Comments on: Why Should Others Outside of WOFF Care? Part 5

By: Janice

Janice — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:04:42 +0000

When I relocated here from Pa. in 2003 I believe there was great controversy going on with a member getting out of this cult church. Inside Edition the TV program had been able to get inside and secretly film. I read the articles in the daily paper at that time. I wonder if that young lady ever got over the situation. It would be interesting to hear from her also. I don’t know if this to be true John,I heard this church is buying up a good bit of businesses in Spindale. I don’t go to any of the stores over there because of this. Keep this going….I intend to tell anyone I know to read your site. Have you gone to Facebook with this?? you really need too. Best Wishes to you and God Bless.

By: Admin

Admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:23:46 +0000

In reply to Stephen Foster.

Pastor Stephen,

Your involvement was before mine. However, I have heard of you and remember Jane quoting the exact phrase about you, that you quoted, when you left. Thank you for reading and taking time to comment.

John

By: Stephen Foster

Stephen Foster — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:02:38 +0000

Hi John, I don’t know if you”ll remember me. I use to be “VERY’ close to Sam & Jane, especially Jane. Our church use to support them monthly of $1,000 and another $500/month was given to support 5 other associate ministers who were with them. We have many, many memories of them, some good and some not so good, and still “very” grieved about all that has happened since I’ve known them! I was considered one of her closest sons and followers. We went through alot of persecution when we were affliated with them. We sooo thank God we broke away from WOFF and got totally set free in January of 1991! I will always have a “special love” in my heart for them. God used them in many ways to bring truth in some areas, but it started getting off and God made it clear that we were to break away! In January of 1991, I had an encounter with God clearly saying to me, “Go Back To The Original Vision I Called You To!” Bless You Dear Brother! Yours For Christ and His Kingdom… Pastor Stephen

By: Randall Jones

Randall Jones — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:27:28 +0000

That is so true, it is Jane’s interpretation of that day how she will approve or disapprove anything. I have heard myself one day she will say something is okay, then change her mind the next. It usually happens because there is an incident with one person. Instead of helping that one person and having them make a change, everyone in the church must change. For instance, I remember there was in incident with the new ping pong tables with a few adults. They claimed one man was giving to “competition” and said some things. There was a huge meeting of anyone who had played on the tables. Then, it was outlawed after that, no more ping pong tables. That went on all the time. One person “sinned’ and the whole church suffered. You never really knew when it was okay to do anything, so you just did nothing. Jane really did not understand many things, so she would rely on her “leadership” to make decisions such as the example you gave of your business. The leadership many times did not have a clue about it, either, but would make decisions on “feels right”. You could never explain anything to them. They would say we have already heard about this. Many times leadership would tell Jane things about the people that were very biased and inaccurate. She would listen to the leadership before she would to that person. I did appreciate the new Word of Faith website and view the Singles Group. From this, you could look and see all the recent families that were separated. WOFF would take children from their parents and raise them without the parents around. They would say the parents did not want them anymore. But, they were probably just having some short term problems. Once the children were at WOFF they would not let them go back to their parents. There were children from Switzerland who came to live and the parents were wanting them back. So, they were shipped down to Brazil to live at another WOFF church. Their parents were said to be evil and not worthy to raise them. The family that wanted to raise them in the Spindale church were told they had other responsibilites within the church and could not keep the children. It is sad to see the family breakups…because the fathers would not serve “god” or “Jane” they are sent packing. Fortunately, my family stayed together. Jane could see whoever see pleased within her family structure. But, as you also said, others could not visit their families. Keep it coming! Great stuff that is all true!