Happy New Year!
Welcome in the new year with a message from Rev. Demian Dunkley, president of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) USA.
Happy New Year!
Dear Family,
As we now transition into the new year (according to the Gregorian calendar, and you may watch my video which goes into this in greater detail) what we really want to say to the American family is, “Thank you.” Thank you for a great year, but also thank you for all the years and all the decades leading up to this point in history, which is uniquely significant and connected to all who have made efforts to support True Parents in America.
We’d like to offer a special thank you to those who have already donated towards the National Victory Fund and supported the rallies leading up to now. The offering has been happily received by True Mother. With the victorious launch of the World Clergy Leadership Conference on December 28, it is as if we have come full circle to reconcile the entire foundation of HSA-UWC. In a sense, we find ourselves Back To The Future, with another chance to work together substantially with the foundation of Christianity towards the fulfillment of God‘s providence.
Over the last seven years, True Mother has been guiding us on an incredible journey that none of us saw coming. While many were wondering what would happen to the church after our precious True Father transcended, and while some were confused about the direction and leadership of the movement, True Mother led the way courageously. First of all, she offered three years of sincere mourning, but she also catapulted the movement into a new era. While calling us all to go back to the spirit of the early church, she reviewed, reformed and restructured the worldwide movement into what it has become today. And what it is today, is the start of something totally new.
The New Year we celebrate on January 1 is like a trial run. In reality, the New Year will start with God’s Day on January 25. So if we go by the Heavenly Calendar, it gives us some extra days to contemplate and map our goals for the coming year.
Either way, Yumiko and I hope that you are able to spend some quality time with your families and friends. We have already begun the final 40-day stretch to Foundation Day 2020, the day we have all been chanting for years. Hopefully, by now we all have a better idea of what True Mother has been leading us to accomplish. I hope we continue to keep her in our prayers and offer our devotions all the way through to the end. I also hope we can all be ready to understand and activate the next stretch of the providence under True Mother’s leadership.
Happy New Year and God Bless you!
Demian and Yumiko Dunkley
Maria LaHogue
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Thank you! May God bless you and your family!
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Roger Wetherall
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I would really like to see a version of the Heavenly Calendar that has the Lunar days as Primary and the Gregorian days listed underneath them as secondary. This would help us to really conceptualize better how the Lunar calendar actually works. Also, it should have 8 Days in every week to correspond to the Ahn Shi Il days which are the true days of rest that we should be celebrating. Creating a new 8-day calendar is actually a key part of building the culture of the kingdom of heaven as it transcends the conflicts between those who have their holy days on Saturday, Sunday or even Friday each week.
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Emaculate Mungye
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Your messages always inspire hope. Thank you and happy New Year to you and your family
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Laura Hornbeck
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Thank you for the interesting history lesson, Rev. Dunkley! It’s very important to understand how we got to where we are today. It’s also nice to be able to celebrate the New Year twice….if at first you don’t succeed and all that. :-}
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Larry Krishnek
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Nice video to start the year. I wonder how Pope Gregory figured out the calendar was off by 11 minutes! Nice to learn something new on the first day of the new year.
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Ron
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Happy New Year Love you all
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Tomoko Taira
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Thank you Rev. Dunkley! We love you! Have a wonderful 2020. May Heavenly Parent bless you and your lovely family!!!
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Peter Freund
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Thanks for your amazing hard work Rev. Dunkley And of course Yumiko san as behind every great man there is a great woman. It looks that the Heavenly train is picking up momentum. The event on December 28 was a new rocket push toward the ultimate goal of reaching our 7.7 billion brothers and sisters. I also hope that Donald Trump and Netanyahu realize that they are providentially chosen to help accomplish our 7.7 Goal. Again, thanks Rev. Dunkley and Yumiko san And may THE FORCE BE WITH YOU Peter Kimiko and Mikiko
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