Tongi Foundation Chairman's New Year Message Valued employees of our Tongil
Group companies! Good morning! Happy New Year! I pray that all of you and your
families, as well as all the work that you are responsible for may have the
blessing and protection of Our Heavenly Parent and True Parents through the
upcoming year, and that you will all have a healthy and successful year. 2014, the year
of the horse, is a new year of hope. This year is the year of the blue horse,
which represents an even more auspicious and dynamic year, so I feel sure that
this will be a very successful and productive year for everybody in our Tongil
Group family. However, if we
look at the history of Korea, we can see that the year of the blue horse has
been a time of challenge and change. At the current time also, here on the
Korean peninsula, we can see that in many areas, including politics, economics
and international relations, our country is facing challenges, and is in a
situation of crises that will require wise choices and cooperation to solve. During 2013,
our Tongil Group also was affected by international and domestic factors that
prevented us from achieving 100% of our financial goals for the year. On the
one hand, we can take certain amount of satisfaction in the fact that we did
increase our profit over the previous year, but we are still left with some
regret. Following the
True Father's Seonghwa in 2012, True Mother took the lead in encouraging us to march
forward without stopping, and in welcoming Foundation Day, after which she
proclaimed Year One of Cheon Il Guk, and the Vision 2020 campaign which she is
personally directing, giving us hope and courage. Since the
beginning of 2013, the Tongil Foundation started the VSP 2020 foundation to run
in conjunction with the church's Vision 2020 campaign, turning our attention
back to the founding motto of the foundation, "We will become the
foundation which is like the body which can support the church which is like
the mind," and in so doing, we could not help but feel some
dissatisfaction in our accomplishments up until now, despite making our best
efforts. At the first Hoon
Dok Hae of 2014 on January 1, True Mother announced the motto for the year,
"Let us become true owners of Cheon Il Guk who practice true love in
resemblance to our Creator, the Heavenly Parent!" She also entreated everyone to plant this as
the guiding principle in their lives until Vision 2020 is accomplished. I think there
are three key points in this motto that each one of us can engrave on our
hearts to lead our lives in the right direction. First of all,
as sons and daughters of our Heavenly Parent, we have inherited our Heavenly
Parent's divine nature, and we have been formed as people who are His holy
sanctuary. This means we are spiritual beings. As spiritual beings, we must
live with a confidence and pride in our value that goes beyond merely people of
this physical world. Secondly, are
the fruits of the true love which has been inherited from Heavenly Parent. The
true love we have inherited is not for ourselves, but something to be given to
those around us. Practicing the teaching of True Parents which emphasizes
living for the sake of others is the fundamental attitude we should keep in our
lives. Thirdly, the
motto entreats us to become owners of Cheon Il Guk. Since True Parents
proclaimed Foundation Day, we are a blessed group of people who have been
living in the age of Cheon Il Guk. Living as citizens of Cheon Il Guk is our
ideal and our reality. Cheon Il Guk's freedom and unity, peace and happiness
are not only the ideal that we are pursuing, but also the reality that we are following
and creating. This motto that
True Mother has given is not a decoration to hang on the wall, but describes
the kind of person that we must become in order to bring victory in Vision
2020. Valued Tongil
Group employees! As we enter
2014, a year full of hope, as members of a unified community of heart, let us
become one family who feels pride and responsibility. Let us take the spirit of
the green horse with us as we work, and bring victory in 2014. Tongil family,
let's work hard, let's be innovative, and let's leap forward. I wish that the
divine protection of our Heavenly Parent and the love of True Parents may be
always with all of you and with your families. January 2, 2014
Tongil Foundation Chairman, No Hi
Pak
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