Dearest brothers and sisters from the Chipata region. Through this short message, my wife and I would like to introduce ourselves to you. We are so inspired to hear that you attended the 7 day workshop in the special prayer hall a few months ago. We deeply enjoyed seeing you all on the pictures and short videos. Mieko is from Japan, I am from the Netherlands. We received the Marriage Blessing in Korea in October 1982, together with 6000 couples. We are both in our late sixties; we have one son and two daughters . All of them are in their thirties, having their jobs in England and Japan. In later messages we will gladly share with you more about ourselves, the various missions we have done, our work and hobbies. For now, allow us to express what has inspired my wife and me so much about the new revelation. A permanent source of motivation for us in our missions has been the precious knowledge, that God is truly Our Loving Heavenly Parent who created human beings for the sole purpose of sharing love and happiness with them. He never wanted His children to live in conflict and suffering and, as a loving Parent, feeling strongly the pain of his children after the Fall, He set out to save all of us. Bringing all His children back to Him as been the sole purpose of Our Heavenly Parent throughout the ages. He will never give up, until His last child, on earth and in spirit world, can enter Heaven in the embrace of His love. But God can only bring about His Kingdom if we, His precious Sons and Daughters, cooperate with Him. We are incredibly valuable and important to Him. Without us, Our Heavenly Parent cannot build his Ideal of One Family of Human beings under God as the Heavenly Parent. We will share more about us with you soon, and will be excited to hear from your side as well! We wish all of you lots of blessing and happiness in your beautiful region of Chipata!

Gerdina and I live in the Netherlands where we manage a hotel and restaurant near the beach. Visiting Chipata and the Kasenengwa area was a life changing experience. The way I was received and accepted by the leaders and people in this area in the autumn of 2022 made a lasting impression on me. Regretfully my wife could not accompany at that time due to responsibilities of managing the hotel. I plan to come back in 2023 to continue to work here and support Dawson, Felix and the leaders in their educational work. I also look forward to work together with other NGO's and organisations to set up training programs in order to further develop this wonderful area.

We are Andre and Sachiko Schermer from the Netherlands. We have been working in different activities in America for about 11 years and return to Holland in 1991 for the Tribal Messiahship. We are blessed in 1982 in New York 2075 couple. We have 4 children, 2 daughters and 2 sons. I am working at the Flowerauction for about 30 years now, and Sachiko is helping the Cheonbo registration. Your photos and videos which you all attended the workshop moved our heart so much. We are very happy to suport this Chipata Project.

On hearing you had attended workshops awhile ago Rumiko and I were both moved to tears. We hope you got as much inspiration out of them as we did when we ourselves first attended workshop in our early twenties. We were also quite happy to receive pictures and videos from you as well.

As for ourselves, we are Ralph Schell and Rumiko Takahashi. We are both in our mid sixties. I am from the Netherlands but have lived in Australia for 14 years and Rumiko is from Japan but she has also spent 7 years in America.

We were blessed together with 2075 couples in July 1982 in Madison Square Garden in New York and have 3 children, 2 girls and a boy. They are currently attending university.

My current work is in information technology where I do system administration and user support and Rumiko is retired.

We were and are very happy to hear of the work being done in Chipata and glad to make a contribution to it. We hope you are all doing well and are in good health. God bless you all.

Ralph and Rumiko Schell-Takahashi

Dear blessed couples from the Chipata area, let me shortly introduce ourselves to you. My name is Guus Schenk and I was blessed with my wife Trudi Dünser in 1978. Trudi untimely died already 28 years ago, but we have 3 wonderful children and 7 lovely grandchildren. My mission is treasurer of the Dutch FFWPU and I am involved with supporting the Chipata project “on the Dutch side”. After hearing the testimonies from brother Frans and sister Elizabeth Baatenburg about de Blessings they had been conducted in our Chipata-area, I was very inspired to participate in that providence and I started inspiring and mobilizing other Blessed couples in the Netherlands to participate in this lofty endeavor as well. In a joined national effort we could, under the guidance of mr. Dawson Lupili and pioneer couple Baatenburg, under the protection of Chief Mishoro, sponsor about 6.000 Blessings in the Chipata area. Later, under the leadership of Derk van Dorsten, you as the Chipata-team, could finish a prayer hall, a guesthouse, waterholes. To promote interreligious cooperation now already more than 800 leaders/elders have participated in a 7-day workshop. For your young people you as a team organized already several Youth workshops and there are more to come. On top of that recently an organic farming project is being started to develop the Chipata area also economically. I am very impressed and deeply grateful. My prayers will always be with you.

Dear brothers and sisters in Zambia! We would like to introduce ourselves to you - and we would like to greet you, our dear brothers and sisters from Africa, our family from the Chipata region! We are Bert and Lisa Janssen. Lisa was born in Austria, a beautiful country in central Europe with many mountains and lakes. And I was born in the Netherlands, a small and densely populated country in Western Europe, located at the North sea. We are both in our early seventies. We both joined the movement of our True Parents when we were in our early twenties. We were matched in London in 1978. In 1982 we received the Blessing in New York, along with 2075 couples. We have five children (three daughters and two sons) and ten grandchildren, aged between nine years and 6 months. We live in Nijmegen, the city where I was born. Nijmegen is over 2000 years old, has a university and beautiful natural surroundings. It is located near the border with Germany. Lisa and I are involved in different kinds of voluntary work, both inside and outside our Unification community. Our goal is to build relationships of trust with many hopeful and good hearted people in our city. We want to prepare their hearts so that they can come to feel True Parent’s love and understand God’s vision for a unified world. Lisa loves cooking and baking and taking care of people. I love gardening and writing. We both love music a lot, especially classical music, religious hymns and choirs. We are happy to hear about the good developments that are taking place in the Chipata region under the supervision of Dawson Lupili and Felix Chanda. We want to congratulate all Chipata members who recently completed their 7 days seminar on the Divine Principle! Lisa and I pray for your health and happiness! Although Zambia and The Netherlands are very different countries culturally and geographically, we deeply feel that we all form one big family under God and the True Parents! God bless you all! Bert and Lisa Jansen

Mihoko and I live in Amsterdam. We have two sons living in The Netherlands and two daughters, one living in California (US) and one in Frankfurt (Germany). On the picture you see one of our 4 grandchildren, Nora, when we were on a boat trip celebrating our marriage blessing anniversary (40 years) together with many couples from Europe. Mihoko was born in Japan and I was born in The Netherlands. She works as an interpreter (Dutch/English – Japanese). Together we have a little translation company. We both are involved in activities in the Unification Movement – an organization that has given us – and still does – much understanding about God’s Love and Truth in His Work in history to realize the original ideal of creation: Humanity as one Family under God. We are very grateful to the Chipata community for your interest in God and efforts to help to realize His Ideal of a Peaceful World. In our work we came to realize that, even though there are different religions, in their core teachings there is the desire for peace. We also realized that if the teachings are practiced to bring more love and harmony, in the world, peace really can come.
We are very happy to be connected with the Chipata project, inspired by your pictures and reports and cooperation with Felix and Dawson, whose efforts we appreciate very much. We wish you all many blessings from our Heavenly Father.

Dear brothers and sisters in Zambia, my wife Grethe was born in Norway,a beautiful country in the north of Europe. I myself was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We met each other during Grethe's visite in Amsterdam. We were blessed in Germany in 1995 together with 360000 couples.We are living in Amsterdam, and are active with volunteer work van our neighbourhood.We also participate in the activities of the Dutch FFWPU. We try to keep ourselves healthy by walking a lot in nature. I do a little gardening myself. We are very inspired that you attended the 7-day wokshop in your new prayer hall. We were also deeply touched in our hearts, by the photos and videos we received from you. It is a long distance from our country to Zambia, but not in our hearts. We are therefore grateful that we can provide you with further support for the Chipata project. We wish the Chipata community many blessings and good heath.

Jelle and Grethe Hester

Let me introduce our family. We took part in the Holy Blessing Ceremony in Korea in 1982 with 6000 couples on October 14. The matching by True Parents took place in June 1981 in Camberg, Germany. Pierpaolo, my husband, is born on the Italian island of Sardegna (between Corsica and North Africa). He comes from a Roman Catholic family of 6 children. Myself I come from a Protestant family of 2 children and grew up in the east part of the Netherlands very close to the German border. Our son Joseph was born in 1991 and is now doing research on the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Both of us have worked in America for 5 years during the One World Crusade and in the providence to send Ministers toKorea and Japan. I also worked for 3 yrs in Scotland (Homechurch Providence). Together with Joseph we went in 1995 to Ukraïne and Moldova and came back end of 1996. We went also to Jardim in Brasil where True Parents organized 40 days workshops for families. In 1998 we became National Messiah of Tunisia by lottery (nr. 36). We stayedthere a short time and met with different Japanese sisters who were already working there.