How I joined the church

David Stadelhofer, who joined in Berkeley in the 1960s, talks about his first impressions of the church and the teachings. The whole church in Berkeley only had seven members at the time. He was on cloud nine at first but later...

Osamu and Elsa Tsuchida, a Blessed as a couple in 1989 in the 1,250 Couple Blessing in Korea. Osamu felt called to play music, base guitar and joined a band in Japan. He heard a voice telling him to go to New York and finally he had enough money. But three years in...

by Bengt de Paulis Submitted July 23, 2018 (originally written in 1999) Mysterious are Gods ways. After a breakup with my teenage girlfriend, I moved from Swedish westcoast small village Fritsla (70km east Gothenburg) to Stockholm 1976, where my two 7-year older...

testimony by Robert Brown

by Ken Owens March 31, 2081 I lived in San Francisco during the late 1960s, and I was basically a shy person. My best friend was a Japanese-American named Michael Ozaki. Through him I began searching for more internal things. I joined the US Navy in 1971 and became a...

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...

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...

Hispanic woman shares how she was witnessed to and how her heart was moved.

by Derek Denero September 3, 2017 GOD AND BASEBALL: Baseball is one of Americas beloved national pastimes and of course has expanded on as  a great world-renowned sport today….hmm, sounds so providential, and it’s game rules have maintained consistency since its...

by Stephen Goldstein August 20, 2017 Stephen shares how he met church members three times before he finally joined. After joining an ex-member tries to persuade him to leave, but he sees this former member's lifestyle and prefers being with the church and all it...

This is not the best quality recording, but listen to it anyway. It is hilarious. Below is a written transcript in case you miss some of it. by Don Makowsky August 6, 2017 I had been searching since I was fifteen for spiritual truth and what I could learn about the...

by Robert Brown August 30, 2016 A couple weeks after turning 19 years old in Oxnard, California in September, 1974, my brother, my girlfriend and I left home in my brother’s old 1956 bread-truck style camper that had a bed, stove and ice box. We left while my...

by Robert Beebe July 3, 2017 Times have changed, but God’s work is the same. I know God was able to reach me on the foundation of the blood, sweat, and tears of our True Parents. When I was in college I began to experience a spiritual yearning to find God. As part of...

by Robert Sayre July 1, 2017 September 18, 1973 was my first day as part of the Unified Family in Missoula, Montana. It was in inauspicious beginning. I had met Pat Hickey a few months earlier and they had left Lorenzo Gaztanaga there to kind of tend me and three...

by Jose Fragosa 1/29/17 I wasn’t really interested in another church. I joined in 1974, and the first time I met the movement, there was this van in downtown LA, with speakers, speaking about the future of Christianity. At that time, in downtown LA there was lots of...