Pastors from across the country were invited to be a “guest for an expense paid trip to one of the most successful conferences for clergy and church leaders in the nation today.” The “Empowering Christianity Through True Family Values” seminars are the product of True Family Values Ministry and are co-sponsored by the Washington Times Foundation and the International Religious Foundation. The conferences began last June and continued weekly throughout the rest of the year. They were held at the Sheraton National Hotel in the nation’s capital.
A flyer, describing the meetings, called the program “A series of ecumenical conferences in Washington, D.C., uniting Baptists, COGICs [Church of God in Christ], Apostolics, Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, Unificationists, Episcopals, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Mormons, Adventists, Evangelicals and Muslims in joint effort to revive the God centered family.” Another brochure said the forum was “Acclaimed by Clergy throughout the Nation.”
The founder of True Family Values Ministry is the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church.
Highlights of the four day events included a video presentation by Moon of “a unique view of the principle of the providential history of salvation,” other “multimedia presentations” and a tour of the Unification Church owned Washington Times newspaper.
Moon claims that on Easter Sunday in 1936, Jesus appeared to
him telling him that he had been selected to finish the work of
the Messiah. He further teaches that Jesus failed in his role as
the Messiah when he died on the cross.
—MKG
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