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Reaching the halfway point amidst a jam-packed spring semester, CARP Bay Area and Bay Area Family Church Young Adult Ministry (BAFC YAM) core leaders recognized a strong need within the community for spiritual revival and reconnection to a thriving relationship with God. Thus, the “Truly Alive” retreat was born!
Efforts for the establishment of CARP Harper started back in November 2017. CARP alumni Zaiya Konno returned to her home city of Chicago after some years on a faith-based leadership training program called STF Europe; she had a desire to establish a positive environment for the youth in her local community to come together.
On February 26th, 2022, CARP Bay Area, in collaboration with Service for Peace and High Street Coalition, carved out time on their Saturday morning to volunteer for a off-ramp garden beautification project in Oakland, California.
“Ohana means Family. Family means that no one gets left behind.” This is a quote from Disney’s Lilo and Stitch. We chose the word Ohana for our CARP event “Ohana Talk” because our vision and motto for our chapter is to create a family-like environment where the participants are able to feel a lot of love and a place where they would want to come back to. Just like the great state of Hawaii, CARP Hawaii greatly treasures family.
CARP Princeton was officially approved as a new student group on February 9th, 2022 at Princeton University! The fresh chapter will be led by Yujin Angolio as the chapter president and Yoo Shin Tanai as the chapter vice-president, both juniors in their university. The school’s Student Group Recognition Committee (SGRC) approved their group upon receiving requisite documents, an interview meeting, and deliberations by the Senate of the Undergraduate Student Government.
My relationship with God is so much stronger now, and the relationships I have with others around me are better. CARP has changed my life and the lives of those around me. With the current social climate surrounding American colleges, I hope that CARP can be a place where different people from different backgrounds, ethnicities, faiths, and more can come together for the sole purpose of uniting, loving, and living for the sake of others.
On Friday, September 18, CARP America re-joined up with CARP Korea and CARP Japan for the second HyoJeong Conference. As a continuation of the previous conference, we went deeper into the topic of reunification of the Korean peninsula, a major theme in the work for peace of CARP’s founders, Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
On April 26, CARP America hosted its first ever Open house on April 26th with members of Generation Peace Academy (GPA). Read more about some highlights from that night!
