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David Brandt Berg (February 18, 1919 – October 1, 1994), also known as King David, Mo, Moses David, Father David, Dad, or Grandpa to followers, was the founder and leader of the cult generally known as the Children of God [1] and subsequently as The Family International.
The founder of the movement, David Brandt Berg (1919–1994), was a former Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor. [12] Berg started in 1968 as an evangelical preacher with a following of "born-again hippies" who gathered at a coffeehouse in Huntington Beach, in Orange County, California. In 1969, after having a revelation "that California ...
The "first child conceived through 'flirty fishing', was born to Berg’s common-law wife, Karen Zerby", but was fathered by "a waiter she picked up in the Canary Islands". [3] Ex-member and critic, David Hiebert, states the practice was "used to curry political favor" in countries CoG had migrated to.
Born into the cult in 1977 in Hong Kong, Jones was cult royalty, the granddaughter of leader David Berg.
Karen Elva Zerby (born July 31, 1946) is the leader of The Family International, founded by her former husband David Berg as the “Children of God”, proven in court to have promoted and enacted sexual abuse of adults and children, including prostitution as a means of proselytizing.
Richard P. Rodriguez [2] was born on January 25, 1975, in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, as David Moses Zerby.His mother was Karen Zerby, the spiritual leader of the religious cult Children of God (COG), and his father was a Spanish hotel waiter named Carlos whom Zerby had "Flirty Fished", a practice in which female cult members would have sex with men to draw in potential converts. [3]
The Family International, identified as "Children of God" (天父的儿女; tiān fù de érnǚ), founded in the US in 1968 by David Berg, in China since 1980 and asked to leave by the ministry in 1985, [11] defined by the ministry as a cult in 1995.
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