Flower of Hope Is Blooming in Africa

“From now on, our providence, True Parents’ providence is to search for a nation. With the world as the object, we should meet God with at least seven nations on a restored standard by 2020. Are you ready for this? Do not simply respond-show proof, show results. We have one goal. All our organizations should educate others about True Parents and guide them to develop into blessed families engrafted with new life through True Parents. In order to do that, we need to fulfill our responsibilities as tribal messiahs, which Father, at the end, requested us to do.” (September 17)

These are True Mother’s desperate words after all the events for the third anniversary of True Father’s ascension concluded. If you are a member, every one of you would hope to complete your mission as heavenly tribal messiahs who accomplish Cheon Il Guk by telling others about True Parents and witnessing to these people so that they can be engrafted to new life.

The main location for our witnessing in West Africa is rural towns. In each town, there are about two hundred or three hundred young people. They are innocent and generous, and still have interest in and passion for new cultures. It is almost like the 1970s in Korean rural areas. In these small towns, God’s providence is being carried out as we teach them about the new word, True Parents’ Divine Principle, true families and true love. In the past, repression was rife in Africa, whose people suffered exploitation, pain and imported diseases. Nevertheless, their pure hearts have transmitted the heart of the origin of creation down through the generations.

The young people of Africa can feel our Heavenly Parent’s raw feelings of resentment, which moves and inspires them. In African country towns, members work in teams of two for forty days and can recruit more than a hundred people. All the members have united with our goal: Let all our members recruit twelve people by the end of 2015, thirty-six by the end of 2016, a hundred and twenty by the end of 2017, and four hundred and thirty by the end of 2018. Surprisingly, not even a year has passed and some people have already reached a hundred and twenty.

In step with this, the African regional headquarters is setting up a system to guide witnessing candidates.

Based on the witnessing we have done from March to December, we are setting a strategy for January and February to focus on the blessing.

A strategic nation, Cote d’Ivoire, has chosen a thousand towns that have deep relations with us. They will bless a hundred and twenty married couples and more than thirty others. They have set a goal to give testimony to three hundred thousand people by the end of 2016. Their goal for 2017 is to establish good relations with three thousand towns, have four hundred and thirty heavenly tribal messiahs, and give testimony to a million people.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is another strategic nation. They are like the heart of Africa as they currently have the most members in our region. On October 11, a new national leader took that post. All the members have united their resolve to recruit a million people by the end of 2017 and are preparing strategies in stages.

A flower of hope is blooming in Africa. We are prepared to complete Cheon Il Guk in at least three nations and dedicate our results to True Parents. This year is the fortieth anniversary of the arrival of our missionaries here in 1975. Forty years of indemnity have passed and forty years of new hope begins. Now is the time to speak with our results.

“Within True Parents’ ideology, whatever results one has and what responsibilities one fulfills are eternal. Those who have them can become true owners, pioneers. That is the path to becoming filial children and loyal subjects of our Heavenly Parent. We must focus all our attention on that. The church needs to grow in order to restore the nation. The growth of the church means that we need more families that are blessed. By doing this, ours can become a good nation, God’s homeland.”

As mentioned above, West Africa is doing its best to bring all our members together to realize True Mother’s words. Hence, we are going to speak out. We are going to tell everyone in the world about True Parents, complete our own families, restore our own tribes and successfully complete Cheon Il Guk. To do this I represent all our African member’s resolve and determination to do our utmost best with an attitude of true owners.