Interview with ex TT member Cheryl Lewczyk and her mother Shirley Source: Twelve Tribes-ex.com The Buffalo News Gene Warner May 21, 2000 Cheryl Lewczyk was hooked. She was showered with attention, made to feel special and beautiful. In her mid-30s, she found a group of people who said they would love and take care of…
The Boston Globe Jordana Hatt 8/25/99 Lakeville – A nursing home that sits empty and ramshackle in farm country about 50 miles south of Boston is slated to open next summer as the nations first residential home for people who have left or escaped religious mind-control groups.The New England Institute of Religious Research, which says…
We buried Nathaniel two days ago. Mainly, I wanted to write to you about some things that were on my heart before Nathaniel died. I also thought I would give you an idea how it went with the burial. But first I want to give you proper greetings in the name of our Savior Yahshua…
In 1987 my parents had been in a cult called “the Twelve Tribes” for two years. My mom gave birth to me without the assistance of any doctors, anesthetics, nurses, or hospital beds. It is forbidden to go to hospitals or have a normal life in our cult. Yoneq, our leader, had made these things…
The Greene County News November 12, 1998 Mark Spoor Coxsackie – Mike Reichmann looks like any average 57 year old man. With his red checkered tie positioned expertly in a double Windsor knot over a perfectly tucked blue shirt and light khakis, you’d think his life was as normal as Joe Q. Public. But Reichmann…
The Asheville Citizen Times Dale Neal November 8, 1998 Twelve Tribes Community founder Elbert Spriggs’ controversial interpretation of slavery in the Scripture seems to provide ammunition for the anonymous fliers circulating around Asheville that criticize the Bible-based cult as racist. But a community member now in Asheville says the teaching is easily misunderstood, taken out…
Thoughts on Twelve Tribes Greene County News November 5, 1998 To the Editor: The Messianic Communities, called the Twelve Tribes, has moved into our County and seems to be anxious to “teach” us who and what their Communities are all about. They have held Open Forums now in several areas. “We need people to say…
SCRIBA – During the mid- 1980s, newspapers from coast to coast carried reports on court actions taken against the Northeast Community Church for the alleged beating of children as well as truancy. Ex-church members were coming forward with detailed accounts of how church children were being punished; stripped naked, boys and girls, from toddlers…
5 TV Place WCVB TV Needham Heights, Ma 02194-2303 20 April 1998 Dear Clint: Thanks so much for sending the tape of your interview with Eddie & Jeannie. It was very useful for Michael and…
Source: Twelve Tribes-ex.com Scholastic Scope March 9, 1998 Natasha was born into what most people would consider a cult, but what she came to call the “community.” She grew up moving from town to town and house to home with her parents, living with dozens of other adults and kids who weren’t part of her…