A National Service, a Worldwide Commitment

This is a week of great significance to True Parents and Unificationists. Across America, we will celebrate some of the most important dates in the history of True Parents’ work in the United States.

• September 18 marked the 40th Anniversary of True Father’s speech at Madison Square Garden. Delivered in 1974 in New York City, this speech was the culmination of True Parents’ two-year Day of Hope speaking tours. Unificationists covered Manhattan with eighty thousand two-by-three-foot posters with a portrait of True Father advertising that “September 18 Could Be Your Re-Birthday.”   Two years later, over 300,000 people gathered in Washington D.C., where True Father spoke on America and God’s Will. This is also the week when the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity was founded in 1961.
• Tomorrow, we will gather again in Manhattan and around the country for our National Memorial Celebration honoring the second anniversary of True Father’s ascension in 2012. Our participation and our ongoing commitment to keep moving forward with True Parents’ work in America is surely the very best way to comfort and encourage our True Mother on earth and to inspire our beloved True Father, watching over us from heaven, and to inspire all our Unificationist families in America to keep moving forward. Come by all means! There will be a live broadcast, which you can attend through this link.
•  Many distinguished and inspirational speakers will be attending, and the Generation Peace Academy (GPA), which has begun its new year of study and service, will be performing. We welcome a group of distinguished visitors from Korea who are making a pilgrimage of the West Coast, which began at the International Peace Education Center in Las Vegas, will come to the National Memorial and end at East Garden in New York. 

Please remember to send in your reflections following the service. We would love to hear from you!

This Memorial Service is not just a time for looking back, but to look forward to an America where millions of people have received the blessing of rebirth through the teachings of our True Parents.  Let us together make concrete plans and renewed commitments to grow True Parents’ legacy in our families, communities and the world.