STARTING 2024
We kicked off the year with a new name, new branding and new website!
January
Who can be so brainwashed to offer themselves to full-time public mission in 2024?! “GET A REAL JOB!” (but I love the community). Thankfully, ESGD managed to get a few more experienced voices, expanding our team with a doctor and an engineer…and a graphic designer; senior and junior, 1st and 2nd Generation working together #SeanPleaseComeBack #50%50%asians
BLESSING WORKSHOP
8th – 11th of February
Although it was not an official blessing workshop, we offered our best education and heart to 70+ BCs in Bad Cambe…wait, I am getting some news…hmm…really? Is that what he said? Ok guys! The workshop is actually official! Tbh it doesn’t matter that much, the Blessing is a path of eternal commitment, not a checklist to attend a ceremony 🙂
OFFICIAAAAL
DONE MISSION ONE 2024
13th OF FEBRUARY – 6th of MAY
Right after our beautiful blessing workshop, Done Mission One kicked off, and we’ve gotta tell you, this group really showed that sincerity can move Heaven.
keep your head up!
keep your heart strong!
SUMMER WORKSHOPS
14th OF JULY – 25th of AUGUST
For many, the main course of the year are ESGD’s summer workshops, and this year didn’t disappoint. At near full capacity, we offered once again our triad of best sellers: ODP+, Senior and ROOTS. What a WAY to recharge in the summer. (And yes, those shirts are damn cool.)
CAMINO DE SANTIAGO
1th – 10th of September
We organized a Pilgrimage in Spain, an authentic WAY to connect to our spiritual ROOTS, honour our Christian background, and to invite God in our journeys. The organizer wrote this specifically: “God can be found in each step, in the process and the destination…it’s not just in any building that God awaits an encounter, but in every moment of every day”. Did you catch it?
BUEN CAMINO!
DONE 2024
23th OF SEPTEMBER – 18th of NOVEMBER
We celebrated the 16th season of DONE. Despite new text on the hoodies, we don’t want to forget the original motto that hundreds of graduates have encountered. Whatever the future might bring: Strength and Honour.
During this 16th season we experienced some minor turbulance. Out of deep and serious concern, ESGD made an statement about the current education of the new theology and lets say, it generated some fuss.
The statement received hundreds of encouraging messages and interactions, and thousands of views. We are grateful to have madea. positive contribution towards opening the discourse surrounding the ‘new theology’, With our statement we wanted to express our support, concern, and love for True Parents and the Divine Principle. In the meantime, we have continued working.
ABOJIIIIII
DONE 2024 has recently concluded, and at present we have been blocked from using Luzna for DONE Mission One (the next part of the programme). Luzna, a.k.a. ‘The DONE House’ has been the spiritual home of 16 years of DONE; it has been loved by DONE, and it has loved DONE back. We hope and trust that a solution can be found for DONE Mission One 2025 – they deserve the opportunity to complete their year of training. With Strength and Honour, your ongoing support and seriousness is appreciated; let’s do our best to carry on together.
*insert comic relief
*so what did you do for new year’s celebration?
*moonies
MENTORING AND PASTORAL CARE
throughout the year
Alongside our main internal activities, we have all been involved in supporting a large number of smaller workshops, and trainings and meetings throughout the year. We have been able to consistently invest in mentoring and pastoral care throughout the different seasons of life; finding and maintaining faith, matching and blessing support, leadership guidance, preparation for birth, etc. This is the main part of our work alongside the Principled education we strive to provide and carry on improving.
Don’t forget to take a look at the video to reflect properly on your year.
Thank you to all of the people who attended our programs, supported us, encouraged us…
It’s been another intense year for us, and without seeing the fruits of our work, we would have no reason to continue. We give thanks to God, True Parents and the Divine Principle for being the guiding light of our vision and action, and we are determined to continue regardless.
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference, living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; taking this world as it is and not as I would have it; trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will; so that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
