Sunday Service on Aug. 16, 2026

Triangle Family Church Sunday Service on Aug. 9, 2026

Music Offering

Sermon: Butterfly Effect

In this sermon titled "The Butterfly Effect," the speaker reflects on how seemingly small and unplanned events can trigger profound life transformations and providential outcomes. Starting from a personal perspective, the speaker recounts her journey beginning in 2022 from an isolated academic focused on solo research to becoming an active collaborator and spiritual participant deeply engaged with the Unification Church community and broader academic networks.

Key themes include the unpredictable ripple effect of encounters and opportunities—such as joining research groups, attending international conferences, and connecting with influential scholars—which together have propelled her into new roles and responsibilities. These engagements have not only advanced academic understanding of the Unification Church and its movements but have also sparked significant personal spiritual growth. Stories of prayer, ancestral liberation, and strengthened faith illustrate the gradual opening to spiritual realities.

Practical insights include the importance of raising spiritual "antennas" to receive divine inspiration and acting promptly on these inspirations to keep the ripple effect moving. The speaker also emphasizes humility and teamwork, underscoring how collaboration and support from friends, family, and mentors have been crucial in this journey.

Ultimately, this personal testimony serves as a call for listeners to recognize the divine potential in everyday encounters and be open to God's providence working through small actions—suggesting that everyone can experience a butterfly effect in their own lives if they remain attentive and responsive.

Highlights

• Introduction to the butterfly effect: small causes producing large effects in life and providence.
• From solo academic to collaborative researcher through providential invitations starting in 2022.
• Key international academic connections with renowned scholars redefining his role and impact.
• Spiritual breakthroughs via prayer and ancestral liberation beginning from encounters with true mother’s messages.
• Life-changing car accident as a spiritual wake-up call leading to a shift toward others-centered prayer.
• Active engagement in the Na'vi second-generation movement and providing expert support to Japanese Unification Church members.
• Raising spiritual antennas to receive inspiration and acting on it as the catalyst for ongoing providential movement.

Sunday School: Bible study - Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet

Jesus washed every one of them — including Judas, before anyone had earned it.

Peter's protest ("Lord, do you wash my feet?") sets up the teaching that receiving love can be harder than giving it, and that being served by Jesus means admitting we need Him — a washing pointing ahead to the cross. 

Three takeaways: humility (greatness in God's kingdom looks like kneeling down), love (given before it's deserved), and example ("do just as I have done to you").