Below is a repost from another blog. Yes, it happens to be my mother’s blog. She gave me a heads-up about the content and actually finished the post before the day for the Spring Missions Project where I wore a sign which read- WOFF is UNSAFE. Word of Faith Fellowship is WOFF. In the previous post, I never really explained just how WOFF was/is UNSAFE. Obviously, I just assumed everyone knew especially if they were a reader of this blog for any length of time. In order to clear-up any lingering doubt, let me list a few things that were/are in danger while inside of WOFF. Danger is one synonym of unsafe. I used “unsafe” because it left more up to interpretation, but I have no problem saying that certain things were in DANGER, if you were/are a member of WOFF.

    The number one thing in danger for a WOFF member was/is any true relationship with God they had before they went into the group. By her practices, Jane Whaley seeks to slide between her members and God. She “hears God” when they are wrong and when they are “right”, which is seldom. The later being when she helps them “clear-up a few things” and makes sure they are “hearing accurately”. Hearing God or walking with God without Jane’s input or control was/is not part of the practices of WOFF. She was “responsible” for your soul- so she said then and I presume still says now. Being “responsible” gave her a right to direct, impede, monitor, in WOFF-reality – overtake and replace your personal relationship with God. To me, that was/is dangerous.

   Other relationships which may suffer greatly or be in true danger were/are your family relationships. That would include those inside and outside the group. The following repost deals with family relationships outside of WOFF. I will let my mother speak to the hurt and bewilderment. As for family relationships with those inside WOFF, they are always subject to Jane’s intervention as well as the level of blinding zeal one person in the relationship may have or want to acquire. Different levels of consuming zeal for WOFF-life and what that entails can strain marriage or parent-child relationship. That also should be obvious from the total number of “family” relationships which have been wrecked by the intervention of a “spiritual parent”. To allow a “spiritual parent” to be a guide or “someone you lock-in with” (translated – tell your heart issues to and submit to their directives) was seen as another level of WOFF-zeal called “submission”. This could have been Jane or it could have been someone else in leadership under Jane’s direction. Do you see the dangers here?  

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     In previous posts, we have reviewed some excerpts from the work by Tim Reiterman- “Raven”. Reiterman co-authored with John Jacobs (copyright ©1982 Tim Reiterman, Introduction copyright 2008 by Tim Reiterman, ISBN 978-1-58542-678-2); the authors tell “The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People”. “Tim Reiterman is a prizewinning journalist who extensively covered Jonestown for the San Francisco Examiner. He was wounded in the jungle airstrip attack that killed a U.S. Congressman, plus three reporters, and a Peoples Temple defector.” (from the back cover)  The link to the most recent post is here… https://religiouscultsinfo.com/?p=3343 . There are more similarities in the story of Jim Jones and Peoples Temple when comparing them to Word of Faith Fellowship (WOFF).

    As I have continued reading “Raven”, I have been amazed at the revelations about life in the Peoples Temple. The mechanisms set-up to secure funds to hoard and in part pay for Temple needs was elaborate. One aspect was the number of folks on public assistance. “Officials found that 17 percent of the Jonestown residents had been on SSI, compared with a 2 percent national average… A November 1979 “Investigation Report on Peoples Temple” prepared by the California Department of Social Services, found that of 992 Temple members checked, 550 — about 55 percent—had a history of receiving public assistance of some sort. According to the report, 109 of the 550 continued to receive assistance in Guyana, and 51 of those cases were “potentially fraudulent.” Fifteen cases involved forgeries on checks and 36 cases involved parents, spouses or grandparents fraudulently signing public assistance checks after the rest of the family had migrated to Guyana.”(page 591) The national average for those receiving public assistance today is around 40%, sadly enough. But, the point is that this ploy was just another in the many used by Peoples Temple to obtain funds. Why? Because Temple members signed over their income checks of any type to the church and were given an allowance. “People signed over pay checks and disability, welfare and social security checks, receiving in return room, board, medical care and other benefits.” (page 256) “The Temple would monitor and maintain control of every dime, paying rent, phone bills, and other allowable expenses. Wage earners signed over their checks; in turn, they were allotted a certain amount of money for their needs and had to submit requisition slips for the rent, even personal articles such as toothpaste, shampoo and sanitary napkins… The very day she (Joyce) handed the church an $800 paycheck, she had to submit a request for $10 for the children’s monthly birthday party outing.” (page 297) This financial arrangement was included in what was called at Peoples Temple – “going communal”.

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