Special Times with the True Family
Members throughout the world have had unique, amazing and personal experiences with the True Parents and with the True Family. These are often life changing and life affirming experiences that when shared can become deep and personal for all.
Serving in My Father’s House
by Joe Kinney Stories from my years with True Family Belvedere 1973, East Garden 1974 to 1978, Korea 1978 to 1981 Introduction I was very fortunate to spend most of my first five years in the church close to True Parents. I saw Father for the first time at 10:00 am on...
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Grandmother Hong – Daemonim
by Joe Kinney Stories continued Grandmother: her humility, working in the kitchen, working in the garden These days we hear testimonies from the members who attended the Chung Pyung Lake workshop. The central person in these workshops is known as Daemonim. The...
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Mother said, “Joe Kinney I love you very much!”
by Joe Kinney Stories continued The big scolding after six months of difficulty, accepting it, than getting victory. Father called for the bus, and then we went to Chinese, movie, and the beach. July or August 1977 A great privilege of working at East Garden was...
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Nancy’s parents disowned her, she needed True Parents
Nancy Makowski shares how she came from her home country of Ecuador to New York in 1976 at the request of her parents who were already in the country. She met a Japanese sister and started hearing the lectures. Soon she quit her job and college which made her parents...
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Experience what True Mother is with her own son
Nancy Makowski shares a struggle with one of her sons who struggles with the church and with True Parents. She feels her struggle is the same as True Mother with her own...
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So different from her husband
Nancy Makowski tells how different she is from her husband, Don Makowski. She has always done witnessing in the church, where her husband did the fish business, MFT, loves playing the guitar. But he has a deep heart. Her children don’t know how they could make it...
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Two Inca brothers are around you
Nancy Makowski explains how an Italian sister who was the national Messiah to Ecuador said the spirits of the two brothers who split between Peru and Ecuador were around her and she has to restore them. So she went to a shrine and read in Spanish but was chastised to...
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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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The Beginning: Working with New Future Photo in 1976
by Ken Owens During the 1976 Yankee Stadium campaign, I was on a MFT team working the streets of New York. Since I had a camera, I asked to work with the church photographers for the event. I was given permission and went to Belvedere where New Future Photo was based....
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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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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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Father challenges guests with blunt talk
Sam Harley shares about bringing ministers and other guests to hear Father speak in Los Angeles.
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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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Fell asleep at Matching in front of Father
Seiji Tanaka shares how at the matching he fell asleep and was awakened by Father grabbing his hair, then thrusting him at his future wife by the neck.
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Looking for that breakthrough in heart
by Matthew Love September 17, 2017 Matthew tells how he yearned to have a deep experience with True Parents and finally at the Blessing he felt that heart.
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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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Climb down a tree and hitch hike
By Don Makowsky August 6, 2017 It is a poor recording but worth listening to, or just read the transcript below. I was in a center and I was kind of struggling. I wasn’t a good fundraiser. I had something spiritual I wanted to resolve and I felt the only way was...
read moreBreakfast with True Parents
This is a response from Sam Harley's post about people offering us food. by Debra Gertz Thank you Sam. I love your testimonies! I think God knew that food was a way to touch your heart. I don't remember people giving me food while fundraising or witnessing, or while...
read moreAfter attacking Rev. Moon, Dad welcomes him
by Tom Cutts Sometimes the Christmas frontline can be in your own home. During Christmas 1984 True Father was in Danbury Prison, and I was the Regional Coordinator in Atlanta. The Regional Director granted me permission to visit my parents in Boca Raton, Florida. At...
read moreChristmas, a peaceful happy day
by Elizabeth Kang I was in the USA from 1973 to 1982. We used to go to Belvedere on Christmas day to hear True Father speak. I remember the beautiful Christmas tree. We rested all day on Christmas Day and were told that True Parents did not wish us to fundraise on...
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We listened to Father
by Sam Harley April 26, 2016 After walking through the metal detector at security and showing your ID, you took your shoes off before entering the main room. In the WMC (World Mission Center, aka the New Yorker), you went through the terrace room. Left your shoes by...
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21 City Tour in Atlanta, Georgia
by Trevor Brown August 21, 2016 As young members, we went to campaign in Atlanta before the 21 city tour event in 1973. We went witnessing in the city center before the IOWC members arrived, and it was really tough. We had to sell the tickets for all three nights. We...
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Father’s enduring legacy
by Michael Downey My most enduring image of Rev. Moon in Alaska is him sitting cross-legged, back straight on the engine cover of an open boat. No matter what the weather or sea conditions he always sat staring out to sea, unchanging. When I remember him on the ocean,...
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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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Joining the Church, becoming Father’s security
by Derek Denaro June 4, 2017
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Experiences with Father in Alaska
by Jules Hack June 4, 2017
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Love is just a memory
by Michael Downey February 4, 2013 I first saw Father in Washington D.C. in October of 1973. He spoke at Lisner Auditorium as a part of the Day of Hope Tour. I bought a ticket from a young lady that knocked on my door in Alexandria Virginia. I told her at first that I...
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When I saw True Father for the first time
by Carole Cecile Lancaster Gate, London May 26, 1978 They were coming from all over Europe, brothers and sisters we were all, having joined in our own country the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity; in short, the Unification Church,...
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