Catch Up on Our Bloom! Pentecost Festival
Earlier in May, Mother Moon celebrated Pentecost with members from Europe, the Middle East, and other parts of the world. Catch up on the event here.
The Bloom festival took place over two days, and was designed by our young organisers to be a celebration of worship, praise and prayer with a family festival suitable for all ages. The Showpalast grounds were transformed with many activities for children, including a magician, bouncy castle, pony rides and the truly unique “giant horse” that kept our energetic youngsters busy for hours. For the older youth, there was a lecture competition, a Universal Peace Federation gathering, and lots and lots of food, refreshments, and an opportunity to connect with old and new friends.
On the Saturday evening, we held a magnificent devotional prayer and praise session, featuring the powerful (and newly created) worship band “Near Revival” with musicians and vocalists from the UK, Italy and Germany. They performed various Hillsong and gospel classics including Hosanna and Oceans, along with many other contemporary gospels songs and some upbeat versions of our Holy Songs.
Then on Sunday the doors opened early and a full house assembled to hear Mother Moon, Dr Hak Ja Han Moon, deliver her Pentecost message. “When we look at the current state of the world, there seems to be no beacon of hope shining for peace today or in the future,” she said, “but we must remember that God, our Creator and Heavenly Parent, is eternal, the first and the last. Therefore, we can be sure that God will never abandon humanity. His goal and dream at the time of creation will absolutely be fulfilled in these last days.”
Catch up on the festival by watching the video below or click here.
Lead organiser of the event, EUME Vice President Bogdan P., said the event was an outstanding success. “The fact that we had a team of over 150 young volunteers taking complete ownership of this event was already a success,” he said, “and True Mother provided the perfect inspiration.
“What the world needs now more than ever is God’s motherly, embracing love. True Mother gave us a glimpse of how the world will be once we reconnect to our origin, the Heavenly Parent.”
Matthew and Natasha H., Vice President Couple for the North SubRegion, brought all eight of their children to the festival, making the 1200km drive from London into a family pilgrimage. “It was the first time for most of our children to see True Mother in person and they were excited and deeply moved,” he said. “True Mother looked beautiful and serene, but we could see there was a pillar of fire and strength shining out of her eyes. We were filled with New Hope.”
