This is the first time for members on the continent of Africa to have pledge service together with True Parents. There is a tradition in True Family of sharing some food after the pledge. Most of the True Children are in the New York area. With or without True Parents, they all, including the grandchildren, do kyung beh together.
In that way, three generations of parents, the children, and the grandchildren are making their pledge to God. Sharing a snack or treat after pledge service sets a condition that not just the generations of the True Family, but all things participate in doing pledge service with God.
Have you done the same thing every Sunday?
I wonder if anyone is meeting me in person for the first time. Everybody is a blessed couple, right? You are blessed? [By satellite.] We call them satellite children. In Japan, we call people who joined after watching videotapes “video children.” Now those who were blessed by satellite we call “satellite blessed couples.” This is a very exciting thing. This is a part of Unification Church culture.
Suppose all five billion people in this world were to gather and celebrate like this with True Parents. How happy we would be! When the entire world can join in the celebration, Father and Mother will have to pick one particular place to be, and then all the other countries will have to watch via satellite. Which country should receive True Parents to celebrate in person? What is your wish? [Nigeria.]
How big is the population of Nigeria?
[One hundred million.] The responsibility is on your shoulders to restore all of them. How many years do you need to complete that mission? How long has it been since the missionaries came to Nigeria? [Nineteen years.] How many members are there now? [Four hundred eighty.]
To restore the entire one hundred million people, how many more years do you need? If you continue at this rate, it will take more than a century.
Do you expect True Parents to be alive a century from now?
You know how old Father is now. Don’t you think Father will have to join the spirit world someday?
I understand that those missionaries who came from Germany, Japan, and America went through severe hardships and difficulties because of people’s lifestyles and habits. In the history of the Unification Church, we had much difficulty in the early days.
The pioneer history of each nation contains almost the same story. Each country had its difficulty in the beginning stages of the movement. However, as the number of our mission countries increases our foundation gets stronger, and our membership grows, such difficulties are reduced.
Father knew all the situations in detail. Father was particularly concerned about those missionaries who were going through hardship and ordeals. Therefore, Father devoted himself to initiating many projects to make an external foundation upon which you can stand, to make a base which you can use to shorten the time of world restoration.
As my speech explained, after World War II was the providential time for all mankind to receive Father. Yet, Christian leaders worldwide failed to recognize the Father as the Lord of the Second Coming.
Therefore, all the conditions prepared by God were lost. Father had no choice but to climb from the bottom again. One step at a time, he had to lay the foundation to proclaim himself as the Lord of the Second Coming and True Parent of mankind.
During these forty years, Satan has tried every possible way of persecuting Father to stop him from being able to lay a strong enough foundation to win the victory. Satan opposed Father on the national and worldwide levels.
Father focused on Christianity in America. On the foundation of the national victory which Father achieved in Korea, Father, and Mother came to America and spent the last twenty years working in America to lay the worldwide foundation.
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
