Since 2005, the pure love missionaries in Europe held the European Pure Love Workshop each year with the ESGD. This year we organized the 3rd Pure Love Workshop in France. Personally I am really grateful to invite all European 2nd Generation to France; my mission country. There were 18 participants all from France, but there was an international atmosphere because we had staff from Germany, India, Japan and Korea.

It was the first day of the Easter holidays and participants arrived in the evening and enjoyed a relaxed time with sunshine and the nice nature.

The French national leader Jean-Francois Moulinet gave welcoming remarks. It was short and clear. Participants and staff could learn what attitude we should have during this workshop. Jeongsin Kim, (Pure Love missionary to France) and Moonhwa McLackland from the ESGD gave some messages and we played a small game to get to know each other and a small team meeting followed.

There were 2 lectures in the morning. The first was "Sexuality and Pure Love" by Jeongsin Kim, about our sexuality in the society and the owner of sexual organ. The second lecture was "Ownership of Pure Love Culture" by Hwajin Song, (Pure Love Missionary in England), she explained our society’s culture and how we can manage it properly as 2nd Generation.

That afternoon we had a special visit from Mrs. Song who came to give a message to the French members. She wanted to see our participants and give them some guidance too. Many of participants and staffs were inspired by her guidance. She spoke about God and True parents with a sincere heart and shared her concern about 2nd Generation with a deep heart as well. We could feel that. She left right after her speech, but her visit had a strong impact.

In the afternoon, after sports we had the ‘pure love solution’ program. As 2nd Generation we have many concerns in a daily life, so we shared these concerns about alcohol, drugs, boyfriend or girlfriend, sexual messages from media and so on. ‘How should we react to those cases?’ was the main theme of that program. We tried to make one skit for each case and participants wrote down their own concerns. Our MC Christophe Vierra gave many good answers and through that program we shared our concerns and tried to find a proper solution.

In the evening there was the "Pure Love Debate" time. There were 2 different panels with different opinions; pro-pure love and anti-pure love. So we had 5 different representatives from each side. The title of that debate was ‘one man, one woman, one family; is it good to encourage others or old-fashioned?’ It was good to see how people expressed their opinion about love and life through acting. We tried to make it a little bit funny because it was such a short time to see the outside people’s ideas, for example a homosexual, a prostitute, a normal university student, a playboy magazine boss and a career women, we could imagine how strong and influential they were. At the same time, the pure love panel was composed of a mother with 8 children, DMN, a family counselor, a 2nd Generation, a ‘Purity’ boy, and they presented our own opinion and also some good points from normal people. So we could compare both sides.

In the morning we had 2 more lectures. The first was "Pure Love and Lineage" by Jeongsin. Through this, the connection of lineage, pure love and God was explained. That ‘lineage is a key point to understand Pure Love’ was taught. The second was "Attitude of God’s Children" by Hwajin. Practical points for us in our daily life to be more public minded as True Children were shared.

During lunch, we had ‘Meal of Heaven’ which is tradition of pure love workshops. All participants and staff were paired up to feed each other. The meaning behind this was that in heaven we have big and long spoons so if we want to eat by ourselves we cannot eat well. But by thinking of others and helping each other we can eat well with love. Through this time we had a special experience of eating together.

In that afternoon, we had several programs; first of all, there was a skit named "the moment of the Fall". We have had many chances to listen to lectures about the Fall and we knew about it well. But if we just talk about it then we don’t realize well enough what really happened at that time. So each team made one skit for the moment of the Fall, with 3 different points of view; the position of Adam, Eve and Archangel. Each team found the moment from their particular points. The feelings which occurred with The Fall were also expressed.

After that, we had essay time to express our creativity with the theme of pure love through writing, drawing, and songs and so on. All participants had really good artistic sense and everyone could see the beauty of pure love.

After dinner, there was a Pure Love ceremony which was the main event of this workshop. Before the ceremony we had a ‘performance for God’, which was entertainment for God and True parents. Everyone showed their talent through the songs, writings and drawings.

The pure love ceremony was simple. We had a nice pure love pledge and pure determination of our life with good atmosphere. There were two testimonies from the participants, Benji Drevici and Grace van Dorsten, to share deep realization through this WS. Everyone had their own determination. After this ceremony, we had prayer time with a candle around the holy tree in front of the Chamarande center. This time we determined our heart centering on God. In the end right after the prayer time, there was a cake for us to celebrate victory of the Pure Love ws. All of us were so happy and had a good time sharing cake and tea together.

Just before we finished the workshop, we had a "question and answer" session. During the workshop, we solved some problems but still we would go into the real daily life in school with different situations. So we wanted to have this final sharing time. We had quite important and serious questions.

We finished our workshop with beautiful weather and a good atmosphere like a family. The Pure love missionaries to Europe are elder sisters to European 2nd Gen, because of that we could be closer to the participants. Even though we had different back grounds; Korea and Europe, we understood each other well and made a harmonious workshop, because we are the same brothers and sisters to God.

I really want to say Thank you to all of you who supported our activity and especially to God who had sent us to Europe and gave us a chance to share our heart.

Pure Love Missionary to France

Jeongsin Kim