Rev. Hyung Jin Moon Explains “God of Night and God of Day”

FEBRUARY 07 2012  The following is the speech of International President Rev. Hyung Jin Moon to national leaders at the International Leadership Conference (ILC) opening plenary at the Cheon-Bok-Gung on January 22, 2012, the day before True God’s Day.

Rev. Hyung Jin Moon sported the popular Unification hoodie at the 2012 CARP Assembly.
I hope you like my sweatshirt. You may have seen this symbol somewhere. Because we are now chasing Father wherever he goes around the world, we basically live out of our car. We’re always packed, we’re always ready to go, whether on the boat, on the bay – wherever. It’s a very amazing experience.

A couple of days ago, Father asked me to explain the markings on this sweater. As you know, this is the symbol of the Principle. And when we manifest the Principle – give-and-take action, the Four Position Foundation, the three blessings – the purpose of creation is all here. On the right arm you will see a character that says Cheon-bu, which means True Father. On the left arm you will see a character that says Cheon-mo, which means True Mother.

Rev. Hyung Jin Nim’s Speech to the National Leaders

February 05, 2011,  Cheong Pyeong, Korea

You know, we are very excited, very grateful to see all of you here in Korea

Isn’t it always nice to be back to the Fatherland! Yes? (Yes)

Okay, it is always an occasion to praise God.

For the last two days we had an amazing time with True Parents. And just incredible, so much blessing is showering upon us. I really feel this is a totally new year.

For us in the Korean church, we are very excited because a month ago Father, while he was in America, asked us to do a 21-day-workshop in Yeosu, especially for the safety of the country. And that was a very tense time, because that was the time North Korea had already bombed Yong Pyong Do, so it was already an act of war. And it was very very close to coming to war on this peninsula, very very close. So we went down to Yeosu and we had a 21-day-workshop there.

Father called me up during the middle, I had to go to America and come back, but it was really amazing. One of the things we began there is the “Holy Spirit Healing Service”, maybe you have heard about that. But for us, we really feel in the Korean Church now that the Holy Spirit is back in the Unifcation Church, that the Holy Spirit is back and is alive. It’s conducting all sorts of miraculous healings, amazing! Amazing! The Spirit is back!

Speech of Hyung Jin Nim during Hoon Dok Hae at Germany

Camberg, Germany, August 29, 2010

Guten Morgen! I hope, I said that right? It’s actually quite freezing in Germany. So maybe we can open some windows and really get cold, to stay awake. (laughter) I am heading to Great Britain today and then back to Korea. So, we have some Brits here? (cheers) All right, all right! We are very grateful to be able to come to Europe at this time.

Actually we never planned to come to Europe, at this time, because I feel that I haven’t finished all my work that I have to do in Korea first. From the very beginning people requested, “Please do a world tour”. But I felt from the beginning, it is not appropriate for me to do a world tour. I felt that I have to first make real results that I can show. So we worked in Korea and we are able to turn around the media. We are now able to be fully self-sufficient as a church, which means that we don’t receive any support from our brothers and sisters in Japan. We are actually at a stage now where we can support them. Just a little bit, but it is so much different from the situation that was before. So, we are very proud of that.

Church Growth in Korea

As you know, the church in Korea in 1970, as in many countries, had nationwide about 16,000 members. That was a lot of members. There were no real big mega churches at that time, so that was a huge congregation that father had. But then by 2005 we had about 11,000 members attending Sunday service. So as you see, we did not even get one new member as a movement. We didn’t grow. We didn’t just stagnate, we grew negatively. So we’ve lost members. This is, of course, not good. We had to address this problem. There were very serious changes that had to be done.

I am very happy to say that after about a year and a half of making systematic changes, we are becoming transparent as a church and strengthening the organization. I am very grateful for my brother Kook Jin Hyeong who helped me greatly in that task. We went from 11,000 members all the way up to 23,000 in about a year and a half. We are very proud that the Unification Church is now a growing church in Korea. It’s now a much more popular church than what it was in the past. The media has very kindly helped us. You can see that they were honest and they were moving in a trustworthy direction. There is a lot of exciting things going on in Korea, but we are still not anywhere near where we have to be.