"Grandmother Oak" (Se Hyun Oak) joined in 1946 when Father had alone walked the way of the Will, before the time there even was a Unification Church. She has been serving our Father ever since.

Q: What was your situation when you first met Father?

A: When my first son was 22 years old, studying in Japan, World War II broke out, so he was forced to go to the battlefield. 1 prayed very much for him. Around 1945 when Korea was liberated from Japan, many kinds of spiritual phenomena were occurring, and I also received a revelation, by which I could know where Father was. In the revelation, God ordered me to go to a mountain for prayer. But because of my housekeeping duties, I put off going from day to day. Owing to this I suffered from fever as heavenly punishment. On November 11, 1946 I was able to meet Father.

Q: How did you get along after meeting Father?

A: I was a deacon in an established Christian church, and my husband was an elder in the same church. Some deacons from the Christian churches gathered together centered around Father, and we held prayer meetings and Sunday services. Because we were moved so much by the gracious atmosphere of these meetings, we shed many, many tears of repentance and thanksgiving to God.

From this time, we were persecuted and accused by established churches and so were our physical families; sometimes we were detained at the police station.

We experienced spiritual phenomena like what happened in the upper room in Mark's house on the day of Pentecost, 2000 years before. My physical family was also persecuting us.