Other Testimonies
Our lives following the True Parents were so full and rich and our experiences so diverse they don’t all fit in the categories listed on this site. Here are some more amazing testimonies.
Moonish Glossary
Glossary of Moonish Terms Author's note: This is intended to be an informal guide to help people understand the jargon we - Unificationists, Moonies, family members - use as we tell our stories. It is not to be taken as authoritative, and it is definitely not an...
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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.
read moreHelping 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...
read moreMusic 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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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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Posters in Montreal
by Sam Harley September 3, 2017 Sam was not ready to join yet, but saw posters of Father in Montreal.
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Prayer at old slave market
by Sam Harley September 1, 2017 Of course, prayer was one of the main things we did in the Unification Church. I was into meditation when I joined, and I prayed quietly, preferably in the grassy green hills of Booneville. My first 'prayer shock' was when I joined the...
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Stuck in Iran during the Blessing
by Masoud Saberan August 20, 2017 Masoud shares how in 1982 he was stuck in Iran when the call came to go to the Blessing ten days later. He couldn't leave in that short of time.
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Two German Shepherds approached
by Danielle Voelker August 20, 2017 Danielle shares how in Italy selling church pamphlets she had experiences of being spiritually protected from dogs while going door to door.
read moreAsked for donation of butter on bread
by Dejan Perhat August 12, 2017 I'm from Croatia and I really had so many special experiences on fundraising during my full time course in the church. During fundraising I was invited many, many times to join lunch, or people gave me coffee, fruits, drinks etc not...
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Jewish and Muslim working together
Andy Weiss shares about being a Jewish man trusting a Muslim man and how much they helped each other.
read moreIn cold New York, team leader offers ice cream bar
by Paulette K Wiesinger Out in the cold New York weather for weeks selling frozen roses, team leader drives up in the van with a huge coat on and the heat turned up high and offers me an ice cream bar... In 1976 I was with The New Hope singers International in Japan....
read morePing pong on Christmas
by Priscilla Joy Agari I remember one Christmas when I was selling flowers on Long Island and after we finished, I was allowed to go to my family's Christmas gathering in Amityville. My face was so red from being out in the cold wind. My dad was so happy, though, I...
read moreMerry Christmas, True Parents’ birthday
by Douglas-Mary Moriarty I woke up on True Parents Birthday in the early 80's and walked through the Lobby of The New Yorker. Three or four people passed by, entering the building and I greeted them all with Merry Christmas! They just nodded but then one sister was...
read moreHe bought my pitiful leftovers, rejoicing
by Diane Robinette All I had left were a few sprigs of frozen statice. Maybe a couple of half-frozen, straggly green leaf. I was out there, waving it in the wind, my eyelashes felt like they were starting to stick together as my eyes watered from the icy wind....
read moreShe didn’t see my elevated state
by Susan Crosthwaite One memory I have was of going to a Christmas with some of my family members and my aunt saying " Oh, You haven't changed a bit!" She meant it as a complement in relief that I was OK, but I was secretly disappointed that she didn't see my...
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Rev. Song loves songs
by Sam Harley July 16,2017 I was in New York Church when Rev Song took over. He was a tall, burly, charismatic guy. He’d been the leader of a kid’s gang on the hill in Pusan where Father and Won Pil Kim built a hut out of cardboard. The kids harassed Father at first,...
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Going to Tijuana to bring needed clothes
Robert Brown and Jose Fragosa tell the story of going down to Tijuana, Mexico around 1995 to bring clothes to a school, bringing Robert's twin boys and Jose's daughter.
read moreThe value of sharing testimonies
by Caroline Cecile
read moreStill working on perfecting myself
by Bill Christian October 1, 2016 It took me a while to come to my first-weekend workshop. It was in the Fall of 1979, at 43rd Street Church, NYC. For more than a year, I attended daily Mass and rec'd Holy Communion asking Jesus what to do with my life? (I was...
read more“Wait! You’re a Moonie??!!?”
by Sam Harley May 7, 2017 I went back to college, to get my bachelor's so I could attend the seminary. Told God I wasn't going to advertise my church membership, but I'd be absolutely straight about it when it came up. After several quiet months, a young woman got up...
read moreTell the world the good news
by Raymond Lopera March 2, 2017 OUR MISSION: Dear Brothers and Sisters. For those who still out there, and sat on the floor at Belvedere or anywhere around the world, for the same purpose, every Sunday, for almost 7 years, day after day eating peanut butter...
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Welcome to Belvedere, a Visitor’s Collage
This is a video created by Derek Denaro in 1994 interviewing the Belvedere staff.
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