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GPA Family Workshop Brings Hope

GPA participants returning from abroad gathered in Estes Park, Colorado for a special workshop to reflect on their experiences overseas, receive family and blessing education, and prepare for the rest of the year. The workshop also invited families and friends of GPA participants, GPA alumni, and various leaders of the Unification movement.

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Happy Spring!

Each man is a microcosm of the universe. Your body is made of all the elements of the world. Nature supplied the entire ingredients that make your body, which means that the universe made you by giving itself.

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CIG Youth Missionaries Transform Lives

The six teams of Cheon Il Guk Youth Missionaries (CIGYM) who departed the U.S. last fall to share about the Unification faith abroad are due back in April from Kosovo, Romania, Israel, Zambia, Peru, and the Dominican Republic.

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14th Anniversary: As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen

March 9 marks the 14th anniversary of True Father’s best-selling autobiography, As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen, being published in Korea. It’s the most intimate look into his personal life, as well as his decades-long journey with True Mother toward building the international Unification movement.

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Celebrating Women’s History Month

As we celebrate Women’s History Month throughout March, we pay extra attention to the incredible accomplishments of women from all over the world, including our own True Mother — a devoted wife, mother, daughter, global leader, and inspirational example committed to uniting all people as one family under God.

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Honoring Our Blessing Foundations

In a special program, “Honoring Our Blessing Foundations,” the first 13 couples Blessed in America in 1969 celebrated their 54th blessing anniversary and also honored the 777 Couples, which included the first American couples to receive the Blessing in Korea in October 1970.

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Celebrating 54 Years: 13 Couples Blessing Anniversary

True Parents officiated the 13 Couples Holy Marriage Blessing in 1969 at the historic Upshur House in Washington, DC. This was the first blessing ceremony held outside of Korea at the time, and the first of three ceremonies that together came to be known as the 43 Couples Blessing.

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CARP: Becoming Who I Was Meant To Be

With the spring semester underway, CARP chapters nationwide have begun their regular club meetings and promotions as campus fairs. Initiating new chapters can sometimes be an uphill battle but can ultimately bring recognition of God’s love and grace.

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48th Anniversary of 1,800 Couples Marriage Blessing

On Feb. 8, 1975 True Parents officiated the 1,800 Couples Blessing of many international couples. True Parents said this international wedding underscored the teaching of the Unification movement that God transcends all national and racial barriers.

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Cheon Shim Won Strengthens Faith and Mission

A 7-day Cheon Shim Won workshop is currently underway in Las Vegas, running from Feb. 5 to Feb. 11. The program content is focusing True Parents’ life course, the Divine Principle, and the providence in America.

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Honoring Black History Month

Since 1970, the U.S. has observed Black History Month each February, but its cultural origins date back 108 years — to 1915 — when a man named Carter G. Woodson created an organization dedicated to African-American life and history, and later initiated Black History Week in 1926.

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