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10 Houston Youths Join Revolutionary Christian Group!
By Steve Singer, Chronicle Reporter, Houston Chronicle, Texas
December 28, 1969, North America
David had been down the Hallelujah Trail Before.
About three weeks ago, he’d gone to the camp of a wandering band of self-styled revolutionary Christians at Bear Creek Park in west Harris County to “see what I could find.”
Now he was back, reaching the group at their new campsite in Duessen Park in the Lake Houston woodlands of northeast Harris County.
He stood at the edge of the pine grove and toyed with the strap of his motorcycle helmet as the smoke from the fires for the noon meal drifted over his head.
One of 10
A youth named Michael greeted him with a smile and a nod. Instead of hello, Michael said “Praise the Lord.
Soon David, an 18-year-old machinist, was accepting Jesus Christ, kneeling among the pine cones and needles with Michael’s hands on his head.
David is one of 10 Houston youths who have joined the …
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Roving Hippies Spreading New Kind of Religion
By Warren Weber, Chronicle Reporter, Houston Chronicle, Texas
December 5, 1969, North America
Nothing was really seedy about him.
His clothes might have been a bit wrinkled and his hair a bit long. Otherwise he looked like any college student.
He walked up to the small boy with a John-John haircut—his son—and asked him, “Where is God?”
The little boy unhesitatingly pointed up toward the heavens.
“That’s right,” said the young father as he took his son’s hand and led him to a camper.
“The church of today has turned its back on the young people and offers them nothing,” added Levi.
The revolutionary Christian commune was formed a year ago with six members. It now comprises about 10 couples, 25 single girls and 45 single males—mostly in their late teens or early 20s—and 10 children.
The single men live in a large tent, the single women in two old buses converted into dormitories and the couples in campers and small tents.
Each …
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God’s Children Prove One Can Live As Christ
By Myra Dye, Collinsville Herald, Illinois
October 27, 1969, North America
A group of persons “proving that they can live as Jesus lived and do what Jesus did effectively” are camped along the Mississippi river at the Lewis and Clark Park near Hartford.
God’s Children, as they call themselves, are endeavoring to travel throughout the United States to warn the people to repent of their sinful ways and live lives dedicated to Jesus Christ.
Spokesman Jonathan Hosea Levi said they do not go into churches because of the size of their group and their mode of dress. He explained, they are trying to reach students, radicals—those not found in the churches.
God’s Children offer Christ as an alternative. Using scriptural references, Levi said Jesus gives peace, love, freedom.
Their “message” is that Christ is the way of salvation. Referring to Jeremiah 12:17, Lei said if people don’t obey God, He will “pluck up and utterly destroy this nation.” God’s Children, likening …
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