Notes from the One World Crusade in America by David S.C. Kim

A new adventure has begun in America with the arrival of 110 members of the European Family in America. A new quest is underway to successfully combine talents and “stimulate American society by explaining their (European Family’s) visit and in giving impetus to the social, cultural, and political impact for the goals of the One World Crusade.” These international men and women will serve as concrete evidence of the reality of universal brotherhood.

The report from David S.C. Kim outlined the changes taking place and emphasized the responsibility of the American members to make the European members feel at home through interpersonal relationships and to give the Europeans every aid possible. It is important to respect their way of thinking, style of prayer, etc., and to give them every opportunity to speak out and contribute to discussion and problem solving, David Kim said. “The more listening, talking, and ventilation of feelings, the better the solutions to the problems,” he said. He added that “American Unit Commanders must pay close attention to attitudes toward European members, and treat this delicate situation with respect, love, and understanding.”

The European members will undergo 60 days of training, supervision, and preparation while combined with American Units. During this time, it is desirable to prosper in gaining new members so that. normal function will not be impaired after the Europeans separate from the American units.

David Kim also requested that the team leaders “send news such as good results of demonstrations, of television interviews, and of public responses to One World Crusade immediately for the improvement of our work and for positive stimulus and continuous prayer support and other necessary help and assistance.” It is important that “you describe analytically and in detail all statistics on witnessing skills, use of literature and news media, campaigns, actual converts, effective follow-up systems, effectiveness to keep new converts in Church centers and other scientific data in. your reports. Then we can find the characteristic of each region, state and city, and adopt the best method to fit each region and then apply this to entire states and the nation and for possible use in other nations.”

VOC Ideology and Unification Thought

David Kim mentioned that the successful strategy with Dr. Sang-Hun Lee’s University Professor’s Seminar on Unification Thought and the responses of the participants was very encouraging. Dr. Lee will soon visit the United States to hold seminars for professors on University campuses. This pattern will eventually spread nationwide. Each commander and unit captain are urged to study both VOC and Unification Thought lectures. Each commander must be equipped thoroughly in the depth of the Principles which President Kim presented and on that base, VOC and Unification Thought can be understood and taught. A booklet on the project will soon be ready for distribution.

Brief News from Belvedere

The first training session for the European Family began at 9: 00 AM on January 16, 1973, at Belvedere at the Garage Building. Our Leader gave his first message titled “God’s Recreation” in which he made a

distinction between “Indemnity Condition” and “The Way of Indemnity.” The former is easier than the latter, which is more severe to go through. He recommended us to go through the latter, because it is more challenging in accomplishing God’s dispensation. He said we have to willingly take the “Way of Indemnity.” In the afternoon and evening President Kim presented lectures in the Principle.

“Generally,” David Kim said, “European Families are very traditional, innocent and conservative in many respects, greeting our Master and his party in sincere attitude of prayer.”

Our Leader with European Trainees at Belvedere

On January 17, 1973, our Leader’s morning message was on “Our Fatherland”, in which he explained the significance of his first three-day revivals is seven cities early in 1972, which resulted in a victory without rejection from the established churches. He also said that the entire earth is our land. If unity comes on earth, then the people living on earth become God’s people. He added that the European Family landing in America is really historical, because their European ancestors came to America as Puritan pioneers almost 200 years ago; so they now have the glory of participating as descendants in the Able position in restoring America spiritually and physically.

The European trainees visited the Main Building during lunch and received Oriental drawings done by Rev. Nakamura (President of Japanese Ecumenical Federation) on which our Leader had written slogans in Chinese calligraphy.

On January 18-19, he spoke on “Exchange of Blood Lineage,” in which he elaborated that Satan’s blood lineage in fallen mankind must be switched into the Heavenly lineage. After dinner on the 19th, entertainment and fellowship took place.

On January 20th, our Leader spoke on “Tradition,” in which he said that seven more years of hard work are ahead of us all. Satan will become strong outwardly, but we of the Unification Church will go gradually upward. At 3:00 PM at Riverside Drive, NY, Rev. Nakamura, David Kim, Dr. Arthur Shaw, Rev. Seki (of Japanese Buddhist Church) and others held a conference explaining what our Unification Church is doing for mutual cooperation and the betterment of America.

On January 22, he spoke about “Our Faith Attitude” in which God’s ideal purpose of creation is to complete the Four Position Foundation on this earth on all levels, centering on God’s love. In the afternoon, Rev. Andrew Whang, a Korean senior minister, explained the history of classical musical instruments in the Orient and demonstrated them. He presented two films, “Korea Today” and “Korean Arts Exhibition.”

On January 23, our Leader spoke on “Our Wishes,” in which he said how we can be the sons and daughters of God.

He said we have to act and move before orders came to us; we have to work for God through the spirit of sacrifice with righteousness; we have to love God’s children as our brothers and sisters; we have to give our lives for Heaven; we will even try to save Satan in the long run. He said this is the “Main Stream Thought” of our Church throughout the world.

On January 24, He talked on “Where I have to be Heading,” in which he mentioned that Communists do their best until death, knowing their eventual defeat, while Democratic people don’t do their best until death, even knowing their eventual victory. Late at night, he designed a new OWC symbol.

On January 25 he took five European couples to downtown New York for sightseeing. At 3:00 PM President Kim and David Kim administered the Principle Test to all European trainees for three hours.

The main part of the 10-day training session is over but will be extended for a few days until they go out to the front.

On January 26, our Leader spoke about “Evangelists’ attitude,” in which he defined evangelists or witnessers as those who: have the role of mediator between Heaven and mankind; know very well both sides of Heaven and mankind; do not insist on their own ideas and opinions; are very close to Heaven and at the same time to mankind; are the people who consummate the common interest in the common goals of both sides. Further, he analyzed the meaning of the qualified mediatorship of the evangelist and witnesser: They are the public servants for fallen mankind they must be “Peace Maker” in a triangle relationship between Heaven, mediator, and mankind and be far superior in many areas to be a mediator; they must be an authority in many areas; proper expression, attitude, words and actions are important factors as a good mediator; mediators are the ones with hearts of giving benefits to others and of feeling of returning debts they have to Heaven.

Right after this address, Mr. Bo Hi Pak, President of the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation, delivered an address and gave his greeting to the European trainees in which he compared the charter plane in which they landed on January 15, 1973, with the Mayflower and the first European pioneers to the American continent 200 years ago. He encouraged them to succeed in their mission.

Between 8:30 and 11:00 PM, two guest singers, Mary Penn of the New York Family, and Mrs. Clara Walker (Christian Gospel Singer) performed followed by the testimony of Paul Werner of Germany. Today all four new vans arrived to be used for sightseeing.

On January 27, our Leader spoke about “God’s Grief” and mentioned that the broken state of the relationship between God and mankind is the source of “Divine Grief”, and that we have to work hard to get rid of Satan. Thus “our cherished hopes are for unity” beginning in our body and mind because such an individual becomes one with God in heart. In the afternoon, President Neil Salonen, FLF, presented a brief history of America to the pioneers.

On January 28, our Leader spoke to the trainees of “Our daily life and the Kingdom of Heaven” in which our life has ups and downs with continuous change taking place, while the Kingdom of Heaven is never changing and is without complaints, fights or struggles and with peace and harmony only existing.

In the Kingdom of Heaven mankind lives for the sake of God, with no individual claim existing. In the afternoon and evening three anti-Communist lectures were presented by the FLF staff.

In January 29 all trainees went to New York for sightseeing. They visited museums, the Empire State Building, and took a ferryboat ride near the Statue of Liberty. After lunch, the bus and vans in parade formation with all trainees passed by our Leader and his party who were on the porch in front of the church center. Neighborhood traffic was blocked in the street when our vehicles with Heavenly soldiers passed by, whistling and shouting “Mansei!,” all of which was inspiring to look at, full of energy and enthusiasm.

On January 30, the second day of sightseeing took place in snow and cold weather. More than 100 trainees marching on the street, singing and shouting “Mansei” entered the Empire State Building where David Kim took the opportunity to speak to the gathered crowd which was curious about our European troupe. He began explaining why we are here from all over the world to help this country to continue God’s blessing toward America who is in real danger morally, ethically and spiritually. In the middle of his speech, police came and stopped him but the trainees began singing “Tongil” and shouted three cheers for God and the Unification Church.

David S.C. Kim repeated the same thing on top of the Empire State Building. At 3:00 PM they visited Rockefeller Center, seeing the historical movie “1776” at the Radio City Music Hall. They all then returned to Belvedere with many wonderful memories.

On January 31 our Leader spoke on “Our Future Path” in which He emphasized the unification of Christianity through the Unification Principles. Also Unification Thought will be the strong weapon to unite all existing philosophies to give new direction to all mankind.

On Feb. 1, he gave a talk to all trainees in the morning on “Useful Man.” Then, he himself organized the European Mobile units and. appointed the provisional unit commanders.

On Feb. 2, lots of movies and still pictures were taken before the departure of all European trainees to the American mobile units. Detailed instructions were given to all of them by our Leader. All vans of each unit passed by in front of the main building where our Leader, Mother and the staff were standing and observing like a military parade. All vans displayed the new symbol that our Leader had designed. “It goes without saying that the prayers and hopes of Family members the world over stand strongly behind you to speed you on to the successful completion of your Heavenly mission.”