Las Vegas Family Church 7.1 Jeol and 7.8 Jeol Celebration

[Ken Doo]

Las Vegas Family Church 7.1 Jeol and 7.8 Jeol Celebration

On Aug. 9, 2016, 40 Las Vegas Family Church members gathered together to celebrate the 7.1 & 7.8 Jeol holiday. Mrs.Compton gave the opening prayer and Mr. & Mrs. Jares offered flowers to

True Parents. Then Mr. Oberg did 3 cheerful cheers of Ok-Man-Sei.

Today’s speech was given by pastor, Rev.Ken Doo. He spoke to members of the history and

origin of 7.1 Jeol and 7.8 Jeol. Our Pastor explained 7.1 Jeol as the Liberation of God and

7.8 Jeol, as the 77th birth anniversary of True Father, on July 7th, 1997 of the lunar calendar.

Pastor also gave a relating to his personal experiences with the Buddhist religion. He, being a first generation, has told that he grew up in an environment where the Confucianism culture was

engraved into the society. Without being personally taught the Confucius teachings, our pastor has already learned the customs and morals through his daily life. After telling us his story, Rev. Doo

told our church members that that’s how we should carry out our religion: creating a tradition and

custom that tie into our daily lives. The reasoning for his statement was because throughout

history, some religions were lost; however, the religions with strong traditions were kept.

Thus, proposing to create a large society that can influence our culture to willing people for

the future generations.

Celebrating 7.1 & 7.8 Jeol, we, as a church family, have learned the history and the deeper

meaning of this event. As he has stated, this purpose of celebrating this day is to not only be

remembered of how 7.1& 7.8 Jeol was originated but how we should cultivate our religion to our

culture in order to expand and to prosper our religion. Reverend Ken Doo has reminded us to

strive to work hard so our True Parents can be remembered in future generations and to achieve

immortality for True Parents equivalently to Jesus, Buddha. 
                                                                                                                  -Report by Hyang-Ah Doo

▲ Las Vegas Council chair Mr. Dennis and July birthday members were invited to cut the cake

▲Mr. & Mrs. Jares offerd flowers

▲Mr. Oberg did 3 cheers of Ok-Man-Sei

▲Thank you for your time to shopping and set the beautiful offering table and cake; 

J-missionaries, KumAe Jares, Song Doo, Jocelyn Alcantara, Mary Hida and Doo family girls.

and thanks to David Hirano to take photos