In the sermon last Sunday evening, Father talked about the three-and-a-half years minimum period for the indemnity condition, through which the husband and wife can fulfill the seven-year course in total. Fulfilling this period is a tradition for the blessed couples.

I remember this to be an event before Father came to America in 1971. At that time, Father gave the direction that all the blessed couples of Korea establish a new tradition. Even if they had four or five children, or whether they had just received the blessing, there was no exception. Wives were completely separated from their husbands and children to walk the path of the pioneer for the sake of the nation. This is the three-and-a-half sacrificial years of duty, and this has become the tradition among the blessed couples. Since then, blessed couples have been split apart and in different places, most of them focused on witnessing, and toiled on for three-and-a-half years.