Autobiography of John Doroski - Chapter 6 - Philippines My Original Mission Nation

Chapter 6 - Philippines My Original Mission Nation (John Doroski – Unedited Draft)​ ​ I wanted to be close to my wife who was sent to the Bahamas. I thought if I chose again through the lottery I might have been able to choose a country closer to her. Which I did and it didn’t turn out well, I drew Kuwait. For the story and many more see the full book that is coming out within a year. But finally I returned to the Philippines, my original mission after my mission ended in​ Kuwait.

Since not accepting my original mission country of the Philippines, thinking it would be so far away from my wife’s mission nation of the Bahamas, my time and experiences in Kuwaiti were a restoration purification course. Many things like gaining members and writing a book on how Muslims could understand Divine Principle was accomplished in Kuwait, but more importantly was my being cleansed through imprisonment and torture. Now called to my original mission assignment it appears God’s desire for me to work in the Philippines must have been strong to have this second chance. My 40 day numerological traveling condition over land and then a flight to the Philippines was “my consciously chosen” Providence for the Start Course and thus on the 41st day I arrived to help, it was July 24, 1978, now ready to take responsibility for and restore my failure to unite with God’s original assignment. It was now Heavens’ new plan that the two of us would be pioneering the Providence in the Philippines as a couple since my wife was recently assigned to the Philippines and arrived on Decembers 23, 1976, and 4 months after she was appointed the National leader, thus my writing will include some of her mission activity. Nanette before coming to the Philippines did missionary work and also anti-communism work to prevent the Bahamas from becoming another Cuba. The beginning of the Pioneering of the Philippines took place in East Garden and the Barrytown Seminary under the mentoring of Sun Myung Moon and Rev. Sudo. They both mentored that the missionaries going around the world were to bring “new life” to God’s children in the nations they would be serving. It was emphasized by both that Resurrection takes place by hearing, understanding, practicing “new deeper truth” and thus had all the soon to be missionaries practice “teaching” the Divine Principle under their watchful eyes. However it turned out in many of the mission countries local citizens were attracted to, connected to the missionaries for economic or material benefits not even hearing the “new deeper truth” or Divine Principle. This resulted in mission country after country local contacts connecting for expected material gains, even basic food to eat, to the extent of in some nations missionaries returning to the rented locations to find supplies and furniture stolen. The first Divine Principle lectures and the center’s standards of living in the Philippines were introduced by Nanette Doroski. As a result, some of the local contacts who had been living in the rented house for free food and shelter chose to leave, as they were not interested in the Divine Principle teachings. Unfortunately, this led to resentment from the other missionaries, who had reported these contacts as ‘members.’ However, Nanette made it clear that only those who had studied and understood the entire Divine Principle could live in the center as members. Nanette was a better choice than me in so many ways to begin the mission in the Philippines, being longer in the movement, mentored by Young Om Kim’s the first Korean

missionary to America and by Neil Salonen who was president of our movement in America for some years and Nanette’s spiritual father. A spiritual parent is a person who guides you into an improved lifestyle and deeper understanding of truth and metaphysical rebirth. Nanette was also experienced in public relations having already networked with many political and religious leaders and felt an affinity towards Filipinos due to a long time Filipino friend in Washington DC; she thus began her mission work with public media outreach.

Nanette on Boots Anson Roa TV Show

Nanette donating medicine to the Red Cross

Nanette because of her motherly love for humanity before going to the Philippines, gathered donated TB Medicine that had a dramatic positive media effect across the nation as she was on TV giving the donations as a missionary and in very positive news stories nationwide giving these supplies in the name of the Unification Movement to the Philippine Red Cross and other organizations.

In addition, a year after her arrival Nanette had a vision of the thousands of people who had died in past Mayon Volcano eruptions, causing her to climb the 8,000 foot volcano about to erupt and prayed that Filipinos would not be killed this time at the risk of her life. For the first time no one died, everyone was able to evacuate safely. Her actions produced more positive media news about our movement across the nation about a Unification missionary saving thousands from death. These great stories in the Philippines about the Unification Church and its missionaries, prepared the thinking and attitude of Filipino parents to want to support their children to join our movement.

​ Nanette near peak of Mayon Volcano

Nanette also pioneered changing the focus of the mission in the Philippines from just making friends to “studying the Divine Principles”, caused by her being an elder in the American church, experienced at teaching the lectures and a recent graduate of Rev. David Kim’s 100 Day Workshop, Rev. Sudo’s 120 Day Missionary Workshop, which was Father Moon’s advanced education series in Barrytown.

Lesson Thirty - Conflicts are often caused by different spirit influences.

Missionaries Restoring Ancestor’s Conflicts

Father Moon sent missionaries from the 3 previous enemy nations of Germany, Japan and America to 95 nations to restore the misunderstandings that often seemed to influence their communication and action. It was as if the ancestors who were making war just 30 years earlier, would not let their descendants forgive their parent’s enemies; and were causing “through spiritual influence” their descendants to have disagreements, and conflict. Nanette being appointed the first national leader of the Philippine Movement and being a “lady leader”, also helped to intensify the problems here for these men came from a male dominated, leadership culture. Thus, my mission in the Philippines became initially to help bridge these difficulties. Nanette initiated basic requirement standards to be living in the center and it unfortunately caused the two missionary brothers in the Philippines to work alone.

40 Day Condition to Make Unity

I arrived in the Philippines on July 24, 1978, made my way to the Unification center at 39 Stanford Ave, Cubao, Quezon City, and after knocking loudly, I was very surprised to find my wife alone and very sick. The two missionary brothers had left to create their own center, leaving Nanette to manage the Cubao center and pay the entire rent herself. To make ends meet, she had been eating very little, which severely affected her health. There was no food in the center, and I became concerned for her safety, being a woman alone. Immediately after buying food

and medicine, and once she recovered, we painted the entire inside of the Church Center and had bright matching curtains made for the entire house. The two of us then began a 40-day condition to make ‘official’ Divine Principle Lecture Charts to be used in teaching all the members ‘how to teach,’ who would be joining us to build God’s Kingdom in the Philippines. This 40-day condition turned out to be quite an experience with the two of us “restoring” the division between the original missionaries who went from Korea to America. Since we had joined the movement on two different coasts of America, under two different Korean Missionaries and under two different ways of teaching the Divine Principle, we intensely discussed each chart to be made, line by line for forty days of what was to be included; producing a core education system based on Father Moon’s mentoring - grassroots teaching charts that was to birth a great Philippine Movement. Later a brother named Jolly joined and helped us to produce additional beautiful hand lettered flip charts; which we taught from and required all our new members to teach from.

John making original lecture charts

Lesson Thirty One - Wealthy people are often imprisoned by their material things.

Nanette and John in Cubao ​

​ Nanette and Myself Started Team Witnessing in August 1978

The first outreach we did to find leadership staff for building a Philippine Holy Spirit Association Blessing Movement was to visit some of Nanette’s already established contacts. We visited Christopher DeLeon, ‘the Brad Pitt movie actor of the Philippines,’ whom Nanette had already begun teaching lectures to. As we approached his front door, we were confronted by two security guards armed with machine guns, demanding to know our business. This encounter highlighted the stark reality that the rich and famous in many nations, including the Philippines, often become prisoners to their wealth, needing to build walls to protect their material abundance, while the poor often live together in neighborhoods as one big, caring, happy family, helping each other.

Lydia Marquez

The first person I invited over to our renovated center was a lady who was working in a supermarket near our Cubao mission center. In August 1978 Lydia Marquez heard the lectures, quickly understood the significance of our movement and then committed herself in our “new beginning work”. Around this time Mila, who had been invited to be involved in our movement one year before, came two weeks before my arrival and heard the complete Divine Principle workshop from Nanette and joined in. Both Lydia and Mila went on to become the primary

Filipino spiritual great-grandparents of the Philippines due to their gaining so many spiritual children. The significance of finally having a few core Filipino members was profound, even though nearly two years of missionary outreach had taken place before Nanette and I began working as a team. This was because a complete understanding of the Divine Principle had not yet been fully established, and without it, a proper lifestyle and commitment were difficult to achieve. Some weeks after we gained these two founding members, a couple of Filipinos who had been attracted to the earlier mission outreach but had not yet heard the lectures or understood the Divine Principle, visited the newly decorated center. They became interested in what Nanette and I were doing and formally learned the Divine Principle lectures. At that time, we still had no contact with the other two missionaries, but that soon changed when we learned that a Korean elder of our movement was going to visit.

​ Mila, Nanette, Teddy, Lydia, Jessica in Cubao Kitchen

Meeting the Yaw-Yan Master

At that time we mainly focused on teaching Divine Principle to Nanette’s “martial art master” contact. In October 1978 we joined the Yaw-Yan Club www.yaw-yan.com/about/ in downtown Manila after concluding it was the most advanced martial art club in the Philippines. The Master, Nap Fernandez, demonstrated his ½ inch punch on me at the time. He had me hold a baseball catcher mitt against my chest and he held his fist ½” from the surface of the glove, then he twitched, and I went flying across the room, knocked down off my feet; that demo was enough to decide, and we joined. For two months, each week we practiced standing on wooden plywood squares on wooden slippery floors for 15 minutes or more to expand our splits; “a very painful indemnity condition” to earn the opportunity to learn from and then to continue teaching the Philippine’s Great Martial Art Master our lectures, “The Divine Principle” which Nanette had begun teaching several months before. This club was the most serious martial club I have come across; it was similar to Bruce Lee’s Style, except Master Hernandez had “received in dreams” many unique different styles of kicks. Most members could do totally vertical split kicks, multiple flipping while traveling across the floors and in full- contact tournaments dispose of their opponents within one minute. There was a fighting style of crouching and spinning low to

the floor’s surface. Master Hernandez would do tournament demos with cotton over his eyes, then a black cloth across his face and then a black hood over all.

John and Nap Hernandez

​ Within a couple of minutes he would have 4 or 5 attacking opponents armed with dual “Arnis Fighting Batons”, laying on the floor bloody and himself untouched. Master Hernandez studied the first four lectures through the “Mission of Jesus” from Nanette. This martial arts club was very prepared for our movement with his entire club expecting the second coming of Christ and practicing celibacy in preparation. He helped bring many masters and about fifty members from various clubs to our first official large-scale gathering that Nanette and I held at the Cubao Center on the eve of Christmas 1978. Each of the various masters presented demonstrations of their clubs unique styles at a party we held.

John addressing Christmas Party​

Christmas Party 1978 in Cubao with Martial Arts Clubs

We later stopped training at his club because of getting too many guests at our witnessing center wanting to hear the Divine Principle lectures in the early months of 1979, for me to spare the time. The sorrowful fact is we never were able to finish teaching him but some years later, before traveling to a new mission country I visited him to say goodbye and he presented me with a few of his private weapons including a special set of Nunchaku fighting sticks and he shared a few secret defense ideas to me personally. We heard a few years ago Nap Fernandez the Yaw-Yan founder passed to the spirit world. Nanette recently liberated and Blessed him. (This terminology refers to a process to give those who passed to the next world a step or an advantage in the afterlife.)

Visit of a 36 Blessed Couple Elder

In the month of October 1978, Mr. San Ik Choi, one of the first 36 “blessed couples” Father Moon married, (the 1st pioneering missionary of Japan and San Francisco), visited the Philippines as an itinerary worker.

San Ik Choi, Mila, Nanette

San Ik Choi Lecturing in Cubao Center

Mr. Choi spent a few days with us sharing deep insights into the Divine Principle and “how to” wisdom for building an ideal perfect culture. The German and Japanese missionaries who had no contact with us to this point attended these meetings along with a couple of the existing home associates. He then reported to Father Moon of the mission situation in the Philippines and based on his recommendations Nanette and I were officially appointed together as the National Leaders of the Philippines. He left the Philippines with an understanding that all missionaries would work and live together in the Cubao Center under our leadership. ​

To proceed I spent extra time bonding with Ulrich and Jiro, since myself and Nanette had already bonded and developed trust through more than a year during our missionary training in America. This meant my sometimes intentionally taking “their side” and not Nanette’s for the sake of unity in a disagreement, although Nanette’s view might have been the better. Towards the end of the year 1978 Jiro left the Philippines, he was reassigned to a business mission in Malaysia. On January 1, 1979 I was appointed the Regional Leader for Southeast Asia. ​

Jessica, Irene, Marie, Mila, Lydia, Nanette, John, Jiro, Teddy, Clarita, Ulrich

Nanette lecturing in backyard of Cubao Center​

We first had everyone practice teaching the Divine Principle and then centered on the youthful enthusiasm of (Mila and Lydia) we started inviting new contacts to hear the lectures. The members would often go out to meet people in a group and overwhelm contacts with positive love and excitement. The focus was on studying and sharing, “the word” rather than on ourselves, our feelings and our relationships. All new members were expected to become experts at teaching the Divine Principle and we provided each member a set of “educational folders” to study that consisted of all the materials Nanette had compiled from 1968 onward that various elders had taught. We wanted each Filipino to have an understanding equal to someone who had already been in the movement for 10 years. The pure, simple Christian culture and general spirituality that existed in the Philippines created the base for our outreach to thrive. We treated each new guest with love and a special dignity, focused on their learning the Divine Principle to teach and thus we provided them with a special depth of understanding and most often required them to practice teaching the lecture that “they had just heard” before moving on to the next lecture. This meant that each guest had to practice teaching Chapter One before they could hear Chapter Two, then practice teaching Chapter Two before they heard Chapter Three and so forth until they thoroughly understood and could teach the entire lecture series themselves when they heard conclusion; this caused everyone to become official lecturers, which included guidance on spiritual development. In January, I also sent members to

Montalban for outings and exploring possible farming and workshop locations. As it turned out today in this area brother Orly created a farming and workshop center in Montalban.

Numerological Time Period Conditions and Ancestor Co-operation

Looking back on my experiences in Kuwait I concluded that God was training me to think within the “historic framework” of Providential Restoration Courses centered on The Historic Time-Periods and to thus “organize the Philippine Movement’s daily activity” based on the patterns of numerology that historic figures had to follow. We therefore organized our Philippine Movement to begin the year 1979 with a 3 day workshop, then a 7-day outreach “condition” followed by another 3 day workshop for bringing new contacts. This empowered my fellow foreign missionaries and the existing members to have an improved understanding how to teach with the lecture charts, which produced the immediate results of both new members moving into our missionary home to work with us and intense “spirit cooperation” (which religious believers would testify included the work of the Holy Spirit) to aid our physical activity. It became my experience that organizing one’s physical activity around goals within numerological time periods makes a kind of handle or base spirit ancestors can connect to from the transcendent world of life after death. We continued an expanding pattern of numerological time-period outreach to more 3 day workshops followed by 21-day outreach contacting and then 7-Day workshops, followed by 40-Day outreach conditions. New members started joining in large numbers and all kinds of spiritual phenomena started.

The Spiritual World Attempt to take Control Over our Movement

In early 1979, one evening after our 3 day workshop in the Cubao center Quezon City two different new members were taken over by spirits who had lived on the earth before; these spirit ancestors had a competition to see which spiritual being could influence us the most. One spirit person walked around in and talked through a member’s body directing us to bless the center with “holy water” and do various conditions based on the number five and another spirit person used a different member’s physical body walked around yelling don’t listen to that, but bless the center using “holy salt” and make conditions based on the number four. Guess what we did not listen to either, caused them to leave their host bodies and methodically proceed to pioneer our movement in the Philippines based on the solid educating methods Father Moon had taught us. There was a very strong presence of the Holy Spirit in the center at that time; members were so happy, spirit filled and often just went out to meet people in groups, immediately bringing new contacts back. There was so much joy and intense singing. Most days morning till night in every room of our center both the front yard and backyard would be occupied with someone teaching the lectures.​

Ernie lecturing in front yard of Cubao Center

Many new members joined, and we repeated our cycles of numerological outreach witnessing and workshop conditions. In February 1979 Nanette was called, “Mother Nanette” because of all the love, empathy, tender care she gave the new members. As they moved into our center to become missionaries, she would give each one a personal towel, face cloth, soap dish, tooth brush, sleeping mat, blanket, and then led them by their hand to a local dentist she knew who repaired their teeth for free and to a doctor to check on any of their health needs. We had two large rooms where everyone slept on the floors, one for men and the other for women. I also slept on the floor with the brothers, when traveling to other centers, having no special treatment. We ate very simple food that was donated to us as missionaries from the markets as we explained our mission and need, buying only rice and cooking oil. Unlike the situation of many other mission countries where people joined to take advantage of the missionaries, under our leadership the Filipinos who moved into the center had to accept becoming even poorer physically than they currently were to become spiritually rich as genuine Unification Missionaries.

Seven Day Metaphysical Communication Session

​ In February 1979 a young girl joined our movement named Gloria. She was very pure and had many illnesses throughout her life that made a condition for spirit doctors to come into her body and cure the same illnesses she had experienced for Filipinos in need. There were lines of people waiting to be cured outside her mother’s small house. We visited Gloria’s house in March and found a very long line of about 35 people waiting to be healed of their ailments as news spread fast of the miracle cures occurring. It was reported she was able to heal 120

different illnesses. One day learning Gloria became paralyzed and in a type of coma; we then took a few members to visit her in her mother’s house. After arriving, while she was still in a coma, actual historic biblical figures like Noah and Abraham started talking through her to us. A similar occurrence is found in the New Testament where Moses and Elijah, although physically dead for about 2,000 years, appeared and talked with Jesus, reported by Jesus’ disciples. While she laid unconscious through her different voices reported their personal mission success and failures while they were on earth and then each gave us advice. We fulfilled a requested condition to return for a total of seven days to hear various biblical figures speaking. On the six day Moses spoke through Gloria and told me personally I would have the “Mission of Moses” in the Philippines; my understanding this meant maintaining humbleness. Also, John the Baptist repented of his mistakes and when Judas came into her body repenting of his mistakes, coming from such a low part of hell this caused Gloria to be in terrible pain. On the seventh day, one of Father Moon’s first 36 couples he blessed in marriage, President EU who was the first president of our spiritual movement who had already passed over, entered Gloria spiritually and gave us guidance. Members who were attending the last few sessions with Gloria witnessed this phenomenon. We did make, and I have tape recordings of these historic biblical figures speaking to us through Gloria and will be publishing them on the internet. With the start of Dr. President Eu’s third month using Gloria’s body, he announced he was starting a 40 day medical healing condition to heal the physical ailments of the Philippine members. Thereafter the next three months President Eu, the first President of the Unification Movement in Korea would enter Gloria’s body at any time of the day and counseled members, guide my leadership and healed our member’s physical body’s ailments, an example Nanette was cured of terrible allergies and other problems witnessed by many members which will be explained in Nanette’s autobiography. Gloria, who was 17 years old, would be sitting at a table and suddenly, her head would flop on her chest and then rise slowly, her face would change in appearance to that of an older person but with higher cheekbones, this happened when President Eu entered her body. When President Eu left, her head would again flop on her chest again and then slowly rise, her face thereupon appearing again as a young 17 year old, she would take deep breaths and then drink 3 or 4 large glasses of water quickly to recover. She thus became her normal young self in physical appearance and in voice, once President Eu or other spirit doctors left her body. Many members witnessed this. We came to know that this was President Eu when he said to Nanette, “You are an artist, you have the Divine Principle, you have everything!” because he had said these exact words a few years earlier to Nanette when she was with him in Washington D.C. in 1968 before he had physically died and ascended into the next world. Later when we went to Australia as national leaders after we left the Philippines, Nanette told this story about President Eu to a Korea brother who was there, and Nanette asked him, “I wonder why President Eu was interested in curing people in the Philippines, the Korean brother said “President Eu was medical doctor before he joined our movement” President Eu, would talk, advise and laugh with Nanette and me using Gloria’s body. One morning he came into Gloria and chastised Nanette and me for having a verbal disagreement, the night before. He spent much time counseling members and teaching me many leadership principles, but he was very careful to not directly tell us what to do, even when we asked him for direct advice, explaining it was our portion of responsibility to make our own decisions. He

would often tell us a parable to cause us to think out the answer to our question or respond to our questions with his own question, “Well, what do you think”? ​

President Eu using Gloria to cure Nanette’s allergies

Lesson Thirty Two – President Eu told us high spirits understand and respect the free will of others and would not attempt to control people on the earth, but low spirits could be distinguished by their attempts to control, and even possess people on this earth by causing individuals or groups to become “dependent” on the spirit persons and spirit world. This is often done through telling, revealing secrets, or making decisions for the listeners.

There was one time when he was talking with Nanette and me and in the middle of the conversation he said, “oh, there is an emergency in India, I must go”. Gloria’s head flopped down, and she returned to control her body. He explained (at that time) Gloria was the only Unification Church Member whose body he could use. We later learned that after Gloria’s parents had forced her to marry someone outside of our Movement’s Blessing this prevented President Eu from using her body to visit us and prevented other spirit doctors from working through her curing the long lines of people that came for her help. Although she lost her curing ability still she was mediumistic and other spirits spoke through her. Once upon visiting her, my noticing a qualitative change in the communication through Gloria, did not respond to a temptation of “power” that the entirety of the Philippines would soon be following me if I did exactly and completely what the voices that I would soon be hearing “directly” would be telling me to do. Rejecting this and realizing President Eu was no longer working through Gloria, but another spirit person or persons pretending to be President Eu, we stopped responding to this spiritual phenomenon.

Marital Life

In 1979 we adopted a Filipino baby who needed us. There were many spiritual experiences surrounding this baby; he became a very beloved good son called Paul and a happy addition to

our personal family. In January 1980 Nanette gave birth to our first son, Sebastian; he was the first blessed child born in the Philippines and the first blessed child born in all of SouthEast Asia. (The meaning of the “first Blessed Child” is understood by understanding the Divine Principle lectures.) It is said in marital books to not mix work with one’s family or to leave your work at the doorway to your home; however in my case extremely intense work traveled with me 24 hours of the day, after I was appointed a regional and national representative for Father Moon, commissioned to help the members maximize their results, while at the same time being sensitive to their individual needs and limits of their capabilities.

Suhila from Kuwait spends July and August 1979 serving in the Philippines

Just as our movement was picking up momentum, one of my two Kuwaiti core disciples, Suhila, arrived by airplane; she turned out to be close to dying. She had been unable to eat much for months, so upset by what happened to me and at loss with what to do with her life after having understood Divine Principle and been part of our active movement to build our Heavenly Parent’s Kingdom of Heaven on Earth in Kuwait. We loved her up, Nanette had to initially carefully spoon feed her bits of easily digestible food for her stomach would not accept her eating almost anything. As she recovered her strength her beautiful, pure personality came back to life and she added inspiration to our growing membership. Having my spiritual daughter Suhila with us from Kuwait who would serve for more than a year and half in the Philippines caused my 3 year established foundation in Kuwait to be transferred to the Philippines through her. One evening we had a strange experience with a spiritual presence in our center. A spirit entered the body of one sister and explained it was Suhila’s long deceased physical father. The spirit requested my spiritual daughter Suhila to come and sit on the host’s lap which she did and this spirit person using the Philippine sister’s hand caressed Suhila’s head. After a few minutes of this and the spirit person telling Suhila how much he loved her and missed her, Suhila suddenly asked the spirit, “on what date he (her father) died and passed on to the spirit world?” ​

Suhila, Clarita, Claire

​ When the spirit in the girl’s body answered the wrong date of death, Suhila jumped up, off the lap of this young lady and shouted, “you are not my father”! Immediately the spirit left this sister’s body and she returned to her normal self. Since then we have been told this might

have been her father because often the departed in the next world are confused concerning the events and timing of their earthly death. However, we did learn a quick lesson and warning on how spirits could potentially masquerade as someone else and how we would have to be very careful with all the spiritual phenomena in the Philippines. Soon after this experience and once Suhila regained her physical strength I counseled her to travel to America, join our Unification Movement there in New York and pursue graduate studies towards a Doctorate Degree. This she did, and she became famous in New York for her level of kindness to others, being of a Muslim Kuwaiti background and for her magnificent Arabian Dance Demonstrations that she performed. Months later she did me a “special favor” by visiting my parent’s house on Long Island and conveying my love and longing to be with them. Unfortunately, a few years later this great Muslim Pioneer of Heaven on Earth, ascended (passed on to the spirit world) after she had returned to Kuwait and died from cancer. Her contribution to our mission will live on through her being a co-author of the Islamic version of the Divine Principle. Before I share about the explosive growth of our movement in the Philippines it is important to explain a bit about why this occurred. In addition to centering our outreach base on Biblical Restoration Numerological Outreach “Conditions” which created an earthly handle that spiritual ancestors who once lived on earth could connect to and empower their descendants to connect with us, there were many other reasons.

Reasons for the Pioneering Success in the Philippines

A summary of some of the causes were: ●​ The great indemnity foundation of: 1) Father Moon 2) the character of the historically invaded, humble, peaceful, and religiousness of the Filipino people 3) the work of unification missionaries who spent periods in the Philippines. ●​ Unity between the German, Japanese and American missionaries. ●​ Everyone was taught to be a lecturer and guests were not allowed to hear chapter 2, until they practiced teaching chapter 1 themselves and “so there after” for each subsequent lecture, thus resulting in a deep understanding by the time they heard the conclusion lecture. ●​ Lecture Charts allow anyone to be able immediately teach lectures and thus develop a deeper understanding of DP through explaining the concepts. ●​ Mother Nanette’s heartistic concern was making sure all new members had towels, soap dishes and more importantly taking them by the hand to a local dentist and doctors if they needed medical treatment and her mentoring. ●​ Team Witnessing – Most of the time members went witnessing in groups and love bombed contacts who usually, immediately responded by coming to hear lectures. ●​ Food raising – The Philippine members and leaders only ate whatever else was donated to us at the average class marketplace; although an exception was we bought rice and cooking oil. We would dress up in white baranguy shirts, wear an ID badge, explain our mission, and then ask for a donation of food. Such an activity was very humbling to the new members and when food was given by the poor of the Philippine’s to us, we then had to check ourselves and be serious that we were truly working for the Will of God.

This kind of very humble lifestyle of all who joined the early days ensured that people were not joining for the wrong reason like to take advantage of the foreign missionaries. ●​ Joy making – The first centers were filled with feet stomping, singing and care for each other. ●​ The leadership eats, sleeps in the same situations as the members. ●​ There were no negative media stories about our movement, but many positive stories on TV and in newspapers due to Nanette’s distribution of medicine and climbing the Mayon Volcano and being open about being a Unification Missionary when she first arrived.

During this initial outreach members joined so quickly we developed a happy problem, not enough space. All of the rooms became crowded with inspired new members, our solution to the overcrowding – pioneer new cities.

Baguio Pioneered February/March 1979

After fine tuning the new member’s abilities in lecturing DP, understanding how to apply spiritual principles to guide their lives and leadership skills, we then opened up our first pioneering center in Baguio. It being so high in the mountains it missed most of the summer heat, even the national government chose to locate here in the summer, causing it to be known as the summer capital. However, since the city was built on mountainsides and surrounding hills every inch of space was so precious most houses were multi storey wooden structures unlike the rest of the country; the roads were very narrow, winding up and down and local family gardens didn’t exist. My co-missionary from Germany, brother Ulrich, took a team of a few members to Baguio and opened a center. Under his leadership additional members joined and within a year the leadership of Baguio was transferred to our first Filipina to become a center director. From one of these new members we learned how to make tasty peanut brittle that became our movement’s main financial support. This product solved a serious problem and potential limitation to our growth, the problem of the average Filipino not having spare money to donate to us. First, we roasted fresh peanuts, then shell them and crushed to the proper thickness. After this a large wok was heated we would pour in a large amount of sugar with constant stirring. ​ At just the right moment we would add the peanuts, butter and a small amount of baking soda. This solution would be poured onto tables floured to prevent sticking and large coconut leaves would be placed on top before a rolling pin would be used to spread and thin out the proper thickness; the coconut leaves being one of our “secret” ingredients to give a unique taste. Large machete knives were then used to cut up the peanut brittle and we would package it into baggies having our Philippine Unification inspired special missionary label.​

John, Clarita, Ulrich, Angie, Dante,Cely, Jolly, Ernie and others at Baguio

Because most Filipino citizens did not have spending money in their pockets this caused us to organize our monthly mission plan around making peanut brittle and marketing it for two days, twice a month when the Filipino’s received their biweekly pay and still had money left; for any other day of the month would have resulted in the customer being unable to donate for our product. However, we were able to raise all the money we needed in those four days because our candy tasted so good. Initially all the peanut brittle was produced in Cubao and we focused on all night team production to be ready in time to make the morning buses going north and south. Peanut brittle made in Cebu was put on boats leaving to all corners of the Southern Philippines to sell our great product. Sometimes when visiting various centers, I would bring large supplies of peanut brittle and other items to distant island cities by ocean ferry boats, getting from our center to the boats by a bicycle-side-cart taxi with the bicyclist struggling with all the candy piled sky-high, even on the tricycle’s roof. The production experience by members was a very fun festive atmosphere. A year later, in April 1980 I took a large team of members along with my wife Nanette to teach advanced lectures in Baguio to expand the successful foundation that the pioneering team made. At that time, we experienced our first earthquake when the first night our church center shook back and forth because it was of a wooden framework on thick poles acting as legs. I was very concerned at the time for my newly born son, Sebastian, who was sleeping in a cardboard box. In April 1980, we made a “Holy Ground” in Baguio. A Holy Ground is a specific spot in nature that people can go to pray with God, where our prayers can be more clearly heard.

Nanette and John making Holy Ground in Baguio

A visit to Banaue

I did take the opportunity to travel up into the mountains north of Baguio to the Banaue Rice Terraces, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It was amazing to see Filippinos wearing loincloths (similar to American Indians) only to learn they were so tough they wore such clothes even in freezing weather. Talking with them, most of these mountain people living in such breathtaking beauty enjoyed one special experience, “they saw, talked with, their departed ancestors often” as if they had not died. This is not unique to them but is experienced in Papua New Guinea, Africa, South America and Native American.

Lesson Thirty Three - It appears many of those in this physical world have their “spiritual senses operating” allowing them to communicate with the spirit world and caused me to understand this must be what is behind some of the world’s people being divided into different conflicting religious sects.

Pioneering Laoag –May 1979

Soon after we set up the new mission center in Baguio, a decision had to be made of what city to pioneer next. Back in Manila, spirit ancestors started intensely giving messages to pioneer different cities; making it obvious that the ancestors of each different city in the Philippines would want me to send a team to their hometown city first. Unfortunately, I did not do my portion of responsibility and research the various choices, but responded to the spirit ancestor that spoke up the strongest at that time (telepathically), and Laoag was chosen.

Nanette sending Eric and Orly to pioneer Laoag

At that time, we sent a small team led by Eric and Orly out of our strongest members to begin pioneering this city near the current president, President Marcus’ hometown and a few weeks later I brought a large mobile team of about 15 members to expand the foundation. To my shock and disappointment Laoag was the size of a very small town, was very impoverished and the couple of members of the advance pioneering team appeared physically emaciated.

Mobil team arriving in Laoag

Unfortunately they could only acquire a very limited amount of food by asking for donations as a missionary because the local market was so small. Of course, I quickly saw that they were nourished, but then had no choice but to close the center and make the long trip back to Manila with all the pioneering members, but not before being embarrassed on my early morning prayer walk.

John and Pioneering Mobile Team

After arising the next day, to my surprise the banging heard on the tin roofs all night were ripe, juicy mangos that were now laying all over the sides of the roads. When it became apparent no-one was picking them up I gathered as many as my removed shirt could hold as a pouch. The locals laughed at me, thinking it looked so funny someone grabbing up the fruits that they viewed as waste because there were just so many of them. Funny how things are, back in America just one mango was so expensive that I had not even tasted one before, but apples are often left unused on the ground, but are too expensive in the Philippines for many to ever taste.

Lesson Thirty Four - I should not make decisions by merely listening to spirit ancestors from the next world.

Back in Cubao, after praying and thinking at length about my mistaken decision, I concluded that one should not follow direct messages from the spiritual world but use one’s own research and analysis to make decisions. My reasoning caused me to send our next pioneering team to the 3rd largest city in the Philippines, famous for its intensity of Christian Ministers and religiousness, Bacolod.

Transport by Large Ocean Ferries

The Philippines is composed of more than 1,000 islands of various sizes. This means the major form of travel between cities and provinces was by very large multiple deck ferries that carry up to a thousand passengers but tragically sometimes sunk in surprise storms. As missionaries we all traveled 3rd class to save money for the mission, including all leaders. This meant we slept on the topside open deck, with water often splashing in and on canvas cots placed side by side against each other. It was a real community experience of caring between total strangers. Third class passengers were only provided with a small amount of white rice, a small cup of watery soup and a couple of tiny dried fish about the size of one’s pinky as a meal. I traveled often on ferries constantly visiting all the pioneering members, established city centers and must confess that after a few years in the Philippines my health was slowly deteriorating physically due to a lack of food; skin and bones, down to about 115 pounds from about 160. On board after receiving the third-class meal, I often would go into the 1st class cafeteria for the quiet and atmosphere to work on developing our Divine Principle lecture charts, being able to do this because as a westerner they did not ask me for a First-Class Ticket to enter; to my surprised so much food was not eaten by the 1st class travelers and thought of it being such a waste and crime to the 3rd class passengers that this uneaten food was merely thrown away.

Lesson Thirty Five - I have the ability to clean out haunted houses and do exorcisms; reading out loud spiritual principles we found can cause lower spirits to move on and resurrect.

Bacolod Pioneered - June 1979

An advance team was sent to search for an empty house to rent and after a week of searching they found only one that was vacant in a reasonable location for the mission. After leaving Nanette in Cubao, to run the Quezon City center, we arrived in Bacolod with a large group of recently joined members and the most positive older members.

​ Mila, John, Lydia, others Bacolod center

The pioneering members were: Mila, Lydia, Shirley, Jose, Susan, Eric, Vincent, Ernie, Orly, Dante, Efren and Rainier. The first night it became clear why no one was renting the house they found vacant, “haunted”! This caused us to begin our mission in Bacolod with a

great condition learned from Barbara, a missionary to Guinea. After thoroughly cleaning the house, in every room, front and back yard we read Divine Principle out loud simultaneously for 40 minutes for 40 days in every location to “educate” or chase away the annoying spirits. This same cleansing condition we had already used in the Cubao center to chase out a female spirit ancestor who was seen floating around with a knife sticking from her chest by more than 10 members at different times over a year.

John mentoring in Bacolod

We later researched the history of our Cubao center and found out a lady had been stabbed to death in the house and then realized she was probably stuck because of resentment and anger towards what happened. This exorcism type condition worked well, and we would use it again in the future. At that time the spirits of the area became very active and one afternoon in the local park our witnessing members met three “different” Filipinos who claimed to be Jesus returned. This did confirm to our newer members the reality of the spirit world’s influence. Many people receive “they are the one” thinking this means they are the Messiah Returned. The meaning is they are the ones growing closer to the perfection level of their growth and should “live and sacrifice for the sake of others”, making it possible to mistake the message received.

Lesson Thirty Six - John can Act sometimes as a Medium

Almost every day across the Philippines I was teaching the Divine Principle to guests, training members how to teach, giving the Sunday Sermons and often conducting 3 day Workshops. As our movement expanded and audiences increased in size, an interesting spiritual phenomenon occurred, that of my only remembering standing in front of the audience, starting to give a sermon, and then became aware of the audience clapping to the sermon given. My conclusion was that some eloquent spirit earthly ancestor inspired me, some Christians would understand this as filled with the Holy Spirit.

My Technique of Outreaching

When pioneering a new city we used what we called power teams; which was composed of a group of 8 or 10 strong members assigned to pioneering a new city. Months later after they brought in new members then most of the team would leave to pioneer a new city leaving a few older strong members to mentor the new members and continue the mission there.

First Public Rally for the Coming of Christ – Bacolod, August 1979

After painting the center, putting up a sign, witnessing and gaining new local members through 7-day witnessing and 3-day workshop conditions, we proceeded to announce our arrival and the coming of Christ’s Kingdom through our Father Moon’s guidance with a large rally in the central park of Bacolod. Signs were created, uniforms purchased, and we prepared a choir. In the beginning of August 1979, in Bacolod the first large public Philippine Unification event was held announcing the coming of Christ’s Kingdom after a 2,000-year period since his suffering on the cross, on a Sunday afternoon.​

Ernie, Jimmy, Claire, Mila, Lydia, Jose and others preparing for the rally

Philippines 1st Mega Rally in Bacolod’s Park August 1979

John assisted by Mila and Lydia at Rally

In addition to giving a public speech to the gathered crowd, we set up members simultaneously teaching Divine Principle, using lecture charts in the park. We were well received; many guests came from the event to hear lectures and many new members were gained. My Arabic dishdasha outfit from Kuwait, fit in well with the other religious ministers in the park who were preaching that Sunday afternoon.

John giving a lecture

​ We later learned this park was famous for religious preaching and one time some ministers even became so excited at one another, they threw each other into the ponds. We continued witnessing conditions followed by workshops, and of course training all our guests became teachers of DP before they even heard the conclusion. Of course, we established the pattern of making peanut brittle candy here and the effective marketing of it on pay-day in the surrounding towns to support this center in the 3rd city in the Philippines. After securing a weekly pattern and staff then I took a team of ten recently joined members along with Mila, to become the center director of the 4th city to be pioneered, Cebu.

Cebu Pioneered -September 1979

For about a week all eleven pioneering members: Mila, Adolfo, Jimmy, Leo, DeLeon, Claire, Mary, Ernie, Susan, Edgar, plus myself slept in a one room beautiful open air beautiful bamboo hut. This was on a Chinese Filipino member’s family’s property, Jose.​

Cebu Pioneering Team

After searching a few days in the downtown area of this mega city we again finally found a house vacant that no one would live in. An extremely deteriorated one large room, 1st floor, without running water, but one quarter block from the center of the Philippines second largest

city; actually, it was dead center, except one had to walk down a narrow dirt ally to the inner area of a city block, 488-c Kabilian, Colon Street, Cebu City.

Cebu’s first Mission Center

This became an ideal outreach witnessing center to bring contacts off the crowded city streets. Because it was in an area that was dangerous at night we had to sleep with the windows blocked by closed shutters to protect ourselves from potential physical harm which was very uncomfortable in the hot muggy weather. For one year the members of the Cebu pioneering team endured quite a physical hardship living with many people in one large room with only a curtain dividing men from women and especially having no running water or toilet.

Cleaning around Center

​ Each morning the first assignment before prayer was for each individual to fend for themselves, or say, search the streets for any businesses open with a toilet they could use for their morning needs; buckets of water we obtained for ten cents, we used for general washing and cooking. There was no real septic or sewer system, so daily we had to “bucket away” the water used for cleaning and maintaining a presentable ground surrounding our lecture site. ​

Mila giving a lecture

In the Philippines, members joined quickly but it was here in Cebu that many powerful members joined. If they chose to move into our very humble center it had to be because of the sincerest choice to become a missionary because they gained no advantage.

Moses Course Fulfilled, Jesus Course Begun

It was in Cebu that I completed or restored my revealed “Moses Course” that was required. Remember that often after starting a sermon and then becoming aware that an hour or more had passed with my having no memory of what was spoken; here coming to understand that Moses often spoke through me. If one studies the biblical history of Moses it is clear he had an issue with “anger”. Well one day in Cebu while giving the Sunday Service with about 25 members listening and with a few new contacts considering joining, all of a sudden, a young new member marched into the room, pushed me aside and took over speaking to the Cebu congregation. He announced he was leaving the movement and taking a few recent Divine Principle students with him, which caused me to react in anger and grab him by the back of his neck and lift him high into the air like he was just a paper doll (he was of a bigger than average Filipino build). Then suddenly, my consciousness became aware of what had happened with a very powerful force, seeing my hand holding him high above and then I consciously commanded my hand to set him down gently and spoke kind, relaxed words of good blessings. At that point Moses through me healed part of his fallen nature, for the anger and super strength was coming from him and I graduated from a Moses Course into a Jesus Course of Restoration through my Christ like forgiving response, however Jesus’ Course was a complicated course to walk! That of disciples losing faith, his not succeeding at restoring a family and having to go the way of the cross; my consciously hoping not to go the way of a cross, meaning my choosing 12 disciples and 3 major disciples. Did it mean one disciple would become a Judas and require me to restore some kind of situation like there being pieces of gold (money) involved? Whatever was upcoming it was important to stay centered on God and the Principles of Restoration absorbing indemnity or by working through resentments. Perhaps it would have been so simple if I had not rejected coming to the Philippines in the first place and not put back the lottery slip of paper causing a Restoration Course.

Iloilo Pioneering –October 1979

In October our sister Angie went to pioneer Iloilo with Mary and Leo and after a humble and challenging beginning Iloilo blossomed into a thriving center. Now in all 3 newly opened Centers: Bacolod, Cebu, and Iloilo there were Filipino leaders. Nanette visited Iloilo in November 1979 lecturing, mentoring and creating a Holy Ground.

Nanette teaching Iloilo members

Nanette visiting Angie and Iloilo members ​

Nanette Making Holy Ground in Iloilo -1979

​ Nanette Making Holy Ground in Iloilo -1979

Nanette making Holy Ground in Bacolod - November 1979

Nanette making Holy Ground in Cebu – November 1979

​ In November 1979 Nanette visited our Bacolod and Cebu pioneering efforts, while she was pregnant with South-East Asia’s first second generation child; at that time, she made Holy Grounds. Our Filipino son, Paul Arthur, came with her. Nanette will share more about our beautiful son Paul in her autobiography.

Montalban Farm Pioneered –January 1980

John leading team to Montalban

Nanette serving food to members

In the beginning of 1980 we started making trips to Montalban in high mountains outside Manila for group outings. We became so attracted to the beauty and upon noticing there was land unused with a beautiful view decided to establish a farm there, thus clearing appropriate land. It was such a heavenly feeling to sleep on the side of a high mountain, in a thatched hut we made together. One time I started back to Quezon City alone walking along a mountain jungle trail to experience the beauty, expecting to be eventually picked up by a public jeepney. After passing through thick jungle growth for about half an hour a jeep picked me up just before a mountain bend. As the jeep rounded the curve about 30 seconds later an anaconda snake whose body appeared to be thicker than a telephone pole crossed the road just in front of our vehicle. My timing or spiritual protection was perfect, for walking a few minutes faster, this snake would have eaten me for dinner. Another time members yelled at me for crawling into a nearby Japanese WWII bunker cave, “some rumored” to still have soldiers hiding in from the war. It had a very small opening one had to squeeze through and then opened to a circular room. A few Filipinos explained I had just risked my life for such caves in Montalban had extremely poisonous spiders living above the inner door.

Miraculous Powers Save John’s Life

All throughout my mission in the Philippines there was protection and communications from powerful spiritual forces. Sometimes my testing of this protection upset my wife, like crossing a six-lane highway when traffic was flowing while holding her arm, talking, but not looking but receiving voices and feelings when to start and stop to avoid being hit. However, one day, when alone, the most powerful miracle that saved my life occurred, while walking on a sidewalk in Cubao, Quezon City adjacent to a large shopping mall complex. While in deep meditative thought about responsibilities connected to the mission in the Philippines and not looking as the sidewalk ended at a truck entrance to the inner roadway of the outdoor type mall I stepped down to cross the roadway, unaware of my actions. After a few seconds becoming aware, refocusing my thoughts from inner sources to the outer information from my physical body, I saw a large pickup truck had turned into the driveway and was heading directly

at me. I only had time to consciously lift my left arm upward to protect me from this speeding truck, but then no impact came as instantly both of my feet and legs flipped vertically upward moving about twelve feet into the air pulling the rest of my body along with them, then leveling out went horizontally over and watched the truck speeding underneath, as my feet flew first about fifteen feet towards the other side of the entrance road. Moving back downward, then landing on both feet, my back getting wrenched. For about two weeks there was suffering pain and limited mobility, but no permanent damage. What happened, the only possibility is that protective guardian spirits or angelic beings using extremely powerful forces threw my body in such a way to avoid this truck’s impact at the last minute. This is a true story. September 1980, shortly after we began pioneering Cebu, my spiritual daughter who helped translate the Islamic Divine Principle into Arabic, Gamalat, arrived from Kuwait to help us in the Philippines and get connected with the mainstream of our movement. After I was imprisoned and left Kuwait, she worked for a year as an airline ground hostess keeping faith in the Divine Principle, its application to life and then one day just left Kuwait.

Gamalat and John

Galalat and Husband

It was quite a bold action for a Middle East Egyptian young lady. Her brother did track her to our movement in the Philippines, searched for her across the Philippines and we had to hide her to maintain her freedom, because he intended to force her back to Kuwait or worse for dishonoring their Arabian family. She helped us earn money to purchase the upcoming Cebu center, counseled new members and set a good example for them. Gamalat was later married to a Japanese brother and they became missionaries to Africa. She was blessed with giving birth to twins. Unfortunately, her husband was killed in South Africa; however, he was given a National-Level Seung-Hwa (funeral) because of his position and level of faith. She is raising her two twins in Japan and today her children are both Blessed in marriage.

First Church Center Purchased

With so many members joining in Cebu and across the Philippines we had to seriously deal with expanding our public facilities and our living quarters, so we chose Cebu to be the place that we would buy our first Church Center. In September 1980 we rented a house with an option to buy. We started a nationwide fundraising condition and over the next year earned extra money through selling peanut brittle, dried flower arrangements, wood carvings from Paete and Baguio. The older building we were renting was ideally located near a university. During this period we did not” increase our food intake with the extra money, but still continued to eat only what the poor donated to us through “food raising“ at public markets.

Dante making peanut brittle

​ Lydia, Gamalat packing brittle

​ Fundraising wood carvings

Enjoyment of Philippine Produced Products

​ John & Team making flowers

​ Mila, Anita, Claire, Jimmy, and others

To my excitement and joy Nanette and I got to spend “alone time” making a one-day trip by bus and jeepney to a village called Paete to select the best wood carvings; this was one of the few times we spent time together in 5 years! It was such an idyllic town nestled beneath a mountain with about 20 small streams flowing beneath the houses and wooden pathways constructed over the water flows; kind of like Lord of the Ring stuff. Once going into a house of one carver to select items, I was greatly surprised when asking to use the bathroom and was told to go outside, for their in-house bathroom was occupied by a horse size pig. Of course, we had to look to believe this. We learnt this was a pattern for some Filipino homes in the countryside, to use their bath rooms to earn extra money, since there was no space outside their homes for a pig pen. Within one year of pioneering Cebu, in November 1980 we purchased Urgello Church Center, our first owned center in the Philippines and acquired a center having two toilets and two showers. Jose Lim helped locate the building and negotiate its purchase. We paid 62,500 pesos, the check was written on the Producers Bank of the Philippines; there was also an additional payment of 25,000 pesos in cash. However, this run-down old house needed “major repairs” which the increasing numbers of hard-working members easily achieved, my being able to put my finger 3” deep into a support column with a “finger jab”. We also built a large water storage tower in the backyard and a patio. Of course, I worked side by side in repairing this new center with the members and learned from these skilled Filipinos, many techniques to use in building a house in my hometown in America, many years later.

Making a water tower

​ Restoring Walls inside center

​ Making a cement patio

​ Making outdoor Prayer Room ​ Because of this center being on the main street traveling to Cebu’s University, we painted the center a dramatic green color, opened a spiritual-religious book store and put two large signs consisting of angels blowing trumpets above the bookstore to attract attention, which Nanette as an artist painted.

Restoring and Painting Church Center

Our witnessing at the local university was organized around spiritual numerological conditions causing the immediate filling of the center with guests hearing lectures. We moved the national headquarters to Cebu for one year while we lived in the Cebu center and helped with outreach, Nanette helping with lecturing and workshops.

​ John and Nanette teaching how to teach

Lesson Thirty Seven Demon Possesses Sister - Identifies Unchaste Members- Our private life or secrets are not secret for spirit ancestors are always around.

It was in Cebu that I successfully exorcized a spirit out of a newly joined member after being confronted by such a strong demonic spiritual entity that we could not get rid of easily. One day when arriving home at the center I learnt a sister was possessed in the upstairs sister room, frail short member who weighed less than a hundred pounds. We tried all our usual methods to get the annoying-possessing spirit out of a person to no avail; unfortunately the demon only became more in control of this young lady, cursing, spitting on the various objects and my having to get 4 brothers to assist me to stop her body from jumping out a window. We carried her body downstairs into our prayer room and 5 brothers held down her body. Not able to think of anyway to get the demon out, I started up a conversation with it. Questioning the demon just how it could come into our religious center and into this sister, the demon responded with an ire raspy voice, “It came here to see my friends” – “Last week 3 of the guys went out with women”. Taken back requesting all male members to come into the prayer room we took our restraints off this young ladies’ upper body while still pinning her from the waist down to the floor. Her body twisted, contorted like a snake and then the demon pointed to three of the brothers, identifying who had broken our rules. After the demon identified its friends it left the body and the body went limp. This satanic force was well beyond any control we could muster! We brought her up

to the sister’s room to recover. From this experience the seriousness of our life of faith and the principles we lived our daily life became very clear. In Cebu one sister joined who had recently graduated in animal husbandry, which caused us to create a farm, first in the center’s backyard. We built cages raising rabbits and chicken for meat to be used inside of showpao (steamed dumpling bun) we built; also, Ulrich developed a grape orchard. We explored options to develop a large pig farm, but put this project on hold when our neighbor, a medical doctor, complained about the massive number of flies coming over to his house causing me to notice the ground moving beneath our chicken cages from infant fly maggots developing in the droppings.

Mila, John, Lydia, Gamalat

​ Examining Rabbit Cage

​ Making Shopao Steamers

Ulrich Planting Grapes

At this point Cebu was becoming the center point of intense mission activity resulting in my bringing in members from other centers to help. The excitement and enthusiasm that helped attract new members was partly due to our consistent pattern of assigning new members and many of the positive older members to the newest outreach center and some of those with problems to our Cubao Headquarters Center where our center leader Celina was a strong lady leader who had a degree in security science.

1st 21 Day National Workshop April 1981

Nanette and John were lecturing, giving Internal Guidance, Ulrich also helped with this workshop by creating study booklets. During these 21 days we covered the Divine Principle, touched Unification Thought. Participants had to pass an exam and learn basic principles of leadership.

Morning Exercise

​ United to Pioneer

John, Nanette, Ulrich with workshop members

John Lecturing

​ Divine Principle Testing

​ Practice Lecturing

At this 21 day workshop I introduce a second updated level of more advanced lecture charts to be used across the nation; of course learning to teach the Divine Principle was central to the workshop. We had workshop participants walk to downtown Cebu to practice teaching to pedestrians. ​

​ Street Lecturing Setup ​ ​ One day it was so hot sweat poured down from our faces as we stretched out for a few blocks on sidewalks. God must have felt sorry for us and wanted to confirm His empowerment,

because out of nowhere a man dressed formally in white, having a very pure glowing face came along carrying a bucket of water with a ladle and passed out water in cups to all of us. Then before we could thank him, he vanished. To this day we still question if this was an angel or just an inspired citizen because of the suddenness of coming and going, while he spoke no words.

Nationwide Pioneering Condition by Teams of Two – May 1981

We changed our pattern of pioneering new cities from a team of 5 to 10 members, after this 21 day workshop, we sent our 59 graduates to pioneer teams of two across the many islands of the Philippines to smaller cities, an older member with a younger member. My concern about these pioneer members surviving physically and spiritually caused me to visit the pioneering cities after 40 days passed to investigate their situation and help in any way possible. The following is a list of where the members pioneered.

Tuguegarao – David and Gideon Munoz – Shirley and Melba San Fernando, La Union – Dante and Bernard – Faith (Ester) and Salvacion Cabanatuan – August and Spring San Fernando, Pampanga – Keken and Jimmy Guagua – Doods and Jacob Angeles City – Shirley 3 and Delia Batangas City – Tetz and Gil Iriga City – June 3 and Albert Legaspi City – Joemarie and Nonoy Naga City – Maxim and Rene Iloilo City – Vincent and Metz Dumagueti City – Raffy, May and Roda General Santos City – June4 and Luceno Cagayan de Oro – Orly and Leo Zamboanga – Eddie and Lito Tacloban - Mila and Shirley Tagbilaran, Bohol - Lydia

After 40 days Lydia joined Mila, who continued to pioneer there for 3 years. Mila had so many people studying, she couldn’t attend the later 40 Day Internal Workshop. There were spiritual phenomena that Mila had to deal with.

Mila and Shirley – 30 New Members in 40 Days – Leyte, Philippines

I arrived in Tacloban, Leyte in the afternoon and was greatly surprised to find many new members; not imaging these two sisters could accomplish so much in so short of a time, “30 new members in 40 days”. My investigation found out their success was not from the two of them alone, it seems one of their “first guests” to hear the lectures ended up having the historic

ancestor “Moses” coming into his body and Moses talking with the others who came to hear lectures strongly inspired them to work with us building Heaven on Earth.

Lesson Thirty Seven – Moses spiritually helped us but was a bit too intense.

Right or wrong, Moses could not contain himself and kept strongly speaking to the guests, even scaring them about the seriousness of listening to the lectures and joining the Unification Movement. He even chastised one guest when he returned to hear chapter two; about how after hearing the first lecture the day before and later that same night spoke negatively with a few of his friends about the lecture. This guest, understanding that he had his secret conversations listened to by the “ancestor Moses” from the invisible spirit world and then publicly reprimanded by Moses about his “secret” doubts, moved into our center immediately out of fear. When I learned about Moses causing new people to join our movement out of fear, explained to Mila, there will be problems coming with some of these new members for their not having studied all the lectures, not understanding clearly what our movement is about and did not make a “free will personal choice” to become a sacrificial missionary. She did stop Moses from doing this. Such spiritual phenomena and more occurred in the early days of our movement in the Philippines. The spiritual phenomena then calmed down in Tacloban and weeks later Mila sent many of her new members to the 40-Day training workshop in Antipollo. Mila always was in the forefront of pioneering new cities and brought in many spiritual children without the help of foreign missionaries. Today Mila is living in New Jersey with her Malaysian husband, he is a financial accountant for our US movement. I would also like to report that sister Mila in addition to being my right-hand leader and support in the pioneering of the Philippines, was used by the spirit ancestors of the Philippines to receive in dreams messages about what the various members were struggling with or doing wrong. She then would call me by phone across the country and explain different members’ problems she had received so they could be mentored. Her revelations were very accurate.

A Day Vacation in Five Years

My wife and I were workaholics, dedicated missionaries but one day we hired a boat and visited the area called “The Thousand Islands”. While she sat on a beach with our two babies I went off snorkeling between the multitude of small islands. Once putting my head underwater, I could not surface again because of the breathtaking beauty, magnificent coral, fluorescent fish; my thoughts were just why anyone would want to live on land when there was such magnificence beneath the sea. Not realizing that 3 hours had passed until my frantic wife fearful for my life found me after searching for an hour with the hired boat guide. Guess what, no more vacations allowed!

Davao Pioneered -1981- Davao members

Eric lecturing

Yoshi Murotani, the second Japanese missionary, came to the Philippine mission in the beginning of 1981 to replace Jiro. At that time the Philippine mission already had 7 major centers opened and 75 full time members. Yoshi spent the first 7 months studying the culture, but when he was ready we sent him to pioneer Davao, assigning 10 members to travel to work with him. After a few weeks it became necessary to send brother Eric to be Yoshi’s main assistant to help with unity and communication problems. From their developed leadership with the pioneering team major advancements were made.​

Outreaching in front of Cathedral

​ Active discussions

On my first visit to the Davao family the local Catholic Bishop asked me to visit him and discuss our movement. He questioned me of our beliefs and I explained to him the core of the Divine Principles, our moral standards and daily lifestyle. He bluntly informed me our movement and my personal life, walk with Christ was much higher than his or the Catholic Church’s, but could I please refrain from allowing our members to contact his church membership.

Eric, John and Davao members

​ Study Session

No such restriction was given to our membership. My second trip to the Davao mission was to teach a 7-day workshop & secure the foundation Yoshi and Eric had started in this very important city in the Philippines.

Connie lecturing

​ Our college CARP club

​ John speaking at College CARP club

As the months progressed, under Eric’s leadership and the hard work of the members, CARP (Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles) was organized, very active on campus, gaining many new members.

​ Davao Members with Eric

John and Nanette Receive the Title Reverend and the Mission of Regional Leadership in South-East Asia

After attending an international gathering of the foreign missionaries in America I was appointed by Reverend Kwak as the South East Asian Regional Leader and he gave the title officially of Reverend to Nanette and myself; this was the first time this title was given to a Unification American member and a foreign missionary. Upon returning to the Philippines I visited Taiwan on a fact-finding mission to begin my responsibility as a regional leader. Upon arriving in Taiwan in the downtown city streets took notice of the shopkeepers leaving their displays with products outside all night on the sidewalks unprotected; my thinking this must be a very moral, principled culture.

John, Mr. Chang and Taiwan members ​

Receiving a Healing

Entering the center the national leader Kuei-Hsin Chang greeted me and immediately said “you look sick” and asked if he could treat me. He laid on his back with his knees pointing upwards and then had me lay on my back on top, with my kidneys resting on top of his knees, his balancing my full weight. He then ground his knees into my kidneys using my weight to massage and loosen up the contents of my kidneys. It was interesting he diagnosed me by just looking at me or perhaps spiritually receiving my situation. In the Philippines I had visited a Filipino doctor about a year earlier because I had lost 48 pounds and had become weak; Mr. Chang used the expression “you have tired blood”; which then made sense that my kidneys were not functioning properly to clean my blood. After this treatment in Taiwan I felt much stronger and returned to the Philippines energized.

Cebu Prayer Room ​ In September 1981 we completed our bamboo prayer/meditation room in Cebu and started a “home church aspect” to our Philippine Movement as Father Moon had instructed. ​ ​ At this time, I started visiting member’s birth towns and extended families.

Nanette doing Home Church Work with Members

​ John visiting local members families

September 1981 John and Nanette making a Holy Ground in Davao

The strong growth in Davao caused us to visit for mentoring the new members. While praying in Davao, Heavenly Father spoke to me in strong words and gave me the direction my mission was to no longer teach Divine Principle to individuals, but I had to give lectures to public gatherings and thus began my public group speaking at a CARP meeting on the Davao University Campus.

Prayer at Davao Holy Ground

​ John guest speaker at Davao College Campus

40 Day Leadership Workshop -Antipolo, October 1981

Because our membership had expanded to over 200 full time members living in centers, spread across much of the Philippines in all the major cities and because Nanette and I had the

responsibility for South-East Asia as the newly appointed Regional Leaders we organized our movements 1st International 40-day Workshop. We had participants from a few surrounding countries. It was our intention to quickly inherit all the depths of mentoring that our Father Moon and early Korean missionaries had shared with us in America to the region’s membership.

40 Day Workshop Leadership

Nanette, I, and our fellow missionaries to the Philippines, Yoshi and Ulrich gave Internal Guidance and conducted breakout sessions. For the workshop staff we asked Rev. Hose and his wife Taco from America, and also brought in Loyd Eby to teach Victory over Communism lectures and Unification Thought.

Yoshie, David Hose, John and members on Taal Volcano

Rev. Hose, Taco, John, Nanette and 7 nation workshop participants

Team Leaders Prayer Circle ​

John Lecturing (img)

Most of the participants in the workshop were from the Philippines, but 8 participants came from surrounding countries: Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. One of the Philippine key members in the workshop who accomplished and served in a major way for many years in the future was Ester, nicknamed Faith because of the ordeal she had gone through to be in our movement. Rev. Hose and I conducted most of the lectures. The members approached the workshop with the utmost seriousness and were determined to expand their teaching abilities. The spirit world presence was so extreme during this workshop that Rev. Hose restricted participants from staying up late at night due to the phenomenon. The first morning to my surprise found 3 brothers sleeping alongside him due to fearful experiences; one brother had become filled with a bad spirit which threatened the other brothers, my suggesting to Rev. Hose changing this restriction to a spiritual cleansing condition and explained about teaching Divine Principle out loud to the spirit world to educate and to liberate ancestors from their difficult situations.

Breakaway study groups

Breakaway study groups

Members Boarding Boats Because the members in the Philippines accepted to live a very sacrificial life and most of the money we could acquire we spent on renting new centers in pioneering cities and on education materials I decided to add to the workshop a “once in a lifetime” exciting outing: a boat trip and climb to the top of the Taal volcano. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taal_Volcano It was so heartwarming to see the sacrificial members having so much fun on this outing. The Taal Volcano is an active volcano inside a dormant volcano which is now filled with water.

Traveling to the Taal Volcano – from the outer ridge across lake to the inner volcano

Exotic Bush Attacks Me

Once when Rev. Hose was leading up the workshop and had the attention of all participants, I found myself alone and went exploring in a nearby wilderness area. Walking through a thick jungle a small clearing appeared with the most beautiful bush filled with magnificent flowers. Proceeding to touch a branch having one of the leaves of the flowers brushed against my skin causing a very strange feeling both spiritually and physically. I drew back and immediately started having breathing problems. Quickly making my way back to the workshop site, while stumbling and feeling like passing out, the surrounding beauty became black, but after entering the workshop facilities my breathing problems progressively cleared up. After this experience I greatly appreciated my physical life more and realized it was not wise to wander alone in an unknown jungle. In December 1981 Nanette and I held the first Southern Philippines Regional Meeting of Philippine leaders: Mila, Lydia, Claire, Shirley, and Eric who came from the Visayas and Mindanao to Cebu, also did interviews for the next Marriage Blessing. At this time we began the Philippine’s first Political Peace Ambassador type work, greeting the President of Korea, who was visiting the Philippines.

John with Visayan leaders in Cebu

Greeting South Korean President ​

Our project for January was in Cubao printing 2,000 copies of the Last Day Lecture, 1,000 copies of the Resurrection Lecture and 300 copies of Chapter One which had 40 pages for Home Study; these were distributed across the Philippines. In February 1982 returning to Davao for my last time before being re-assigned to become the Continental Leader of our movement in Australia and Regional Leader of Oceania my arrival was a bit overwhelming, due to the recently appointed, dynamic leader, Shirley hosting a surprise reception. Also in Cebu at that time we started a Sunday School with 200 participants, 50 on a regular basis.

​ While visiting Davao I received an appreciated thanks for my service in the Philippines. However greater than the appreciation was witnessing a 10 year old boy on crutches teaching Chapter One of the Divine Principle to a University Professor and knowing the empowerment

Nanette and I had given every member to be a “teacher” of the Divine Principle through using lecture charts would be a pattern to expand to every corner of the nation.

Jesus Course Fulfilled

From Davao I returned to Cubao to deal with some reported complaints against a few brothers behaving improperly. Our pattern had been to always send the most positive, capable, vertical members as teams to open new centers and use our official headquarters in Cubao as a type of rebirthing center, under the leadership of a Filipina sister, Celina who had studied criminology in university; my not following Rev. Kwak’s directive to tell some of the problem makers to move out, my just not having the heart to do it. The Cubao center ended up becoming a place of unresolved issues causing difficulties and before dealing successfully with the problems I underwent a type of “Jesus Crucifixion Course” where (God spoke to me) that for the sake of the future advancement of the Philippine Holy Spirit Association Providence, I should accept what comes and love back. A few days later before dealing with the problems a representative elder of Father Moon arrived, spiritually embraced me and I accepted a reassignment of my mission to lead Australia and the Oceania Region. This was a very significant event for after passing personally through a “Jesus/Judas Course” successfully, was given now a larger responsibility to take care of a whole continent and region of many island nations; instead of having to continue to walk my own restoration courses of “historic figures” or time-lines due to my original rejection of pioneering the Philippines in God’s 1st calling.

Father and Mother Moon with World Missionary Regional Leadership

​ As Regional Leaders we were representing Father Moon’s Disciples on a Global Scale and now rather than merely doing missionary pioneering I had to think about nation building and accomplishing the many directions headquarters would be assigned: conferences, politics, corporate establishment and peace initiatives. ​

In the 5 years that both of us served as Philippine Movement’s pioneering leaders, the membership went from 2 members to 225 full time missionary center members and about 200 associate members, CARP (a college club) established and we felt confident in the Philippines mission moving forward with all members ability to teach the Divine Principle and their recent deepening through the 40 Day Workshop. The factors for pioneering growth were: my and Nanette’s unity in teaching the Divine Principle and serving the members as the top priority, witnessing-fundraising-pioneering activity based on indemnity conditions center on (time identity) of the restoration numbers making a base for the “spirit world” to connect to, the

Philippine member’s humble sacrificial lifestyle, the requirement that everyone teach or practice teaching the Divine Principle daily, the progressive unity between the German and Japanese missionaries and ourselves, the active cooperation of the “spirit world”, the historic spiritual indemnity of the Filipino people, and the religious foundation of the country.

While waiting for my visa to enter Australia Nanette and I created a new Level Three Divine Principle Lecture Chart Series, in our Antipolo Workshop Center where we had recently held the 40 day workshop. We brought a copy of the lecture charts to Australia to empower the movement there. Nanette had 8 photo albums made of all the historic pioneering work distributed to the 8 major centers in the Philippines to appreciate the accomplishments of the early members; this included the making and locations of the Holy Grounds.

Years later back in America we were invited to a breakfast in Belvedere with Father Moon and many church leaders. When we entered Father Moon had all the leaders move down at his table and made space, so we could sit next to him. Father said to us “your legacy in the Philippines can never be taken away from you”. He then divided his desert and gave half to us.

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