What is the reason that our Unification Church could not develop until now? The first reason is due to the failure to secure the regional headquarters. The reason is that even when a regional headquarters was able to obtain a place to rent at the heart of the city or village, they had to be moved after the contract expired. This was because the value of currency drops each year, so that you cannot obtain at less than five hundred thousand won a place that used to cost three hundred thousand won. Accordingly, with the rise in the cost of rent, the financial burden increasingly becomes heavier, and as a result we had to move the headquarters. It would be fortunate if the place that we moved to was better, but often we had to move from the city center to the suburbs. Although we secured many members while at the city center, when we moved we lost many of them. This is the first reason for the church's failure to grow. (29-185:1970.2.28)

What is another reason? It is lack of your capability. In other words, you were not able to live an organized life-style. If there are 10 counties under your region, then you must have separate plans centering on each county. Then, you must have separate plans for smaller units of organization under them. You must have plans to increase membership through witnessing, centering on counties that can influence the state and on cities that can influence the county. Having done this, you must try hard to materialize the plans.

Then what are the ways of making the plans materialize? First is Divine Principle lectures. We must proclaim our word. However, when I look at the way that you lecture, the majority of you do only a little bit at a time in the village, and the scope of lecture is very limited. In other words, the way you lecture is first do a little bit on the Principle of Creation and then a bit on the Last Days and the Second Coming. This is not acceptable. In order to carry out your strategy, you should plan ahead what kind of lecture content is suitable for each place, and then try to do both the first and second part of the Principle. You must make this type of plans and carry them out. Most of you are not doing it this way.

In a year there are twelve months, in one month thirty days, in that thirty days ten places, or if that is not possible then seven places is all right. Whatever the case, you must go to the place that you planned on and give the Principle lecture there. While lecturing, you should change lecture topics among yourselves. Then you do not have to do the same lecture in the same place twelve months of the year, and you can do lecturing at other places. If you do lecturing while switching around and taking turns, then you can soon be able to lecture the whole of the Principle. Accordingly, you should make plans by dividing the first and second parts of the Principle into, say, 12 parts, and continue to lecture. Then, your lecturing skill will improve tremendously.

However, you are lecturing according to your own habitual methods and attitude. You could not develop comprehensively because you only focused on the area that you were well versed in and neglected to connect with other parts.

Then, in order to make up for such insufficient areas, you must make plans centering on specific areas, whether counties or some other, and do the lecturing. Even in proclaiming the Divine Principle, we have to make strategies. We should look for ways to lecture on one topic and apply them to the whole. In order to do this, you must become fully knowledgeable about the first and second parts of the Principle. There is no other way but to do a lot of lecturing.

You should not say the same thing over and over. While lecturing, you must decide the topic according to the listeners and the place, and change the content of your speech. In order to do this, you should find all relevant materials and research them. Then if you make plans centering on the question of how to increase the depth, width, and height of the content, you will naturally make progress. Because most people do not use this method of making plans and giving lectures, they cannot take a step forward, but remain at the status quo. Didn't you stay this way for several years or several tens of years?

When you go back this time, you must make fresh changes in your activity methods and perspectives. The regional leader should study the map of his region and find out how many villages he must visit. In general, there will be 200, or at most 300 villages. After that, make plans to go to each village to spread the word. If you do that, there will surely be someone in the village that God prepared in advance, someone who, based on the foundation of his ancestors' merit, can be connected to our work. So, being responsible for bringing them before God, you should at least visit him three times while you are staying there. With this strategy, no matter how difficult the circumstances, you should take the time out to make a lecture tour.

After the first lecture tour, then the second tour does not require more time than the first. From the second lecture tour you need specific content. You must build organization. In other words, if there is someone who displayed a good reaction during the lecture, then you should write to him after you come back. After connecting to him through the letter, you should make a request to him that since you are going back there to return his hospitality of the last time, you would like him to gather more people. Then when you lecture again, you should not repeat the same material, but lecture on some new content. (29-186)