A couple of years ago I was "befriended" by members of the Jesus Christians cult who were handing out flyers in Sydney, Australia. There were 3 cult members who identified themselves as: Ashwyn Falkingham, Barry Fernandez and a guy named Ross. Ross's last name is unknown, but he's the bearded guy with the guitar in this Youtube video:
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These 3 Jesus Christians were living in a Toyota Coaster mobile home parked behind Sydney University in the suburb of Darlington. The exact location is Lander Street, Darlington, near the corner of Raglan Street. This location is sometimes used by the Jesus Christians cult-leader David McKay and his wife Cherry to park their mobile home in. Jesus Christians cult members believe that their "leader" David McKay is The Messiah and it's a real hoot, because Davis is SO ordinary, a short balding middle-aged American man.
Of the 3 Jesus Christians I met in Sydney, Ross was in his fifties and appeared to be the leader of the guys in the Toyota Coaster, although Barry the control-freak didn’t like taking orders and would pick arguments with Ross over trivial stuff. It later emerged Ross has been following David McKay for almost 30 years and that Ross takes psychiatric medication. Barry Fernandez is aged in his thirties and is of Indian descent. Barry was very paranoid, aggressive and fanatically loyal to David McKay, the leader of the Jesus Christians cult. To join the Jesus Christians, one must accept that David McKay is “The Messiah” and that everything utterance which leaves David’s mouth is the Word Of God. The cult-members I met were all paranoid, to varying degress and all showed signs of mental illness. Barry has been known to follow people around for hours, ducking into alleys and doorways to try and avoid detection, while checking-out they are going were they SAY they are going, and not dropping into ASIO, the Australian Secret Police, to report on the Jesus Christians. Barry is totally paranoid and a borderline psychopath. Ashwyn Falkingham was the youngest of the 3 men (aged in his twenties) and appeared to be the most naive of the three.
Having befriended me when I was down, these 3 Jesus Christians suddenly disappeared from Sydney in 2010. Ross said Barry had "gone underground" and neither Ashwyn nor Barry could be reached by mobile phone or email any more. These guys had been helping me, then they just vanished without warning and I came close to committing suicide. Perhaps they were pissed-off because I refused to join the Jesus Christians cult. Whatever the reason, if they go around befriending vulnerable people then leave them in the lurch, they WILL be responsible for someone's death.
I moved to Melbourne, Australia, in 2011 and in 2012 the guy named Ross appeared in Melbourne by himself, claiming to be no longer involved with the Jesus Christians, but still handing out religious flyers about the same sort of stuff the Jesus Christians are into. His favourite place to hand them out is in Swanston Street, Melbourne CBD, in front of the escalators that go up inside the Melbourne Central Shopping Centre. Ross also sometimes goes to the Gembrook Retreat which is a hang-out for anarchists, including some very extreme ones.
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With my previous experience of being “friends” with these people and being left swinging in the breeze when they decided to go "underground", I refuse to talk to Ross or any other Cult members. Last time I shunned Ross he immediately got on his mobile phone and made a call, so he appears to be "reporting in" to someone. So much for his claim to be working alone. Maybe he had to report-in to his Anarchist buddies. These days, Ross is parking his Toyota Coaster mobile home at a church in the inner suburbs of Melbourne. The people at the church probably think Ross is a nice Christian fellow, but they don’t know what they’re dealing with.
Ross claims to no longer be a Jesus Christian, but I don't buy it. He has spent the last 30 years taking Psych meds and believing that Dave McKay was The Messiah, so whatever Ross calls himself now, I think he still believes in the same paranoid crap that he has always believed in. And he probably still believes that every time David McKay opens his mouth, the Word Of God dribbles out.
It would be funny if not for the fact that the Jesus Christians prey on vulnerable people and the mentally-ill, then abandon them when it suits the Cult Leader to do so.