What happened to the old Family "leaders"?

Posted by Freeatlast! on September 14, 2003 at 18:29:16

I remember reading on one of the boards that someone was asking about "Keda". Well, Keda (now known as Robin) is in Uganda working with Simon Peter and the African Radio Ministry. She lives with her daughter & her husband, her grandkids and Robin's other kids. She is very happy there. Someone was asking about "Mary Mom". Well, she and Josiah are in Africa (South Africa). 4 out 5 of her older children have left the Family. I personally believe that these "old leaders" are just loosing themselves in a busy mission field to somehow make up for all of the years they may want to forget... years of being humiliated and written about in GN's... years of carrying out "orders" from Berg... years of force feeding their children the virtues of the Family. Now, they have been given permission to "go to pasture" and graze and do what they joined the Family for ... to preach the gospel! Somehow they have to make ammends for all the torture they caused others... they have to somehow dull their consciousness to the conviction of God's really Holy Spirit telling them that they were leaders of a cult and they are guilty of the same things as Berg and M&P are. They served their purpose for a time and are now let out to pasture. Either a person who know's so much like WS personnel, or leaders, has to leave the Family totally like James, Apollos, Ed, Heather, etc. or you have to bury yourself in some real ministry that keeps you really busy and makes you somehow feel justified to be in Family.
Yes, there are still those humiliation GN's being printed. The latest was about a leader in Thailand. It took about 3 GN's to give us the point that he was somehow not humble enough to be a leader and that he was giving the "sheep" the wrong message. Matthew (Mary Moms's ex-husband) got the other big humility treatment. He didn't pray for and report something that was very very important. He "leaned to his own understanding"... oh my god.. what a sin! The ones working under Maria have to really be totally no-brain cases, or totally into a "pride trip" trying to live up to all of her self-righteous rules.