Faith & Life
This helps believers who hope to become the fragrance of Christ live a right life of faith.
Joy Earned with Patience
This happened when I was preaching the gospel in Philadelphia, USA, by the grace of Heavenly Father and Mother. I had no fruit for quite some time, so I was worrying, thinking, ‘How come I don’t have fruit?’ Finally, through…
Shin Da-un from Anyang, South Korea
Planting Tree Seedlings
The Canoas Zion planned to perform a voluntary service together with the Department of Environment of the Municipality of Canoas. Our job was to plant tree seedlings in a park. On the day of the event, we met early in…
Bruna Carvalho de Lima from Canoas, Brazil
Missing Mom’s Arms
At a school in India, a little boy who is walking around the classroom suddenly seems to have a good idea and goes out with chalks in his both hands. Walking through the kids playing in groups, he takes a…
The Shepherd & the Sheep
Many of us, Mongolians, engage in stock-farming. In a vast meadow, we raise five kinds of livestock together—cows, horses, sheep, goats, and camels. Among them, we raise sheep the most. One family keeps approximately more than a thousand sheep. Every…
B. Jargalsaikhan from Erdenet, Mongolia
Smile
Just like a Korean proverb says, “Blessing follows when you smile,” there is nothing to lose to smile. There are, however, different types of smiling. When we are happy, the muscles around our eyes contract and crinkle up. The genuine…
After Realizing Heavenly Father and Mother
I was born in Denmark, and when I was twelve years old, my mom and I moved to Malmö, Sweden. As I grew up, I became selfish, and I couldn’t see any meaning in life. I moved back to Denmark…
Simon Peter Lindmer from Gothenburg, Sweden
A Penguin Flies
A baby penguin saw a skua flying in the sky, and fell into a deep thought, ‘I want to fly like that bird. I don’t want to waddle like this. It looks funny. I have wings, too. Will I be…
Priming Effect
If an athlete or a sporting team that lost an important match appears in a commercial, you will not feel reliance on the product advertising. This is not groundless. The priming effect which is widely used as a marketing method…
What We Need Now Is Tolerance and Forgiveness
In the old time Korea, scholars, who were called Seonbi, were rarely angered and generously extended forgiveness and tolerance to others, regarding them as virtues. Shouting loud in the streets or fighting in anger were considered a vulgar behavior which…
Tell the Truth
Many distinguished hospitals in America have introduced “Tell the truth” program. “Tell the truth” program was devised for medical errors; when a medical error occurs, the medical team meets the patient’s family, promises them that they will be honest with…
The Realm of God Is Established in Mutare Too
In 2018 when Zion was being established all over the world at an unbelievably fast speed, our Zion members in Harare, Zimbabwe, also prepared to plant the gospel in a new region. However, the plan we made ambitiously faced a…
Enos Mutazu from Harare, Zimbabwe
No Conceit
People who are fond of mountain climbing would like to try the Himalayas. But conquering the Himalayas is not easy at all. Since the peaks are significantly high, they have strenuous treks that even fray professional mountain climbers’ nerves, and…
A Smile Brings Joy
One day, I had dizziness. Feeling my whole body weak, I even had nausea. As I am well-built and had not lost strength or appetite before, I was worried about these sudden symptoms. After hesitating a little bit, I went…
Seo Hui-jeong from Daejeon, South Korea
Temperature of Life, 36.5℃
Normal body temperature is 36.5℃ [97.7℉]. In this temperature, blood circulation and enzymes activities that are crucial for the support of life such as metabolism, immunity, digestion, and absorption which are the most active. If the temperature drops even by…
The Best Time to Start
Grandma Moses, an American folk artist, began painting in earnest around the age of 80 and made about 1,600 pieces of artwork before dying at the age of 101. Living in the rural countryside all her life, she had never…
The Niagara Syndrome
Life is like a flowing river. The river is calm and quiet on a flat land, but the water current gets fast when it meets a waterfall, and falls off the bottomless cliff. In the same way, our life flows…
Pleasant and Happy Volunteer Service
The Baltimore Church visited the Sunrise of Silver Spring, an assisted living facility, to cheer up senior citizens living there by performing various songs and dances at the end of the year. Many of the residents clapped, tapped their feet,…
Melissa Hutchins from Baltimore, MD, U.S.
Metacognition
A broadcasting company conducted an experiment to find the secret of excelling in studies. The experimenter separated the students who obtained top ranks in the mock exam from the average students, and gave them memory tests. He showed them a…
Improve Your Family’s Strengths!
If you want a seed or a plant to grow well, you need to place it on the spot with good sunlight and wind and raise it with care, rather than leaving it alone. It is the same with the…
Finding Mother’s Precious Jewels
Remembering the happy memories of preaching about Heavenly Mother in South Africa through three times of short-term mission trips, this time I flew to Zambia located in the south central part of Africa. I transferred three times and after a…
Hong Jeong-eun from Seoul, South Korea