Greeting from Yasue Erikawa, World Itinerant

Cho-guk! Kwang-bok! Hae-bang!

Dear brother and sisters, missionaries that are in the Unite States,

Those are doing financial support or are preparing for the missionary work in Japan. Thank you for your hard work. On October 3, True Father named the workshop what we called "the amnesty ceremony" in Chung Pyung as "The Four Position Foundation Blessing Ceremony for Registration by the Converted and United Three Generations." This news will inform you regarding " True Father's direction after the first workshop for the registered families of True Parents" and regional reports.

Never fall. No dark side. The original palace where can liberate the world, love, heaven and earth, and God. Keep pure lineage. Satan's love and air will invade you, if you have a chink within. Live for the sake of others.

2. The settlement of one heart in midday (no shadow, dark side)

Parents children, and grand children must settle with one heart. The universe tries to settle in the one heart in midday There is no shadow.

3. Education and practice of true love for children

Parents should be responsible

4. Eradication of boundaries and international marriage

5. The restoration of the homeland and the establishment of the heavenly kingdom

When we restore the homeland, the heavenly kingdom will be established and we can register for it. I command the mobilization of your family. When we work for the unification of South and North and do it, we establish the heavenly kingdom through UN. Think of the restoration of the homeland and the establishment of the heavenly kingdom when you are sleeping and you are waking.

6. Hoon dok kyo and the completion of memorization of the Principle (Hoon-dok-kyo)

Three memorial books for the registered families will be published. It consists of 300 pages in Korean and it is called "The restoration of the homeland." You memorize those in Korean everyday. Those are the textbooks for your family and those are the final gift from Heaven.

7. Realization of family pledge and finalizing of practice of the Principle

Everything will be concluded on this. Keep God's lineage and live for the sake of others. First mother and children must unite and establish the foundation of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience and then father in the archangel position must unite with them. They enter the True Parents' realm of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience through uniting with True Parents and enter the completion realm. Finally they settle the homeland as a family of True Parents' younger brother.

(9/20, 21) We, three missionaries went to Saint Paul where it was a difficult place to go by bus. Our regional leader drove a car for us to get there. We found a Lutheran church while driving. We visited it to explain about the flag and the pastor gladly accepted about it. As he asked if we are from UC, we replied "Yes". Surprisingly, he told us that he attended the True Father's speech in Minneapolis once when he was a seminarian. When he found out that we had been leaving each family in Japan, he was so impressed and comforted us through giving words of blessing for the families and a baby (one of us is expecting). Even he came out from the church to say good-bye to us.

(9/22-26) We went to a worship place by the introduction of a pastor who received the flag before. The place was for prayer meetings for pastors with the idea of going over. A denominationalism pastor came and first welcomed us and he introduced us to other pastors. We could have time to explain about the flag to six pastors. Four pastors of them accepted it.

September 28

We visited the Lao Buddhist Temple today. At beginning, we hesitated to visit it because the temple was not a church. When there might be good people can connect to the Million Family March here, we thought of it, and we visited the temple. A monk with an orange robe invited us to come in the temple and told us to wait for his leader's coming. After 15 minutes past, still the leader was on the phone and did not come. When we almost gave up and began to go out with wearing the shoes, suddenly another monk just came back and told us to sit and wait. While we are wondering if we should be here, finally the leader showed up and three monks listened to our story. They accepted to display the flag with their signatures in the temple and gave us donations. They seemed around 30 to 50 years old and they kept celibacy. We felt that some spirits behind them were desperately trying to hold us to connect the monks to True Parents. We left the temple for other churches with prayer for the monks to receive blessing someday.

Sioux Falls / South Dakota
Now Staying: 2 missionaries
Reported by Madoka Yoshino

(9/17) Today we attended worship of Resurrection Church at 11:00. The pastor was African American. It was so spiritual worship with two hours hymn and one hour sermon. When we greeted the pastor after the worship, he was so inspired to hear that we came from Japan as a missionary. The pastor received the flag and said, "It is very beautiful and wonderful" when I explained about the flag and showed it. He donated 11 dollars and he wrote a comment, "I really like the flag! Excellent!" with (^_^) mark. We were so inspired and filled up our mind to see that the pastor looked so glad. His family cooperated in the worship, The pastor played a piano, his wife sang a song and his children worked as a staff. The family and we took a picture together with the flag.

(9/21) We visited Catholic Church, which was 40 minutes from my church by bicycle. I pedaled the bicycle with praying to meet the Father. It was cold wind and dropping leaves because of autumn in South Dakota I shed tears with pedaling a bicycle because I thought about True Father's hardship in the United Sates until now. And we met to the father of the Catholic Church. He already read our letter, and he welcomed us into his office because he wanted to discuss with us about the letter. He said it was big project. He received the flag after he heard our explanation about it. He signed his name to the flag, and we took a picture together. I shed tears to see his signing because he keeps single as a Catholic father although the flag emphasis the family value. He put the flag on the desk to ask others' sign. We left to the next church with praying for him to put Blessing by True Parents. �

(9/23) Although I provided flags to many churches until now, I did not see the church that was flying the flag. But when we attended the worship at 4 o'clock-it was old and beautiful church; we saw our two big flags at the front and end of chapel. I was so inspired to see the flags because they were striking. The pastor asked us to stand up, and he introduced us to the congregations with big appreciation that we brought the flags Congregation gave us a standing ovation. They knew that we were Unification Church members. The pastor was 85 years old and kept single until now. I convinced that all pastors who kept single to dedicate to God would have been connected with True Parents because God could take their dedication as condition. Thank you very much. �

(9/24) We met Arch Bishop of Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, which was the head quarter of Catholic Church in Denver, at the Sunday evening service. One young devout Catholic believer introduced us to him. The Arch Bishop received the flag and our present from Japan with pleasure. And we took a picture together with him. Generally speaking, it was impossible for us to meet him directly. How much we tried to have appointment with him because of his higher position in the Catholic Church. His Abel type person was the Pope in Rome and he received his mission from the Pope directly. The reason why we could meet the higher position person was because of the young devout Catholic believer. He belonged the head quarter and he has a mission to help the Arch Bishop into his worship coat. The Arch Bishop trusted him and was close with him, such as played tennis, had a dinner together. When three regional leaders came to Denver from Japan as 40 days mission last year, they prayed at the chapel of college in Denver. The young person came to the Japanese leaders and asked them to pray together. After that, Japanese sisters in Denver took care of him. Sometimes they invited him to their event. I realized that we could meet the Arch Bishop on the foundation of many members' activity and condition. Through this meeting with the Arch Bishop, we had a big hope to connect all Catholic Church because there was the picture of Arch Bishop in all Catholic Church in Denver. It means he has big influence to all Catholic Church in Denver.

(9/26) We got a letter to thank us from the Arch Bishop with his direct signature. One American member in the liaison section was so surprised to see it because it was miracle.

And we visited one church again with appointment, which we could not meet the pastor before, and put the letter to explain about the flag. The pastor already read our letter and he waited us with a Japanese language teacher (American person) as a translator. The pastor agreed with our movement and received our flag. We took a picture with him. I had a feeling of reality that the spiritual world of Catholic Church helps us because the Arch Bishop accepted the flag.

(10/1) Today we visited some churches and attended their worship. When we visited a big Catholic Church, which has 4000 family congregations, our big flag was flying in front of the chapel. Or in one church, our flag was flying and our letter put on the bulletin board. And the pastor explained about the flag and introduced us as Japanese missionary in front of 400 congregations during the worship. Those congregations greeted us with pleasure. And they said us "Thank you for wonderful flag." We had a great experience with them.

(9/28) We visited churches as a team, which was organized by only Japanese missionary. Sometimes we visited churches again, which already received the flag. Some pastors were so inspired to see that Japanese missionary tearfully came to the United States and attended this movement. And they prayed for us.

Portland / Oregon
Now Staying: 1 missionary
Reported by Mitsuko Yamashita

(9/27) God and True Parents led us today, too. When we visited one church, one brother introduced us to the pastor. Or when we began to leave the church because nobody was there, one senior member came to us and he looked for the pastors for long time. The senior member attended the Korean War, and went to Japan during a holiday. We met the pastor and he listened to our talking eagerly because the senior member introduced us to the pastor. The pastor received the flag and he wanted to attend ALC meeting.

And also, when we began to leave the church because of absence, a neighbor came out and he/she taught us how to go to the pastor's house. At that time, the pastor came to the church. And the pastor was so glad and he gave us a ballpoint pen as a present. I had a feeling of reality that someone always came to us previously as "John the Baptist", and they introduced us to the pastor. We felt that the spiritual world helped us.

(9/20) We attended Bible Study of the church, which already received the flag. The pastor decided to use the Family Flag as official church flag. Therefore we presented the pole of the flag yesterday. And he also invited us for the ceremony as Family Flag Day on 24th. We felt that God and True Parents led this church. We all prayed hand in hand at the end of Bible study. I was inspired to hear that the Pastor and congregations shout many times such as "Yes, Jesus", "Thank you" when I prayed in Japanese for their coming back to True Parents. We had wonderful time to unite Christian church and Unification Church centering on God and True Parents. It looked like symbol that all Christian churches in the United States are united centering on True Parents.