The Family Pledge may be compared to the Christian Lord’s Prayer and is also about the coming of God’s kingdom. The difference is that in the Lord’s Prayer one prays that the Kingdom of Heaven must come, while in the Family Pledge we promise to do our part to make it grow bigger. We live in the time of the Messiah’s second coming, when the Kingdom of Heaven is already in the process of being established. Therefore, we promise to invest ourselves in building the Kingdom of Heaven.

Some regard the Family Pledge as the creed of the Family Federation.

Below, you will find the Family Pledge with explanatory footnotes.

The Family Pledge is something members of the Family Federation have said every eighth day since 5^th May 2004. Before that, it was said every Sunday and the first day of every month. The Family Pledge, which has been revised several times, was first introduced into the movement on 1st May 1994. Before that, what was called “My pledge” was used.

The Family Pledge

1. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to seek our original homeland and build the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, the original ideal of creation, by centering on true love.
2. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to represent and become central to heaven and earth by attending the Heavenly Parent and True Parents; we pledge to perfect the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters in our family, patriots in our nation, saints in the world, and divine sons and daughters in heaven and on earth, by centering on true love.
3. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to perfect the Four Great Realms of Heart, the Three Great Kingships and the Realm of the Royal Family, by centering on true love.
4. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to build the universal family encompassing heaven and earth, which is the Heavenly Parent’s ideal of creation, and perfect the world of freedom, peace, unity and happiness, by centering on true love.
5. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to strive every day to advance the unification of the spirit world and the physical world as subject and object partners, by centering on true love.
6. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to become a family that moves heavenly fortune by embodying the Heavenly Parent and True Parents, and to perfect a family that conveys Heaven’s blessing to our community, by centering on true love.
7. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges, through living for the sake of others, to perfect the world based on the culture of heart, which is rooted in the original lineage, by centering on true love.
8. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges, having entered the Era of Cheon Il Guk, to achieve the ideal of God and human beings united in love through absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, and to perfect the realm of liberation and complete freedom in the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, by centering on true love.

● Re-translated by HSA-UWC Headquarters 10^th September 1996

● Number 8 added January 1998

● Number 7 revised to add “through living for the sake of others” in 1999.

●“As the Owner of Cheon Il Guk,” added to each paragraph on 9^th November 2002.

● Number 2 revised to add “a family of” and number 8 revised to add “and the realm of being completely free in the” 4^th February 2004.

● Re-translation by FFWPU International February 2006.

● Change “God” to “the Heavenly Parent” in numbers 2, 4 and 6. Change “Completed Testament Age” to “Era of Cheon Il Guk” in number 8. 9^th February 2013.