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barbiedoll
Hi all, i thought i would write a bit about my time with this group. I am free now and very glad to be. It left me damaged and in pain. But now i can move on with my life.

I got interested in them when i had nothing to do and was bored, the internet became my friend, they seemed like really honest genuine people that really loved people. But what actually was going on was not love at all it was a competition to get as many books out rather than show love to the lost. Even if someone was struggling it did not matter at all they HAD to get as many books out. On quite a few occasions i witnessed one of the members crying because she was not getting her books out. On another occasion i saw a father choose getting books out over his own son. He did not care about the needs of his child he only cared about 'witnessing'. It did not matter that his son is crying out for love and attention. His mother was encouraged by her husband to "ignore" her son and carry on with her 'job'. The poor kid. All he wants is his fathers attention yet he is deprived of it and told to stop playing and get to work.

What i went through with my time with them was not all bad though, dont get me wrong some of the stuff they teach is great, but most of the teachings dont even use bible verses, they are the thoughts of a horrible, angry little man in Australia sat in front of his computer all day searching the internet to see if there is anything written on there about him and then talking about it on his little forum where people come to worship thier great leader. They suck up to him (i know i did the same) so that they can get his approval and they never want to say anything that might upset him, because if they do they recieve his sharp little toung tha tis like a viper hitting its prey. So they remain all loving to him and go with whatever he says. If you write something on his forum he does not like then he will email you and tell you that you should not write that, and that you need to sort your spirit out with God.

So many other things that i could just talk about for hours, but my fingers hurt now so i wont.

The reason i am sharing now, so long after leaving is because i hope that my experinces with this group will help someone else to see them for what they truely are. What is that i hear you say... a small group of people, some say a cult, that just follow the teachings of one man, they say it is Jesus Chrit ......but really...... it is Dave Mckay.

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barbiedoll
It is chilling, the father-son-mother thing, I actually felt the pain of both mother and son in the family. I could see in both thier eyes that they both wanted more. I know that the mother would tell the rest of the world that she loves what she does, but when i saw her and her son together, in private when no-one was around watching them, i could see the love between them and how much i could see her pain that her son was calling out. Of course this is all IMO. It may not be true at all, she might be as cold as the father but from what i saw that is not true. I hope and pray that the mother and son will get more times together and not think of anything else except thier relationship, and that they enjoy one another for who they are. Children should never be deprived of anything and love is the main one, it is easy to say "I love you" but showing it is another thing entirly.

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zeuszor
JESUS CHRISTIANS NEWSLETTER #100, MAY 2008

MEDIA

Media coverage in the U.K. has alternated between reports on Ash's
donation to Sandi in Cyprus, and the freegan work that our teams are
doing there. Alf and Ash appeared on "This Morning" in the U.K. and
burned a 20 pound ($50) note to illustrate how people become
seriously concerned over the destruction of a worthless piece of
paper while turning a blind eye to literally millions of dollars
worth of good clean food being bulldozed into landfill.

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zeuszor
JESUS CHRISTIANS NEWSLETTER #100, MAY 2008

Below are some of Christine's comments on the situation in Kenya at
the moment:

EXCERPTS FROM CHRISTINE'S GENERAL REPORT

Politically things have improved in Kenya. It was a bit touch and go
with forming the new power-sharing cabinet as extremists from both
camps were pushing the two leaders into hardline positions. But
eventually the two leaders got together away from their constituents
and came up with an agreement. In order to get enough people into
the cabinet to satisfy everyone, they had to increase the number of
ministries from 24 to 40. These cabinet ministers get paid a lot of
money (more than in western countries), so there was a bit of outrage
in some quarters about what that would cost the taxpayers; but
overall people were happy that a power-sharing agreement had been
made and civil war has been averted. Currently peace talks are still
continuing, to try to deal with some of the underlying reasons why
violence broke out (like land disputes) but the talks have lost
a bit of momentum and not as much is happening there as it should.

Despite the improvement politically there has been a lot of violence
between the government and various militia groups. The military went
into Mount Elgon (where the Sabaot Land Defence Force is) and started
attacking young Saboat men and bombing people from helicopters.
(It's a guerilla organisation so it's hard for the military to know
who's involved and who's not). No media were allowed into the area
(and were jailed if they dared to try to sneak in) so it seems they
had something to hide.

A lot of people have been tortured and have disappeared (presumably
killed). There are several hundred torture victims in a jail in the
Mount Elgon area. The military blames the jail for the torture and
the jail says the victims arrived that way. Everyone knows it was
the military, but no-one is being made to account for it.

Then there is the Mungiki, the Kikuyu secret society, which during
the
post-election violence organised attacks and evictions of western
Kenyans in retaliation for what was being done to Kikuyus. The
Mungiki leader is in jail, but the government had agents watching
other significant Mungiki leaders, including the wife of the main
leader. Somehow, despite the surveillance, the leader's wife and her
driver were assassinated.

The Mungiki immediately accused the police/government of doing it.
The government claimed it was the result of in-fighting amongst
Mungiki. So Mungiki decided to do a show of unity and declared a
general strike in Kikuyu areas. It was very effective and did cast
doubt on claims from the government that Mungiki were suffering from
in-fighting. The strike went on for a few days, and anyone who
didn't comply with the strike was at risk of violence from Mungiki
youth. It only stopped when the leader in jail called an end to the
strike.

A shop owner, who refused to honour the strike, was beheaded on the
very corner where Fran and Kim had been staying earlier in the month.


The price of food is continuing to rise, because so much food was
destroyed in the post election violence and because many people were
not able to plant

Being school holidays, we have more volunteers than usual. It's
nice having some of the older orphans back on deck, as well as some
guys we met through the Easy English project.

A four year old orphan boy named Valentine stay with us for a month
(to get proper nursing care) while he recovered from an operation on
his hands. We all grew a bit attached to him while he was here.

"Progress" has come to our local markets. Motorbike taxis (called
piki-pikis) have arrived and are in competition with the bicycle
taxis (boda-bodas) and matatus. It's sad in a way, as the piki-pikis
will put some of the boda bodas and matatus out of business.