We shall try to get more influence in 1972

Friedhilde Bachle [Becker]
January 1, 1972
Sweden

Miss Friedhilde Bachle

This last year, two girls accepted the Divine Principle and they want to follow our True Parents.

The Swedish people don't like it if you talk to them in the street. It is difficult for them to make contact and the problem of loneliness is very big. Because of this we have the best success with invitation letters. Nearly everybody has a telephone at home. They usually call then, and we have a good conversation and they promise to come to the Center.

The general interest in religion, the sense of life and life after death is growing, but many are afraid of religious influence. They have had bad experiences with the free churches, who often use nearly force in order to convert the listeners.

We also have contact with some new religious movements who await the return of Christ very soon they are quite prepared for the Second Coming, even if they are intolerant. The leader of the Philadelphia-Church (Pentecostals) says that he will not die before Jesus returns. He is already quite old.

Nearly everybody talks about the "Charismatic Revival, Movement" which goes around the world, and which does not only embrace Christianity, but also other religions and spiritualistic movements as well.

In the New Year we shall try to get more influence in smaller Bible study groups and prayer groups.

My contact to leading personalities inside the Methodist- Church, the Liberal Catholic Church and the Spiritualistic Church is very positive, and I went to work more with them. The Spiritualistic Church offered me that I could sometimes hold the service in their church.

I have also good contact to an Anti-Communist movement. Their president participated in the WACL-Conference in Manila. I shall also try to work more intensively with them.

We shall try out many plans in order to be most effective for a victory for God and our True Parents.