True Mother Visits Hawaii

True Mother, now back in Korea, visited Hawaii in early May after returning from a short trip to Las Vegas where she announced a new Cheonbo training center at True Parents’ former residence, among other changes. National FFWPU leaders were recently inaugurated as senior pastors in major cities across the country as well.

“We can see from photos that True Mother had a beautiful time in Hawaii with Sun Jin nim,” shared Dr. Chung Sik Yong, Regional President, FFWPU North America, who became the new senior pastor of the Clifton Family Church in New Jersey. “I didn’t go to Hawaii because True Mother asked me to return to New York quickly to focus on witnessing ... but True Mother visited our coffee farm and met with key leaders there.”

True Mother went to the coffee plantation in Kona, on Hawaii's Big Island, that True Parents established in the 1980s. “Harvesting coffee beans is strenuous work and cultivating the plants requires great skill,” she recalled in her memoir, Mother of Peace (2020). 

True Parents long spoke of Hawaii's great significance as the central point in God's ocean providence, where Eastern and Western civilizations can meet. True Father also talked about reconciling the people of Hawaii, whose cultural background is a melting pot. 

“When this Western civilization comes to Asia, it must do so based on a mixed and harmonious civilization located midway in the Pacific Ocean,” he notably said. “The era of the Pacific civilization is drawing near. Western civilization will be merged into one, with the Pacific civilization as its center ... Hawaii has become a domain where there is exchange between Western civilization and Eastern civilization.”

True Mother met with Hawaii leaders who shared updates about their local activities and Unificationist youth. Students on the island of Oahu have been actively involved in outreach this spring through the CARP chapter established at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

“We do readings of words from CARP’s founders, True Parents, and discussions in small groups,” said Rika Otsubo, the chapter’s founder and president. “So far, the talks have been successful, attracting new members and helping a number of young people work through different things on their mind.”

“True Parents taught that we are all one family under God,” she said. “This message and understanding of family is something that can touch the young people of Hawaii.”

Outreach and reconciling the diverse people of Hawaii continues to be a focal point in our movement’s broader efforts toward global restoration.

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