統一教-繼承神的真愛

My dear brothers and sisters,

Our brother Yulian Marianov <yulianuts@yahoo.co.uk> sent out his testimony about Web Outreach which is a precious example of how much can be achieved by one person working consequently to provide valuable materials via the internet for hundreds of thousands of people to become familiar with the foundation of our True Parents.

Please read this testimony attentively to grasp the great potential which lies in the realm of the cyberspace to advance the spreading of God's truth and to raise up spiritual children through connecting with people deeply by using the external possibilities the internet provides.

May the victorious foundation established in Bulgaria be expanded to all countries...

Sincerely yours,

Nikolaus

Testimony - Results of Web Witnessing-網路傳道
By Yuliuts – Bulgaria-保加利亞

Few days ago unexpected thing happened. I was visiting old lady to bring her something. Her neighbor came by and asked me, "Are you still in this sect". With the next words I found out that she is not negative but inspired. "Oh my grand daughter wants to meet you. She is reading many things about Moon on internet and she is very inspired," she said.

Image of my main blog: "Truth Today"
A day later the father came and brought present for my 4 boys. He also said, his daughters are following everything about Rev. Moon on internet and are very inspired, so I went to visit them. The daughter started telling me the amazing story of what she was reading, what touched her and how it all happened.

The next day I visited them again and got to know the younger doughtier, guilty for all of this. She was the one that found in the library of her father a book about us. She was fascinated and than with her older sister they started looking on Internet. This is how they stared following all the positive new information that was coming. The most inspiring thing for them was the Blessing. All the idea about it, the matching, the testimonies of participants - all seemed like a dream. After I gave them and their cousin a short lecture on Principles of Creation and God's Ideal, the question that was boiling within them came out, "Can I be educated and participate in this Blessing too".

What they didn't know is that two years ago I found that there is no positive information on internet about us in Bulgarian language. When True Father was supposed to come, media searched internet and found out only the negative stuff. So I determined to change that. Since then I created around 30 blogs and Web pages. So all the positive information they were reading was from my articles.

The War of Ideas is Now Centered on Internet

Internet is like a place of ideological war. If we don't win there, we will never win the people on our side. That's a crucial information war. But for God and Satan, it is a war of good or evil reaching to people's minds. Unification Thought explains that our Inner Sung-sang (Reason) acts based on the data in our Inner Hyung-sang (Concepts). So if the information (data) is wrong, people will inevitably make wrong conclusion. But if people have the complete information, they will automatically come to the right conclusion.

This is the reason why Restoration is carried centered on the Word (the Truth).

That's why Divine Principle said that the Fall is in fact, a descent in Ignorance (of the Truth).

We know that the Conscience works based on "person's understanding of the Truth (Wright and Wrong).

That is why True Father initiated HDK to reeducate the world

Knowing that, you can understand why I have chosen to spend the last 2 years in writing thousands of articles about True Father and create around 30 blogs and web pages on different topics. As graduate of UTS I knew something that many members around couldn't fathom. In few years time I'll educate hundred of thousands of people. Witnessing one to one, I'll never be able to achieve that.

One Million Bulgarians Met TF through Internet

Yes in this time one million Bulgarians have read some of these articles. But that's not what inspired me. I wanted to inspire them to see how great is TF's vision, work and teaching. And the effort did pay off. Day by day I was witnessing this process. It was so astonishing that I couldn't believe it myself.

At my pick I reached 12 000 readers in one day. I could see that each moment, day or night, at list 20 people were reading in my pages, but in the pick times it could reach to 100, 200 even over 300 readers at the same time. That's Bulgarian readers - all my materials are in Bulgarian language. People were reading from more than 500 Bulgarian towns and villages. Many Bulgarians were reading from other countries of the world.

Next came the ripple effect. Readers who were inspired started posting the best articles themselves, thus reaching to thousands of their own readers and friends. Each time I checked, I could find at list few new places where people posted my articles. Amazingly those were mostly the articles with the prophecies about TF being the Messiah, or my articles about TF's teachings or their application in life. It's amazing to know that hundreds of outside people are helping voluntarily to spread the News.

All this time I was praying that God and the good spirit world will be able to lead all the prepared people to be guided, read and eventually come in touch with us. Some of our members were skeptical about my work, but I knew it is just a matter of time. Education is a process. Internet is what God needs, restored on his side.

The Results are Still to Come

Results started coming out only in the last few months. And I'm sure that's only the tip of the iceberg. I can only try to imagine what's still unrevealed under the water.

Few months ago, few people connected me with email. They wanted to support and become members. Their personal stories show the variety of ways how people can come to us through internet. So I'll shortly mention some of them. One of them is now regularly supporting at the Peace Embassy. She found few sentences about the "Sect of Moon" and "Mass Weddings" in the Bulgarian Child Encyclopedia. So she wanted to find our address on internet and came to my page. She wrote me and called to the Embassy of Peace. Soon she joined.

The Power of Internet:

Today I had around 3000 visits on my blogs. Two articles were popular; one about "Jesus and Moon: Comparison"; the other article was, "Are We are Gay-Nation", which rouse a great discussion. That's like having our articles posted in one of the main national newspapers. The articles were in front of 50 000 readers. But some ask, "Can new members be raised through Internet Witnessing?" The answer is "Yes!"

Testimony of my spiritual daughter:

Few months ago she found by accident my article about True Love on my Internet page.
She got touched and read more. Finally she got inspired and wrote me the following email:

"I want to join and support the Family Federation. I feel ashamed that
previously I didn't know how great things Rev. Moon is doing."

I started sending her some materials and guiding her to read our books
on Internet. She was writing me her questions and comments and I was
explaining some details to make it more understandable to her. She
learned to pray, she learned about God, she learned about TF's vision. I
visited her only once. Recently she had a dream, how TF is like a white
rose and we the members are like the red roses around him. That was a
dream of how the world is going to be restored around the Messiah. Here
are her own words:

"Dear Yulian, do you understand what you are giving me. To big degree
what I've learned from you, transformed my concepts about God. Before
reading the materials you were giving me and discussing though mail, I
was thinking of God as one of Law and punishments. I didn't know that he
is a God of love, that he is our loving Father. I didn't know that we
are causing him pain. Do you understand, you've turned my heart and my
spirit 180 degrees."

The Power of Internet Witnessing

Studies, statistics, reality and experience of others and my own personal, show the
Witnessing Power of Internet. The words of True Father and In Jin Nim, on the need
to use Internet to Witness say it best.

The truth is, as In Jin Nim said, that young people don't want to be lectured, but like to go on Internet and find out for themselves. In fact, whatever they hear or want to know, they will automatically go to Google and find out everything about it. There is one more interesting fact, if you didn't know, that people believe more when they read something, rather than when they hear from someone.

The Role of St. Paul's Letters

To understand how important is to write articles explaining TP's to the World think of the role of St.Paul's letters. They had enormous effect on Christianity. Why? At UTS we studied that there were many other missionaries, better than him, but he was the one who wrote many letters from his prison.

Letters were used to witness long before Unification Church appeared. I personally became Christian because of very heartistic letters with deep explanations. Now I have deep communications on internet with number of spiritual children. And their testimony is that our heartistic connection and depth of discussions helped them to understand God's heart.

HDH should reach to the people

Giving a person DP, or Father's Biography is powerful witnessing tool.
The biggest problem is the expense, time and the "follow up". Internet is a combination of
giving the Word and continuous follow up through other materials, chat,
emails, skype without spending money or the need to reach the readers one after another. 

I have created around 30 blogs to testify about True Father's vision and words

But some ask where is the actual connect between the sp.parent and sp.child?
Oh, it is strong and it naturally leads those who are prepared to actual physical
meetings, Workshops and physically joining the Church. The testimony of many of
my Internet spiritual children testifies to that…

緣起~

兩年前真父親訪問保加利亞時，上網搜尋文牧師與統一教時，顯現的多半是負面的內容。於是這位美國統一神學院UTS畢業(家裡有四個兒子)的尤連弟兄，這兩年來架了30個部落格，發表了1,000篇以上有關統一教與文牧師的正面訊息。

他默默耕耘了兩年，也有會員執疑他這種做法的效果…但最近數月以來，卻有了令人驚訝的爆炸性發展！

旨意之路

P.196「聖言可造成最善的人格、最高幸福的實體及最高愛情之實體。」

P.233 「愛的根本在天。

當父母的愛、夫婦的愛與子女的愛合成一體時，神會臨在於其中。」

弟自2002年開張之「心靈開發工作坊」http://drguh.myweb.hinet.net/

迄今也至少有三位正在培養中的靈子女：張逸娟家庭、鍾天互與林潔妤家庭等。

顧 澄 敬上. 2010.7.27. 0968763307