A presentation on 2G education I gave in Moscow

1. Second generation
education
Moscow, Easter 2013

2. Where are we at?
What did we expect/hope for when we joined?
True love through the Blessing
Meaningful life
Good lineage
What is our reality?
Mixture of happy and unhappy marriages
Many leave or disillusioned
2G too
Why is it like this?
Matchings, poor marriage guidance and support
Misunderstanding and misapplication of the Principle
Lack of support and education of 2G in family and
church

3. What is to be done?
Better marriage preparation and support
Where from?
Proper understanding and application of the
Principle
Where from?
Good 2G education
Spiritual and moral education
Community of faith

4. Why do we call them the
2G?
Change of lineage
What does this mean?

5. What is lineage?
Great-grandparents
Grandparents
Parents
Children
Grandchildren
Great-grandchildren
Our identity is socially
constructed by relationships
Most significant relationships
are familial
To reveal ourselves
is to tell our story,
where we come from
Our identity comes from
our lineage

6. What should be our lineage?
Society
Nation
World
True
Love
Child
of 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 cascade
through 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

7. What is fallen human
lineage?
Society
Nation
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 that
the lineage of the enemy is the lifeline
upon which the world depends.” Father

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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 Father
Change of lineage is change of identity from “child of Satan” to child
of God

11. 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 6:4-9
Love God and teach your children

12. Two goals of 2G education
Establish their true identity as children of
God
Develop original mind and conscience
Live in the Principle and see the world
through the eyes of the Principle
Find their place in God’s providence
Establish a strong 2G community
Inclusive
Exciting, interesting, enjoyable, active
Best friends
Want to marry another 2G

13. How to do that?
Starts in the family
Husband-wife loving relationship in daily life
Act of conception and growth in womb
8 days ceremony
Daily life
Prayer, reading, playing
Relatives
Family is not enough
“It takes a village to raise a child.” African proverb

14. How to do that?
Starts in the family
Supported by the community
Creche
Sunday school
Activities
Birthday parties
Summer camps
Community is not enough

15. How to do that?
Starts in the family
Supported by the community
Supported by the country
Workshops
Educational curriculum
Blessing education
Advanced programs
Nation is not enough

16. How to do that?
Starts in the family
Supported by the community
Supported by the country
Supported on international level
STF, DONE, YSI
Advanced workshops and programs
Cheongpeong
GOP programme
Blessing preparation

17. Overview of 2G in Europe
4193 Second Generation in Europe
(2012)
780 Germany
700 United Kingdom
470 Austria
400 France
240 Italy
120 Czech Republic
Rest less than 100

18. Overview of 2G in Europe
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100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
Albania
Andorra
Austria
Belgium
BosniaHerzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
CzechRepublic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Monaco
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
SanMarino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
UnitedKingdom
BCs in Europe - national overview (4193 in total )
Female Male Unspecified

19. Second generation
activities
Sunday school, summer camps – varies a lot
HARP
Local, national, international workshops
DONE
Post high school education 3 months
STF
Post high school education, 10 months
fundraising, witnessing, humanitarian
projects
University chaplains in UK
Student service in London

20. European 2G Blessings
600 individuals blessed
Still together
True 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?

21. Attendance at Cheongeong
International High School summer
workshop

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

23. Sunday school in North
London
25 years Sunday School
5 age groups
Creche
Pebbles
Stones
Rocks
Junior HARP
Senior HARP
HARP service
Local and London-wide
Annual Summer Camp for children

24. Curriculum
Curriculum for younger children
3 year curriculum - 6-15 years
150 lessons
Old Testament, New Testament, Completed
Testament
Repeat 3 year cycle
Bible stories and learning from them
Age appropriate materials
Testimonies from older 2G

25. 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

26. 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)

27. 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)

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. Tim Atkinson
Primary school teacher for 30 years
Teaching Sunday School for 20 years
Trained second generation to teach
Produced best developed curriculum
Sunday school manual
7 courses
270 lessons
Lesson plans
Activities
Worksheets
Games

32. Ages 3 – 5 years old
My Book of God - 91 lessons
Old Testament stories - 27 lessons
Ages 6- 8 years old
New Testament – 34 lessons
My 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

33. 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

34. 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.”

35. Don’t forget
Families have children
No Sunday school
Families won’t come to church
Families won’t join church
Church will disappear
If you don’t invest in your future you won’t have
one