Shincheonji Volunteer Group Launches 'First Step' Worldwide Initiative

December 02, 2025 at 03:00 AM EST

Volunteers Take Part in Global Effort to Give Back and Be a Bright Light for the World

NEW YORK, NY, December 02, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Giving is better than receiving, and there's no better gift than the gift of service.

Through December 6th, volunteers around the world from the Shincheonji Volunteer Group (SVG) of Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, will take part in service projects in their local communities. Leading the volunteer efforts will be the group's newest members—recent graduates from Class 116 of the Zion Christian Mission Center.

A November 2nd ceremony at the Shincheonji Cheongju Church in South Korea celebrated the graduation of 59,192 theology students who had completed the Zion Christian Mission Center's year-long course. Among the graduates were 2,248 pastors.

Based on what they have learned and studied, the graduates from Class 116 are ready to give back to the community during this holiday season in service, gratitude and love with the hope of being a bright light for the world.

As part of a new graduation commemoration special volunteer program known as "First Step," Shincheonji Volunteer Group service projects are currently being prepared across countries in various continents, including Asia, North America, South America and Africa.

On November 30th in New York, 65 Shincheonji Volunteer Group members traveled to Jones Beach in Long Island to take part in a beach clean-up. Despite the bitter cold and rain, the graduates from Class 116 and others from the volunteer group joyfully worked together to gather bottle caps, wrappers and other trash left behind in the sand.

SVG plans to organize volunteer projects on a regular basis in New York. To learn more about New York's Shincheonji Volunteer Group, send an email to scjvolunteergroup@gmail.com.

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