NOVA Family Church

Celebrate with us the International Day of Peace and the
Opening of the The Interfaith Peace Labyrinth

On God's Day afternoon, Northern Virginia Family Church will host the fourth annual God's Day Extravaganza. Our theme for 2007 will be World Peace through Inter-religious Cooperation. We will hear from some of the religious leaders who had been champions for 4th and 5th World Tours inspired by our True Parents.

This will be a great opportunity of begin a New Year 2007 together with our special brothers and sisters! Of course, we will have international food that we can all enjoy. It will be a great opportunity to bring friends you have made through out the year. Yoshimi is preparing wonderful entertainment for us all. Let's celebrate the New Year together with old friends and new!

When: Monday, January 1, 4 PM – 7PM
Where: Grand Ball Room (First Floor)
Sheraton National Hotel
900 S. Orme Street
Arlington, VA 22204
Tel: 703-521-1900

As it will be a catered meal, we have a suggested donation for the God's Day Extravaganza of $10 per person or $30 per family.

On behalf of the Universal Peace Federation of North America and its founders, Dr. and Mrs. Sun Myung Moon, we are pleased to invite you to attend a special event to bless our families and strengthen our nation. This UPF Family Tour for Peace will conduct a special gathering on:

Sunday, September 3rd
Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel
999 Ninth St NW Washington, DC

The doors open at 3:30pm with the main program at 4:00pm. The Renaissance Hotel is located near the Gallery Place/ Chinatown Metro with plenty of parking available nearby.

Parent's Day is coming up very soon, July 23rd! We will have a wonderful picnic at Bull Run-please take this opportunity to invite you guests, and nominate your friends or neighbors for Parents of the Year for Northern VA.

Please fill out the Nomination Form (attached) for your nominees; you can also have an older child fill out a 2nd form for the same candidate-it is even better.

Note: All Nomination Forms need to be faxed in (or delivered) by July 14th (that's only two weeks!)

Our NOVA Selection Committee will meet on July 15th to choose the statewide Parents of the Year. Please keep in mind that last year there were also many "Excellence in Parenting Awards" in addition to the winning couple. There is a good chance that everyone will receive something.

Please help celebrate this great National Holiday.

God’s Ideal Family – The Kingdom of the Peaceful Ideal World

Thank you for joining us for the special event on Tuesday, May 2, 2006 at 5:00 pm, at The George Washington University Lisner Auditorium. We have uploaded some photos from the event.

Father and Mother Moon want to express God’s love for the American people, proclaiming that if we come together in heart and spirit, we will see a new beginning for America and for the hope of peace in our world. It is with this spirit that a special prayer of blessing will be given for all married couples and participants in attendance. As Ambassadors for Peace and people of faith, we will gather from April 28 - May 10th in key cities across the U.S. and Canada to stre

Events section has just been added to the website. It will allow us to post, keep track of, comment on, and send reminders about various events and activities. I have just posted several events from Judy's latest calendar for testing.

There are many ways to see the events. On every page, on the left side, you can see "Upcoming Events" box with hours and days remaining until the next several events. You may also click on "events" - a new link on the left side to see more details on a single screen. Finally, on top of every page you will also see a "calendar" link which is a monthly overview.

The flier that was distributed for Mother's Day service had a wrong address for this site. However, we have temporarily reserved that domain name as well, so it would actually work anyway. We might even decide to keep it, because it is kind of more precise:

http://www.novafamilychurch.org

Bottom line: there was no real need for this announcement, both addresses are now correct :-) Please use any of them to open your own account. If you already did, you might receive this message twice because I still did not remove your address from the list of non-registered memebrs.

You have probably received an email few days ago, explaing the steps I wanted to take to get everyone subscribed to the new NOVA website. There is a change to what was in that email:

Instead of manually generating user accounts for all the emails I had, I created one email forwarding address which receives any updates to the site. It forwards all such updates to all of the addresses.

You are still welcome to visit the website and make an account for yourself. That will allow you to post comments, enter your personal profile, and more in the future. For anyone that creates an account, I will remove that address from the forwarding list.

If you are member or a guest of the NOVA Family Church, you are invited to signup for an account. That will enable you to subscribe to email announcements, keep your contact information up to date, etc. Please follow these steps:

1. Click on register new account.
2. Enter your full name (this will also be your login) and email address. Makes sure we can recognize who you are, otherwise someone will need to check who this misterious new subscriber is...
3. Wait for two email messages - the first one will have your password, but that will start working only after you get the second email, which will confirm the activation of your new account.
4. If the messages still did not arrive after few minutes, wait some more...