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nity over the past seven years.

This District System will be put

in place as an interim step,

with the understanding that a

more detailed and complete

governance-structure plan will

be developed over time by the

National Council. This is the

procedure already used for

similar elections in both Japan

and Korea. We understand and

anticipate that, as the first

election of this kind, this voting

procedure may seem foreign.

Also, the administration of the

election and the speed at

which it is taking place may

seem to be unfamiliar and dif-

ferent in relation to our tradi-

tional culture. However it is a

normal Principled development

for the expansion ofCheon Il

Gukas the Kingdom of God on

earth in which our True Parents

stand forever as our King and

Queen. This democratic proc-

ess fosters human freedomand responsibility where

church members take initiative

through their local Council to

build their local community.

Rev. Hyung jin Moon

The Unification Church of Amer-ica has now entered a new age

where the representation of our

members and Blessed Families

will be chosen by our tithing

members. This is based on a

principled understanding of

free will and personal responsi-

bility which extends to our right

to choose who represents us.

Our elected representatives will

be in a complementary, object

partner relationship with our

national leadership couple in

the subject position, represent-

ing the spiritual authority of our

True Parents. In the case of our

church in America, True Mother

has decided that the vertical

position is to be presently filled

by my couple, Hyung Jin Moon

and Yeon Ah Lee-Moon.

In keeping with this under-

standing, I made a commit-

ment to establish an election-

based system during the re-

cently completed 12 city TownHall Tour. To make an initial

and foundational commitment

in this direction, we will first

hold an election to create a

District Council in each of our

twelve Districts. Each DistrictCouncil will then deliberate and

select their choice to be District

Pastor.

The District Council will also

select a representative to a

new National Council that will

work with our couple to make a

more efficient and responsive

national office. Furthermore,

the District Council, together

will the District Pastor, will con-

tinue to function as the govern-

ing team for the District.

This approach to governance,

featuring a local District Coun-

cil, is based on the experience

of the West Rock (Belvedere

area, NY) Unification Commu-

New Era of Freedom and Responsibility

Meet our New District Pastor

District Five Dispatch

Rev. Hyung jin nim Moon and his

wife, Yeon Ah Nim Moon

Turning Our District into a Community

Volume 1, Issue 1

January 2013

Dear Principle

Dear Principle,

I have been asking myself:

"What is the purpose of life".

Do you know?-John

Dear John, Yes. Many people

say that it is to create joy.

True to an extent, but thereality is a bit more compre-

hensive; God gives us the

ability to raise HIS children

as our own. In that process

we follow the three blessings;

Be fruitful, multiply and havedominion. 1st Birth to 24yrs.

(last few years are "landing in

the world"-do it right),

Then parentism (25-48),

where we finally digest whatwe did as we grew up in the

first stage- and learn to love

more perfectly. The third

stage; (49-72) Grandpar-

entism is where we see thewhole course of learning to

love in a complete form-

ONLY THIS is a perfection

of love. (Mathew 5:48 "be ye

perfect as your Heavenlyfather is perfect).

-Dave Tranberg

Send your questions to

[email protected]

pan, at a U. S. Air Force installa-tion, and graduated in June1972. His experiences therewith Buddhism and orientalphilosophy became harmonizedwith his Roman Catholic viewsand gave him a larger worldview.

Rev. Chidester met thechurch when he was 18 yearsold on January 14, 1973 whileattending a small college inArkansas. He became the firstmember to join in Arkansas.

Rev Gary Chidester was born ona U. S. Air Force military base inthe rural area of Louisiana onSeptember 27, 1954 to a de-vout Catholic couple. His par-ents were from Arkansas. Hewas the second son, of a sec-ond son, of a second son. Hehad three brothers and twosisters.At a young age he had manyspiritual experiences and wasan altar boy for seven years.He went to high school in Ja-

He was blessed at MadisonSquare Garden in 1982 with aJapanese sister who he hadbeen matched to by photo twoyears earlier. A year later sheleft the church before theystarted family life. He was re-matched and re-blessed in1986 to Maria Pia Salvati ofItaly. They now have three chil-dren and reside in Miami, Flor-ida.

(Cont on p. 3)

Contents:

New Era of Elections

in American Church

Preparing for Founda-

tion Day

Meet Our New District

Pastor

Report and Testimo-

nies from the 2012

Southeast Winter
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Council Chairperson meets with SC Members

clude:

The meaning of the # 13: Je-sus and the 12 apostles as the

foundation for tribal messiah-

ship.

Devotion based on the number

12.

430 autobiographies is 430years as national level tribal

messiahship.Substantialize DP as the Word

becoming "Flesh" so God (via

True Father) can dwell amongst

us.By accomplishing 84 spiritualchildren (1-1-1 for 7 years)means liberation of our ances-tors, 12 apostles and 72 disci-

ples adds up to 84 mak-ing substantial the tribal messi-ahship).

All are based upon us becom-ing Tribal Messiahs. It is notrunning around talking to peo-ple about coming to just an-other "event". It is for bringingthe children of God home to thebosom of Blessed Families whoare entrenched in the Divine

People Tradition in the lineageof True Parents.Hyung Jin Nim said to the Dis-trict Pastors on Tuesday, De-cember 11, 2012, that theseconditions did not have to beCOMPLETED by FoundationDay, but they do have tobe STARTED by then.

Foundation Day is "D-Day", not"VE-Day". The successful land-ing into the world Satan hadclaimed will be declared, andthe advancement toward theexpelling of Satan completelywill have begun. The world willultimately be claimed back toGod, substantially, no matterhow long it takes!

In each community let us worktoward that end together byhaving a wonderful FoundationDay program, centered uponthe local pastors.May God Bless you all, In theName of the King and Queenof Heaven and Earth, our TrueParents.

Rev. Gary Chidester

Foundation Day is fast ap-proaching. The conditions nec-essary to be able to participatein Foundation Day are as fol-

lows:

$13,000 ($130)120 day Jeung Seoung of

120 bows and 1 hour HoonDok Hae daily (with lit candle)

Distribute 430 autobiogra-phies

Attend DP workshop programof 7-day content

Liberate 210 generations ofyour ancestors

Witness to 12 spiritual chil-dren

Bring 3 couples to the bless-

ing on Foundation Day

The internal meaning of someof these conditions can befound in the Blessing and IdealFamily (Gathering for Readingand Learning Series) Volume1, Part 2 on pages 37-43., un-der the chapter "The meaningof witnessing to one person amonth."Some of these meanings in-


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Message From True Mother

September 23, 2012

(the 21st day after TrueFathers Ascension.)

We will now make our Uni-

fication Church a living and

breathing church, as it was in

the early days. We will de-

velop it into a spontaneous,

creative and dynamic church,unrestricted by numbers or

systems. We will make it into

a church centered on the Di-

vine Principle and on love,

which will be like a nest with

the warmth of a mothers

embrace that will make us

wish to go there and always

remain there. As in the begin-

ning time, we will make it so

that the sound of Divine Prin-

ciple lectures is constantly

heard in our churches.

Thursday, Dec. 20th,

2012, as a side-trip toattending her daughter-in-laws graduation fromClemson University inSC, Margret Orr, DistrictCouncil Chairperson,had the chance to meetwith members in Colum-bia. During the discus-sion after dinner topicsincluded, How the dis-trict elections will behandled in the future

and how to have district-wide family camps and

other events that willhelp build bondsamongst all the mem-bers in District Five.

Preparing for Foundation Day


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Southeast Winter Workshop 2012

Principle in a non-traditionalmanner, focusing on the prac-tical application of the Princi-ple and how to create a Prin-ciple-centered culture.Though the program and ac-tivities were created by Sec-ond-generation college stu-dents, there was great coop-eration and respect betweenFirst and Second generations.

The manager of the facilitywas incredibly receptive toour group. He assisted uswholeheartedly throughoutour time there. And he wasespecially helpful with thevan: As one of the NC vansstarted to break down, heinsisted on fixing the vanwithout any charge, helpingensure we had a safe tripback. Based on our staff'slimited mechanical knowl-edge, we almost drove a dys-functional van that could'vebroken down on the road. Itreally was a miracle that henoticed the problem and of-

fered his knowledge and ef-forts to spare us from a dan-gerous situation.

Through the content of thelectures, the heart of the par-ents delivering the lectures,and the excellent programsand location, many of theparticipants felt at the leastthat they learned something,if not became inspired to im-prove their spiritual life insome way.

Issues from family, to faithand matching/blessing werediscussed in a Q&A panel,moving testimonies from staffwere offered and the activitieswere designed specifically forthe participants to take own-ership of their life of faith anddiscover the core of their rela-tionship with God and TrueParents.

From December 29 2012to January 1st, 2013, about30 middle and high-schoolyouth of North Carolina, Ala-bama and Georgia attendeda workshop at the Lodge at

George T. Bagby State Park

near Fort Gaines, Georgia.State pastors, Tiffanie andCliff Gaines, and youth lead-ers from North Carolina andGeorgia organized the camp.

The workshop wasplanned later than desiredand the vision shifted drasti-cally, however, the workshopwas a great success, and

participants reported highsatisfaction with the facility,the quality of the lectures,and the activities. Thoughthis workshop was only threedays, it was a very harmoni-ous and thought-provokingworkshop.

First generation parents,David Tranberg and JackWhedbee, taught the Divine


Volume 1, Issue 1

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Important

Dates

Gods Day:

February 10

Foundation

Day:

February 22

Links

of Interest

Wongu

University

UTS

Unification

News

Rev. D. Michael

Hentrich's

Website

Completed

Testament TV

UTS Alumni

Talks AboutLeadership

After Seminary he served in

the Philippines under the Reli-

gious Youth Service (RYS). Hewas later assigned to be StateLeader of Alabama.

Over the years, Rev. Chidester

served as State leader in Mis-sissippi, and later inDelaware and Alabama.While doing HomeChurch in Connecticuthe attended SouthernConnecticut State Col-lege and started CARPthere. (He startedCARP on five othercampuses throughouthis mission life).

He went to the Unifica-tion Theological Semi-

nary and was hand-picked by True Father(while he was at Danbury) toattend the special third yearDivinity program.

In January 1986, he was called

by True Father to be in the spe-cial political mission of ACC.He served in Florida as ACC

State Director, then AFCState Director.

Next he was called to beVice Regional Director underRev Dae Hee Hong. Rev.Chidester became the newacting Regional Directorafter Rev Hong left, until thetwo southern regions(Atlanta and Miami) were puttogether as the new District

5.

He remained as State Leader,then State Pastor until August12, 2012.

Meet our New District Pastor (cont. from p. 1)

Rev. Gary Chidester, Maria Pia, Marc, Jessica, Valerie
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District Council Members

Rev. Gary Chidester (District Pastor) - [email protected] (305-984-0435)Margret Orr (Council Chairperson) [email protected] (864-590-4870)Michael Hempowicz (Council Secretary) - [email protected](251-382-8320)Wesley Samuel [email protected](561-827-1718)Richard Sapp - [email protected](904-859-5396)Haruki Kimura - [email protected](678-357-4779)David Tranberg - [email protected](678-488-6742)Jack Whedbee [email protected](404-217-8208)Jeddie King [email protected](407-873-2364)

The goal of District Five Dispatch is turn our

District of six states into a community. In

order to do that we need input from every

state and every Unification community in

these states.

Please send us stories, testimonies, pic-

tures, ideas and anything that would berelevant to creating true unity in our District.

Send your submissions to a member of the

District Council or to David Doose, Editor, at

[email protected].

Testimonies from Winter Workshop 2012

The workshop was great. I loved it and Im very glad I

came. It was something I really learned from, and I

learned to be more loving with everyone and how toconnect and be understanding of everyone and got

closer to God and True Parents. I understand Godand True Parents and their heart and hard work that

theyve invested into everything theyve done. I just

really hope we have another workshop next year. I

learned to understand what faith means and that I cango to my older brothers and sister if I need help in my

life of faith because theyre really great older brothers

and sisters. I love them so much and wish them the

best.Myoga Tossa

In the Workshop, I mostly enjoyed the lecture by Dave Tranbergwho talked about how God is love and we are his children. In the

workshop, I felt happy because I met people who love God as much

as me.Wade Roque

I really appreciated being able to attend this workshop. Hearing

and feeling the passion of the lecturers really made me realize,

even more, why this movement is so significant. Us young

Unificationists can help God change the world.Aleah Licht

"I was very impressed with what was accomplished in less than

three days. The lectures, discussions, and the Q/A panel answered

many of the questions that I had been contemplating, and provided

me with new knowledge with which to move forward." - Michael

Crawford


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