Source: Cultnews DaAdmin Miscellaneous 2008-02-28 “Twelve Tribes,” a notorious religious group, often called a “cult,” has apparently moved into a town in Colorado, Manitou Springs. The group is ruled by a self-proclaimed “prophet”/dictator named Elbert Eugene Spriggs (see photo with wife left). The sect has opened a café the “Maté Factor” and two group homes,…
Source: yattblogspot 2008 February 18, 2008 The life of the typical Twelve Tribes member is very simple. Women’s dresses and “Sus” pants are hand made and most other clothes are bought at thrift stores. Much of the communities organic food is self grown. Members have given up all their possessions and do not have worldly…
Reposted from: Lookout Valley Informer Donnie Bryson The Yellow Deli folks, who call themselves the Twelve Tribes, returned to Chattanooga for a reunion event at Warner Park this Easter Sunday. Their handbill gave me the impression that they might set up another outpost in Chattanooga. All I knew of them from the 70s was only…
Erika Spaet April 10, 2007 Suzanne Watin was a Jewish dental hygienist from Union, N.J. She and her now ex-husband had their daughter late in life, moved around often and always had enough money; they lived an ordinary, upper-middle class life together. But when fate knocked on Watin’s door six years ago, she decided the…
Source: The Chattanoogan.com Thursday, June 1, 2006 My name is Karen Draper. I live in Utah now but lived in Chattanooga and stayed with the “Yellow Deli” people for several weeks before making my “escape.” I just found this website after hearing from one of my friends in Chickamauga, Ga., that “they were back.” Ironically,…
Cornell Daily Sun/May 3, 2006 By Ross Anderson “I’m really thankful,” said a man who identified himself as Lev. “I was lost and alone, and then God revealed himself to me.” Five years ago, Lev joined the Twelve Tribes, The Common Wealth of Israel, a religious group that began a community in Ithaca two years…
Source: The Boston Globe By Christopher Dreher | October 23, 2005 Massachusetts has long been fertile ground for religious sects like Twelve Tribes. The group has already settled in Plymouth, Dorchester, Hyannis, and Athol. Newton, Wellesley, and Harvard Square may be next for a group that requires members to give up their possessions, follow the…
Source: mediastudy.com by Michael I. Niman 7/15/10 Adapted from ArtVoice 10/20/05 It certainly seems wholesome enough, a small tea house with staffed by friendly smiling and seemingly down to earth folks. What’s not readily apparent is that shoppers on four continents are simultaneously walking into Mate Factor and Yerba Mate tea houses or Common Ground…
Source: www.coldtype.net Published: October 20, 2005 Links: www.coldtype.net/Assets.05/Niman/Niman.24.05.pdf http://mediastudy.com/articles/av10-20-05.html Pdf: 20051020 coldtype.net The food co-op and the hate group It certainly seems wholesome enough, looking at the shelves of fresh locally baked organic whole grain bread lined up at my local food co-op in Buffalo. Each neatly bagged loaf bears the homey label of the Common Ground…
Why I left Elbert Eugene Spriggs “Twelve Tribes Communes” The reasons why a past member left the Twelve Tribes Cult. The past member that wrote this has wished to remain anonymous. Formerly known as: Northeast Kingdom Community Church, Church of God, The New Apostolic Order in Messiah, The Church in Island Pond, the Twelve Tribes…