If you were raised as orphans, then you will only grow up to be orphans. Those who were raised as a child of a widow will only grow up to become a child of a widow. For this reason they need brothers. That is an absolute necessity. You should have old people living in your churches and serve them. This is what all of you should do. Do you understand? [Yes]

You should be doing witnessing in this way from now on. As you do witnessing from now... Then, you must exert yourself after coming to like that kind of God and nurturing fondness for people. You must become dedicated. After that, how are you going to do witnessing? You should not carry it out haphazardly, but have a focus. I have just given such directions all over the world. In New York, each person is responsible for 120 households. I have made the record for each member. Having been assigned to just 120 households, they are to visit only those homes! Whenever you have some time, you should go and knock on the door! Soon, you may be visiting them ten, twenty, thirty, or fifty times. Isn't this how it should be?

The 120 households will be influenced according to the number of your visits as well as your unchanging attitude. This conclusion is the result of your examination so far.

This is the result of the experiments carried out during the witnessing activities in the 21 cities. It has been proven that the rate of success in witnessing results is proportional to the rate of sincere and truthful contacts with the people; therefore, we must implement the same policy all over the world. I gave such direction in England before a gathering of missionaries from 20 nations.

Accordingly, even for the missionaries, if their witnessing area is not assigned yet, then they should chose 30 or some such number of houses, and only visit the designated places. If you meet someone on the street, even if you have a deep conversation with them for, say, thirty minutes, no matter how wonderful the content it is easily forgotten after you break off. On the contrary, if you visit the designated places where you have been laying a foundation, the thirty minute conversation will maintain its original value. If you have met ten times, the value will increase ten times. Isn't this true?

We have passed by the period of street witnessing and arrived at the time of focused witnessing; we have left behind the time of multi-directional witnessing for the period of focused witnessing. Because we need more membership, we have no choice but to carry on this type of activity. This is my direction. If you devote yourself for twelve months, and just ten people among the 120 households welcome you, then it should not be so difficult to witness to those ten people. If a woman from one household starts to believe in the truth, then you should not pull that one person out, but move into that house. After moving in, you should gather the woman's husband and children and give a lecture before them.

Thus, when one man becomes a member, you should not just think that the person is our member, but centering on him lay the foundation so that the whole family can be recognized as members. This is the direction that I have given.

Accordingly, you must go on a lecturing tour, a lecturing tour. It is very difficult for women to bring their husbands to the church. They will not listen after one time. Only after ten and twenty times.... The woman must be concerned that her husband will not comply, so she must work up her confidence to ask the first time, and won't able to speak so smoothly once she opens her mouth; then the second time around she will have to make much greater effort. This is how human psychology is.

As we can learn from that, you should from the very beginning avoid such wasting of energy and just go to her house to give the lecture yourself. Because you made the effort to come and speak, and what you say is as intelligible as what his wife has been saying, he at least won't be able to deny your words, but rather because he is hearing good words that he has never heard before he will become more interested and gradually... Then the woman also will be helping from the side.

If the woman's life has changed for the better after she joined, then her husband will be touched, and since such feelings are proportional, you should quickly centering on the family... So long as the husband does not put up opposition, witnessing to the children will surely be achieved because their mother is standing in the front as the vanguard. Do you understand? [Yes] Then, if she has relatives, you should find an occasion like some party or birthday when they can come together, and at those times, you should give them lectures. Otherwise, you should have the woman send out invitations to all her relatives so that they can gather at such and such time for a meal, and you should go as a visiting guest to give the lecture. If they ask who made the introduction, then the woman should say, "Oh, he is the church leader in this place, and don't you want to listen to him?" Having said that, she does not have to say that she is already a member, but just mention, "I have heard him speak, and I found it very interesting. So I wanted to hear more from him. Won't you all like to listen?" If she asks them like this, they really have no reason to refuse. This is the type of activity we should carry on.

Thus, I have been encouraging expanding witnessing activities that connect horizontally to the four directions through personal networks. My special direction to the worldwide movement this time is strengthening the witnessing campaign of our church through the lecturing methods that center on families. Do you understand? [Yes] After you go back, this is also what you should do. (70-183)