2018 Hyojeong Multicultural Peace Festival
2018 Hyojeong International Azalea Festival in Cheongpyeong was held in Cheongshim Peace World Center, Hyojeong Cheonwon Cheongpyeong Holy Ground, on May 4-6.
FFWPU initiated the International Azalea Festival with the desire for the world of culture of heart to be settled, transcending nations, races, genders, cultures, religions and other barriers. A total of 30,000 people from 70 nations visited this festival including the 3,000 people who came from abroad, 5,000 youths and students, etc.     
Multicultural families from USA, Japan, the Great Britain, Philippines, Thailand, Mongolia, Malaysia, Ukraine, Kirgizstan, etc. and local citizens enjoyed the spring season by participating in the 2018 Hyojeong Multicultural Peace Festival (Peace Festival) which is to be held every two years.
The 2018 Hyojeong Multicultural Peace Festival which aims for peace transcending nations and cultures, was held with participants consisting of multicultural families, foreign students, local citizens from 10:00 Saturday morning on May 5, in the front yard of CheongShim Peace World Center. This harmonious festival, respecting the diversity of culture, was governed by the Korean Multicultural Peace Federation. 15,000 people participated including Korean Multicultural Peace Federation’s 24 branches, 71 associated organizations, various embassies, NGOs, multiculture-related organizations. 
The main theme of the Hyojeong Multicultural Peace Festival was Hyojeong Global Citizen Festival Get Together. The festival featured a Korean farmer musical instruments performance, the model multicultural family awards, scholarship award ceremony, performances from each country represented, and other events. The multicultural special performances such as the Philippine traditional dance, Nanta performance, Mongolian and Thailand dance, African traditional dance, etc brought much joy to the onlookers. 
A member of the Indian Parliament, Bhubaneswar Kalita, participated in this event. He gave praise to the development of Korea in his congratulatory address, saying that “The Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first Asian person to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote “In the golden age of Asia, Korea was one of its lamp-bearers.” Korea is achieving this prophecy establishing a great nation of wealth and development.”

*Right before True Mother entered the stage, I felt True Father’s presence

2018 Hyojeong Prayer-Wish Offering Ceremony for Restoration to Inherit Heavenly Fortune

On the second day of the 2018 Hyojeong Cheongpyeong Azalea Festival, 3.20 by the heavenly calendar in the 6th year of Cheon Il Guk (May 5, 2018), the 2018 Hyojeong Prayer-Wish Offering Ceremony for Restoration and to Inherit Heavenly Fortune (Hyojeong Prayer-Wish Offering Ceremony for Restoration) was held in Cheongshim Peace World Center, where tens of thousands of members from throughout the world participated centering on True Parents.
The Cheongpyeong Training Center Vice President, Myong-kwan Lee was the emcee of this event. He announced that this Hyojeong Cheongpyeong Azalea Festival was significantly meaningful event, because in this special time of the completion period of the Hyojeong Cheonwon Cheongpyeong Providence, True Parents changed the previous title “Wish Fulfillment Papers” to the new title “Hyojeong Wish Fulfillment Papers for the Inheritance of Heavenly Fortune” on April 3, 2017, and bestowed the grace to use  custom-made “Hyojeong Wish Fulfilment Papers” that can be dissolved in water since last year “2017 Azalea Festival Hyojeong Cheongpyeong Special Great Works” (May 5-7). True Parents also informed that the heavenly providence centering on Cheongpyeong Works was one level elevated in its status and scale from this Great Works, because it was granted blessing with the name “Hyojeong International Azalea Festival in Cheongpyeong.” In addition, True Parents rendered us to realize the grace of the Hyojeong Prayer-Wish Offering Ceremony for Restoration, where we could not only remove evil spirits in our bodies but also completely erase the traces and memories of sin and evil of our ancestors, who have now become absolute good spirits.
Before the beginning of Hyojeong Prayer-Wish Offering Ceremony for Restoration, there was a chanyang for 25 minutes led by the chanyang team of the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center, including Japanese Team Leader Yokoi, with great fervor. The tens of thousands of worldwide members gathered in one place and filled the Cheongshim Peace World Center with enthusiasm, singing “Grace of the Holy Garden” in unison to the sound of drums and keyboards, with sincere faith in the works of the substantial Holy Spirit.

The first part of the Hyojeong Prayer-Wish Offering Ceremony for Restoration, guided by Vice President, Myong-kwan Lee, was progressed in the order of chanyang yeoksa and a commemorative video of the Great Works. The second part proceeded in the order of opening announcement, invocation (FFWPU International Vice President Ki-hoon Kim), entrance of attendants and dedicators (16-couple of attendants and 16 dedicators), offering of the Hyojeong Wish Fulfillment Papers (16 leaders), reading of a report of gratitude to Heaven (President Gi-seong Lee), Hyojeong Prayer-Wish Offering Ceremony for Restoration (FFWPU International President Sun-jin Moon and her husband, 4 leaders), Prayer of Gratitude for the Fulfillment of Wishes (all together), congratulatory song (Fumika Koto), entrance of True Parents, bow of greeting, offering of flowers (FFWPU for a Heavenly Korea 5th Regional Leader, Yeong-bae Park couple; the FFWPU for a Heavenly Japan 1st Reginal Leader, Tomihiro Tanaka and representative of the wives department, Ioko Ishibashi), True Parents’ address, offering of flowers, taking memorial photos, three cheers of Eog Mansei (FFWPU Europe Regional Group Chairman, Michael Balcomb), bow, recession of True Parents, and closing remarks (emcee). All humankind should inscribe the following True Parents’ address in their heart.

“This is the 6th year of Cheon Il Guk when a new era and new history were inaugurated. Beloved blessed family members from around the world, today, I wish for all of you to make a resolution to wholeheartedly attend Heavenly Parent and True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind who brought this providential spring to you, with your deep loyalty and filial piety. The providential spring. Spring, as the beginning of a new year, is the season that farmers are very busy and working hard in order to have a hopeful harvest in the future. The Cheon Il Guk’s blessed family members, who have welcomed this providential spring, must fulfill your responsibilities through three ages. You must take responsibility towards realizing the world and the day that the Creator, Heavenly Parent originally intended through the past, the present, and the future, with no relation to the fall. In this responsibility, each blessed family must fulfill responsibility of the heavenly tribal messiahship. Those who have fulfilled the tribal messiahship, have a heavenly decree to become one and take on a national messiahship and then a global messiahship. Until today, Heavenly Parent gave us this providential spring time, He has longed for it with such patience. As the object partners of gratitude and praise in front of this endless love of our Heavenly Parent, I wish for all the blessed families that are gathered here and also those who are watching this live broadcast around the world, to make a resolution in this time to be blessed families of a filial son/daughters, patriots, and saints, to unite and pledge to certainly achieve the Heavenly Parent’s dream during the time when True Parents, True Mother is alive. I sincerely pray that we all can achieve the first stage goal, the national responsibility by 2020, the appointed time with the Heaven.”

This True Parent’s hopeful address filled and moved the hearts of the members watching this moment through the internet from all over the world

*Feeling the special grace of True Parents during the chanyang 

*The glittering light

*Experience of the Holy Spirit during chanyang

*My father was delighted in the spirit world

*Feelings wrapped in mother’s love

*True Mother’s voice saying “I forgive you”   

Hyojeong Cultural Festival to Celebrate the 10th Ascension Anniversary of Moon Hyo Jin
​After the Hyojeong Prayer-Wish Offering Ceremony for Restoration, at the same place, the Hyojeong Cultural Festival to Celebrate the 10th Ascension Anniversary of Moon Hyo Jin was conducted centering on True Parents. This festival was intended to commemorate the life and the work of Hyo-jin nim, who had walked a forerunner’s path for the establishment of the world of the culture of heart based on hyojeong for True Parents. In the first part, there was a special cultural performance musical that depicted Hyo-jin nim's life dramatically with the title ‘Be victorious! Pray! Love!’ The second part was a festival of harmony and unification through various cultural performances. The 2018 Hyojeong International Azalea Festival in Cheongpyeong came to a grand finale with Hyo-jin nim’s songs. Hyo-jin nim truly lived his life with hyojeong, and so each of his songs are deeply embedded with his true love and substantial culture of heart. Next are a portion of participants testimonies, who expressed the grace they received through the Hyojeong Prayer-Wish Offering Ceremony for Restoration and the Hyojeong Cultural Festival to Celebrate the 10th Ascension Anniversary of Moon Hyo Jin.

*He taught me what Hyojeong means

*Wanting to inherit Hyo-jin nim’s heart and behaviors of Hyojeong

*Evil Spirits that ran away from the heavily rumbling bass sound

*True Mother consoled me in a dream.