ESGD Summer activities 2014 for Blessed children

24th April 2014

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Dear brothers and sisters

We are happy to announce the start of the registration of our Summer Activities

2014. Don’t wait too long; early applications help both your personal preparation and

the workshop planning.

Registration for each of the workshops needs to be done online. Please find all the

information at http://www.esgd.org/757.html.

The motto for the Summer activities this year is:

Let us be the ONE: To Practice/To Realise/To Carry On

With this motto we want to directly connect and refer to the Motto for this year onwards

until 2020: “Let us become true owners of Cheon Il Guk who practice true love in

resemblance to our Creator, the Heavenly Parent!”

Let us be who True Parents are urging us to be! We want to reinterpret this motto and

make it meaningful for each of us – to personally connect to the vision. It also mixes the

individual and the collective – “Let US be the ONE” – so we want to explore the motto on

a personal level, as well as finding a way together as Blessed Family members.

Here are some questions we want to explore together through the motto -­‐ To Practice:

How do we actually practice True Love? How do we apply Principle and have an

authentic spiritual life? To Realise: How can we wake up and realise what spiritual path

to take? How can we realise and build towards the ideal? To Carry On: How can we

persevere through challenges? How can we be someone who God, our Friends and our

Family can trust and rely on? How can we create a culture and tradition which can carry

on what True Parents and our Parents have passed on to us through our Lineage?

We wanted a motto which unites universal themes together with the current

providence; giving a framework, but leaving an open space for questions to be asked and

answers to be created. To connect to True Mother’s recent words, as well as reflect on

the current climate and situation amongst us as brothers and sisters. We hope that each

workshop can create a unique interpretation of the motto, and look forward to sharing

that inspiration!

“The Second Generation are the precious existences who are the first outcome of Heaven in

the 6,000 years of providential history…be able to embrace people around you by creating

a suitable environment, and become a model family to the young people in the society”

recent guidance from True Mother.

ESGD Summer 2014

Get involved and participate this Summer: We would like to welcome you to

participate in and co-­‐create our Summer Activities together with us. On each workshop

this year, we want to create an environment where True Love can be learnt through

experience, where True Friendships can be created and built upon, and where we can

experience how interconnected we are as Blessed Families; discovering how our

Heavenly Parent and True Parents deeply matter to each of us. Please read the

Workshop descriptions, and the report booklet from last year to get a sense for the

activities and consider what fits for you -­‐ and feel free to be in touch with any questions

you may have.

We are looking forward to see you in the Summer 2014. Feel free to contact us at

summer2014@esgd.org if you have any questions or concerns.

On behalf of the ESGD

Joyce Koetsier

Patrick Hanna

ESGD Summer 2014

European Second Generation Department Summer 2014 - Overview of Activities

Let us be the ONE: To Practice/To Realise/To Carry On Activity Date Place Age group WS fee Prayer Condition 10 - 30 June everywhere everyone Staff training 18 - 21 July Luzna, Slovakia 60 EUR Junior HARP WS 25 July - 2 Aug. Camberg, Germany 1998-2000 180 EUR Senior HARP WS 9 - 17 August Willemsoord, the Netherlands 1996-1998 215 EUR Football WS 22 - 30 July Chamarande, France 14 and older 180 EUR 21-day Mobilisation 22 July - 12 Aug. across Europe 17 and older 300 EUR Summer 21+ WS 2 - 9 August Regensburg, Germany 21 and older 245 EUR ODP+ WS 18 - 31 August Camberg, Germany 18 and older 300 EUR

Please note: The first day of each activity is arrival day and the last day is the departure day

More information and registrations at www.esgd.org