Our Founders

Born in what is now North Korea, and having experienced war firsthand, Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, affectionately known as Father and Mother Moon, have built a legacy of peace and reconciliation centering on a family movement.

On the eve of Easter Sunday, Father Moon received a revelation with our Lord Jesus on a Korean mountainside in 1935 and was called to a public life of ministry at just 15 years old. Father Moon together with his precious wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon have established a national movement in pursuit of building God’s Kingdom on Earth. They founded hundreds of organizations, institutions, and projects for world peace; including the American Clergy Leadership Conference.

Through the Marriage Blessing Ceremony, Father and Mother Moon were the trendsetters of intercultural and international marriage, bringing couples together across national and racial borders. With the understanding that the family is the cornerstone for world peace, Father and Mother Moon are strong on the education of true family values within the family, that can then impact the community, the nation and the world. Father and Mother Moon strongly wish that all marriages, families and communities be brought together centered on God so that all may be right and well with Him.