Sisterhood-Nations Chosen in Korea to Advance 2020 Project

In the near future, U.S. congregations of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification will “adopt” one of 20 providential nations in a sisterhood relationship involving material and missionary support, the News Team has learned.

After the Joint Worship Service May 5, 2013 for the Victory of Vision 2020, all Korean regional churches picked sisterhood nations in two categories, i.e. “strategic nations” and “providential nations”, according to a posting on the Tongil website.

The assignments were based partly on the size of each Korean parish. In each parish, a minister will organize 40 members per nation and will build a cooperative “internal” system through prayer and external support through donations of money, material and missionary visits. See the sisterhood table below.

“The idea of the sisterhood is to use the successful foundation of the Inauguration for the Victory of Vision 2020. The program involves providential nations such as Father Nation (Korea), Mother Nation (Japan), and Elder son Nation, (United States), supporting the 20 strategic nations and 20 providential nations,” according to the Tongil site.

In an email to the News Team, Dr. Chang Shik Yang, president of the FFWPU in Korea, wrote: “Congregations in Korea will support through all kinds of ways, through prayer and sending missionaries and some donations.”

Archbishop Ki Hoon Kim, the church Continental Director, emailed that “We [the U.S. Church] will do it the same way as Korea. Dr. Michael Balcomb and I are checking now.” Dr. Balcomb confirmed that the project is on his “to-do” list.

Parish Strategy Nations Providence Nations Taiwan Russia 1 Cheonbok Gung in Yongsan Cote d’lvoire Mexico Germany 2 East Seoul The Solomon Islands Uruguay Nigeria 3 South Seoul Vanuatu Malaysia Democratic Republic of the Zambia 4 North Seoul Congo Australia 5 Incheon Paraguay England Switzerland 6 North Gyeonggi Costa Rica Italy Moldova 7 South Gyeonggi Israel Nepal 8 Gangwon Palau Ukraine 9 Daejeon Benin 10 Chungbuk India China 11 Chungnam Dominican Republic Panama 12 Jeonbuk Burkina Faso Kenya 13 Gwangju Jeonnam Thailand New Zealand 14 Haeyang Albania 15 Daegu Brazil 16 Gyeongbuk Mongolia Canada Republic of the Congo 17 Gyeongnam France (Brazzaville) 18 Busan Philippine Argentina