Baguio Pioneered -February 1979-
Once we had gained many new members and trained their abilities in lecturing DP and internal guidance we then opened up our first pioneering center in Baguio; the summer capital of the Philippines. My co-missionary from Germany, our great, humble brother Ulrich took a team of a few members to Baguio and opened a center.
It was in Baguio that our movement learned how to make our tastie peanut brittle that became our main source of earning money. Once we started opening up new centers, money did became a serious problem and potential limitation to our growth. This problem |
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caused our movement to center much time around making peanut brittle and fundraising for two days twice a month when the Filipino’s were paid; any other time would have resulted in the customer having no money to make donations for our product. However, we were able to raise all the money we needed in those four days because our candy tasted so good. |
| Initially all the candy was produced in Cubao and we focused with all night team production to make the needed morning boats to travel to all corners of the Philippines to sell the great product. In April 1980 I took a large team of members to Baguio to expand the successful pioneering foundation that Rev. Ulrich made. Nanette and I made the first “Holy Ground” in the Philippines at that time. |
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Bacolod Pioneered -March 1979-
Our first pioneering city to have a Filipino leader was Bacolod. I sent an advance team to search for an empty house to rent and after a week of searching they finally found only one vacant in a reasonable location for mission. After leaving Nanette in Cubao, to run the Manila center I arrived in Bacolod with a large group of recently joined members and the most positive older members only to find out that first night why no one was renting that house, is was “haunted”. This caused us to begin our mission in Bacolod with a great condition that I had learned from Mrs. Barbara Burrows, missionary to Guinea.
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After thoroughly cleaning the house, in every room, front and back yards we read Divine Principle out loud for 40 minutes for 40 days to “educate” or chase away the annoying spirits. This same cleansing condition we had used in the Cubao center and would use again in the future. |
First Public Rally for Our True Parents -Aug 1979-
After painting the center, putting up a sign, witnessing and gaining new local members through 7-day witnessing and 3-day workshop conditions, we proceeded to announce our arrival and the coming of HF’s Kingdom through our TPs with a large rally in the central park of Bacolod. Signs were created, uniforms purchased and we prepared a choir. |
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| In the beginning of August 1979, in Bacolod the first public Philippine Unification event was held announcing the coming of the Lord of the Second Advent on a Sunday afternoon. In addition to a public speech to the gathered crowd, we set up a number of members simultaneously teaching DP, using lecture charts in the park. We were well received, many guests came from the event to hear lectures and many new members were gained. I wore my Arabian |
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disdasha, which fit in well with the other religious ministers in the park who were preaching that Sunday afternoon. We later learned this park was famous for religious preaching and one time even some ministers became so excited at one another some were thrown into the pond. |
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In November 1979, Nanette and I made a Holy Ground in Bacolod. We continued witnessing conditions followed by workshops, of course training all our guests to become teachers of DP before they even heard conclusion and firmly established the pattern of making peanut brittle candy and effective marketing of it on pay-day in the surrounding towns to support this pioneering the 3rd city in the Philippines. |
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