Bay Area Family Church

Overview

We hope to return joy to God and humanity by empowering individuals to live by their conscience, and nurturing healthy, happy families who live in service to others as the basis for a peaceful global community.

Mission: The heart of the Unification movement Rev. and Dr. Moon founded is the recreation of God's ideal family. Beginning from their own Marriage Blessing in 1960, Father and Mother Moon are calling men and women to transcend race and religion, rebuilding the family as the vessel of true lasting love, and the cornerstone of world peace through the Marriage Blessing. This tradition of God-centered marriage provides a powerful model for building a family of true love, and expanding in life, to establish a foundation for lasting peace. Unificationists affectionately refer to the Rev. and Dr. Moon as True Parents for their taking on the role of parents to all of humankind.

Services offered

• Holy Marriage Blessing: The Holy Marriage Blessing is an opportunity for couples to make a new commitment to live purposefully for the world and God. It has become an interreligious affirmation of the universal importance of marriage. Since 1992, clergy and members from many faiths have participated. Millions of couples in over 100 countries have received the Blessing.
• The Children's Ministry (Ages 0 - 11): helps develop a heart for God, people, and the creation.
• Youth Ministry (Middle and High School): provides a loving and nurturing environment to change lives and bring our youth closer to their Heavenly Parent.
• Young Adult Ministry (College and Beyond): creates a thriving and supportive network of young adults, committed to continued growth and discovery.
• CARP: The Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP) believes that the ideal is created within and practiced in daily habits. We study and research these ideals and principles taught by great role models and teachers in every field throughout history. After study, we practice. Change doesn’t happen overnight but rather incrementally through daily, consistent effort. That’s what we practice. CARP offers a loving environment for students to encourage growth.
• WFWP: Women’s Federation for World Peace (WFWP) encourages every woman to become a "woman of peace" through cultivating a heart, to care not just for her own children but for the children of others. We yearn to develop the qualities of empathy, forgiveness, and unconditional love.
• UPF: Universal Peace Federation (UPF) engages champions of peace to practice the ethics of living for the sake of others by focusing on the areas of: Interfaith Activity, Peace & Security, United Nations Relations, Marriage & Family, Peace Education, and Youth & Service.
• ACLC: The American Clergy Leadership Conference (ACLC) was started in the year 2000 with the goal of uniting the body of Christ. It is a coalition of faith leaders who work together beyond race and denomination to strengthen marriages and families, restore our communities and renew the nation and the world. Under the umbrella of the ACLC are the Young Christian Leadership Conference (YCLC), which focuses on guiding youth to live moral, Christ-like lives; and the Women in Ministry (WIM), which harnesses the power of women in doing God’s work. We also have a Memorandum of Understanding with the Amateur Athletic Union. Their goal is to establish sports activities for youth in conjunction with local churches to offer healthy alternatives to our young people living in our inner cities.
• High Noon: High Noon exists to create a culture of sexual integrity, joy, openness, and true sexual intimacy. We provide sustainable pornography recovery, marriage enrichment, and heavenly sex education based on Unification Principles. High Noon gives education on the effects of pornography and provides recovery resources and support. We offer three distinct programs to help meet the recovery needs of our participants.

Location and service area

2305 Washington Ave, San Leandro, CA, 94577