, but once there was open to whatever God wanted. He saw his future wife, and first thought, "she's white", than "she's really...

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Have I Told You Lately that I love you?

by Gregory Davis October 20, 2017 It was, I believe, in the mid 90s. TM was in the middle of her “world speaking tour” and TF was in EG and the Tri-State area membership was invited during some evenings to listen to “live” speech and subsequent phone conversations...

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Father whacked me with the photo

Patrick and Machiko Erlandson share about their photo matching. Father whacked Patrick in the head with Machiko's photo and Machiko received a black and white xerox of a fax of a photo. All she could see was a big...

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Unconditional love

Simon and Daniela Voelker share how they were matched, to Simon it was love at first sight, to Daniela it was a direction from Father to be Blessed with...

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Shouting Divine Principle in every room

by John Doroski October 19, 2017 In the Philippines in almost every new city we pioneered we could not find a place to rent for a center, everything taken by a large population, then it always occurred we would finally fine a vacant house and we set up a church center...

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Respect and love for others

by Wolfgang Schawaller October 25, 2017 From my 21 years mission experience I want to say what I learned most: It is to respect and love other fellow-human-beings, because everyone is a child of God. Where I worked and lived, people always looked different from me,...

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21 years foreign missionary

Testimony by Wolfgang Schawaller 21 years foreign missionary Born in Frankfurt a. M., Deutschland, on 14-01-1951. German citizen. Joined the Unification Movement in Frankfurt a. M., October 1974. Spiritual Father: Udo Frisch, later adopted by Paul Werner. Blessing...

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Foreign Mission to India from 1976 until 1979

by Wolfgang Schawaller  October 25, 2017 Two and a half years passed since I first came to India. I went there in 1976 as a foreign missionary of the Unification Church. Our centre and home were located outside the city of Bombay. Every day it took me one hour by...

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Moral education in Russia

by Wolfgang Schawaller  October 25, 2017 In 1992 I went to Russia and worked there for 4 years. Russian people are nice and deep hearted people, and most of them hated the communist regime anyway. I worked in Kaliningrad, former “Königsberg”, which belonged to German...

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Apples received by Heaven

by Sam Harley October 20, 2017 In the early 90s, when I was state leader of South Carolina, I got a phone call from a church sister. She told me about her younger sister Rebecca, who had joined the church, struggled a lot and left. Since then she had been married and...

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Kidnapped, but in a dream, “It’s time to come back”

by Solange Weiss August 8, 2017 I was only a few months in the church and we lived in a nice center.  Father’s poster for Washington Monument was so huge. I joined and I didn’t communicate with my sister and I didn’t communicate with anyone because I had a job. But...

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Found a box to sleep in

Susan Felsenthal shares how her captain left her and a brother out all night though their pick up was 9pm. They each found a box to sleep in outside the Piggly Wiggly until the captain finally pulled up at 5am. He had fallen asleep.

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Helping children understand Divine Principle

by Gregory Davis September 29, 2017 For a while I taught Sunday school at our local center in Hempstead, Long Island, NY. I tried to think of some way that would simplify the Principle that would make it easy for even the littlest of the lot (8,or 9?) to understand...

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Sunday School, UTS and Belvedere

by Sam Harley September 29, 2017 Well, back in the day, Sunday School involved whatever whoever wanted to volunteer thought of doing. This was well before we had a curriculum. At UTS, the seminary, I was in a ministry class that required me to do some kind of ministry...

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Saeilo for a year

by Robert Brown September 26, 2017 When I graduated from MFT in 1982 I was given a choice and chose to go for a business mission so I was sent to Saeilo in Chicago under David Rendall. Our church believes in on the job training, because I didn’t receive any training...

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The True Story of these Sioux Blessing Couples

by Ron Pine I am the person who invited this group to our Conference.  When the Blessing opened for people I convinced them to attend the Blessing ceremony which they did.  Shortly afterwards the State Leader Jim Gavin asked Elaine Quiver if they will support a Grand...

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Selling laser prints

by Sam Harley Our church started a lot of businesses, some for lofty reasons, some just to make money. There were and are so many of that I can’t do them justice. If you were a part of any church business, would you be willing to record something about what it was,...

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Making granariums

by Robert Brown September 17, 2017 Robert tells how after getting a hairline fracture in one of his feet, his commander puts him in charge of a creating and leading a granarium factory with challenging members.

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Children parallel Dad’s course

by Sam Harley September 17, 2017 Sam shares how his daughter went on NGA, got inspired and convinced his son to attend her graduation. He walked into Hearst house with a backpack on his back, no money, no job, into meditation, yoga exactly like Sam did 40 years...

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Music was my Isaac

by Gregory Davis September 12, 2017 Well, here goes. We've all heard about "the Isaac". Something we love so much that it is like "killing a part of our soul" to "offer it up". For me, first it was my music. During college I had "discovered" the guitar and devoted...

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In my dream Father hit my head with his shoe

by Ronald E. Pine 777 Blessing Couple In 1981 I was the President of Going Up Press and we had a printing company in Belleville, New Jersey.  One day I had a dream where True Father was walking next to me down a long dark corridor and he stopped and took off his shoe...

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Two for the Price of One!

How I advanced myself and won the right to be Blessed to Hwa Yeop Kim a 777 sister and inherit a nine year old daughter at the same time! My Story The Autobiography of Ronald E. Pine 777 Blessing Couple My friends know some of the amazing and incredible events in my...

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We Were There, a calling from God

by Sam Harley September 9, 2017 Joining the church back in 1978, there were some things I had to give up. I loved acting, dancing, reading books and being by myself for long periods of time. From the time I joined, there was no reading books except for the Divine...

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