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Rebel for Christ
By Richard Buffum, Los Angeles Times, California
December 6, 1968, North America
The Rev. David Berg, 49, adviser to the controversial Light Club Teens for Christ of Huntington Beach, has flowing gray hair, a mellifluous voice and a strong, yet ethereal face. He appears well qualified to minister to a flock of adoring old ladies.
Instead to borrow phrases from his congregation of young hippie types, he and his evangelist family (originally from Mingus, Texas) have another bag.
They’re where it’s at. They dig the alienated, confused teenagers, the physical and spiritual dropouts from our over-heated society.
In a sparsely furnished store building on Main St., a few steps from the Huntington Beach pier, I met three lightly bearded youths. They were crouched on the floor around a low, round oaken table. They were diligently studying Bibles and taking notes.
This, a battered, garish room vaguely reminiscent of a giant Japanese teahouse, is the temple of the crusading evangelists of Teens for …
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Six Members of Flock Remain in Jail
source unknown, a California newspaper
December 6, 1968, North America
HUNTINGTON BEACH—Pastor Dave Berg of the “Teens for Christ” movement here told The Register that the swix members of his flock who were arrested Friday when they invaded the Golden West College campus would “cheerfully serve their time in jail because they were doing it for Christ.”
The six members, including Berg’s son Jonathan, 19, were lodged in Orange County jail in lieu of $195 bond each after plice arrested them for interfering with college activities and refusing to leave the premises.
Members of the group were passing out religious tracts on the campus when arrested.
Berg said “They were thrown in jail and charged excessive bail like common criminals. We don’t have the bail money—we live by faith—so they will cheerfully remain in jail until they go to court.
“I talked to the kids on the phone and they said poice did not give them a chance to leave …
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Six Teens for Christ Rounded Up At GWC!
source unknown, a California newspaper
December 6, 1968, North America
HUNTINGTON BEACH—Six “Teens for Christ”—four males and two females – were arrested at 3 p.m. Friday on a complaint from the dean of students at Golden West College who said the leaflet-distributing religious enthusiasts were “disrupting the school’s campus.”
The six arrested, part of a larger group of hippie-clad teenagers who with their pastor Dave Berg have been making uninvited visits to different county churches for the past eight Sundays, were on the campus at Golden West College handing out leaflets according to Dr. Dale L. Miller.
Dr. Miller said he requested the group to leave but they continued to distribute leaflets, so he called police. Six officers arrived at the campus and took the teenagers to the Huntington Beach police station for booking.
The six were booked on charges of interfering with the peaceful conduct of school activities and for refusing to leave the premises when legally asked to …
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