Rev. Hyung Jin Moon's Team Gains Senior Advisors

October 22, 2012

Dear Members and Blessed Families,

I am pleased to announce two individuals to the senior HSA-UWC USA management team: Dr. Anthony J. Guerra as Executive Assistant to the President and Rev. James B. Edgerly as Senior Advisor.

Dr. Guerra will work directly with me, providing advice on all matters related to my responsibilities as President of HSA-UWC in the United States. In addition, he will be the contact point representing my office in day-to-day communications with our staff and general membership. Rev. Edgerly will work closely with me, Dr. Guerra and the leadership of HSA-UWC in guiding the overall direction and priorities of our church activities and business investments.

Dr. Anthony J. Guerra - Executive Assistant to HSA-UWC President. Dr. Guerra joined the Unification Church in Washington, D.C. in 1971 and has served as State Leader in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Tennessee. He graduated from Unification Theological Seminary (1978) and went on to study at Harvard University where he received both a Master of Divinity and Doctorate in New Testament Studies (1986). Tony is the author of three books and numerous articles in scholarly journals.

Dr. Guerra served as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University from 1984 to 1986, and was a professor at Bard College (New York) from 1986 to 1993 where he became a member of the tenured faculty. From 1990, he initiated and directed the process that ultimately led to UC investment in the University of Bridgeport (UB). Dr Guerra served as Dean and Vice Provost of UB from 1993 to 2000.

From 2001, he co-founded and served as President of “Turning Point for Life, Inc”, a business providing assistance to high school students in the college admissions and financial aid process. Dr. Guerra is a long-standing member of the Board of Trustees for Unification Theological Seminary, and is presently a Trustee for the Universal Peace Federation International and President of the Washington Times Foundation.

Dr. Guerra received the Blessing of marriage with Cho Hye Young in 1982 and has eight children.

James B. Edgerly - Senior Advisor to HSA-UWC USA. Rev. Edgerly joined the Unification Church in 1973. He spent three years traveling with the New Hope Singers and First Global Team and then five years in leadership positions in CARP while attending college at Columbia University (New York). He was blessed in marriage to Kinuyo Iwamoto in 1982 while earning a MS from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Rev. Edgerly was a management consultant at Arthur D. Little Inc. (Cambridge, MA) from 1983. In 1990, he established Industrial Restructuring Corporation (IRC) to restructure distressed industrial companies in Central Europe. IRC was merged into The Recovery Group where he was a Director and Senior Partner. In that capacity, Rev. Edgerly participated in the restructuring of hundreds of industrial companies in Central Europe.

In 2003, Rev. Edgerly acquired and reorganized the assets of Crowe Rope Industries out of bankruptcy and subsequently founded Orion Ropeworks (Winslow, ME). Rev. Edgerly served as the CEO of Orion until that company was acquired by Canada Cordage (2005).

Rev. Edgerly served as Assistant Regional Director for HSA Northern New England under to Rev. Kil Hwan Kim from 2004 to 2006 and Massachusetts State Pastor from 2006 to 2012. Major priorities during those years included HDFC/Family Fellowship, Youth Ministry, reopening our church in Worcester, and renovation of 46 Beacon Street. Rev. Edgerly is presently co-owner and Managing Director of The BioSolve Company and resides in Lexington, MA where he and his wife have raised their four children.

We look forward to the fruitful development of our church and providential activities with the leadership and experience that Dr. Guerra and Rev. Edgerly will provide. I pray that all our members and blessed families can welcome them and pray for their success as they assume their new responsibilities.

May God bless you and your families.

Sincerely,

Hyung Jin Moon
President, HSA-UWC USA