Church Businesses
Father set up or purchased many businesses world-wide, such as: Saeilo Machinery, The Washington Times, True World Foods, Japanese restaurants, United Press International, fishing and fish processing businesses, luxury hotels and resorts, and so many more. Members were often assigned a business mission on the basis of on-the-job-training, with no prior experience in that particular field. This was viewed as spiritual training along with business training. For many members this training gave them the experience that helped them through-out their lives.
Group discussion, MFT, Fundraising and Washington Times
Keith and Katrin McCarthy, Sam Harley, and Caroline Cecile share stories about MFT fundraising and Jose Fregosa shares about being one of the first members to join the Washington Times staff working out of an empty warehouse. They would also fundraise selling Freddie...
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Struggling time on Saeilo, move to NY Church
Robert Brown shares about the year on Saeilo Machinery, 1983, pioneering several Mid-West towns, but struggling, needing spiritual food. Then for the first time in the church he leaves a mission. It works out for the best...
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Las Vegas Pioneering Testimony
True Father’s hidden ocean providence project in Las Vegas Seiji Tanaka shares in March 24, 2014, we invited True Mother to the opening ceremony of Ocean Providence Las Vegas branch. Three years before, on July 27th 2011, True Father had convened a meeting with CEO...
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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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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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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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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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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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by Walter G. Lowe August 12, 2017 When I was on my own in 1977 selling IL Hwa wholesale during the day and fundraising in the evening to cover expenses. I ended up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey a little after 5 pm. It was too late to try to find any health food stores...
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by Sam Harley July 23, 2017 Sam Harley shares how he worked for a gallery and framing business with a couple of interesting brothers, and the lessons he learned.
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