The Words of the Jensen Family

Every morning Christa Jensen gets her Divine Principle book out of her bag and reads out loud in the streetcar

Neue Ruhr Zeitung
April 25. 1970
Essen, West Germany


Neue Ruhr Zeitung

Every morning at 7:30 a.m. Christa Jensen (22 years old) takes the streetcar Nr. 38 to the college of engineering. Like others in the crowded streetcar she pulls a book out of her bag. But unlike her co-riders she reads out loud from the book. The book has the title "The Divine Principle" and there are about 40 Essener (inhabitations of the city of Essen) who read out loud from the book in streetcars or on the streets.

Christa, a student of the Dept. "Landscaping Architecture" belongs to the 40 active members of the "Gesellschaft zur Vereinigung des Weltchristentums" (Unified Family). The movement comes from South Korea; the Essen group has a center at Adolf-Schmidt Strass near Bundes-Strase 1 in Essen-West, and that's where the members are living and are coming together for their services.


In the streetcar on her way to the college of engineering; Christa Jensen of the "Gessellschaft zur Vereinignung des Weltchristentums" (Unified Family) reads out loud from the book "The Divine Principle."

But to so their missionary work they go out into the streets and the buses and streetcars of Essen and read out loud. None of them does this on a full-time basis, merely on the side, next to their work, school or studies. They take advantage of their daily rides to and from work with the result, that nearly always the same co-riders hear the loud- spoken word about God and Christ.

How the audience reacts? Most of the time not at all.

Only new co-riders are surprised time and again, when all of a sudden next to them a young woman pulls a book (or manuscript) out of her bag and starts reading out loud, turning the place where she stands into a pulpit and the streetcar-riders into a congregation. 

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