The following sermon was given by UTS alumnus, Bento Leal (UTS’77) at the Bay Area Family Church in San Leandro, CA on Sunday October 25th. Bento Leal is a Relationship Skills Trainer with Healthy Relationships California, a statewide non-profit, non-sectarian organization. “I am passionate about creating healthy marriages and healthy families, and I teach communication skills including: empathic listening, speaking, dialogue, problem solving, conflict management, and forgiveness skills.“Bento Leal Bento has taught communication skills classes to more than 2000 couples and singles at...

Raised by devout and practical Presbyterian parents in Oakland, California, I naturally developed a keen interest in eastern spirituality and served society as a rock musician after graduating in math from the University of California at Davis. I met my spiritual mother, Christine Libon, guided by the Holy Spirit a couple blocks from my house in October of 1972. The Oakland family gathered me up and Mrs.  Onni Durst sealed the deal, introducing me to Rev. Sun Myung Moon, my Lord, Guru and God, in January of 1973. After three and a half years of missionary life in Oakland, New...