By Dr George Tegha

During my doctoral studies in theology at the Unification Theological Seminary in December 2013, I experienced an unforgettable dream with True Father. Before this dream, I had been doing several conditions of 120 bows, prayer, fasting, and HDK readings. Towards the end of my last condition, I had a dream of True Father. He appeared before me looking exactly like the photo used after His passing. Father called me by my name and said, “Georges, it’s time for you to soar!” I replied to Him, “How can I fly, Father, when I have no wings?”

“I will make you fly,” Father responded and immediately went to work by arranging robes on me, and in the end I looked like a kite. Father asked me to open my arms and he fastened the robes, then said to me, “Let’s go soaring!”

Immediately, I jumped up and flew with True Father for a very long time in the sky! I soon realized that I was accompanied by my spouse Josefa Tegha on my left, and behind me were my Hometown tribe members. We flew very high up for a long time across oceans, and then True Father disappeared on the right side of our direction. We all questioned, “Where is He?” Then True Father popped up from the right and responded, “Here am I!”

When we all arrived to where True Father led us, we could see him no more and we started landing in a thick forest full of green trees, and began walking to the city of our Tribe in Africa. I awoke.

MY INTERPRETATION OF THIS DREAM IS: A CALL TO ACTION FROM HEAVEN
FOR THE NEW TRIBAL MESSIAH RESPONSIBILITY IN AFRICA

For some thirty-something years, blessed central families all over Africa have been groping to sustain their families and tribes by subsisting through sales of finished goods from developed countries. They have continuously watched developed nations come to their continent and export raw material and then send back the same products in the form of finished products for consumption to the citizens of Africa at higher prices. What shocked me recently is the state of economic degradation of most African countries, such as Nigeria, Congo, Cameroon and Ghana just to name a few, as compared to the growth at the time I was in African sixteen years ago.

I see that this demise as a result of ignorance and lack of opportunity, and as a matter fact, I literally shed tears hearing how extreme poverty has devastated my home town of Wum, Cameroon. My tears could only be compared to that of Nehemiah in the Bible:

Nehemiah Prays for His People

1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. It came to pass in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan[a] the citadel, 2 that Hanani one of my brethren came with men from Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. 3 And they said to me, “The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire…. 4 So it was, when I heard these words that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.11 O Lord, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. . . . For I was the king’s cup-bearer…

This same phenomenon applies to me, and must to others as well who live abroad. In the past months we have listened attentively to several brothers and sisters who are of our diaspora community from the African New Hope Association(AHNA), and especially from my junior brother Tribal Messiah John Mabo. He recently escaped Cameroon because political persecution and has filed for asylum in the United States. I could not stop my flowing tears as I listened to his dramatic story of what has happened in Cameroon! Also, I recently listened attentively and took notes from a passionate report of a visiting elder couple who have lived in Cameroon for over thirty years: Jacob and Annette Kamga Fotso. They shared experiences with groups in Las Vegas and in Washington, D.C. Also, Elder Pamela Stein, the original American missionary to Congo-Brazzaville and Congo-Kinshasa, shared a mesmerizing testimony of her early years in Africa, pioneering for True Parents. I was spellbound for weeks! I shouted out in prayer with my wife and cried to our Creator, God of True Love: What went wrong with us, the FFWPU members in Africa, for failing to gain ownership in our homeland? How is it we had been flourishing thirty years ago, and yet now everyone is fleeing their beloved hometowns? Who is responsible?

Yet it was the simple remark from a second generation, Ernest Kamga, the elder son of Jacob and Annette KamgaFotso that summed up the answer. It is myself and others, diaspora blessed members, who came to study in the US. Instead of going back to develop our various nations, we remained in the US pursuing our own interests. Along with his answer, it came to mind that the prominent cause must be a spiritual problem. Through prayer, my spirit revealed to me that I had received so much, yet the nourishment of the spiritual souls of my brothers and sisters back home had been neglected. I remembered the statement of our True Mother Moon when she persistently told all the members to go back to their hometowns and repent; we need to go back to the roots and revive our spiritual values that were blossoming in the past! And just like Nehemiah, I needed to repent with my family and clan here in the United States and Africa.

The mission of Tribal Messiahship commissioned by our True Parents, began with the word “go” right from the beginning in Korea. This spirit of Church growth went wild by sending out missionaries to other parts of the world for rapid building of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and to spread the Good News of the Divine Principles revealed by God and Jesus Christ to the founder Sun Myung Moon, the Second coming of the Messiah.

The early missionaries were incredible people. They gave their hearts by emulating the spirit of their founder, and sacrificing for the sake of Kingdom Building with the slogan: Living for the sake of others. My focus now will be on the missionaries sent to Africa.

Most of the Missionaries sent out to Africa suffered so much. Some were kidnapped and imprisoned. For example, Elder Annette Kamga Fotso was sent as an original missionary to the Congo, coming from Germany, and joined together in Congo-Brazzaville with Elder Pamela Stein from America. They almost lost their lives, surviving disease and imprisonment. Many of the missionaries sent to Africa suffered diseases that were unknown to the medical field. I was an eye witness to those sent to my country, Cameroon. They suffered in the pandemic diseases of malaria and typhoid fevers! Missionary Kathleen Sato, my spiritual mother, is a clear example of a brave innocent sister who survived the deadly malaria disease!

In other countries, some missionaries did lose their lives due to persecution or in some cases deprogramming by both the authorities in place and/or mainstream religions. However, many succeeded to plant the seed of True Parents, and that enabled thousands of chosen African members to receive the Blessing from True Parents. Upon the forty-year foundation of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification in Africa, the “Great Commission” is once again heralded as a trumpet call to all blessed families to take up the mission of Tribal Messiahship. To restore Africa, the diaspora blessed families must head the “Great Commission” and join together to assist our home countries.

As blessed families of African descent, sent by True Parents to live in nations throughout the world, I want to suggest that we commit the rest of our lives to bridging the gap between ourselves and our home countries. I propose that we create a supportive infrastructure to bring opportunities to our blessed families in our homeland based on our prosperity in our nations of residence. Opportunities in education, economic development and cultural exchanges will go a long way to shift our hometowns out of poverty and ignorance, and assist to build our tribes for heaven.

How can we accomplish this Great Commission from True Parents, and participate in the transformation of our tribes by 2020? I have a few ideas, based on the above noted opportunities, that I would like to share in the next Blog. Meanwhile, I welcome commentary and sharing from all brothers and sisters of like-minded concern.

George Tegha, Tribal Messiah of Cameroon

BY JOHN PATRICK MAGOOLA

The African family, like in many ancient societies, is centered on the three-generational family. Consisting of grandparents, parents and children, this paradigm evolved the subsequent concepts of house, lineage, clan and tribe. The family centering on three generations, hence, assumes the title “house” following the family name. It is by definition an aggregate family, also known as an extended family, as opposed to a nuclear family which is based on either a husband and his wife, or a husband and his wife and their unmarried children.

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