Claim. Tong-ban breakthrough is not generic neighborhood organizing — its substantive content is the True Parents declaration, because only that declaration links family fortune to tribal, national, and global fortune.
Elaboration. SMM names the content explicitly: “You should make video tapes about the True Parents, and through the church president hold a True Parents declaration convention in the 12 regions going all the way to the villages. The reason you should do that is because the family is the base for restoration through indemnity … the combination of families is the foundation for tribal restoration. Therefore, that which we call the tong ban (local communities and home neighborhoods) breakthrough connects the fortune of the world to that of the nation, the fortune of the nation to that of the tribe, the fortune of the tribe to that of the family, and the fortune of the family to that of the individual” (CSG 13.3 §4, 205-334, 1990.10.2). The chain runs both directions — family is both the smallest indemnity unit and the channel through which world-level fortune descends. SMM rejects political alternatives: “The way to be influential is not through ruling the government. It starts from inside your home. The providence of salvation doesn’t begin from the top. It begins in the family … For this reason, the base of all the Unification Church activities is each individual home” (ibid, 208-160, 1990.11.17).
See also. true-parents, family