Hello, I'm out of the cult TLWC and have been since I was 15. My parents got out when I was 18. I was never sexually or physically abused. I did have emotional, mental, and spiritual abuse. I want to connect to people from these times and places to compare memories and give myself closure. My grandma started her family attending TLWC in the 70s I think. My parents were 2nd generation wh
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Some posts by 'Imapurple': Posted by: Imapurple Date: May 27, 2019 08:20PM So All of this is very interesting. So much history, so much hurt. I’m new to this but have been reading it for years. I was VERY involved in the back side of all this with JRS , G&M , Rick and everything that was going on at Blix, CLW, TLW and Shiloh. I just want to say I have so much love for so many
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JesusJesusJesus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Any chance the link to watch or join the services > was in that email and you would feel inclined to > share it? I promise I have no nefarious purposes, > but I am curious about what is being said these > days in services. So many churches are offering > free broadcasts and streaming versions
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Any chance the link to watch or join the services was in that email and you would feel inclined to share it? I promise I have no nefarious purposes, but I am curious about what is being said these days in services. So many churches are offering free broadcasts and streaming versions of their services. It would surprise me if Shiloh was doing the same, but I would be interested in hearing what is
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It would be amusing if someone violently prayed that the proceeds from the sale of Shiloh property will not be placed under the control of just a few people since all have labored to fulfill God's word!
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I hear quite a few people are moving from San Diego to Arizona right now. I hope they are delivering themselves from the cult; and that San Diego die hards will finally go away and / or find healing from the toxic Julie Larson / Bruce Larson poison and other henchmen like Sebolt and the senior Sayers. We are still being bombarded with joining a group online that has Sunday services in the Shiloh
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th231955 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HA! I just talked to Simon Nisly a few days ago! I > don't know if he's actually running the sawmill > anymore, it sounds like they aren't making pallets > anymore, just offering logging and tree service! > Anyway, I almost bet I could get you one of those > hats! Simon and I gradua
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One thing I do remember about JRS passing, was when they were having prolonged "meetings' to bring him back from the dead! That should have been the nail in the coffin(sorry terrible pun) for people at Shiloh, and all over the organization. What surprised me most as I think about it now, is someone didn't come onto the scene and claim to be the resurrected spirit of JRS ! It
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HA! I just talked to Simon Nisly a few days ago! I don't know if he's actually running the sawmill anymore, it sounds like they aren't making pallets anymore, just offering logging and tree service! Anyway, I almost bet I could get you one of those hats! Simon and I graduated together, he said he is still in the organization although Shiloh was all sold out from under them with
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th23195, I received a few emails from regular posters, some who spent over 40 years in the Walk/TLWF, a good portion of it at Shiloh...and yet they have no idea who you might be. Can you drop some specific hints? What seems strange, is that you indicate you are around 60 years old, yet knew John way before the Walk (if I have that correct). The Walk began in 1951, when John started the church
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kBOY Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > During my 35+ years in the fellowship I never had > a substantive exchange with either JRS or G&M, > while they certainly extracted a lot of substance > from me in the form of free labor and plenty of > $$$s. Me neither. At one point I think I would have needed to get by five bodyguards to say hello
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Happy to have you aboard th231955 I want to comment on your statement, ..."Godly man! I wonder how he could have gotten so evil! " It sure seemed that way, but, IMO it was only an illusion. Many more than I saw indiscretions here and there and questioned the 'human flaws" under our breaths, in our heads or even voiced the irregularities out loud and paid dearly for
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C H A N G E D When I arrived at Shiloh in June of '78, it was quite an electric atmosphere--kind of like a mini-Woodstock live-in with 400+ 'like-minded?' individuals from all over the country. My entire time I bunked in a room with five other guys, mostly sawmill crew, along with a few randoms.  The schedule was insane (referenced in earlier posts), but being young (stupid?)
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kBOY wrote: My Shiloh stint was 1978-79 at the Sawmill with over 400+ living in the house. Wow
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TH231955 You bring a sobering assessment of being one who was looking from the outside in with a larger perspective than most of us had. My Shiloh stint was 1978-79 at the Sawmill with over 400+ living in the house.  Most of us were 20-somethings, full of piss & vinegar, thinking we were God's gift, only to find out we were a package of full of deception and disappointment. Plea
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Fellas, it was starting to develop in the late 60's! if you were there in 72, you were the second round used to build shiloh , or the start of building!I lived next door and helped enos ! I quit going up there shortly aftyer Monty Ives arrived! He had aspirations of being a Veterinarian!
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I lived very close to Shiloh! I helped Enos Bender Farm the Farm before any buildings were built there! I remember Enos beinbg kicked off the place, how they mani[ulated his marriage, and how many of the peoiple i knew that went there, were merely shells of their former self! whee are you Bowman, where are you Monty Ives!
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Also to be sure I am an ordained minister, living a Spirit-filled life and not following man! I knew the Walk was big, but wow these posts on the forum are mind-boggling! Jesus is the answer, but letting man guide you will always take you places you don't need to go! JRS was an antichrist, PERIOD! I lived in the yellow house north of Richmond Iowa 50 yds from the south entrance to Shiloh!
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Hello,my friends! I am the young man who helped Enos Bender, on his farm Long before Shiloh was thought of! I was around 14yrs old, when A guy named Monty Ives, and another I knew as Bowman, came to live with Enos on the south entrance house! It Enos was taking me to TlW before it was taken over by John Jr! I loved Dad Stevens, he was a good man! I was at a camp in Lake darling the summer I
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Posts that mention Donna: Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens Posted by: Imapurple Date: October 31, 2019 07:52PM Seeing Donna in the middle yard with the baby while G&M were beginning their relationship ( while JRS was in bed dying) was heartbreaking. I remember one time while in Shiloh G&M putting Donna down and thinking something was really really wro
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Changed, I know there was also a wedding in Shiloh. They may have also had one in the islands.
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From November of 2019: Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens Posted by: Chachakitty Date: November 25, 2019 02:57PM I believe the rumor of Kalona yo he true. My mother Linda said these same things to my sister. When my sister told her that it’s pretty fucked up that Gary couldn’t even leave $$$ to keep these faculties going for the die Hard who still believe the k
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The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens Posted by: Altar_Kent Date: February 23, 2004 12:18AM Is anyone familiar with this movement? It is based in Kalona Iowa at a camp/compound called Shiloh. It was founded by John Robert Stevens and first called the walk. Stevens came out of the Latter Rain movement, built quite a congregation, and then died in 1983. The Living word Fel
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I never worked at the sawmill, let alone suffered an injury there, but that doesn't stop me from wearing my 'Shiloh Sawmill Veteran' hat on the weekends. People seem impressed. ;)
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I also enjoyed my interaction with Simon Nisely at the sawmill. Wonderful person. John Bender was very nice also and his wife. I think he could fix anything. The best part of Shiloh was stealing cookies at midnight with Jim Stewart and Jeff Fry. Gladys knew we did it, but her scolding was not very serious and had love intermixed. Yes, there were some wonderful people mixed in. I never saw any lea
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kBOY wrote, > And yes, FUN. I personally enjoyed my > Shiloh/sawmill experience, and left with all my > parts intact, and got married to boot. "I worked at the Sawmill and still have all my limbs!" Too lengthy for a t-shirt. Please disregard. "I made 33 cents an hour and was still overpaid!" Too sarcastic--please disregard. Anyway, hope everyone has a
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"John Bender, Dan Nisly, John Nisly and Simon Nisly were the best." All SOLID midwestern stock. And yes, FUN. I personally enjoyed my Shiloh/sawmill experience, and left with all my parts intact, and got married to boot.
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M O V I N "Still, it is weird in retrospect that working in a sawmill was considered an equivalent "serving" ministry to working in housekeeping or construction." Being one of those who was there both at the sawmill and the accident mentioned, I can assure you we were all under the same impression of 'serving' that anyone else was under, be it the garden, kitch
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Posted by: Movin'On () Date: February 22, 2020 09:39PM Yes it was Jeff. He regained most of the use of his wrist and hand. Whoever asked about the arrangement between the sawmill and Shiloh, it was supposed to be 5 dollars an hour to Shiloh for this slave labor. What did you guys get for that? 80 bucks a month and all the corn chowder you could stomach. ******************** I think
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C H A N G E D To add insult to injury, I believe about a year before the sh*t hit the fan, there was a ceremonial ground-breaking for the Shiloh U. library, which would have further siphoned funds away from a retirement home that was never to be. Stonehenge cemetery, anyone?
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