Unificationists: What They Believe: A Glimpse at the Core Teachings of the Unification Church (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781502712776)

Nelson Mira joined the Unification Church in 1988. He served as a church missionary and pioneer with the primary task as a lecturer on the Divine Principle, the teachings of the church. In June 1996, Mira graduated from the Unification Theological Seminary (www.uts.edu), a graduate school established in 1975 by founder the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, in Barrytown, New York. The seminary is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. The seminary gave Mira a broader understanding about the teachings of different religions and church denominations. Mira earned an M.R.E. (Master of Religious Education) in a two-year course program. Following his graduation, Mira served as a church worker and traveled to South America, Asia, and other countries for church outreach. Mira served as the full-time local church pastor in Alaska for five years and for two years in the city of Seattle, Washington, where he currently serves as one of the assistant local pastors. In 1992, the Reverend and Mrs. Sun Myung Moon introduced Mira to his Japanese wife, and they were married along with 30,000 couples in a mass wedding in Seoul, Korea. Mira and his wife have a lovely daughter.