Second generation educationMoscow, Easter 2013

Where are we at?

What did we expect/hope for when we joined?True love through the BlessingMeaningful lifeGood lineage

What is our reality?Mixture of happy and unhappy marriagesMany leave or disillusioned2G too

Why is it like this?Matchings, poor marriage guidance and supportMisunderstanding and misapplication of the PrincipleLack of support and education of 2G in family and church

What is to be done?

Better marriage preparation and supportWhere from?

Proper understanding and application of the Principle

Where from?

Good 2G educationSpiritual and moral educationCommunity of faith

Why do we call them the 2G?

Change of lineage

What does this mean?

What is lineage?

Great-grandparents

Grandparents

Parents

Children

Grandchildren

Great-grandchildren

Our identity is sociallyconstructed by relationships

Most significant relationshipsare familial

To reveal ourselves is to tell our story, where we come from

Our identity comes fromour lineage

What should be our lineage?

SocietyNation

World

True Love

Childof God

God

Husband Wife

Family

God is Love Life Lineage Identity

God’s love should be fully expressed through Four Realms of Heart and Three Great Kingships

God’s love would cascadethrough generations

Identity:“God is my father”“I can possess the love of God”“I can inherit God’s kingdom”

Way of life: living for sake of others

Hospitality to strangers

What is fallen human lineage?

SocietyNation

World

Corrupt Love

Child

Satan

Husband Wife

Family

Way of life: mixture of good and bad, selfish

and unselfish

Fallen nature

Fallen traditions

Identity: Confused

“People are deluded into believing thatthe lineage of the enemy is the lifeline upon which the world depends.” Father

An acquired identity

What is the reason humankind has yet to escape from the snare of sin? It is because people are born inheriting the false lineage of Satan from the outset. However, this is not an innate, principle-based blood connection bestowed by Heaven. Rather it is an acquired relationship that exists in violation of the principle. It was brought about by human error.

True Father, Peace Messages

In other words, though human beings have been reduced to the position of orphans who have lost their parents through the Fall, the fundamental relationship of parent and child endowed by Heaven remains intact. Human beings, through the Fall, have become ignorant beings who live in a vegetative state, unable to recognize their own Father even though He is right there within and beside them.

Therefore, all human beings belong to the fallen lineage regardless of who they may be, and they must without exception be born again through the conversion of lineage. This is the only way to be restored into the originally-intended blood relationship bequeathed to us by God.

True Father, Peace Messages

You should have the following experience and realization. First, you should substantially feel, "I'm born again and have received new life, and I'm God's son or daughter who leads a new life through the love of True Parents." Second, "I'm a qualified citizen of God's land." Third, when you look at the nation and world, you should feel God's mercy and think, "God handed down this world to me, so l as God's child have a right to possess this world."

True FatherChange of lineage is change of identity from “child of Satan” to child of God

What is most important?

“Listen, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”

Deuteronomy 6:4-9Love God and teach your children

Two goals of 2G education

Establish their true identity as children of God

Develop original mind and conscienceLive in the Principle and see the world through the eyes of the PrincipleFind their place in God’s providence

Establish a strong 2G communityInclusive Exciting, interesting, enjoyable, activeBest friendsWant to marry another 2G

How to do that?

Starts in the familyHusband-wife loving relationship in daily lifeAct of conception and growth in womb8 days ceremonyDaily lifePrayer, reading, playingRelatives

Family is not enough

“It takes a village to raise a child.” African proverb

How to do that?

Starts in the family

Supported by the communityCreche Sunday schoolActivitiesBirthday partiesSummer camps

Community is not enough

How to do that?

Starts in the family

Supported by the community

Supported by the countryWorkshopsEducational curriculumBlessing educationAdvanced programs

Nation is not enough

How to do that?

Starts in the family

Supported by the community

Supported by the country

Supported on international levelSTF, DONE, YSIAdvanced workshops and programsCheongpeongGOP programmeBlessing preparation

Overview of 2G in Europe

4193 Second Generation in Europe (2012)

780 Germany700 United Kingdom470 Austria400 France240 Italy120 Czech RepublicRest less than 100

Overview of 2G in Europe

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Croat

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Czech

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Esto

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Finla

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Germ

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Greec

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Hunga

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Icela

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Latv

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Luxe

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Maced

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Malta

Monac

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Norway

Pola

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Portu

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Roman

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Slov

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BCs in Europe - national overview (4193 in total )

Female Male Unspecified

Second generation activities

Sunday school, summer camps – varies a lot

HARPLocal, national, international workshops

DONEPost high school education 3 months

STFPost high school education, 10 months fundraising, witnessing, humanitarian projects

University chaplains in UK

Student service in London

European 2G Blessings

600 individuals blessed

Still togetherTrue Parents matching – 68%Parent’s matching – 95%Total 82%

Proportion over 18 blessed – about 30%

Twice a year blessing preparation workshop and parents convocation

Where do the 30% come from?

Attendance at Cheongeong International High School summer

workshop

Attendance at CP University Students

Workshop 2012USA 20Germany 17UK 12 (5 from my Sunday School)France 5Sweden 3Austria 3Norway 2Spain 1Ireland 1Monaco 1Italy 1Bulgaria 1Total on workshop 80

Sunday school in North London

25 years Sunday School

5 age groupsCreche PebblesStonesRocksJunior HARPSenior HARP

HARP serviceLocal and London-wide

Annual Summer Camp for children

Curriculum

Curriculum for younger children

3 year curriculum - 6-15 years150 lessonsOld Testament, New Testament, Completed Testament

Repeat 3 year cycle

Bible stories and learning from them

Age appropriate materials

Testimonies from older 2G

Why the Bible?

Identity is constructed as a narrative

We conceptualise ourselves and reveal an explain ourselves in terms of stories

We want to find ourselves in the story of God’s providence

That story is contained in the Bible

It is important for the stories to be told correctly

Initiation into the providence

“What we should stress from now on in the field of education is tradition, education and practice. You must know the tradition. You must respect our tradition. You must educate focusing on the tradition.” (TF 1991)

“Practice enables the tradition to extend itself. What is the extension of tradition? Not me as a person. But in the tradition, you can find God’s providence of restoration and providence of salvation. You should clearly understand this. You should educate people about it clearly.” (TF 1992)

The providence is Biblical

“The tradition is God and True Parents tradition. We must educate people with the tradition of True Parents. If people go through their education correctly, then they will reach the God of providential history.” (TF 1992)

“People can never find the path that leads to life without understanding the particulars of the providence of restoration. Herein lies the reason why we must study the Principle of Restoration in detail.” (D.P. 187)

If you know who you are you will know how to live

If you know your place in God’s providence you will know what to do with your life

Results

90% of North London 2G still involved with church

About 1/4 go to STF

About 1/4 attend Cheongpeong 40 days summer workshop

8% of second generation at Cheongpeong in 2011 came from North London

Most get blessed

Sunday school in Sweden

67 second generation aged 4 to 29 years old. 

64 are members

24 have been on STF or similar programmes (36%)

14 are blessed. (One is probably broken) All the rest seem happy

26 went to GOP in Korea for one year

Many attend Cheongpeong 40 days workshop

2G teach Sunday School

Tim AtkinsonPrimary school teacher for 30 years

Teaching Sunday School for 20 years

Trained second generation to teach

Produced best developed curriculumSunday school manual

7 courses 270 lessonsLesson plansActivitiesWorksheetsGames

Ages 3 – 5 years old

My Book of God - 91 lessons

Old Testament stories - 27 lessons

Ages 6- 8 years oldNew Testament – 34 lessonsMy Journey in Life - 32 lessons

Ages 9-11 years old

True Parents’ Lives & the Early Church - 41 lessons

The Principle Main Points - 50 lessons

Age 12 years old Twenty-one Virtues

Sunday school schedule (2 hours)

Half bow to God and TP. Teachers and children bow to each other

Songs

Donation

Register

Greet each other

Short message

Games

45 minute lesson

Snacks

Child-centred religion

“Listen, my people, to my teaching, and pay attention to what I say. I am going to use wise sayings and explain mysteries from the past, things we have heard and known, things that our ancestors told us. We will not keep them from our children; we will tell the next generation about the Lord’s power and his great deeds and the wonderful things he has done. He gave laws to the people of Israel and commandments to the descendants of Jacob. He instructed our ancestors to teach his laws to their children, so that the next generation might learn them and in turn tell their children. In this way they also would put their trust in God and not forget what he has done, but always follow his commandments.” Psalm 78:1-7

Don’t forget

Families have children

No Sunday school Families won’t come to churchFamilies won’t join churchChurch will disappear

If you don’t invest in your future you won’t have one