MFT (Mobile Fundraising Teams) and Fundraising

Fundraising: everybody did it, it was part of our spiritual training. Locally for a church center, organization or business; nationally. The National Mobile Fundraising Teams were the most intense embodiment of this training. Members traveled and sometimes lived in vans for weeks or months at a time, in groups of 5 to 8. Rev Moon’s teaching encouraged us to go beyond what we thought was possible. MFT pushed members to go beyond limitations of emotional, physical and spiritual endurance. All in search of the ‘breakthrough.’ The day was 12 to 16 hours long, the goals higher than you thought humanly possible. See all the amazing stories below.

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I CRUSHED!

by Greg DavisI was so sick (feeling like puking) that I couldn't fundraise. I was dropped off for the day and had no way to contact the captain. (No cell phones)I was in a small shopping center parking lot, and running around "trying to feel better". It wasn't...

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Testing….testing…..

by Sam Harley February 25, 2017 At the end of my MFT career, somewhere in Minnesota, in the middle of winter....I was experiencing what for me were routine fundraising issues, getting overloaded (emotionally constipated, as one team mother put it) and knowing that no...

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Omigod, I talked to a Moonie

by Sam Harley     February 28, 2017 It's an interesting experience, talking to someone who is convinced you're a mindless zombie with the strange power to hypnotize them. But it doesn't make for great conversation. I was fundraising a small town in Tennessee, on a...

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From one of my MFT journals, “Reflections for 1979”

by Robert Brown July 9, 2017   (This is written directly from my journal and is posted to show the attitude of so many members at that time: dedication, faith, full effort, wanting to do the best for God and True Parents.) This year was full of challenges, deep...

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Unity made all the difference

by Sam Harley June 11, 2017 Once I was in the kitchen at Hearst Street house, three months in the church and struggling. Noah Ross was there. “So Sam, how's it going?” he asked. I had really been wanting to talk to somebody about what I was going through, and Noah was...

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Cold lake condition

Many times when on MFT in Pennsylvania, we would camp out under the stars in a park with a lake.

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Condition for spiritual breakthrough

by Sam Harley June 2, 2017 Oakland family, where I joined, did lots of fasting. We ate a liquid breakfast (“Put it in the blender!” was a common shout when we didn't know what to do with leftovers). I remember having spaghetti sauce for breakfast. We also fasted every...

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The day the police bought from me

by Robert Brown April 23, 2017 I got arrested in a small town in Texas and the policeman put me in the back of his police car with my hands handcuffed behind my back. As we were driving away he reported in by radio that he had caught the guy selling cookies. Then I...

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Alaska!

by Robert Brown October 5, 2016 In 1976 after the Yankee Stadium rally I was a MFT captain and had my team in Utah. One morning as I was about to put the team out our Japanese team mother, Naka-san, said that I had to call Commander Yono before I put the team out for...

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My first day on MFT

by Robert Brown I had been on IOWC for five months when I volunteered to go to MFT. In March of 1975, there was a seven day workshop at Barrytown for members ready to join MFT. It so happened this was also the time those chosen to be sent out as missionaries to 120...

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