Source: Cult News ,30 October 2002 An excellent editorial appeared in the Edmonton Journal written by Paula Simons regarding the background history of a Canadian “cult” child abuse case. Lucille Poulin, the leader of the “Four Winds Commune” was convicted on five counts of assault for beating children within her group. Her defense was essentially…
Article by ex-member from USA Our households gather at the beginning and end of each day to thank and praise our creator and “Apostle” Elbert Eugene Spriggs for all that he has done for us. During the gatherings all baptized members regurgitate the teachings of our cult leader Elbert Eugene Spriggs (Yoneq). In an interview…
Source: christians answers.net This open letter was originally addressed to Kevin, a prospective member of an organization which calls itself Messianic Communities (and also The Twelve Tribes). Editor’s note to readers: Please do not confuse this cult with legitimate followers of Christ who call themselves Messianic believers or Messianic congregations or communities. I commend you…
The Kansas City Star/August 5, 2002 By Matt Stearns Warsaw, Mo.– Here in central Missouri, members of the Twelve Tribes religious group welcome visitors with gentle smiles and quiet conversation. They break from dipping beeswax candles and baking bread to explain why they live the way they do: separately, simply, at odds with the wider…
Source: CultEducation (originally from Courier Mail Australia) Courier-Mail (Australia)/December 29, 2001 By Chris Griffith and Amanda Watt An anti-semitic cult whose US parent has a court history of child abuse and abduction is selling food and refreshments at this year’s Woodford Folk Festival. Known as Twelve Tribes Mission and the Messianic Communities, the cult advocates…
“When there is a stubborn child you should shorten the child’s life?” Whether is a stubborn child you should shorten the child’s life. It limits the family. – Training up our children in the way they should go Yesterday I was down at the river and Yochanan (Haggai’s son) was swimming and I saw that…
Boston Herald September 11, 2001 Laurel J. Sweet At a community forum to refute allegations from former members about his religious sect’s practices in a Herald series on Twelve Tribes last week, Eugene “Yoneq” Spriggs boasted of reforming homosexuals and whacking children with wooden rods to keep them in line. “What do you think is…
Boston Herald/September 7, 2001 By Dave Wedge A former Twelve Tribes member who didn’t want his child raised in the controversial cult fled the country with the boy five years ago and is still being sought by Boston police, records show. “He was afraid that if they got into a drawn-out court battle, then the…
Boston Herald Dave Wedge September 5, 2001 A New York man, distraught over his friend’s total immersion in the Twelve Tribes, has set up an “underground railroad” to help teens flee the allegedly abusive, mind controlling cult. “When we pick these kids up, they’re afraid,” Kevin Coughlin said of the former members he has helped…
Source: Boston Herald, Sep. 5, 2001 Former hippie Joellen Griffin left her home in the Midwest in 1975 for a booze and drug addled road trip with friends, but ended up taking a 21 year detour into the bizarre and dangerous world of Elbert Eugene Spriggs and his Twelve Tribes cult, she said. “I would…