アメリカ統一教会のHPに、文亨進世界会長がアメリカの教会員向けに送った文章が掲載されました。なお、日本語訳は正式なものではありませんので、正確な意味合いについては英語のものをご覧ください。
親愛なる食口、祝福中心家庭のみなさまへ
50年以上の愛、犠牲、希望と苦労が捧げられ、米国統一教会コミュニティーは構築されてきました。真の父母様は34年の間、私達と共に歩んでこられました。天のお父様は、アメリカは神の摂理の中で中心的な役割があるため、このように導いてこられたのです。その深遠で計り知れないほどの苦労の実りが、現在、二世、三世を出産している教会員と祝福された食口の全国的なコミュニティーです。
今、私たちは、教会の歴史の中で非常に困難な時期に直面しています。過去数十年の多くの苦労がすぐに実るか、これらのできごとの下に埋もれるかどうかを今、私たちが決める位置にあります。
数日前に終了した12ヶ都市の“タウンホール・ツアー”の結論として、私たちはアメリカの統一教会の新しい指導体制の時代を始めます。徹底した組織再編が現在進行しつつありますが、完全な効果を達成するための時間と労力に数ヶ月が必要となりますので、ご理解ください。我々はこの移行を開始するに当たり、次のような方向性を検討しています。
•我々の全国本部はおそらくニューヨーク・シティーからイーストガーデンへと移されます。これはアーヴィングトン/テリータウンで30年以上にわたって住まれた私たちの真の父母様の霊的伝統と連結するためです。
•私たちの教会の名称は、「統一教会」であり、広範な統一運動の基礎であり中核です。
•統一教会は、地元の牧師と祝福中心家庭による地方自治で、より分権的組織になるでしょう。地元の教会の運営は十一条を守っている教会員により地元の教会の指導者を選挙で選ぶことになります。地区レベルの指導者は地区を監督するために立てられる地区協議会で決定されます。
数日のうちに、私は最初の指導要綱となる二つの重要な文書を出します。
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
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