The Words of the Durst Family

Home Church Presidential Prayer Breakfast

Margie Petrikat
September 1982

The New York Home Church Association sponsored the first Presidential Prayer Breakfast to kick off a campaign for the future "Home Church Convention," scheduled for Sept. 18. Here is a news report of the breakfast.


Dr. William Bergman, Mr. Jeddie King, Rev. Albert Tyson, Mr. Bento Leal, Pres. Mose Durst (standing), and Honorable Armando Montano at the Prayer Breakfast.

The first annual "Presidential Prayer Breakfast" was held on August 14, 1982 at the Manhattan Center in New York City. There were more than 400 people attending from all over the New York area, Long Island, and New Jersey.

Dr. Moses Durst, president of the Unification Church of America hosted the prayer breakfast. The distinguished guests included Ambassador Jose Chaves from the United Nations; and many city dignitaries. A special introduction was made of Rev. Won Pil Kim, the head of the Home Church Association. A warm round of applause was given to him.

Rev. Tyson, a guest, read Matt. 25: 34-46. "When the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For when I was hungry you gave me something to eat..." Rev. Tyson said that people have different outlooks as to how God is ruling the world and what principles He is using to make the world right. He said that some religions are prophetic and the righteous live by God's program. 

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