Swedish Family Report for November 1972

Ten active fighters more for our Heavenly Father — that is our goal until the end of this year.

This month we had the great joy to welcome Paul and Christel Werner from Germany on their Scandinavian tour. They investigated the situation here and promised at once to send somebody to support the mission here. One week later the help was already there: Barbara Heinbuch from the German team arrived. Besides her language studies she will go witnessing all day long. In this way we can spread out the Divine principle in Swedish, German and English language.

Besides the people who have been personally contacted in the streets, we always have about 10-15 visitors who read our advertisements in the newspapers and were interested by the Divine Principle. They often leave taking a book for further study at home.

My physical mother also been with me for some weeks and has been of much help by praying for the mission and keeping the house-work done.

We observe that a general revival is going on in Sweden. Ecumenical and charismatic conferences attract many young-people, who begin to show and more interest in God and in spiritual work. In the street where we mainly go for witnessing there are all kinds of religious and political groups spreading out their ideas. Countless new books and articles write about “Jesus a human being”, “The signs of our time”, “The hell — a fact” etc. The institution for religious history is going to publish a new book on the “Religious Minorities in Sweden”, and I learned that they will put in some pages about our Principle-movement as were as a photo of our Leader.

For our own use we have translated some Principle articles and several of Leader’s sermons into Swedish.

We are very thankful, indeed, Father, for the work of your kingdom.