True Parents' Birthday - FFWPU USA Children's Ministry
2020-01-17 · Source: tparents.org
RANDING CHILDRN’ HOP
F CALNDAR
CURRICULUM MINITRY
TRU PARNT’ IRTHDAY
JANUARY 17, 2020
CLRATION DAT: ATURDAY JANUARY 30, 2020
True Parent, Rev. and Mr. Moon, celerate their mutual irthda, Januar 6, according to the lunar calendar. It i conidered one of the five major Hol Da celerated worldwide.
Here ou will find everal reource ou can ue in our local Church, unda chool or Home celeration:
What i “True Parent’ irthda”
“True Parent are the parent whoe lineage i woven together with God’ love and life… The True Parent are the pioneer who can perfect God’ love and make God into the Lord of love. Without the True Parent, God’ plan to perfect love can never e fulfilled.”
”True Parent, i thi greater than the love etween uch lover, or i it weaker than the love etween uch lover? [tronger!] Wh? ecaue parent’ love i the root love. ecaue the religion aed on the love of True Parent i the home, the root of True Love. When ou come here to the place of the True Parent ou can reach down and connect with thi root. Once ou occup the root, ou are connected to the trunk and ranche and leave and ou can e connected with all kind of properit.” — R V . U N M Y U N G M O O N
IGNIFICANC: W CLRAT TH IRTH OF OUR FOUNDR, WHO THROUGH UNITY WITH GOD AND THIR ACCOMPLIHMNT, COULD TALIH GOD’ LOV, LIF AND LINAG HR ON ARTH.
“Thi i a da to celerate the Hol irth of The True Parent, Rev. un Mung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon who have paved the wa to tranform humankind from atan’ lineage to God’ lineage.
If the ancetor of mankind, Adam and ve, oth reached individual perfection, ecame a couple, and ecame parent, humankind, their decendant, would have een children of God with God’ love, life and lineage. However, Adam and ve ecame fale parent a reult of the fall and humankind inherited atan’ love, life and lineage.
In order to regain what wa lot Adam and ve, God had to lead the dipenation to where a inle Adam wa ent to the earth. That wa Jeu 2000 ear ago. ut Jeu wa crucified, and unale to realize God’ ideal of creation on arth. He promied a econd Coming and paed awa.
True Father received a pecial revelation from God at the age of ixteen, when he wa entruted with the miion of aving humankind. A True Father and True Mother tood in the poition of the True Parent of humankind, that Adam and ve could not tand, the opened a wa to convert humanit from atan’ lineage to God’ lineage through the Marriage leing. The Hol Da of the irth of True Parent hould e appreciated and celerated all humankind incerel from their heart.”
FAMILY DICUION QUTION: • Who are True Parent to ou?
• How do True Parent connect ou to God?
• What doe it mean to e a part of God’ lineage?
• How can we celerate True Parent’ irthda? We celerate Jeu’ irthda with a Chritma Tree and gift. What kind of tradition would ou like to make to celerate the irth of True Parent?
FOR PARNT & GRANDPARNT:
• hare aout a pecial memor with True Parent.
• What did it mean to ou to receive the marriage leing?
• What wa it like ecoming a parent for the firt time?
• Who are True Parent to ou? Wh do ou celerate their irthda?
FAMILY TRADITION: • Offering Tale: Create a offering tale together and hold a imple Famil Pledge ervice in our home- or attend a local ceremon
• Cake: hare a cake or favorite treat together a a famil. ing “Happ irthda!”
• anner: Create a anner together a a famil aing “Happ True Parent’ irthda!”
• irthda Card: Make a irthda card for True Parent!
• Gift: To celerate God & True Parent’ love for our child: Give them a pecialgift.
• Go Live: Tune in to the live celeration in Korea!
FAMILY ACTIVITI: Click on the link for ample!
• Group irthda Cake for God craft
• Paperag crown or Paper plate part hat craft
• Rice enor in enor
• Korean drum craft
• Korean fan craft
• Korean irthda Tale offering tale!
• Make Gimap enor- making food
• DIY Yut Game craft + game
• DIY Ddakji Game craft + game
• Pla Yut Nori game
• Korean rock game game
• Minute to Win It choptick minute to win it
• Famil Talent how activit
PRINTAL ACTIVITY HT
UNDAY CHOOL LON:
TP WORD TOCKROOM
PINTRT OARD: ACTIVITI, CRAFT, GAM, VIDO, ONG:
KORAN CULTUR
VIDO FOR WATCHING TOGTHR:
TRU PARNT LIF LIDHOW
NW YAR MAG Y RV. DUNKLY
Life & Teaching of Rev. Sun Myung … True Parents’ Song at The Day of All Things(…
ING ALONG WORHIP:
TONGIL LYRIC VIDO
TONGIL DANC VIDO
Mother Dear (by Mi Young Eaton) Amen Aju - Original Song
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HAVNLY PARNT’ Da
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Heavenly Parent’s Day ACTIVITIES! Celebrated on January 25, 2020- What kind of day is God’s Day? For God, it is a joyful day and a good day. He wants to encounter good people on this day. He wants to bless you and celebrate this day with you, but actually, He has no one qualified to receive that blessing. All around the world people are celebrating this first day of the year, but only members of the Unification Church celebrate it as God’s Day. Therefore, God wants to be with you this day.
NEW YEARS Pinterest Board
KIDS: - Group Birthday Cake for God craft - Paperbag crowns or Paper plate party hats craft - New Year’s Eve Games games - New Year’s Sensory bin sensory - New Year’s shaker craft - Balloon Drop
YOUTH: - New Year’s Minute to Win It minute to win it - New Year Party - Write a letter to God, determination
AS A COMMUNITY: - Make your own gimbap (make 3 rolls for someone else first) - Charades/Fishbowl - Entertainment
Lesson/Internal Guidance Theme Ideas: ● Starting the new (heavenly calendar) year with God, my Heavenly Parent! Centered on God Animation ● My Commitment- Goal setting: Internal & External goals - God Languages- Spiritual Styles Quiz - “God in our hearts” Pinterest / Lesson - “God Loves Me” Pinterest / Lesson - “Reach for the Stars” Pinterest New Year’s Goal setting Lesson - “Parental Love” Pinterest / Lesson
GIFT SHOP: - 2020 Calendar - Table Talk Principle Card Game
True Parent’s Birthday ACTIVITIES: Celebrated on January 30, 2020- This is a day to celebrate the Holy Birth of The True Parents, Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon who have paved the way to transform humankind from Satan’s lineage to God’s lineage.
KOREAN CULTURE Pinterest Board
KIDS: - Rice sensory bin sensory - Group Birthday Cake for True Parents craft - Paperbag crowns or Paper plate party hats craft - Korean drums craft - Korean fan craft - Korean Birthday Table offering table! - True Parents’ Birthday Party! - Birthday Cards for TP!
YOUTH: - Make Gimbap sensory- making food - DIY Yut Game craft + game - DIY Ddakji Game craft + game - Yut game - Korean rock game game - Minute to Win It chopsticks minute to win it
AS A COMMUNITY: - Make your own gimpab (make 3 rolls for someone else first) - Charades/Fishbowl - Entertainment - True Parents’ Birthday Celebration
GIFT SHOP: - Look & Tell - Light of Glory - TP Coloring Book
Lesson/Internal Guidance Theme Ideas: ● Who are True Parents to me? My Roots, Inheritance ● True Parents’ Life - Lesson on True Mother - Lesson on True Father - YM True Parents Stockroom
HOM TOOLOX
TRAINING CONTACT
True Parent
TH ND FOR TRU PARNT
[True Parent] fight againt atan’ world and attain dominion over all thing. The detro atan, who govern the human world, and the attain an aolute poition from which the govern even the mriad in the pirit world. CG ook 2, Chapter 1, ection 1, Vere 17
Then how can we fulfill our deire to reolve thee accumulated prolem all at once? It require a true tandard. ut thi i not to e found within the trie, ociet or nation, or even within the world. ecaue the origin of all prolem i the fale parent, onl a connection with the True Parent can lead u to a olution. CG ook 2, Chapter 1, ection 1, Vere 21
It i onl through [True Parent] that we can la the foundation, pierce through the fallen domain of atan’ world, and go up from there. CG, ook 2, Chapter 1, ection 1, Vere 24
One united world can come aout onl when all people, who are wandering aout like orphan without a nation, come to the True Parent. That i how the world ecome one home. CG, ook 2, Chapter 1, ection 1, Vere 25
What doe [the avior] ave? Not our phical odie making them lat forever. Rather, he enale u to fulfill our hope for ideal love. To achieve thi, the Meiah mut come a the True Parent. CG, ook 2, Chapter 1, ection 1, Vere 26
When the onl egotten on come, it will not uffice if he i alone. There ha to e the onl egotten Daughter. The onl egotten on and Daughter would love and marr each other, at the place where all can rejoice with God. Upon their marriage God, the vertical Parent, would rejoice…. Then a the horizontal Parent, the would give irth to children on earth. CG, ook 2, Chapter 1, ection 1, Vere 26
To traighten out thi hitor, one man and one woman, a a couple, hould ecome the True Parent. Without them, the human race cannot pa into a new age in hitor. CG, ook 2, Chapter 1, ection 2, Vere 1
People are earning for the time when the impoile can ecome poile. Facing the impoile in their live, fallen people wander in earch of the right peron– the peron who can realize the purpoe of their faith, hope and love… It i through him that heaven and earth will e et traight, through him that Heaven’ glor will egin for the firt time, and through him that the love etween the Father and Hi
on will trul commence. CG, ook 2, Chapter 2, ection 3, Vere 2
True Parent are the parent whoe lineage i woven together with God’ love and life… The True Parent are the pioneer who can perfect God’ love and make God into the Lord of love. Without the True Parent, God’ plan to perfect love can never e fulfilled. CG, ook 2, Chapter 4, ection 3, Vere 10
TRU PARNT & U
What i the hope that we hould nurture? We hould hope that we can genuinel attend the True Parent who come to the earth on ehalf of Heaven.We hould not want to attend the True Parent onl after the are victoriou, when all people look up at them and repect them. We hould want to attend them while the are paing through their orrowful coure. CG, ook 2, Chapter 2, ection 1, Vere 5
When we go to chool, we have to pa examination. We can advance onl after paing them. It i the ame with the heavenl kingdom: unle ou inherit the realm of True Parent’ heart, ou cannot go there. CG, ook 2, Chapter 4, ection 5, Vere 1
In undertanding the True parent’ heart, the important matter i how to feel that ou are one with them. CG, ook 2, Chapter 4, ection 5, Vere 10
[True Parent] are the eginning point of the future, and attending them… ou will ecome the fruit of hitor… You will e the origin, the ancetor of the future. CG, ook 2, Chapter 4, ection 5, Vere 6
You hould tand at the forefront with me. You hould not
retreat. You hould advance directl with true love. CG, ook 2, Chapter 4, ection 4, Vere 10
PRONAL TTIMONY OF TH TRU PARNT
You ma not know how much I have inveted for the ake of the world. How man tear have I hed, how much weat and lood have I pilled, and how man time have I ighed? M effort were not jut to feed melf or to make melf ucceful. The were to lierate the earthl world, the pirit world and God. CG, ook 2, Chapter 1, ection 2, Vere 21
efore I proclaimed the True Parent, how much did I uffer? How man time wa I cured? And how man time did I go to prion? I have een imprioned a man a ix time. I declared the coming of True Parent after all thee hardhip. CG, ook 2, Chapter 1, ection 3, Vere 4
ven a I wa eing perecuted to that degree, I did not remain in the realm of accuation. In fact, I cruhed that realm under m feet and waved the flag of victor, and I am now proclaiming the True Parent efore heaven and earth. CG, ook 2, Chapter 1, ection 3, Vere 5
Mother had to ecome a true mother, a true wife and a true daughter. To complete even one of thee three miion i difficult, ut Mother ha completed them all. CG, ook 2, Chapter 1, ection 3, Vere 14
I have een wandering everwhere in earch of a people that could receive God’ leing and a land that could receive God’ leing… It wa a mierale path that left me loodied; a path on which I often riked m life. The land
of the enem wa o vat; it wa like an open ea. Looking up, I aw nothing ut endle k… ut I did not depair…I choe to go that path. ince there had een no one up to that point who could take reponiilit for thi world, I felt I had no choice ut to et out on thi perilou road. CG, ook 2, Chapter 4, ection 1, Vere 6
How can i leep oundl while Unification Church memer receive perecution throughout the world? How man time have I een unale to eat or leep? CG, ook 2, Chapter 4, ection 1, Vere 15
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RANDING CHILDRN’ HOP
F CALNDAR
CURRICULUM MINITRY
MAY 17, 2019
Children will learn aout True Mother, Hak Ha Han Moon’ life and miion. Children will e inpired to trut in God like he did and to conider how the can make a difference in ringing peace to the world.
LON PINTRT OARD!!
ducational Framework: Heart for God
“True Mother” Unit: A Mother’ Heart LON PURPO: CHILDRN WILL LARN AOUT TRU MOTHR’ LIF AND HR MIION A TH MOTHR OF PAC.
MATRIAL: Picture ook, learning to, craft upplie
OOK: Korean culture picture ook /Mama Do You Love Me?
ONG IDA: Higher Ground + delwei (True Mother’ favorite ong) / We Are the World / Peace Like a River
NORY CNTR: A CHILDRN ARRIV
• Rice enor in: fill a in with rice, cup, poon & funnel.
• Choptick enor pla: Provide kid choptick and have children move marhmallow or pom pom with choptick into a container! Or let children pla with noodle!
CRIPTUR: Dipla the weekl cripture reading, have an older child read it or ue it in the leon a ou like.
“I would like to egin a new era, an era of peace, an era where we hare the heart of true love and living for the ake of other…where all of humanit can attend God a our parent. We can etalih together a world of peace, equalit, unit, and happine. Together, we can realize the Kingdom of Heaven on arth…Pleae work together with me to realize thi eautiful ideal.” -Hak Ja Han Moon
INTRODUC the Leon: WLCOM: ONG, PRAYR, TP Greeting
ONG IDA: Higher Ground + delwei (True Mother’ favorite ong) / We Are the World / Peace Like a River
RVIW & TRANITION:
For the lat 2 week we’ve een learning aout a Mother’ love- how much our Mommie love u and how we can do our et to honor our Mother. Toda we will learn all aout a ver pecial woman who i an exemplar daughter of God our Heavenl Parent.
ATTNTION GRAR: chooe 1:
• Photo of True Mother: how children a photo of True Parent. Point to True Mother- and ak children who he i. What do ou know aout her?
• Put on a Ham ok: how it off to children. Ak them if the know where it’ from? What it’ called? Who might wear it? (Or how other korean related prop)
Toda we are going to learn aout Hak Ja Han Moon whom we call our True Mother! We will learn aout her life and role a our True Mother.
CHOO 1 OR 2: RAD A TORY, ING A ONG OR POM, WATCH A VIDO:*Ue thi efore OR with our teaching point.
• VIDO: click on the link for educational, ing along or dance video
○ Little Angel Fan Dance Traditional Korean Fan Dance the Little Angel Folk allet
○ Triute to Hak Ha Han weet photo montage of True Mother’ life True Nature
• ONG OR POM:
○ Oh Mother Dear Oh Chritma Tree
Oh Mother Dear, Oh Mother Dear. Oh how I love ou Mother Dear.
Oh Mother Dear, Oh Mother Dear. Oh how I love ou Mother Dear.
You care for me. I care for me. Not jut toda ut all ear through.
Oh Mother Dear, Oh Mother Dear. Oh how I love ou Mother Dear.
delwei, delwei. ver morning ou greet me.
mall and white, clean and right. You look happ to meet me
loom of now ma ou loom and grow. loom and grow forever
delwei, delwei. le m homeland forever
*TACH the Leon: Dicu the following point together, aking children quetion, drawing picture, uing anchor chart or pot it note.
TACHING POINT 1: TRU MOTHR
Tell the tor uing photo, a Korean flag, map, gloe, prop or drawing image a ou peak.
Did ou know True Mother’ name i Hak Ja Han? True Mother waorn in the village of inli, North Korea on Januar 6, 1943. Her Mother Mr. Hong wa a dedicated Chritian and her Father wa a diciple of a famou preacher. (At the time, the were perecuted a lot for their faith.) One night- her Grandmother, Mother and little Hak Ja Han had to ecretl leave their hometown. God kept their famil afe a the travelled from North Korea to outh Korea to ecape a war.
Young Hak Ja Han grew up with her Grandmother & Mother who were oth ver devoted to God. he wa taught from an earl age to follow God’ plan for her life. True Mother alwa knew that God had a pecial plan for her. Her famil had a deep praer life and her Grandmother and Mother taught her well. Together the joined the Unification Church tarted True Father and it wa revealed thathe had a ver pecial miion- to get leed in Hol Marriage to True Father- un Mung Moon and that he would ecome True Mother. Together the would ecome True Parent.
ven though he wa oung- he committed to marring True Father and fulfilling her role a a devoted wife and Mother to her 14 children. he wa alo a Mother to man church memer all over the world. he alwa took care of everone around her and attended her huand to help him hare God’ Word. (After he went through a pecial learning coure, True Mother egan her role.) he encouraged women all over the world through etalihing WFWP to promote peace. True Mother teache that peace tart with me and he ring God’ Motherl heart to olving world prolem. he helped etalih the Little Angel Korean folk allet, helped uild chool for children in Africa and worked with True Father to create man other church organization. he ha traveled all over the world, poken to crowd of thouand and met Preident!
Not onl doe True Mother love the world- he love ou!True Mother together with True Father- raied up man of our Grandparent and Parent with a lot of love and teaching. There i a tor of an earl church memer arara Vincenz. One da at HDH morning devotion, arara complimented True Mother on her lovel dre. After reakfat, True Mother came in a different outfit and handed the eautiful dre to arara telling her that he hould have it. Thi how u the heart of True Mother. While True Father love u from Heaven, True Mother i now leading our movement on arth a the Mother of Peace True Mother ha a lot of love for oung people. he elieve that oung people are the future. he want ou to find our pecial dream and make it happen!
GROUP ACTIVITY: chooe 1 or 2
Fun Trivia “True or Fale”:
• True Mother i from Japan. (F- Korea!)
• True Mother ha 14 children. (T!)
• True Mother & True Father flew in their own private Jet. (T!)
• True Mother peak Korean, nglih & Japanee (T!)
• True Mother ha 30 grandchildren. (F- he ha over 40 grandchildren!)
• True Mother love cheeeurger at McDonald. (F- he love fih urger!)
• True Mother like to eat our cream and onion Pringle (T!)
• True Mother took earl memer hopping. (T!)
• True Mother love True Father. (T!)
Korean Prop:
• Pa around Korean prop uch a: choptick, rice, fan, ham ok, oot, kangi. Look at them together and decrie them. Pla pick up with choptick.
TACHING POINT 2: WHAT TRU MOTHR TACH M *O PTIONAL XTNION
There i a lot we can learn from True Mother. Dicu together ome of the following point:
• Wh i praer important?
• How did True Mother trut in God, our Heavenl Parent throughout her life? How can we trut in God?
• How doe “Peace tart with me”?
• What i our dream? How do ou want to help the world? What do ou want to e when ou grow up?
GROUP ACTIVITY: chooe 1 or 2
• how a gloe- Dicu and write down or draw wa to help ring aout World Peace.
• When I grow up game- Have children gue what their friend will e when the grow up. Then have children reveal what the want to e when the grow up.
• Yut- Pla a game of ut together. (for older children)
We are o happ that God gave u True Parent! We are trul leed children!True Mother teache u aout God’ Motherl heart to care for the world and ring peace on arth through true love. he elieve in each one of u and want u to dream ig and do great thing.
TITHING & PRAYR:
Dear Heavenl Parent, thank ou for howing u our Motherl heart through True Mother. Pleae le True Mother in all he doe. We want to end our gratitude and love to her wa and e wonderful children of God, making her proud and ecoming peace maker. Amen. Aju!
APPLY the Leon:
CRAFT: chooe 1
• True Mother coloring page: Have children color the coloring page with craon or water color! Hak Ja Han / Mother of Peace
• Korean Culture Printale: Have children color in the Korean map or flag.
• Korean Paper doll: Have children color & cut out the Korean paper doll girl. xplain that True Mother dreed like thi a a little child- the pecial dre i called a Ham ok.
• Paper Fan: have children paint flower or the Korean flag & help them fold them in to fan. how photo or a video of theLittle Angel fan dance.
• PINTRT < < Click for lot of fun Korean Cultural activitie & craft!
NACK IDA:
• Korean food: Make imple verion of Mini Gimap, i im ap or pat ing u- haved ice deert. Talk aout how in Korea there are lot of dihe pread around the tale and choptick are ued to hare all of the different vegetale and ide dihe together.
• Choptick: erve fruit, rice or noodle and have children tr uing kid choptick to eat!
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RANDING CHILDRN’ HOP
F CALNDAR
CURRICULUM MINITRY
JUN 20, 2019
Children will learn aout True Father’ life tor- hi love for animal, accepting hi viion from Jeu, getting leed to True Mother and more! “I dedicated m life entirel to ringing aout the kingdom of God, the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.” -Rev. Moon
LON PINTRT OARD!!
ducational Framework: Heart for God
“Title” Unit: A Father’ Heart LON PURPO: AN INTRODUCTION TO TRU FATHR, RV. UN MYUNG MOON!
MATRIAL: learning to, craft upplie, coloring page
OOK: Korean culture picture ook, TP Coloring ook
ONG IDA: When the aint Go Marching In, ailing With Our Father, Arirang, Tongil
NORY CNTR: A CHILDRN ARRIV
• tuffed animal: pla with lot of different animal.
• Rice enor in: fill a in with rice, cup, poon & funnel.
• Choptick enor pla: Provide kid choptick and have children move marhmallow or pom pom with choptick into a container! Or let children pla with noodle!
CRIPTUR: Dipla the weekl cripture reading, have an older child read it or ue it in the leon a ou like.
“I dedicated m life entirel to ringing aout the kingdom of God, the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.” -Rev. Moon
“When the famil dwell at the focal point of God’ love, that i the ideal famil.” -Rev. Moon
INTRODUC the Leon: WLCOM: ONG, PRAYR, TP Greeting
ONG IDA: When the aint Go Marching In, ailing With Our Father, Arirang, Tongil
RVIW & TRANITION:
During June, we’ve een learning all aout A Father’ Heart and how to e uper and trong like Dadd! Toda we will talk aout a ver amazing man of God- True Father!
ATTNTION GRAR: chooe 1:
• Photo of True Father: how children a photo of True Parent. Point to True Father- and ak children who he i. What do ou know aout him?
• tuffed Animal: how children a tuffed animal. (Let each child hold a tuffed animal quietl in their lap) Ak what their favorite animal are.
Toda we are going to learn aout True Father! We will learn aout hi childhood and how he ecame True Father.
CHOO 1 OR 2: RAD A TORY, ING A ONG OR POM, WATCH A VIDO:*Ue thi
efore OR with our teaching point.
• VIDO: click on the link for educational, ing along or dance video
○ Arirang Fan Dance Dance Along Muic xpre Magazine
○ Korean Drum Dance Traditional Folkd Drum
• ONG OR POM:
○ aint Go Marching In
Oh, when the aint go marchin’ in, Oh, when the aint go marchin’ in, Lord, I want to e in that numer When the aint go marchin’ in.
And when the un, egin to hine, And when the un, egin to hine, Oh, how I want to e in that numer When the un egin to hine.
Arirang, Arirang, Arario…
Arirang gogaero neomeoganda.
Nareul eorigo gaineun nimeun
imnido motgaeo aleongnanda.
Jut a there are man tar in the clear k, There are alo man dream in our heart.
There, over there that mountain i aekdu Mountain, Where, even in the middle of winter da, flower loom.
*TACH the Leon: Dicu the following point together, aking children quetion, drawing picture, uing anchor chart or pot it note.
TACHING POINT 1: TRU FATHR’ LIF
Tell the tor uing a lot of expreion, hand motion & prop uch a: photo, tuffed animal, flag, Korean cultural item, mountain picture etc.
• True Father wa orn in 1920 the mountainide of North Korea under Japanee rule. He grew up in a ig farm famil, eing one of 8 children. Hehad a
pecial love for animal and wondered how thing go together. He would catch ird and tr to get them to e married. He waver curiou, nothing topped him. One time he chaed a weael for 3 whole da to find out where it lived and to learn from it! True Father even caught eel with hi are hand and once with hi teeth.
• A he got older, he alwa tried to protect hi friend. If a ig kid wa not eing nice to a ounger child, he would tand up for them! He trained himelf to ecome ver trong and protect thoe around him. He had aig heart. A he got older hi famil converted from Confucianim to Chritianit. He learned aout God’ love and Jeu’ acrifice. He praed a lot and wanted to undertand God’ heart. He had man quetion for God and climed the mountain to pra.
• One da when he wa 15 ear old praing on a mountaintop- Jeu appeared to him! And Jeu aked him to continue hi miion. ince then True Father ha dedicated hi whole life to God and how he can erve the world to make it a etter place. He tudied the ile all the time and wrote theDivine Principle. Hi ver firt church wa uilt out of cardoard and mud. Later he wa leed in marriage to True Mother and together the had 14 children.
• True Father wa a ver honet, paionate and caring peron. He waver determined and uilt a huge following. He would preach for hour and hour to hi diciple. He alwa lived for the ake of other, helping other people. Now people all over the world follow True Parent’ teachingand their live have een changed it. He made an impact in port, art, uine, politic, the ocean and more! True Father alwa worked to ring all of God’ children together. True Father now watche over u from Heaven.We can talk to him when we pra, jut like we can talk to God and Jeu. True Father’ dream i to ee all of God’ children united in happine.
GROUP ACTIVITI: chooe 1
• Fun Trivia “True or Fale”: (thum up or down to gue)
○ True Father i from Japan. (F- Korea!)
○ True Father caught a ear. (F! A Weael or el.)
○ True Father tudied to e an engineer. (T!)
○ True Father met man preident. (T!)
○ True Parent have held the larget wedding ceremonie in the world (T!)
○ True Father’ firt church wa made out of traw. (F-cardoard & mud.)
○ True Parent now have churche all over the world. (T)
○ True Father’ favorite color i pink. (T!)
○ True Father’ favorite port to watch i golf. (F- occer!)
○ True Father’ favorite ong i Arirang. (T!)
• Nature Walk: Go out on a nature walk together. Oerve the animal & how the work together. Clim a “mountain” and a a praer together.
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• There i a lot we can learn from True Father. Dicu together ome of the following point:
○ What can we learn from nature?
○ Wh i praer important?
○ How wa True Father a good friend to other?
○ True Parent’ teaching are what ring u to church each unda and give u our communit of faith! Wh are ou grateful for True Parent?
○ A lot of our parent and grandparent have met True Parent. What would ou a to True Father if ou could meet him?
○ What i our dream? How do ou want to help the world? What do ou want to e when ou grow up?
GROUP ACTIVITY:
• Cardoard Church- uild a cardoard church together uing cardoard oxe.
• Yute- Pla a game of oot together. (for older children)
We are o happ that God gave u True Parent! We are trul leed children!True Father teache u to love and appreciate everthing and everone around u. He alo teache u to e kind to all people and tud God’ Wordo that we can learn to live the et life.
TITHING & PRAYR:
Dear Heavenl Parent, thank ou for howing u our Fatherl heart through True Father. We admire True Father’ curioit, courage and trength. True Father, pleae watch over u and guide u from Heaven. We want to e rave and dream ig dream like ou! Amen. Aju!
APPLY the Leon:
CRAFT: chooe 1. Find thee and more on Pinteret!
• True Father coloring page: Have children color the coloring page with craon or water color!
• Weael: make a weael out of a toilet paper roll, green contruction paper & marker.
• Korean drum: Create ogo drum uing paper plate, red, lue and ellow paint and choptick.
• Nature: Create toilet paper inocular to take outide on a nature walk. Or create a collage or art work with item found on a nature walk.
• Mountain: Paint or make mountain out of different colored contruction paper. Talk aout how True Father climed the mountain to pra & “Faith can move mountain!”
NACK IDA:
• Korean food: Make imple verion of Mini Gimap, i im ap or pat ing u- haved ice deert. Talk aout how in Korea there are lot of dihe pread around the tale and choptick are ued to hare all of the different vegetale and ide dihe together.
• Choptick: erve fruit, rice or noodle and have children tr uing kid choptick to eat!
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