Collective sins / indemnity conditions "still" works

Vienna, November 2006

Dear All,
I like to share a testimony which deals about indemnity conditions in terms of collective sins, which occurred in my family 10 years ago.

I guess you still know when I wrote to the list, that my family had a car accident in Poland in 1996 That year I attended with my wife a 40 days workshop with Heung Jin Nim and Dae Mo Nim. in Chung Pyung. At the end of the 40-day, I picked up the National Messiah ship for the Philippines. Before I was missionary in Russia from 1992 until 1996.
After I returned to Russia we prepared for the new mission in the Philippines. On the way to Germany, in Poland by a mini bus my wife with our 3 small children got hurt in a serious car accident.
One passenger got immediately killed. The driver got very serious injured. Our youngest daughter Eleonora (that time 4 years) got seriously injured too, and fell in coma. Doctors in the hospital told me she may not recover anymore, and might not survive at all. I saw my 4-year-old daughter on life saving instruments. I felt so much pain I might loose her. I had to cry. I contacted Dae Mo Nim in Korea and explained what had happened to may family. After 3 days our daughter Eleonora woke up. Doctors and nurses in the hospital said this was a miracle that my daughter survived. Later on I found out Dae Mo Nim had sent good angels to help my daughter to survive. When I asked my daughter what she had experienced in her coma she said: "I have seen strong lights all the time". I believe angel must have performed surgery on her inside injured organs, and that why my daughter got well.

The last 10 years I have been struggling a lot, why this had happened to our family. I was a 21 years missionary and I faced a couple of time a life and death situation. My question I had to God was: why did you allow this to happen?
My injured wife and daughter had to fly from Warsaw to Vienna by a special ambulance plane. We had no money. The far had cost 8000 US$. My mother in Frankfurt called up the European/German HQ and asked for some money from the Church. But the leadership there declined to give even one cent. In Russia where I worked for 4 years also declined to help my injured wife and daughter to fly to a Vienna hospital.

Thanks God, the family members in Austria gave me a donation of 3000 US$ and with donations from my own family in Germany and my wife’ folks we could finally get the money together for the ambulance airplane.
Today, perhaps I can call it additional indemnity condition on the top of the fatal car accident we have been paying.

During my 4 years in Russia I had strong intuition I might loose one day my family in an accident. In August of 1996 the accident occurred in Poland, just before crossing the German border. This happened while I travelled separately to Vienna.
Reaching Vienna I got a phone call from the Poland Church that my whole family is in the hospital. I wasn’t surprised, because I had before that strong intuition something will happen to my family. Of course, I was shocked and in tears what did happen. It was just 3 weeks ago when I left Chung Pyung with a high spirit.
3 weeks ago I saw the movie "Schindler’s list". I have heard of this movie often but for some reason I didn’t see it. As you know I’m German and I knew to well what we Germans did in WW II, committing atrocities and genocide against the Jewish people. Whenever I see movies relating to the Holocaust, I’m always to tears. The question always comes: Why? Why?

When I saw this movie "Schindler’s list" I burst into tears the whole movie along. I couldn’t stop crying. German born Oscar Schindler, to more than 1200 Jews Schindler was all that stood between them and death at the hands of the Nazis. But he remained true to his Jews, the workers he referred to as his children. It reminded me about St. Paul. He was a persistent persecutor of Early Christians, until his experience on the Road to Damascus which brought about his conversion to faith in Jesus as the Christ and Son of God.

Now after 10 years I realized why my family had this terrible car accident in Poland. It was in Poland where the Nazi regime committed this terrible crime against the Jewish race. YES, now I know my family and I had to pay indemnity what Germany did to the Jewish people. In my life I always wanted to serve and love the Jewish people. In 2001 until 2005 I worked with the "Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society" (HIAS) in Vienna. It was an honour for me to be employed by a Jewish organization.

The past 10 years of my life in the UC has been pretty tough. We have a son who is suffering from Autism, and my daughter Eleonora is still dealing with a trauma, due to the car accident she had in Poland. My eldest son is distant from the UC, because he still thinks why this all happen to our family. 3 years ago I got hit by a car. Fortunately, I got not injured. But if, I could have been paralyzed. Looking back I can say "someone" wanted to kill/destroy our whole family. Our family is still recovering from all this.

Warmest greetings,
Wolfgang Schawaller