Welcoming Remarks to the Europe Cheon Il Guk Assembly

R espected Mr. Jack Corley, our continental In May 2015, centering on True Mother and with director, all European national leaders heartfelt gratitude to her, we celebrated the 50th from 36 mission countries, UPF and anniversary of the European Mission. At that time WFWP leaders, and beloved brothers and True Mother gave us abundant blessings and sisters, good afternoon! Dr. Moon and I are so encouraged us to make a new determination to happy that we can participate in this wonderful fulfill the Cultural Revolution in Europe. One year 2016 European Cheon Il Guk Assembly in Prague after True Mother’s visit we have gathered here to and convey our beloved True Mother’s love and evaluate last year’s accomplishments and redesign encouragement. our activity plan. Thank you very much for your coming and participation. The Four-Year Course of Hope Actually we have been working with all of you in The Fourth Year of Cheon Il Guk Has Dawned Europe as special emissaries for almost two years. According to our Church tradition, the new year To my joy, we see among you many familiar faces usually begins only after we have celebrated True whom we have met in your mission countries. We Parents’ Birthday and Foundation Day, according are so happy to meet you all together once again. to the heavenly calendar. Therefore, we now truly Of course, I reported to our beloved True Mother have ushered in the new year, the fourth year of about this 2016 European Cheon Il Guk Assembly Cheon Il Guk. in Prague. She said she will pray for us with great Dr. Moon and I hope that in this new providential expectations for Europe. year, the fourth year of Cheon Il Guk, you all will be healthy under the blessings of True Parents and t

Special Emissaries’ Mission After True Father’s ascension, when True Mother appointed the special emissaries, she said: “At this critical time I really want to visit each continent and country to encourage all blessed families and members. But physically it is difficult, so I am going to send the special emissaries as my representatives.” So our mission is to be a special “Bridge of Heart” between local communities and True Mother’s heart. Whenever we reported to True Parents the beautiful news about local activities, we always tried to convey the testimonies of blessed families who have upheld the Will of God with absolute faith. Moreover, by reporting to True Mother about the difficulties of each nation, we have tried to make efforts to find solutions for them.

hat you will achieve many great accomplishments From Pioneering Age to Settlement Age for the victory of Vision 2020 in the Providence of What is more, with a clear understanding of the True Parents. reality of our Unification Movement in Europe today, we have continued to emphasize that we are living in the period of great transition from the Tours as Special Emissaries “First Generation’s Pioneering Age” to the As special emissaries and representatives of True “Second Generation’s Settlement Age.” Parents, we have toured in many nations of Europe. It is absolutely necessary to raise leaders who can In each country we visited the communities and we take responsibility for the next age. And we have to held Sunday services together with the local evaluate our present situation deeply to find out the members, explaining to them the urgency of our “sustainable development plan” of our providential mission in this critical time. movement. Actually, we don’t have much time. I We also visited our members in their homes or think the coming five years will be the most critical sometimes in their workplaces and encouraged the time period in history. blessed families who have been devoting their At this urgent moment in time it would be hard to hearts as tribal messiahs through their Home fulfill our mission even if we were united with one Church activities. heart centering on True Mother. But our reality is In addition, we met with many young Second that we are plunged in chaos and stagnation due to Generation members preparing for the next internal and external divisions and challenges. generation, and we emphasized to them that the Therefore, we have continued to agonize over how younger generations, who are our hope and pride, we can overcome this reality, regain our need to work harder with a sense of responsibility determination, inherit totally the legacy of True and ownership. Father and develop our future united in one heart Wherever we went, we also met the elder members with True Mother. who have devoted their whole lives pioneering the If we lose our driving force for building Cheon Il path of the Providence, following only True Guk at this time, the value of our elder members’ Father’s direction, and we thanked them with lives of sacrifice will fade away and our hope for bowed heads for their sacrifices and devotion. We eternal life will disappear. We absolutely can’t let conveyed to them the love and appreciation of our that situation happen. beloved True Mother. Beloved brothers and sisters, following the third anniversary of Foundation Day on 13th January, 2

2016 by the heavenly calendar (20th of February), True Father persevered through the course of the fourth year of Cheon Il Guk has dawned. suffering in carrying out the work of restoration through the hardship of indemnity course, and ultimately prevailed on the path of his God-given Definition of the Fourth Year of Cheon Il Guk mission as True Parent. What do you think will be the significance of the Now we have entered the era wherein we can begin fourth year of Cheon Il Guk? earnestly to substantialize the “ideal of building I would like to define this year as follows: On the Cheon Il Guk,” which was proclaimed by True foundation of True Mother’s having fulfilled the Mother on January 13, 2013, by the heavenly “three-year mourning with all her heart for True calendar, on the foundation of True Parents’ Father’s Seonghwa,” the official mourning period victory. has come to an end. Now the time has begun in During the last three years True Mother by herself which True Mother can newly concentrate on has forgotten the immeasurable sorrow of her loss continuing True Father’s legacy and realizing the and has encouraged us with the words: “There is no great works of establishing Cheon Il Guk. stopping for us. The only direction to go is That’s why True Mother named these coming four forward.” Thus she has fulfilled, one by one, the years until the year 2020 “the Four-Year Course providential tasks related to the settlement of of Hope.” Cheon Il Guk. One example of this is completing At the same time, for the last three years we, the the compilation of the Three Holy Scriptures. citizens of Cheon Il Guk, have felt like “orphans” Now the Providence of Heaven has ushered in the who have lost one of our parents. But from now we period of transition from the “age of the have to make a new determination, with a strong wilderness” of hardships led by True Father to sense of responsibility as True Parents’ children, to the “age of the settlement of Cheon Il Guk” led inherit and develop their legacy and devote all our by True Mother. Therefore, she has developed energies into the “Cheon Il Guk substantialization and supported a special program to nurture and movement.” train the leaders of the next generation like Joshua and Caleb. Thereby she created a new atmosphere

to help members of the Second Generation feel a and responsibilities until Cheon Il Guk is sense of responsibility and ownership of our future, established on this earth.” such as the Universal Peace Academy (UPA) The Cheon Il Guk proclaimed by True Parents is an program and the Top Gun workshops. infinite blessing bestowed on us. This is because In addition, True Mother also has encouraged the Cheon Il Guk is a nation where true families who activities of the Collegiate Association for the have perfected the ideal of the family have Research of Principles (CARP) and organized the expanded into families, tribes, nations, the world Cranes Club, bringing together those Second and even the cosmos. Generation members who are working in various This blessing is not about the physical things fields with diverse expertise and knowledge. visible to our eyes, such as material things, or Through this she wants to guide them to live within secular values. Instead, it is a blessing which will the “Realm of True Parents’ Love and the Values make me happy when I have achieved the union of of the Principle.” my body and mind, which will make us all happy when we live together in solidarity with families, Cheon Il Guk Has to Be Built with Our Hands and which will help us realize a world of eternal peace when we live together in harmony and On the basis of such victorious achievements of through which we will be saved when we go to the True Parents, the task of establishing Cheon Il Guk spirit world in the future. now has been given to us. Sometimes we are living in despair because of the Some people may ask, “Where is this Cheon Il Guk limitations of Cheon Il Guk that we see in front of proclaimed by True Parents? The world isn’t us. So do we give up hope? Yes or no? That’s not changed at all. It still remains a hell on earth with right, for the ideal of Cheon Il Guk proclaimed by nothing but disputes raging in it.” True Parents is the realization of God’s ideal of But at this time we need to ask ourselves a creation, which will be achieved without fail in the question: “Do you want to find Cheon Il Guk in the course of eternity. outside world, hoping that we will enjoy the Cheon God has continued to endeavor to fulfill His ideal Il Guk established by someone else?” of creation without abandoning it, and since the We have to know clearly that the Cheon Il Guk ideal of Cheon Il Guk already has been proclaimed, proclaimed by True Parents begins from “me” and this is a Providence not of creating something out no one else. It needs to be practiced first in my of nothing, but of developing something that is heart, in my life and in my own family. already there into something better. Therefore, this And it is with our own hands that we need to work will advance that much more easily. expand the ideal values and living norms of Cheon God will never forsake His Providence of Il Guk to our society. restoration in the course of history, and therefore There is no one who can establish Cheon Il Guk for the ideal of Cheon Il Guk will be realized without us. Any hands other than ours cannot do this work fail. Let us not confine ourselves to the limited for us. We need to realize that the work of expectations of human beings; instead, let us establishing Cheon Il Guk lies solely with us. believe in the eternal existence of God’s Providence. And let us all as individuals become Our Family Federation is the faith-based movement the starting point of the establishment of Cheon Il of True Parents. The words and lives of True Guk. Parents are our identity to be proud of and the origin of our traditions. We all need to embody the words of True Parents in our lives, so that we can Building Cheon Il Guk Is Our Eternal, God- substantialize the words and practice them in our Given Task daily lives, thus perfecting our individual Building Cheon Il Guk is not a confession of faith characters as True Parents have done and becoming in the Last Days with a time limit; rather, it is our perfected human beings of true love. By so doing, eternal, God-given task that we humans need to we can realize Cheon Il Guk within me, within my carry out in our everyday lives and achieve in the family and expand it throughout the earth. end. True Mother said, “Since you have all been blessed In the age of wilderness we have passed through, as tribal messiahs, you should fulfill your mission our Heavenly Parent and True Parents nurtured us

with vertical absolute faith, but in the age of the teachings by “living for the sake of others,” so that settlement of Cheon Il Guk we need to embody the we can successfully fulfill our mission as Heavenly teachings of True Parents and practice true love, so Tribal Messiahs blessed by True Parents and that we can reveal our identity as True Parents’ become the cornerstones of the construction of children, that is, the “citizens of Cheon Il Guk,” Cheon Il Guk. through horizontal “love-sharing.” Thereby we can And let us never forget that we need to live in the change this world. Cheon Il Guk we have built by ourselves.

It Is Time to Reveal the Truth Let Us Love and Be Proud of Our Beloved True In recent years True Mother has emphasized to us Parents more than anything else, “Now the time has come In these days True Mother has encouraged us to reveal the truth.” In particular, when she said continuously to love and be proud of our beloved these words in relation to the history of Christianity True Parents eternally. in Europe, she was more earnest than ever before. And when she said this to the Christian leaders of Let us love our True Parents with all our heart, and the American Clergy Leadership Conference let us be proud of our True Parents’ whole life and (ACLC) in the United States, she was firm and achievements with all our efforts. resolute. Dr. Moon and I hope that True Parents’ blessing To conclude, we have to realize the ideal of will be always with you, in your families and in FFWPU by going out together into the world as your communities. true blessed families and practicing True Parents’ Thank you very much.