A Letter from the President: We Are Blessed
We are in Las Vegas attending TribeNet with 120 family members. It is so moving to see brothers and sisters coming together to share life-changing testimonies, and encouraging one another to accomplish this final mission of the providence together.
It is now barely two weeks since we sat down for breakfast with True Mother in her dining room along with our core leadership from America and eight members of the East Garden security team.
The dining room, which fits up to about 20 people, is beautiful in every single detail. Although it is just breakfast, it is served as a three-course meal, starting with organic squash soup and a rice flour bagel. The main course is a baked potato, steak and vegetable, and the meal concludes with a slice of cake and a cup of coffee. Even though it is early in the day, it is fitting that True Mother would feed us such a robust breakfast, because she is not just feeding us, she is sending us out on a great mission.
In that meeting, True Mother conveyed her sense of urgency that we fulfill our responsibility to restore America by 2020. We came home with the awareness that every day, every minute, and every second counts, and we only have one year left.
Over the last year, I have worked as the Subregional Director in the Northeast, working together with Rev. Miilhan Stephens and a small but growing team of inspired young people, who believe in the vision of building the nation anew. I also served as the vice president, working together with Rev. Richard Buessing and the other four Subregional Directors. You could say that it’s been a pioneering adventure for us over the last year to understand and implement God’s Will with this new structure; however, each one of us was comforted by Rev. Buessing’s kind-hearted leadership. He was able to set the environment for us to be able to transition from what the Movement was to what it now will be. I am again impressed with True Mother’s wisdom in choosing Rev. Buessing to lead the new Senior Pastors’ Association. We need the reassuring wisdom of our elders now more than ever before, and I’ve never met anyone so perfect for that important role.
We also just completed a three-day intensive meeting with Dr. Ki Hoon Kim and the Subregional Directors in New York City. In that meeting, we determined that, above all else, the absolute priority of the American Movement in 2019 is for us all to fulfill our Tribal Messiahship.
Tribal Messiahship will now be the central ministry of the American Movement. On that foundation, we will be able to embrace Christianity and work together to fulfill the responsibility of this great nation. The theme of the meeting could be summed up as, “We will bring victory of national restoration by 2020, so let’s keep it simple, and keep our eye on the most important areas that will support that victory.”
We are a providential people and we are equipped for this task. We are Americans blessed by God for this time, so that we may recognize, attend, and proclaim True Parents to the world, thereby bringing to conclusion the long painful history of God’s Providence of Restoration.
We are blessed families. God has given us power to forgive and to Bless, and to clean our environment. We have the power to change people’s eternal lives. We have the power to change people’s lineage to God’s lineage. That is a big deal.
We are God’s children, God’s sons and daughters. We have been given absolute authority, and absolute creativity. We can do anything. Every cell in our body has the potential to vibrate, to resonate, to expand, and to explode creative force into everything that we do. We do not need to be in the mindset of seeking and solving problems. We can create beauty. We can create prosperity, happiness, and bring joy to everyone that we meet and everything that we do, because we are God’s children. We are Tribal Messiahs, anointed and appointed to expand the realm of God‘s lineage and influence to our families, our neighbors, and our communities.
We will bring about national restoration by 2020. In this year, we will see America unleash its full potential. Every Blessed family in America will fulfill Tribal Messiahship and become co-owners and co-creators of the national offering that we are going to bring to True mother by February 2020. Without fail, we will bring this to pass. At breakfast, True Mother said, “Don’t think for one moment that it is not possible!” Let me repeat it on her behalf; don’t think for one moment that it’s not possible. We will bring about national restoration within this year for God.
During her midnight address on New Year’s Day, True Mother said that our ancestors sacrificed and devoted their lives for the sake of Heaven’s Will, usually not even knowing the reason why or fully understanding Heaven’s Will. How can we, who have been given so much, second-guess our potential? Let’s not be distracted by debate. It’s time to act. How can we, who have been so blessed, possibly think that it’s not possible? We will do it together.
We are citizens of Cheon Il Guk. We are citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. So let’s act like it. Let’s talk like it. Let’s sing like it. Let’s love like it. We are children of God, and we will restore this land called America, and will be able to offer it for the sake of the world. We will all recognize that we are citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Our responsibility remains. During True Father’s final prayer, he said that he had completed everything. True Mother then clarified that it was conditional, and that now it’s her responsibility to bring it all to completion.
We really are very blessed, so let’s get on with the work of loving the people that are praying to meet us. There are people right now praying to meet you, and be liberated by you. Believe it. Let’s have a great year!
Thank you and God Bless you,
Ali Mahjoub
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President Damien Dunkley’s speech is very sincere and inspiring to say the least. I really sense he is like Joshua leading us together win True Mother’s way, to the promise land, CIG.
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Matthias Wiesner
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Dear Rev.Dunkley, I admire your standard of absolute faith and absolute obedience. I would be interested if you also have a plan of action to turn around America within the next 12 month? If so it would be valuable to share it so that other can learn from it.
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Kaori In-Jong Becker
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Thank you Rev. Damian Dunkley!! So excited for this year to come under your leadership :). Thank you too Rev. Buessing and his wife for all of their hard work thus far :)
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Joshua Angelucci
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Thank you, Demian, for your inspiring words and vision!
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Maria La Hogue
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Thank you for encouraging us and helping us. God bless you!
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Laura Taylor Hayaehi
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Well said! Let’s fulfill pledge 6 and become True Parents to our tribe. Thank you
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Emaculate Mungye
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Empowering heartwarming message!!! Love it! Your enthusiasm is contagious, let’s restore America and the world for HP and TPs.
Thank you
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Nadia in MN
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Beautiful!
Thank you :)
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