50 Years Anniversary Celebration of the Unification Movement Germany in Munich, Germany

W hen the German Unification Movement celebrated its inspiring 50th anniversary in our training center near Bad Camberg earlier this year at Pentecost, our Munich members felt we should do the same on the local level. We wanted to proudly present the work of God, our True Parents and our movement to the Munich society. 50 years we not only survived in spite of all the adversities, but worked a great deal for loving families, unification of the country and the world and finally for God’s kingdom of peace. Already in summertime we started to think and plan, and when the date came nearer everybody worked closely together and finally nearly 150 family The audience was guided by our MCs Wolf Osterheld members, ambassadors for peace, friends and guests and Elsa Hönig. The Munich church choir and other followed our invitation to the ‘Hotel zur Post’ in musicians such as Oivind Haugen, Gianni Scarcella Munich-Pasing. and Michael Waldenmeier inspired the participants We also invited our national leader couple Dieter and with their songs. Ana Schmidt to give the main festive speech and to Prof. Löw recalled his 30 years of engagement with our grand surprise our special emissary for Europe our movement, first with CAUSA warning the world Dr. Kwang-Kee Sa also came and addressed the of the dangers of communism and later with UPF at audience. Other guest speakers were the numerous national and international events. Mr. Ambassadors for Peace Prof. Dr. Konrad Löw and the Hutter congratulated the UPF for its work for peace Catholic theologian Gottfried Hutter. in the Middles East as he is also involved in this work The Munich representative of the Women’s with his own project. Dr. Kwang-Kee Sa conveyed Federation for World Peace, Magda Haugen, gave warmest greetings from our True Mother and her testimony how she joined the movement and expressed his gratitude for the members’ hard work received the marriage blessing. in the past 50 years. And Dr. Dieter Schmidt also gave

a short testimony about his joining the movement, We were all moved and happy about this event and about our True Parents as Messiah, about the thanked our Heavenly Parents full heartedly for the wonderful re-unification of Germany, where we past 50 years. May this have only been just the first played an important central role, and about the step for a glorious future. marriage Blessing. On the following Sunday Dr. Sa gave also the Sunday Finally we showed a wonderful video presenting True service in our center and especially spoke about the Father and his autobiography. formula course of our life of faith. And finally our NL The audience of 150 participants was really inspired Dieter Schmidt spoke about the national 40 days (on the left a photo of about the half) and many of condition of heart in Germany. them accepted the invitation to our nearby church A weekend of God’s blessing for our Munich center for a dinner and victory party. community! Reported by Robert Bentele

Dr. Dieter Schmidt gives a short testimony about his joining the movement - Dr. Kwang-Kee Sa conveys warmest greetings from our True Mother - Prof. Löw recalled his 30 years of engagement with our movement

The Munich church choir