Hyung Jin Nim
Chungpadong Church. Seoul, July 26, 2008
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Yeon Ah Nim's Welcome Remarks:
Good afternoon, brothers and sisters! (Good afternoon!)
As always we are honored to have you in this sanctuary, and for those who are joining with us via internet, we are welcoming you as well.

It has been the most shocking week of our lives! I am sure you all heard about the helicopter accident. We can only say, "Thank You" to Heavenly Father that everybody is OK including True Parents. (Applause)

This morning we met them. We had breakfast together. They are on the way to recovery.
Please in this time, I would like to ask you all to pray for True Parents and people who were on board with True Parents. Your prayer means so much to True Parents and us, and we want to say one more time that we really thank you for all your support and love.
Thank you so much! Aju!

Hyung Jin Nim's Welcome Remarks:
Brothers and sisters, it's truly a miracle that we can stand before you today. Oh my goodness! It's been a crazy, crazy week! At the very least! But truly a miracle! I'm going to share with you a little bit more in detail later in the service. We are witnessing a true miracle at this time, brothers and sisters. We are living in a miraculous age, and truly, because of True Parents' sacrifice, that victory extends to us. That victory really gives us the potential, the strength, the ability to really, truly, shine before heaven and earth.

We want to talk a little more in the service. I'm going to keep my comments short at the beginning. But welcome everybody.

We really are in a tremendous time! My goodness! There were so many countless miracles, but I can't talk about it now. I just want to talk about it, but I can't do that. I'm holding myself.

Brothers and sisters, it's always good for us before service, to remember our value, our identity, our purpose here, that VIP, that very special VIP, Value, Identity and our Purpose!

Always remember that we are valuable in the eyes of God. When He sees us, He sees valuable children, He sees children of cosmic value, He sees children that are divine in value. He sees children with His identity. He sees children with His own face in us. In our destinies, in our lives, we have a purpose. We have a purpose for being in this world, (which is) to truly actualize the blessed life, which not only ends with blessing in our own lives, but becoming a blessing to this world.

Brothers and sisters, if we do that we will have that amazing VIP, we will have that amazing blessed life and be a true miracle, a miraculous hope for all the brothers and sisters around us.
I'm going to wait until service, until the word session, before I share with you, but it truly was a miracle! Let's give a big round of applause to God (Loud applause). We can only thank God from the bottom of our hearts. We have only gratitude. That's all we have.

We can only thank those brothers and sisters, thousands, for writing in, from around the world, Europe, Britain, the States, Australia, all over the world, Japan, Asia, Russia, all brothers and sisters, concerned, one heart, one mind, one thought. "Are True Parents all right? Are True Parents ok?" That tremendous mind! We see that we are one family, truly around the world, connected by True Parents. We are so grateful to all the brothers and sisters who have written in, who have encouraged us, told us to keep our head high, knowing that we're going to make it through this (to overcome).

I want to report to you that True Parents are doing fine. They did a 3 hour Hoon Dok Hae yesterday. Father spoke how many hours today? He finished at 11am today. Sun Jin was there until 11. I had to come out early because we had a 10:30 service. But just tremendous, amazing, amazing, miraculous moments! We are going to get to that a little later, but brothers and sisters, I'm so grateful. We are so grateful.

The whole True Family came out (to HDH). All the brothers and sisters of True Family came out. We're one of heart, mind, concern for True Parents. All we had in our minds was, "Are True Parents all right?" Everybody showed up. Everybody who's living showed up, everybody in the spiritual world showed up.

We saw a tremendous miracle, brothers and sisters and we are truly grateful. My sister always says, "All we have is gratitude" and that's what I believe today. All I have is gratitude, and I want to thank everybody around this world for writing in, who are concerned about True Parents, who love True Parents, who call True Parents their True Parents.
Brothers and sisters, let's give those brothers and sisters a huge round of applause! ( Loud applause) They are our family. They are our family!

Welcome once again! And I really, truly wish that this may extend to all the brothers and sisters around the world, and that we may truly have a great service.

Let's not only listen or observe today. Let's really participate. It is something to celebrate this week. And really I'm asking you to help me celebrate today because I am ready to celebrate. It was true miracle! Brothers and sisters, once again welcome and once again thank you.

Words of the first visualization and meditation practice:
Let's visualize a beautiful spring time stream, in the forest. We are there in spring time. We can feel the new spring coming. We can see that the leaves have just began to blossom. The flowers are just opening. We can feel the power of new birth, of new life all around us. We can feel the cold waters becoming warmer in front of us, that cool stream. We can notice on the trees, the beautiful cherry blossoms. We can see them gently opening, beginning to open for this new spring.

And as we receive this new resurrection, this new life after the harshness of winter, let us receive the power of this new birth. Let us close our eyes and feel the energy of rebirth all around us. In the water, every moment the stream is being reborn, changing, flowing. We can feel the trees, and the powerful rebirth energy all around. The grass, we can see new grass starting to emerge. We can feel the power of the natural cycle of rebirth. And let's feel that resurrection spirit, the spirit of new life, the power of this new cycle of birth,

And as we breathe in let us breathe in that new spring. In our hearts, let's say, "I am alive" As we breathe out, let us gently in our hearts say, "Thank You". One more time, as we breathe in, breathe in that new life, "I am alive", as we breathe out, "Thank You". One more time as we breathe in a new breath, a new life, breathing in, "I am alive", gently breathing out, "Thank You"

True Parents are always with us, whether we see, recognize or not. True Parents are guiding our footsteps. They are here with us in this sanctuary, in our hearts, wherever we may go, wherever our destinies may take us. Let us know that they always love us, let us always know that they believe in us and let us know that they will never, ever let go of us (never leave us).

Hyung Jin Nim's Prayer:
Brothers and sisters please join us for prayer.
Heavenly Father thank You for this day. Father, we have nothing but gratitude this day. Father, it is a truly miraculous moment in history. Father, this past week we have witnessed a true disaster. Father, True Parents were taken to the grave, but Father, they emerged victorious, Father, reborn, resurrected, overcoming the power of death.

Father, we see a miraculous time in history. We are living in this rebirth age, Father. We are living in this resurrection time. Father, we hope that in our lives this day, with every breath that we take, we may be reborn, with every breath that we inhale, Father.
Let us be resurrected to new life. It is Yours, Father. We are extending our gratitude to You this day. We want to celebrate You this day.

Thank You for all that you have done.(In tears) Father, thank You for saving True Parents, thank You for saving our children, thank You for saving our brothers and sisters on that plane. Father, thank You so much. All we have is gratitude. And Father, we know that all of us as Unification family, we were all on that plane that day, Father, we all experienced that crash. Father we went to the grave and following our True Parents, Father, we came out alive. Father we came out resurrected. Father, we came out with new life, facing our futures with confidence. Father, let us know that there is nothing that can stop us. Father, let us know that truly You are a miraculous, supernatural God.

And Father we know that You are in this place today. You are in our hearts, You are in our lives. Father, guide us. Father, direct us, give us the insight, Father, the direction, give us the path that we will have to take. And Father, we pray that each footstep may be illumed (illuminated), Father, each step that we take, may give glory back unto You.

Thank you Father for what You have done. Father we stand here truly open with our arms, opening our hearts, Father, with an everlasting love and an everlasting gratitude. And Father, with the confidence that You have given us through this experience, Father, we face our lives with confidence, with hope, with optimism. Father, we know that we will overcome any obstacle and we will truly live a victorious life for You.

Thank You so much and we pray these things with all the brothers and sisters around this world as one family connected by True Parents in our names. Aju!

Interesting story ( by Hyung Jin Nim):
You know, we always start with something a little interesting. I have to admit though that today I want to offer a real story. It's not a joke but it was an interesting incident. After the accident Mother was lying on the hospital bed, resting. The kids came in. By the way, they were playing, just the next day after the accident! And they were running around and now they came in to greet True Parents. And Mother is lying there and she sees the kids and greets them all. And my little boy - he is now two - comes up to True Mother and says, "Grandma, why you're lying down like that?" (Laughter). And True Mother said, "Oh my God! This boy is too smart!", and when he was right about to leave he said, "Anyonghi jumuseyo" which means, "Have a very good night tonight!" So I just wanted to share that with you.

Hyung Jin Nim's sermon/report:
Actually today, more than a sermon, I want to share some of the things that happened during this event (helicopter crash). I'm sure all of you heard a basic account of what happened. I'm sure you saw on CNN, AOL, that there was a helicopter crash and there were survivors etc... But I want to share with our World Unification Family a little more in detail.

On the day of the crash we service (in church), as you all remember. I was out having dinner with Sun Jin, my sister, and we were talking. As you recall, last week we talked about heroes. We talked about heroes and the heroic path. And as you recall, the heroic path consists of many things. It consists of a call to an adventure, a road of trials, obtaining the victory, then returning home, and then sharing that victory, spreading it, helping others, empowering others, etc.

And I really did not think that I would meet heroes that quickly. But on that day we were having dinner and I received a call from Hoon Sook Nim, and she said to me, "You have to sit down for this!" I said, "I'm already seated. Come on, tell me what's happening." She said, "You know, the helicopter went down!" and I literally got up and said, "What?! The helicopter went down? What are you talking about?" She said, "Everybody's ok. The kids were on it, everybody's ok, True Parents are ok."
So I'm hearing from Hoon Sook Nim, "It is ok, everybody's alright." So the first thought in my mind was saying, "Ok, it was not that bad, maybe a little bump. Maybe after take off they hit a twig or something."

And so we were fine. We immediately called a couple of (some) people, and they said, "Please come to the hospital right away." We went to the hospital. We drove to Cheong Pyeong immediately after dinner, and as we arrived we saw SBS, KBS, all the media, totally surrounding. You all know, when you go into Cheong Pyeong, the gates, right? So you have the path to the Cheon Jeong Goong (Peace Palace), the path to the Hope school and the path to the training center. All there, there must have been 10-15 different cars, different media coverage (media people), professionals etc... They were all over there, trying to take pictures, (from) who's coming in, who 's going out.

At first, when we released a statement that everybody was ok ? Mr Yang released a statement that everybody is fine, that True Parents are fine ? the media did not believe us. They said, "We are not going to believe you! You guys are Unificationists, you may be hiding something!" (Laughter). See, that's why we've got to change our Unification status (reputation), brothers and sisters.
We have something to be really proud of. I'm going to share with you why we have so much pride in the Unification family, why it's such an amazing tradition! But let's get to that a little later.

The media coverage was all over us, asking us, "What's going on? What's going on?" Mr. Yang was the official head spoke's person. He spoke to the media. He gave them his personal phone number; they were calling until 2 in the morning! And he was explaining to them, "Everybody's fine," but they didn't believe him. So they waited till the fire department and the police department came to confirm, to make sure that everybody was ok, and particularly that Rev Moon and Mrs Hak Ja Han Moon were fine. The police department came out, gave the news to the reporters, "They are fine, Rev Moon is ok, Mrs. Moon is ok. They are recovering etc.." At that point (after this) the media people left.

The very next day, within hours, as you may know, the news were all over the world. It was on the front label of CNN.com. It was all over: AOL, NBC, ABC, everywhere, BBC, every media broadcast, in Korea: KBS, MBC, SBS etc. Everybody was covering this. And all around the world, "Rev. Moon survives a helicopter crash at 90 years old!" 90 years old! This went all over the world, all over in about a couple of seconds. AJU, brothers and sisters! Oh my goodness! (Applause).

I want to just give you some statistics we heard from President Joo: 90+ percent of helicopter crashes end in fatalities (deadly). And when you look at the statistics: A helicopter that crashes at this velocity (speed), with 16 passengers on board.... there has never been (such) a case that is recorded where all 16 people survive a helicopter crash with no major injuries! Brothers and sisters, it's a miracle! (Loud applause). God is good! Oh my God! God is great! (Continued applause!)

We have just been living in a miracle in this past week. As I reported to you all, True Father, yesterday morning: 3 hours Hoon Dok Hae, this morning 5 hours Hoon Dok Hae! He's already doing back flips, brothers and sisters. He's already doing his Jedi mastery! He is amazing! He is Master Yoda, flipping around already! (Laughter). I just could not believe it! You understand, 4 days ago, at tremendous velocity, 90 percent of the helicopter in flames, gone (destroyed). 4 days later: Father, 5 hours Hoon Dok Hae. This is what we're experiencing.

But let me explain to you a little more about the scene! It really did not hit me (I did not fully realize). When I first got to the hospital I thought, "This is not a hospital where a helicopter crash occured to (where you think of helicopter crash)." This is the first thing that came across in my mind. At a helicopter crash, I was told, everybody is crying, everybody is mourning, because everybody's life usually ends in fatalities. But here I come to the hospital, and everybody is celebrating, everybody's running around, there's baskets, there's fruits, there's things being thrown around. Everybody's having a celebration! So I come in. I see my children, they're all ok. They're all a little shaken up. Of course they give me hugs, and kisses, but then they start running around. They're doing playing, doing colouring books. I'm thinking, "What's this? A helicopter crash? Maybe a bicycle crash, (Laughter) but I don't know about a helicopter crash (but does not look like helicopter crash)!"

Our sisters there, we can't believe it! We saw True Parents. They're fine! They're all ok! One of the sisters went in for minor surgery. So we visited everybody. And Mr Yoon! Mr Yoon was walking around that very day! Three hours ago he was in a disaster zone, and now the man is walking around like nothing happened! Won Joo also was walking around like nothing happened! This is 11 tons of pure metal, brothers and sisters, do you understand?11 tons that dropped from the sky! If you can imagine, driving your car and falling 4 stories (down) in your car, straight down to the ground. You can imagine how much damage will occur to you. These brothers and sisters were walking around!! They are telling the story! I can't believe what I'm seeing! I'm thinking, "Ok, it's not that bad! Everybody's fine, everybody's ok, it's really not that bad, nothing to worry about!"

So we did Hoon Dok Hae with True Parents. Sun-jin, as soon as she saw True Parents, she's grabbing True Father's hand, and we're massaging his feet, saying, "Father, why are you flying in that weather?" Massaging his feet we said, "My God! A joy to massage your feet!" Mother, we're just holding her, kissing her, hugging her, hugging True Parents, hugging Father, kissing Father, saying, "Oh my God! It's a miracle. It's a miracle!" And Father, he's lying there, and he's saying, "It's a miracle from God!" and I saw him putting his hands together, "A miracle from God!" He was "lifting heaven" (with the movements of his arms); he was lying in his bed, doing "bench pressing heaven" (with his arms again). He was saying, "God, have mercy! God is good!" (Applause) It was amazing, amazing!

And so we thought, "Nothing big, nothing big!" We had to wait till the next morning. Too much fog that night. Too dark. We can't see anything. So we waited till the next morning. The next morning the security guards took us to the site (place of accident). It's closed off to the public at this point (at the moment). When we visited the sight, we heard the basic story. It didn't hit me, even seeing True Parents. They're so healthy. I mean I could not believe they experienced a helicopter crash! My children are running around. Mr Yoon is running around. Won Ju is walking around. And so I'm thinking, "It's a minor crash!"

We go in; we see the site and literally our jaws drop (we are shocked). It is a disaster zone! Disaster! It is like in a movie. I could not believe that I was standing on that hill. I was looking at the site, and I'm thinking, "This is not real! It's a movie!" I'm looking at the helicopter and think, "This is not real, it does not look real. It is like I'm watching a movie!" It does not look real!
So we finally go down. We went down the hill. We walked into the forest and that's when I started getting hit (when I realized). That's when it started hitting me. I started just losing control of my emotions, I started shaking. I never had that experience (of shaking. I started shaking, because I looked at the helicopter and I could not imagine that True Father, at 90 years old, had to escape a burning inferno, and my little baby children had to run out of that helicopter! Every time I saw that vision I started almost shaking.

And I remember just looking at that, and we were given the explanation. What happened was, the helicopter was ready to land. All of a sudden there's a phenomenon called a fog bank. That fog bank is a very quick-moving fog that's in a very thick strip and moves very quick. It moves separately from larger clouds. And that fog bank ... as soon as True Parents were coming down, they got the CLEAR, they got the ok (for landing) from downstairs (from the ground), from Cheong Pyeong, from Seoul aviation center, they released them, they had to sign, everything was ok. They saw down there the lights, and they're going down, (but) all of a sudden the fog bank covered the helicopter, completely covered the helicopter. The pilot said he couldn't see (even) one meter in front of him! He was literally blinded, literally blinded! All of a sudden he felt something. He is an experienced pilot. He is one of the most experienced here in Korea. He was the private assistant to the Samsung Corporation, etc, and he has the most flight time hours in Korea, etc.

This man, from his experience, he told us that they are trained to immediately pull up as soon as they hit a fog bank,, to pull out of the fog bank; that's what they're trained to do. And so he wanted to go to the right, to go to the soccer field, as you know, in front of the theological seminary.
As he was lifting up, all of a sudden he felt something from the back, he said. Something was pulling at the tail. The tail was hitting something. And as soon as he hit that, he knew that something was wrong. So he made the decision, "Ok, I can't pull up now", because, as you know, helicopters can't incline (go up) when their nose is up. Helicopters have to first put their nose down, create velocity, come down and then can go up. Can you all imagine that? You can all visualize that, right? It has to do with this kind of things. But it was like this (tail down) because something was pulling on the tail. So he tried to move out of that and he lowered the nose to bring the velocity up so he could pull out, and so he went (he tried that). All of a sudden, as he is dipping (going down), all of a sudden, out of that one meter fog, he sees about 20 pine trees. 20 pine trees!

Now, if you know anything about helicopter crashes: This is the end, as the pilot was explaining. He thought this was the end of his life. The trees, at that velocity! There is a only plastic glass ? only plastic is between him and the trees - the trees become deadly weapons. Even one branch can pierce solid metal. And he literally thought, he's gone (dead). He thought, "I'm gone! I see those trees. There're coming at me, those are deadly spears." He knew, "I'm dead!" He thought he was dead. They (the trees) started moving at that velocity, the trees emerged, they started coming towards him, but all of a sudden, almost like from heaven, they started disappearing!! They started disappearing from in front of him! What was happening? The propeller blade was cutting the trees!!
Give God a round of applause! (Loud applause) Woooo! Do you understand?

Of course this site is going to be a sacred site (in the future). It's going to be a pilgrimage site in the future, absolutely. It is a huge victorious statement of True Parents' providential course and their victory as the providential saviour.

But it was incredible! When you go there, there is decline of trees that are totally sliced, like a samurai cutting through bamboo. You understand? Totally sliced! He literally saw a highway open up before him. Trees, boom, boom, boom, boom, flying away! All of a sudden that helicopter hits the ground, boom. The first hit actually was the tail - they count that as the first hit - the second was this impact. So after the trees were cut, the helicopter went down and it hit the ground.

When it hit the ground, two passengers had their seat belts unbuckled. You understand the velocity of this helicopter. It can cover 100meters within 0.3 seconds. Two people, Lee Sang Soo Ajoshi (uncle) and Yoon Ki Byung Ajoshi had their seat belts unbuckled because they were radioing (signalling) down to the the cars to prepare for when True Parents would come off the plane. This is normal.
As they hit the ground, because it was rainy, they (the helicopter) jumped up and struck a huge oak tree. That impact sent these two men flying forward from the back. They were in the back. They literally were sent flying forward. In the helicopter there are walls and there's a central passage way. At that velocity if they are flown from the seat and they hit the wall, (they get) spinal injury! Over, it's over! Tremendous shock! There's no way they'll survive that impact.
Both of them flew right through the middle, Sang-soo ajoshi flew and fell down right next to True Father, and Mr Yoon fell - flop! - right on top of him. (Applause). Give it up (give applause) for God!