文亨進アメリカ統一教会会長から全ての食口への手紙（米国教会HPより）

Dear Members and Blessed Central Families —

October 12 2012

Thank you to everyone who organized and attended the recently completed “Town  Hall Tour.” The total attendance during this tour was over 5,000 people in 12  cities. With both words and letters, our members and Blessed Families had an  opportunity to raise challenging issues and concerns, and to become familiar  with our new church leadership. At the same time, I had an opportunity to hear  firsthand the concerns of our nationwide church community. I believe this was a  win/win outcome.

Over fifty years of love, sacrifice, hope and very hard work have been  invested in building our Unification community here in the United States. True  Parents worked side by side with us for thirty four of those years. Heavenly  Father has guided this effort out of His concern for the central role that  America has been assigned in God’s Providence of Restoration. The fruit of that  profound and immeasurable investment Is a nationwide community of members and  Blessed Families that have given birth to a second and now third generation.

In the past month, two events have impacted our community: the passing of our  True Father into the Spiritual World, and the resignation of our Senior Pastor.  Certainly we all miss True Father and feel sadness that he is no longer with us.  In his place, we confidently look to True Mother for strength and leadership.  And once again, we express regret to our membership that mistakes made by our  national leadership came to light during the very sacred hour of our Father’s  ascension.

We now face a very challenging period in our church history. Together we will  decide whether that great investment of decades past will now flourish or wither  under the challenges of these recent events.

With the conclusion a few days ago of the 12 City “Town Hall Tour,” we are  now beginning a new era of leadership for the Unification Church of America.  Please understand that a thorough organizational restructuring is just now  getting underway and will require months of time and effort to reach full  effectiveness. As we initiate this transition, we can offer the following  expectations:

• Our national headquarters will most probably be moved from New York City to  East Garden. This is being done to connect with the spiritual heritage of our  True Parents, who resided for over thirty years in the Irvington/Tarrytown  area.

• Our church will be identified as the Unification Church, the foundational  and core organization of our broader Unification Movement.

• The Unification Church will become a more decentralized organization, with  considerable local autonomy being granted to local pastors and Blessed Central  Families. Local church governance will be based on a written governance  structure which will feature election of local church leaders by tithing  members. The leadership at the District Level will be decided by District  councils which will be created to oversee the Districts.

• We will incorporate best practices from our American church as well as  Unification Churches worldwide. These features include leadership elections, a  new role for National HQ. use of performance measurements to identify best  practices and dissemination of best practices to support local church  growth.

• Our culture will not emphasize or glorify leadership personalities, but  rather focus on an intimate personal relationship to God based on our personal  relationship with True Parents through the study of their words and teachings.  In that context we will place renewed emphasis on the tradition of Hoon Dok Hae  and study of the Divine Principle and the Holy Bible.

• The Unification Church will affirm transparency, accountability, freedom  and responsibility among its core values, while at the same time proudly  upholding our unwavering loyalty to the spiritual authority of the True  Parents.

• To support our commitment to God’s great gift of family, the Unification  Church will articulate clear policies relating to the Holy Blessing of Marriage  and Blessed Family Tradition. The role of our local churches will be to support  the success of our members and families in upholding those sacraments and  traditions.

In the next few days, I will be sending out memoranda offering guidance on  two important initial steps:

First, a memo providing guidelines and details for the election of District  Councils will be sent to our tithing members.

Second, a memo will be sent to our general membership requesting  recommendations of individuals to fill key organizational roles in our National  Headquarters.

Thank you for your continued activism, faith, and patience as we work  together to take this next step forward in the Settlement Era. For the first  time, we undertake these steps without the physical presence of our True Father  while under the guidance of our beloved True Mother. We do so with understanding  that our greatest source of strength, energy and wisdom will come from  harnessing the collective power of our Blessed Central Families who seek to  glorify and bring joy to our Heavenly Father and our True Parents.

Sincerely,

Hyung Jin Moon President, Unification Church, America