“We Were There” Storytelling Group Report

February 2020

Founder: Sam HarleyExecutive team: Robert Brown, Godgal Caroline Cecile

Website address: http://www.testimoonies.com

Meeting Date: February 16, 2020.

What has been going on?

We Were There Storytelling Group continues to host meetings at the local Los Angeles Family church, receiving and recording amazing stories of members since their decision to join True Parents’ movement, the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.

Last year, our meetings focused mostly on the Blessing, and we heard and recorded compelling stories of matching and the Blessing for the participants. Please check on our website to read these wonderful testimonies from Blessed couples such as Nasser and Ully Zomorrod, Masoud and Sara Saberan, Keith and Katrin Mc Carthy, Osamu and Elsa Tsuchida, Ernesto and Hiroko Gomez, Gary and Felicia Jones-Locke and many more.

This year 2020, our meetings will take place once a month. We will meet in room 101 from now on, rather than upstairs in room 203, to give the opportunity to all, including those suffering incapacities.

Meeting Participants:

Brothers: Franklin Greenidge, Hill Llanto, Stan Paczynski, David Steidelhoffer,
Sisters : Marise Gallagher, Susana Ginze, Maria Ticas, Magda Ozono, Kumi Karan, Katrin Mc Carthy
WWT staff: Sam Harley, Robert Brown and Godgal Caroline Cecile

Opening prayer by Sam Harley

Stories shared

We heard great, humorous and compelling stories from Sam, Hill Llanto, Susanna, Marise, Stan, David, and Robert. These stories will soon be available on our website.

Here are photos taken at the meeting.

Sam shared his experiences going to meetings where our movement was being criticized, and their defenseful attitude with little knowledge about us.
Marise, shared about a very significant dream she had the heart of a person being of greater importance than a position, and that taught her to have more confidence.
Hill, shared about his profound experience during his recent visit to Chung Pyung, and the tremendous effect it did to his physical health situation.
Stan, shared about his recent experience talking to a Catholic attorney he met at the McDonald where he goes to for the purpose of witnessing.
Suzanna, talked about how there are many different ways to witness. And she shared about her experience caregiving to an autistic child, and the relationship with his parents.
David, shared about how he met our movement, and what compelled him to fight depression in struggling time, mostly through the support of his mother who also joined our movement.
Robert, shared about his experience going to his assigned country of India back in 1991, and the amazing development of impact through witnessing in the Southern town of Coimbatore which is high in the mountains. He reported these experiences in Lancaster Gate, London, England, who have maintained contact with those people there who had responded so well.

Report of "We Were There" UC Storyteller's Meeting

“We Were There” Storytelling Group Report

February 2020

Thank you.