Today we’re joined by Maarten Meijer. Maarten was born in the Netherlands. He was drawn to the spirituality of Albert Schweitzer and Leo Tolstoy at a young age. After an unprompted brush with Jesus around sixteen, he bounced from Zen Buddhism to the existentialism of Hesse, Nietzsche, and Camus. He hitchhiked around Europe searching for truth. After two years of disappointing biology study, he dropped out of university. Maarten then sailed a yacht across the Atlantic Ocean to America, where he joined the Unification Church in 1980. He was shocked by the power of the Divine Principle.
He was state leader for the Unification Church in Oregon and Montana, and later church leader in Moscow, Russia. Maarten graduated from the Unification Theological Seminary in 1991. A move to Korea followed and Maarten has taught at Cheongshim International Academy for almost two decades. He has authored several books, among which What’s So Good About Korea, Maarten? which became popular amongst expatriates in South Korea. Maarten was blessed in marriage to his wife, Myra, in 1982. They have four children.
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