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Sun Myung Moon was born on January 6, 1920, into a family of farmers who had worked the land for generations in what is now North Korea. As a young boy, he attended a Confucian school and showed a deep curiosity for nature. Around 1930, his parents embraced Christianity, becoming devoted Presbyterians, and Sun Myung Moon took on the role of a Sunday school teacher.
During that era, Japan occupied Korea and sought to impose Shinto practices on all Koreans. For forty years, Koreans endured humiliation and harsh treatment under Japan's Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. Growing up in this oppressive environment, Sun Myung Moon experienced firsthand the sting of injustice, both within his community and from the Japanese authorities. troubled by the immense gap between religious ideals and the actual state of the world, he began his own ardent pursuit of solutions through a life of prayer and study.
After praying all night at Mt. Myondu, on early Easter morning in 1935, Jesus Christ appeared to the young Moon. Jesus asked him to complete the work he had begun on the earth 2,000 years ago. He asked Sun Myung Moon to continue the work of establishing God’s long-awaited Kingdom on Earth. Twice the young man refused, saying that he could not take on such a momentous task. Jesus persisted, saying that he was the only one who had been chosen by God to complete such a mission. Finally, at the third request, Sun Myung Moon said yes. From that point on, his life was completely changed.