My husband and I were recruited by this cult nearly 30 years ago....1977, to be exact.
They were tenacious, tried to "divide and conquer" all the in the name of Jesus?? It was just sad. At the time, we heard about "Flirty Fishing", and in fact read that "Mo Letter". That was one of many things that scared us off.
I really think the big thing that helped us, second only to the grace of God, was that we both had decent, close relationships with our biological families. We were told to just pack up, take off with them(the couple that was recruiting us) and call our families from some distant place so they couldn't talk us out of joining.
It was a very sad time, because the man was the son of our Methodist pastor who we respected greatly. It pained him tremendously that his son did this. A short time after the pastor died, the son died a sudden death. I"ve often wondered if Anna stayed in the cult, and what happened to their children.
I pray they're ok.
