This month's Unification Church USA News

International One World Crusade units one and two campaigned for two weeks in six Eastern cities before the New York Crusade. These two teams were then combined and sent ahead to Baltimore and Washington, DC. A team of 70 Germans directed by Paul Werner campaigned in Boston and Dallas. Reiner Vincenz directed a team of 70 Europeans from several countries in Philadelphia and New Orleans. These three teams plan to alternate cities in advance of Rev. Moon’s speeches until January 29, 1974.

People came from many neighboring states to work in the campaigns on the East Coast cities. The 33 members of the Mobile Fund Teams joined the Washington, DC campaign. Following the campaign they were reorganized into four teams and began a training period in the Washington area.

At the September 25 Directors’ Conference in Belvedere, ten itinerary workers were appointed and given one month assignments under the direction of Mr. Teddy Verheyen. Mrs. Sang Ik Choi from San Francisco and Marion Dougherty from Los Angeles will work in New York City, assisting the development of eight new centers in various boroughs of the city. Pat Hannan [Piorkowski] left Belvedere for Utah, and Therese Klein went to Oregon from the Washington national staff. Gertrude Koch from Austria was assigned to South Dakota. Doris Orme of the English family went to Arizona. Washington received Nora Spurgin from Minnesota, and Montana received Marilyn Cohen from Vermont. Ken Sudo from the Japanese family was assigned to Idaho.

One World Crusade commanders and state representatives of the Unification Church will convene in Atlanta for the next Directors’ Conference, on November 9, following the Atlanta Day of Hope campaign.

In other parts of the country, the West Virginia family, after living together in tents at a campground near Morgantown, West Virginia, completed the purchase of a house in Charleston.

When the Dallas family began their Day of Hope campaign they had several hundred dollars in flowers left over from the Barrytown project. So they prepared beautiful bouquets and delivered them to churches in town, compliments of Rev. Moon.

Phil Schanker of the California One World Crusade team now heads a 12-member Mobile Fund-Raising Team in California. A recent project of the One World Crusade team has been the establishment of a center in Sacramento. A hearing has given the San Francisco family a four-month probationary period to make their 44 Page Street building meet city code requirements. The building is very large and flexible, but necessary alterations would be quite expensive.

The San Francisco Bay area families joined for a memorial service on September 18 for Les Nelson, a Berkeley brother who had driven the Japanese staff of the International Leadership Seminar to New York. He was killed in an auto accident in the Nevada desert enroute back to San Francisco. State Representative David Hose described Les as someone always willing to help, no matter how difficult the job.