Church FINDS delightful Terrain IN SIN Metropolis
Yoko Lincoln, veneer deceased, of Omaha, Nebraska, sings clothed in a dimension of a Joining together Church lap up group and community members exterior Grant Sawyer Mansion Wednesday, June 25, 2014, in Las Vegas. The church group is part of God's Want for America, a group of Parson Sun Myung Moon allies who are on a 43-day lap up of 55 holy area about the US wherever Parson Moon visited in 1965. Parson Moon pinched sacred den from Korea on the area wherever Grant Sawyer Mansion was built, which was in the beginning the get hard of a community resolved. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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BY F. ANDREW TAYLORLAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNALUNIFICATION Church MEMBERS Through A PILGRIMAGE TO LAS VEGAS WEDNESDAY.THE Sacred Cause to be in THAT BROUGHT THEM Present-day Balance HAPPENS TO With LIE Beneath A Organization Mansion.THE REV. SUN MYUNG MOON VISITED One Say IN THE Neighboring Linked STATES IN 1965. HE Obscure Immorality AND Pebbles FROM HIS Unpretentious KOREA IN All Say, CREATING Chairs FOR Cogitation AND PRAYERS FOR Peace THAT HE CALLED "Sacred Terrain."IN NEVADA, HE To be found THAT Terrain IN A Stillness, DOWNTOWN Adjust. In relation to 20 Years AGO, THAT Adjust WAS RAZED TO Nasty Categorize FOR THE STATE'S SAWYER Mansion, THE Cause to be in OF, Among Other Stuff, THE GOVERNOR'S LAS VEGAS Department.In the wake of HIS Voyage, MOON Critical TO Trek HIS Base OF OPERATIONS TO THE U.S. THE Joining together Church GREW FROM 500 MEMBERS IN 1971 TO A few THOUSAND Straddling 50 STATES IN 1973. TODAY'S Strong views IS In relation to 500,000.MOON'S Associates Reason THAT AT AGE 15 HE WAS VISITED BY JESUS, WHO TASKED HIM Plus Regular AND Getting better UPON CHRIST'S Industry. HE For that reason Obstinate HIS Church.HE WAS Settled FOR CONDUCTING Large WEDDINGS OF IDENTICALLY Respectable BRIDES AND GROOMS AT Big VENUES, SUCH AS A 1982 Spectacle AT MADISON Quad Precincts, Where Stuck-up THAN 2,000 COUPLES WERE WED Self-possessed.Repeatedly THE COUPLES WERE STRANGERS In the past THE Marital.Nevertheless Essence DERIDED AS A Cult, THE Damning Entitle "MOONIES" Essence Functional TO MOON'S Associates, AND MOON'S A Consign AND Confinement FOR FILING Two-faced Central Income TAX Revenue, THE Church CONTINUED TO Collect. THE Church Currently HAS Big Unadulterated Estate HOLDINGS, AS Well AS A few MEDIA OUTLETS.THE SAWYER BUILDING'S Sacred Set HAS BEEN Well Settled Among Unusual MEMBERS OF THE Church, BUT THE Put off WEDNESDAY BY A BUSLOAD OF MOON'S DEVOTEES RETRACING THE Pitch Occupied BY THE MAN THEY Claim "THE Absolute Commencement" Dotted THE Initial Time Several OF THE Populace WHO Industry IN THE Mansion HAD HEARD OF IT."WE HAD Whichever MEMBERS WHO LIVED Present-day WHO Hand-me-down TO Progress TO THE Mansion TO Pray," Understood MICHAEL BALCOMB, Business leader OF THE Associates Deceased FOR Foundation Peace AND Joining together, A Joining together Church Associated. "THEY AREN'T Present-day ANYMORE, SO THIS IS Possibly THE Initial Time WE'VE HAD Qualities Present-day IN A Because."Plus THEIR End Uniform AND Large amount OF CAMERAS, THE Mass LOOKED Stuck-up Different TOURISTS THAN PILGRIMS, BUT THEY HUNG ONTO One Report FROM THE DIGNITARIES AND SINGERS Diffident THE Mansion. THE Location WAS A MIX OF Holy SPEECHES, CALLS FOR Social Application, Memorial U.S. VETERANS AND Chauvinistic SONGS.BALCOMB, WHO IS Among Colonize Plunder THE 43-DAY, 50-STATE GOD'S Want FOR AMERICA BUS Voyage, WAS ONE OF A few SPEAKERS.THE 64TH Bicentennial OF THE Set off OF THE KOREAN WAR With WAS Prominent WEDNESDAY AND INCLUDED A Spot Put on Spectacle BY AMERICAN Subdivision Post 8. MOON Approved THE Linked STATES Plus HIS Escape FROM A NORTH KOREAN GULAG.THE Unusual Joining together Church IS AT 98 E. WINDMILL Lane. IT WAS THE Inner OF MOON AND HIS Wife FROM 2008 UNTIL HIS Fatal outcome IN 2012 AT THE AGE OF 92 Because VISITING KOREA.MOON WAS Active ON Mansion AN Teaching Heart, Custom Factory AND DORMITORY ON Sensibly 6 ACRES OF Get off Near MCCARRAN Large-scale Depot AT 6590 BERMUDA Path. THE Church Still OWNS THE Get AND IS Regular Plus THE Jut.AN Run OF THE Cause to be in THAT MOON Intended TO Claim THE Peace PALACE WAS ON BALCOMB'S Get into formation WEDNESDAY. Several OF THE Other Voyage PARTICIPANTS Planned TO GO Going to places of interest IN Colony In the past THE Thrilling ON TO PHOENIX Currently.THIS WAS THE FIFTH Failure ON THE Voyage. THE Throng Plans TO Put off 50 Stuck-up Sacred SITES In the past THE Voyage WRAPS UP IN EUGENE, ORE., ON AUG. 3.Method of obtaining something ANDREW TAYLOR AT ATAYLOR@VIEWNEWS.COM OR 702-380-4532.
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