The Words of the Carumba Family
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The Words of the Carumba Family |
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Warm Greetings!
For and in behalf of our Central Region President Roy Carumba and vice presidents Bal Tuballa and Joey Andaya, I wish to greet you and your whole family warm pleasantries. Thank you very much for all your hard works for God and True Parents. Last Sunday, June 6, simultaneous important events took place in our region.
First, Osaka Family through the leadership of Jun Cabantac and the enthusiastic cooperation of Mila Atin Inada organized a Sunday Service for our Blessed Central Families followed by a Divine Principle lecture seminar to their guests and friends. Our president together with Nelson Sabanal drove all the way to Kadoma Shi, Osaka to deliver the Sunday message and give the Seminar. It was such a short notice and preparation but they managed to receive 10 participants for the seminar including one Iranian who was so moved and asked the lecturer to teach him more about God. The participants were blown away with a lot of insights and inspirations and could not help for more except that the time was so limited. They requested the lecturer for another round of seminar the first Sunday of next month and they promised to invite more of their friends. According to Pres. Carumba, the response was overwhelming and so full of hope and promise. He would like also to thank the effort of our brothers and sisters there specially sister Mila Atin who happens to be his high school mate in Iligan. Please find attached picture of the event.
On separate occasion here in Nagoya, Inazawa Shi, there was a send off a Sayonara party for our dear guests and newly born members of our family on their way back home to Philippines. It was such an emotional gathering as the three sisters gave their testimony about their encounter of Divine Principle and the Messiah. It has been their greatest gift and transformational experience to be able to know and receive the Messiah here in Japan through Sis. Josie Nakanishi and our concerted efforts as Central Blessed Families. They are forever grateful and promised to continue their attendance in the local center in Philippines until they can receive the Blessing. The Center leader was already informed of their coming there. These precious daughters were such beautiful pure offerings to God and True Parents that we all can humbly share big and small. Brother Alex Florentino on the other hand brought with him his Engr. Friend from Hitachi who is a leader of Filipino group there and they will be offering a new door of opportunity for the providence in Gifu along with Sis. Lalaine Kasai who also brought with her a Japanese guests during the occasion. We will see actions from them as we brace ourselves with another seminar coming up in Gifu in a short run. Thank you too for the attendance and support of our brothers Jessie Mariano, Wilfred and Ramon who offered the needed moral support of the moment.
Today, Vice-Pres. Bal Tuballa along with Jun Flores went for witnessing. We are happy to announce that we stumbled upon a group of trainees in one dormitory through a contact of sis. Mila of Osaka as referred by Pres. Roy Carumba. There are more than 30 people living in that dormitory. We had a pleasant conversation with a few of them and they are very receptive to the idea. We also learned from them that within their vicinity, several more hundred Filipinos are working there. It is such a fertile ground to conduct our witnessing activities. I should suggest that we should consider seriously a witnessing strategy to be discussed amongst us because these people live collectively in just one building and close by areas. Once we put an impression and win the first few of them, we will create a domino effect to win the other hundreds of them. I hope we can take some time to talk about it or via conference through skype or yahoo messenger.
We would like to inform you as well that because of the urgency of the situation, we proposed to them to conduct a 1-day orientation seminar and they are very receptive. We therefore set the date of the seminar on June 27, 2010 Sunday and will inform you of the venue as soon as we can confirm its availability. We would like to encourage your couple to join in this seminar because it will be an occasion and opportunity for you to make a personal contact with these people on a one to one basis and make them your spiritual children. Will it not be possible for our Japanese spouses to also have spiritual children of their own through this special occasion if they will actively participate and act as spiritual guardian to these young people? There has never been as beautiful opportunity as this to make our simple contribution to True Parents and God in this most crucial three remaining years before 2013. Let us therefore empower ourselves and affirm the power of UNITY and mutual sharing towards a greater calling and see the hands of God manifest in our work. There are so much hope and expectations brothers and sisters and God and the spiritual world is only asking us to turn every possible stones on our way and discover the great possibilities ahead.
May you and your family share the abundant blessings of the coming of Heaven with all its glories.
AJU!!!