Inauguration of Hyun Jin Moon as
International President of
The Youth Federation for World Peace
February 25, 2001
Belvedere International Training Center,
Tarrytown, New York
Translation by Rev. Peter Kim;
Unofficial notes by Dr. Tyler Hendricks,
who had to leave early
True Father: Who here is under 40? Who is under 48? From now,
those under 48 are young people.
In this historic providential juncture, I am giving this speaking
tour. It may be my last. Therefore we have to take this message seriously
and do our absolute best to restore this nation to God. [I think the
message to which Father referred was that which was about to read,
"The Path for America and Humankind in
the Last Days".] This is our mission from now on. Over 80 Korean
National Messiahs are still doing the 40-day workshop in the hot summer
of the Pantanal. I gave them an order, from Feb 25 to 28, to have a
prayer condition. This period of the 50 state tour is important because
True Parents already offered the coronation ceremony, which means I
already unified the spirit world. Last year, October 14, I declared the
elimination of Paradise and Hell. On that foundation, the coronation
ceremony took place, so the spirit world is united and ready to receive
my orders.
To set the corresponding condition for the physical world, I am taking up
the tremendous challenge of the 50-state tour. By doing so, I want to see
all religious leaders, especially Unification Church members, transcend
religious, racial and cultural barriers, all physical world barriers, so
that we can eventually unite all the people of the physical world, and
the physical world can correspond to the unity of the spirit world. By
doing so, the unification of Heaven and Earth will be achieved. So we
have to be serious and pray about this.
In this speaking tour, there will be two messages. The first is "In Search of the Origin of the Universe,"
which deals with what the families of America have to know. This is
the core message for families. The second message, which I am about to
deliver now, is "The Path for America
and Humankind in the Last Days", which gives the guidelines for
this country in the providence. So we have to learn this by heart. It is
the message of my final will for humankind, the last message. The most
important things for the blessed family is the absolute sexual organ,
and the perfection of the historical perspective for the family and
nation is the most important thing for the world.
I am doing this tour with these two messages. This tradition will be
picked up and followed by the National Messiahs who are in the Pantanal
and the western National Messiahs too, to do the same thing in their
own country.
[From here ensues a reading of the speech, which has Father and Rev. Peter
Kim reading simultaneously, Father in Korean and Rev. Kim in English.]
Was I too loud? Should my voice be softer? Could you hear both? (It was
fine.) By having me read, you can receive my spirit, and save millions of
dollars on translation equipment, and have a direct spiritual connection
to True Parents, and I like hearing people flipping the pages at the
same time. It is a mysterious, exciting sound to me because it means
people are reading together.
Attending Hoon Dok Hae and taking it seriously is the key to how much
spiritual food and how much inspiration we can receive. This happens
when you study my messages in the Hoon Dok Hae books, especially True
Family and World Peace, because I prepared these books on the foundation
of absolute unity of spirit world and physical world, in the realm of
resonance of both worlds. They were given at different times, but each
time I had the same level because of the presence of spirit world and my
prayer as the foundation for that. Therefore if we take it seriously,
we can tap into that level of spirit world and the same prayer I had
when I gave the speech. The resonance of spirit world and physical world
creates an important atmosphere.
Because of that preparation condition I built into the messages in
that book, when I read it, even for the 100th time, I receive a new
inspiration. When someone else reads it and makes a mistake or omits a
word, I immediately notice it and correct it. I don‰Ű(tm)t think I delivered
the messages by myself; God was with me. Amen. (Applause.)
Father was then seated, and Reverend Michael Jenkins opened the
Inauguration Ceremony. He testified about a minister in Seattle who
gave a strong testimony to Father and then was asking our members who we
believe he is, is he the Messiah? So this is going to be an explosive,
glorious tour.
Song: Song of
the Young People
Emcee: Mr. Tom McDevitt, Secretary General of YFWP
Mr. McDevitt gave the opening prayer. He introduced the YFWP Board of
Directors, Chairman Mr. Dong Moon Joo, Mr. Peter Gogan, and himself. He
then introduced the Executive Council, including Rev. Bong Tae Kim
(President of YFWP in Korea), President Katsumi Otsuka, President of
FFWPU Japan, President Ichino Unamori, President of YFWP Japan. He
introduced Rev. Jung Og Yu, President of Unification Church in Japan,
and then Youth Federation for World Peace leaders President Kyung Kee
Sa of Europe, Mr. Chi Song Shin of Uruguay (President of the Victoria
Plaza Hotel), and the Continental Director of Oceania, Rev. Yong Cho Song.
Next came remarks by Mr. Dong Moon Joo, President of The Washington
Times Foundation: I would like to offer a brief report on the YFWP
activities worldwide.
YFWP was founded in 1994, and the second world conference was in 1996,
with keynote address by George Bush, Sr., as well as Edward Heath and
Jerry Falwell. In 1997, our Founder made our purpose clear: to establish
youth as initiators of change and as creators of true families, nations
and world.
After Mr. Joo's 10-15 minute speech, Mr. Jin Man Kwak gave an
introduction to Hyun Jin Nim :
Born on April 10, 1969, lunar calendar, in Korea, Hyun Jin Nim arrived
in America at age 5 with the True Family. He graduated from Columbia
University in 1995, with high honors, and completed the two-year Harvard
Business School MBA in one and a half years. Was blessed in 1987 and
has six children. He participated in the Seoul and Barcelona Olympics
as part of the Korean Equestrian Team. He revived several debt-ridden
companies that are now recognized as industry leaders.
What drives him is his internal standard of loyalty to True Parents,
because he witnessed how much True Parents sacrificed for humanity
and invested to liberate God and humanity. So he as a son feels True
Parents' burden as his own and the pain in their heart as his own. So
he wants to liberate the heart of True Parents and God, and the True
Family and all of us. True Parents, recognizing his heart, appointed
him as Vice-President of FFWPU in 1998, and President of World CARP in
1999, and International President of YFWP now, with the mandate to lead
everyone under 40.
He has the ability to see the main points in confused situations, and to
inspire others. He has revived CARP and positioned it for great future
growth. As he takes leadership of YFWP, I am sure he will align all our
young people on the proper vertical and horizontal axis, and create the
fatherland nation.
Hyun Jin Nim:
I offer gratitude to our True Parents. I can see a new revolution of
heart and spirit of young people. I am grateful that I can stand here
in front of our movement, God and True Parents, in taking leadership of
YFWP and all youth of the world, setting a vision of hope and promise
for the future.
The vision is expressed in a journey, based on Father‰Ű(tm)s original
vision. It should have started in 1945, if Father had been received. But
he was not, and the wilderness course ensued, to restore 6,000 years of
providence. We stand now on that foundation. We have entered the realm
of the 4th Adam, the settlement age, with second-generation leadership.
This is our context. The inheritance and development tour emphasized the
new age we are in, with a new mindset of hope, promise and vision. We
have to leave behind the baggage of the restorational era. The first and
second generation must unite. They should naturally extend God‰Ű(tm)s work
through time. The anointment of the parents comes to the children. The
mission of God does not end with one generation, but continues generation
after generation. The generations create a combined vision.
Therefore, the origin of the Youth Federation for World Peace vision
is in 1945. Through America at that time, Christianity elevated to
a global power. We had to rebuild it. The settlement age represents
the age that should have been in 1945, the age prepared to build the
substantial kingdom on earth.
The sixties transformed the young people of the world, starting here in
America, legitimating free sex, family breakdown, individualism, humanism
and so forth. That generation originally had a genuine commitment to make
a change for the better. But because the center was not set, the youth,
who were born after 1945, who should have been Father‰Ű(tm)s generation,
were taken by Satan because the worldwide foundation of Christianity
was lost, and they legitimated all the social ills we see today.
Now we must create a counter-cultural revolution, legitimating absolute
sex, true families and service for others. You are the children of that
generation of the 60s who created the great change. Your parents went to
the streets and made a revolutionary change, but they went the wrong way
and we have to deal with that legacy. It will be centered on the ideal
culture of God and True Parents. Amen! (Amen!)
It will not come through institutionalized groups such as Youth Federation
for World Peace and CARP, but through a combined effort of the unified
youth who will take the message to every city, state and country.
As a son, the dream and vision I have is not my own. It was cultivated
and nurtured through God and True Parents. It is in their name.
There is no such thing as number 2, only number 1. Why? Because God and
True Parents deserve number 1.
[Here Hyun Jin Nim concluded and True Father came to the stage. He spoke
until past 11 a.m.]