Now 53, he's in his second marriage and runs a cartage business in his hometown, Christchurch. Now in their early 40s with four children and a playground business, the couple had been married four years and already had two children when they left. Dad held her arms behind her back as she sobbed, struggling to break free for a hug. Graeme Hubbard left the Exclusive Brethren at 21. The Green Party's demanding the group loses its exemption from labour laws requiring union access to work sites, since the cosying up to political parties makes a mockery of the basis for that exemption - finding association with any outside organisation unconscionable. The man, who has name suppression, was being considered for parolelast week. They're allowed to talk to us now," says Adrian. Sydney marked a new chapter. Life in the Exclusive Brethren could be happy enough if you stuck to the rules, Craig says. If they do not, they are banned from worship or are isolated from family and only allowed to see particular church members until the ordained priests decide that God has forgiven the "sinner". doctrine) to which they subscribed. I don't know, we have enough friends of our own." Women must wear their hair long and down, and headscarves in public. Brethren came to differ on whether the basis of unity was to be tested by the common life they followed, or the common light (i.e. Sarah and her producer, Charlotte, took a keen interest in my circumstances as we travelled and filmed together, and asked what I wanted to do with my life. So that's a very, very unsatisfactory situation for Bruce Hales.". "Going out with people you've never met before - a whole different culture." * Firms clustered in around 40 towns and cities, mostly provincial centres I knew I was different and chafed against the rules, asking questions and talking back. The web site appears to be an attempt to counter the flow of negative publicity surrounding the Exclusive Brethren (example: The Brethren sent us to Hell), Members are not allowed to have televisions or radios and they are forbidden from using the internet, because the book of Revelation tells them that the devil is the prince with the power of the air. I had hoped he might wave his hand and declare I was cured. [1] The Exclusive Brethren are now divided into a number of groups, most of which differ on minor points of doctrine or practice. There was no television, no radio, no access to modern technology, and we went to church every day. It is timeous now for the many schismatic groups of Exlusive Brethren to eschew their groupclaims to total rectitude, to leave past divisions behind as the works of the EVIL ONE and to grasp that thay are one in CHRIST JESUS and authority rests in SOLA SCRIPTURA. As well as forcing Brethren businesses to purchase locked-down computers, phones and IT services, UBT also charged "consultancy fees", which could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even started taking controlling stakes in profitable companies through a venture called Vision Accelerator. And I did. "These guys needtheirfamiliesto support him. A measure of their influence - and the working tolerance they've won - is the wariness locals show about saying anything bad of them. This examination delves deeper into the groups past, revealing the Brethrens 19th-century origins in the United Kingdom, their fractious history, their extraordinary use of scripture to control members and dissidents, and their lucrative business and financial arrangements. The Exclusive Brethren are now divided into a number of groups, most of which differ on minor points of doctrine or practice. Those who break the rules can be punished by being banned from worship meetings and ostracised by members of their own family and other Exclusives who withdraw from such a person. Unity is based on truth not on a presumed total separationfrom what they havebeen inbued with as evil when in fact the Church is composed of wheat and tares and only the LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS-ONLY HE. "And in this case, the companies involved appear to be under the control of the church.". "Even housewives had to fill out diaries accounting for what they had done every hour and spent," McLean said. (I was lucky to have the first eight years of my education in the public system, which gave me limited exposure to non-Brethren kids, but these days sect children are educated entirely within the Brethren system.) Despite the claim that Plymouth Brethren Christian Church is the historic name (http://www.plymouthbrethrenchristianchurch.org/) it is an entirely new invention. Faced with being separated once more, we broke down and cried on each other's shoulders, and I realised how much I still loved my brother. Exclusive Brethren Information provided by Reachout Trust, a Christian apologetics and countercult organization The Exclusive Brethren Excellent overview by the BBC. They keep themselves apart because they believe that "it is impossible for God to fully bless and use his children who are in compromise or complicity with evil". The girls were fiercely competitive about their scarves. Every Monday, employees at Brethren companies nationwide religiously watch the latest Silver Bulletin, a short online video interspersing business advice with the latest exclusive offers to members. Video first published in 2015. Adrian is cynical about the Brethren culture. [], Many Exclusive Brethren work in Brethren owned companies in order to reduce contact with outsiders. NZ POLICE Russell Stewart,. They love alcohol. The Exclusive founder, John Nelson Darby, believed the secular world was corrupt and the way for believers to obey God was to keep to themselves. When the Herald on Sunday approached Dargaville Brethren businessmen to set the record straight about their way of life, most politely dismissed us. You'll find most of them are really happy in their role." Obviously I wasn't a good Brethren girl, but back then I'd never have dreamt of leaving." Three-day religious conventions were a teen dating ground (that's where Diana, who grew up in Palmerston North, met Cambridge local Adrian). "Bible Churches" tend to embrace many progressive trends, but generally retain a male-only leadership and continue to disassociate themselves from the Charismatic movement. I knew I was breaking her heart, but had no choice. A few weeks later that same reporter got in touch and asked if I would consider telling my story on 60 Minutes. Although he did not commit himself exclusively to the Brethren movement, his former steward, James Chrystall helped organize his converts into Brethren assemblies, which expanded from the Whanganui/Manawatu area.[12]. But there were no "worldly" friends over to play, no going to the worldly kids' parties, no overnight school camps, no inter-school sports. I began talking to outsiders for help and advice. Transcript Includes the following: Exclusive Brethren news tracker & news archive. A happy Craig as a baby on his dad's lap at the piano. I had no idea how to eat in restaurants, tune a radio dial, or engage in contemporary discussion about pop culture. But that comes at a cost to the taxpayer because it's obviously a cost to the revenue.". Non-members are called 'worldlies'. The ones that do, or buck against too many of the fellowship's numerous proscriptions, leave. Bulk purchasing power is smart business - but according to former members, Brethren were not really "free to choose". In tears that evening I finally broke, but even then I couldn't bring myself to say the words. This, however, wasn't about what I'd done it was about who I was. Perhaps the best-known "[14], Signs of a thaw in attitudes began to appear in the late 1970s. In another case, Nelson man Clive Petrie was "withdrawn from" by the church after he was convicted of thehistoric sexual abuse of three young girlsin 2009, according to the former member. Through SGnLS (Southland Gay and Lesbian Support) I met other gay people, and realised I was not alone in the world. Elusive Exclusive Brethren [Transcript] of the Background Briefing broadcast by ABC Radio National (Australia) on Apr. The Exclusive Brethren is not a democratic movement, nor do individual congregations have any autonomy. 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There'll be a dinner and dance, a "mystery day" and lots of socialising - "certainly not religious, just a fun weekend". Falling into journalism was an astonishing stroke of luck. The list appears to have been compiled originally by a member of that fellowship at some time after 1970. He's had his own serious, serious loss. Such clandestine adventures frequently led to feelings of guilt and shame, and I regularly confessed my so-called sins to the Brethren "priests" as a teenager. It was an ill-advised attempt at escape. A flowchart illustrates how the Exclusive Brethren - or Plymouth Brethren Christian Church - money-go-round works. The secretive Exclusive Brethren is a sect run more like a corporation than a religious group, according to its critics. My gaze rested on them for a few seconds before I looked away. and others who were in practical fellowship with them for the years c. 1827 to 1959. The worldwide leader of the Exclusive Brethren, having ruled since his father John Hales died in January 2002, he had a penchant for good food and an even greater penchant for good whisky. According to the Evangelical publication, Operation World, there are 202 Brethren congregations in New Zealand[2] with 16,164 in regular attendance (including children). The medication left me lethargic and unhappy and I stopped taking it after a few weeks, although I had enough repeats on the prescription to last for a year. Brethren and their companies are encouraged to buy their supplies, groceries, petrol, internet, insurance - the whole range of goods and services - from companies that give cash back to the church through a range of kickback arrangements. "Ordinary Exclusive Brethren would still retain a view held deeply for many generations that they have nothing to do with the world, regard it as defiled, so would be disgusted with (the political activism)." He appoints local priests, resolves disputes, approves all marriages and decides on levels of punishment for breaches of discipline. So many, many tears, streaming over blackboards and permanent ink. A broker with the insurance company, Crombie Lockwood, said he was instructed to use a special code with Brethren clients, discounting his commission by 20 percent, which went to the listed "sub-agency", UBT (Universal Business Team) a church-controlled company. Sarah and I got caught up in a media scrum with the Kardashian family while filming an unrelated story in Yerevan, and joked to local Armenian reporters that we'd come all the way from New Zealand to see Kim and Kanye. They believe the rules have been relaxed since their time in the fold. I was told I was rebellious and had a problem with authority. Helen Clark's calling for Don Brash to step down as National Party leader because of his now-renounced relations with Exclusive Brethren lobbyists. Some post-1959 ministry had already been included, and this practice will be continued. The evangelist and hymn-writer James George Deck arrived in New Zealand in 1853 and established the first formal Brethren assembly at Ngtmoti, near Nelson, on 1 January 1863, although historian Peter Lineham believes that Christians had already been meeting informally on Brethren lines in nearby Motueka for some time. It is worth noting that although many "Community Churches" and "Bible Churches" in New Zealand are part of the Open Brethren movement, others such as Mairangi Bay Community Church are not. The schools teach around 1000 year 7-12 students, and get glowing ERO reports. We urge you to wait. They only say, cryptically: "We've nothing to hide and nothing to parade." 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This week, former teachers at Brethren-run schools claimed the schools heavily censored reading material, ripping out chapters on reproduction from science texts, and dictated every aspect of the children's lives. "It's beentraumatising but from my perspective and my family'swe've been very free in a Christian spirit to forgive Russell. I think there's a little bit of scaremongering going on. If our kids were to see my husband's parents in the street, they'd say 'Hello', and 30 seconds later it would be 'I best be on my way'." Some broke the rules, sneaking to the neighbours to watch TV, stayed up drinking Saturday nights and showed up at Sunday's 6am prayer meeting with a thick tongue and splitting headache. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The Exclusive Brethren movement is an extremist branch or sect of the Plymouth Brethren. We're an easy target. Within this site you will find explanations, stories, history and Exclusive Brethren memorabilia ranging from the quaint to the shocking. The international community is run by the "Man of God", who has absolute power to dictate the church's rules. It remained within the Brethren movement. [9] Consequently, George Wigram, who had a reputation for enforcing discipline among Exclusive Brethren, visited New Zealand from 14 January 1874 to 20 January 1875. The link leads to an archived version of the website. It was a decision that changed my life. The local rainbow support group occasionally published contact details in the classified section of the newspaper, and for months I scanned The Southland Times waiting for the next listing. If they dont they are withdrawn from i.e. The first beginnings of the Brethren movement occurred in the 1820s, when Darby, then an Anglican clergyman in the Church of Ireland, began meeting with others who shared his serious doubts about the validity of Anglican orders and, indeed, about the biblical warrant for any sort of clerical class. READ MORE: * Exclusive Brethren cult leader's millionaire son accused of assault * Father of girl sexually assaulted by former Exclusive Brethren member wants abuser jailed * Exclusive Brethren members in 'clean-up' operation after fatal crash * Potential witness in Exclusive Brethren sex abuse case paid to remain silent * Former Brethren allege high rate of abuse in New Zealand * Exclusive Brethren: Sect's secretive leader tells followers to drink rat poison * Exclusive Brethren told to 'pray for the IRD' after favourable settlement * Baby Leo's dad Samuel Forrest to sue Exclusive Brethren church. Life as an Exclusive Brethren had its good sides. After some initial hesitation, I agreed. They recommended that I become a journalist, and took me in to TV3 to meet their executive producer. Most members are so isolated within the sect that they cant even imagine a life on the outside. He claims that the Exclusive Brethren destroys people and families, have no respect for women and absolute contempt for anyone not in their religious group, and do all this while enjoying the benefit of charitable status from our government. "When you pull out one of those Jenga blocks it can make the whole pile quite unstable. The worldwide leader of the Exclusive Brethren, having ruled since his father John Hales died in January 2002, he had a penchant for good food and an even greater penchant for good whisky. Aformer member believes Stewart hasbeen 'shut up' a Brethren term which is usually the first step towards being excommunicated, andmeans the person is barred from speaking to other members of the church, eating or socialising with them, and from attending the daily church meetings which everyone is expected to attend. In addition to the kickbacks, Brethren-owned businesses also move a percentage of their profits into trusts or directly to the National Assistance Fund. They are using church connections to run their business and control people.". Says one, his smile like a plea: "We don't want to get into a media conflict. The secretive, cult-like church says its members volunteer their time to contribute to society, but an RNZ investigation has found hundreds of thousands of dollars were sent every year to a Sydney. []. This is quite different from mainstream Christian belief, which says that Jesus was always fully God and fully man. They are not allowed to form friendships with people outside the church, who are known as 'worldlies'. This is far from the Open Brethren idea that individual churches should have a great deal of freedom in their dealings with others. According to the companies register, the seven directors and shareholders of the Fund's corporate trustee are current directors or shareholders of 79 other companies. This study was formerly hosted at theexclusivebrethren.com the only site endorsed by the Exclusive Brethren. The site has since been renamed to plymouthbrethrenchristianchurch.org, to reflect the movements 2012 name change. I followed anarchists for a documentary in Greece, and spent much of the past 18 months living in Hong Kong, where I reported from the frontlines of violent protests. Yesterday RNZ revealed the unusual structure of this charity, which is wholly controlled by the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church but with no formal constitutional link to it. Peebs.Net is a website that endeavors to investigate and report the Truth behind the Exclusive Brethren, a group of so-called Christians, and by so doing, help break the chains and break down the barriers that prevent us from seeing our families, friends and loved ones, trapped in what many are calling a bona fide Cult. They ban technology. The leader is regarded as a person of inherent moral power, following in the tradition of the leaders of the past and upholding their teaching in such a way as to lift the membership out of the world of wickedness. Members who do something against the Exclusive code are required to confess their sin during church meetings and demonstrate their repentance. I didn't want to leave but it seemed inevitable, and the longer I waited the more collateral damage I would cause. Church and business and family life are inextricably intertwined in a way that means all parts of their lives are controlled. At meeting and whenever the Bible or hymns were involved women had to wear a. The BBC website listed the following rules for Exclusive Brethren: they cannot go to university, have televisions or radios, visit cinemas or the theatre, read newspapers or fiction, use computers, own mobile phones, vote in elections, serve in the armed forces or join any group that includes people outside the Brethren. New rules came thick and fast from the 1960s, when the world leader of the time James Taylor Jnr, an alcoholic businessman from Brooklyn, New York enforced the principle of "separation". [7] Unlike Darby, he did not believe in maintaining insularity from non-Brethren Christians, and preached in churches of many denominations. ", He added: "They are an extremist group that will exaggerate or ignore one verse from the bible for theirown gain. Rob McLean questions the Exclusive Brethren beliefs and practices that led to his ejection from the group. BORN into the controversial Exclusive Brethren cult that outlaws birthdays, pop music and women wearing trousers or make-up, Jessie Shedden, 34, needed every ounce of courage to plan her escapeR Note: In 2012, the Exclusive Brethren movement renamed itself Plymouth Brethren Christian Church in an apparent effort to sow confusion about its true nature and origins. They told me I was mentally unwell. I'd sit with one or two of these so-called priests, and launch into a tearful drunken confession as they plied me with whisky. You'd think it would be cause for celebration, but it can be agonising to have someone reappear. Non-members are called worldlies. The Exclusives rebranded themselves worldwide as the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church in 2012 as part of a campaign to retain charitable status in the UK. Although widely welcomed at first, both found themselves increasingly isolated as their Charismatic sympathies became known and Brethren leaders like Robert Laidlaw, William H. Pettit, Enoch Coppin, Colin Graham, and Ces Hilton, along with J. [32], GC3 is an umbrella organisation encompassing three institutions: Global Connections in Mission (GCiM), which supports 150 missionaries abroad as well as almost 100 evangelists in New Zealand,[3] GC Assist, an "operations trust" within GC3 which runs, among other projects, Headspace, a one-year program for school leavers,[33] and GC Aid, a humanitarian NGO.[34]. I was free, but it had come at a terrible cost. There are, however, a number of organizations, trusts, and support agencies that have been set up with the purpose of servicing Brethren (and sometimes like-minded) churches. Yet the Brethren experience hovers in my periphery; a mesh of traumatic memories. Other members who have been through the justice system have also been "withdrawn from" when members are ordered to sever ties completely with the accused. Some Brethren sources claim this number to be an underestimate, with internal surveys indicating as many as 38,000 adults and children attending Brethren assemblies almost one percent of New Zealand's population. "It's like the inside of a golf ball in there, everything is all tied together, with a very centralised structure and power dynamic.". * A national trust, run by three of the Secret Seven who bankrolled the anti-government pamphlets last year, now operates 15 regional campuses under the umbrella of Westmount School. no member of the group will speak, work or eat with them. Most casual observers would say I've moved on. Source: The Exclusive Brethren, BBC. Picture / Doug Sherring, Dargaville couldn't be further from the Beehive, where revelations of Exclusive Brethren political lobbying and espionage are fuelling Parliament's running dog-fight. This final stage of excommunication is when the sect gives up all hope of recovery and washes its hands of you. Later, while working as a senior reporter for Stuff, I explored issues such as prisoner mistreatment, cannabis reform, and just where all the forks were going from our newsroom kitchen. They keep themselves separated from other people (including other Christians), because they believe the world is sinful. However, many leading New Zealand companies are lining up to join the list of preferred suppliers to what former members describe as a captive market. While we don't have fellowship and eat with them, we still appreciate they're genuine people." Thecommunitywas, according to one report,walking at his side as he dealt with the grief and guilt of crashing his ute on Baylys Coast Rd near Dargaville, after an afternoon of drinking alcohol at Baylys Beach. Brethren run at least 12 firms in. He is Australian Bruce Hales. Then they can claim that as a deduction in their accounts and reduce their tax liability at the end of the day. I wish him well.". On 5 May 2009 the priests placed me in the first stage of excommunication being "shut up" when errant sect members are isolated in spiritual solitary confinement. [6] Although he was associated with the Exclusive Brethren of John Nelson Darby, he decided that the schism that had taken place in 1848 was irrelevant to New Zealand. Assemblies affirming a continualist position (that all gifts of the Holy Spirit are operating today) include Street City Church in Wellington,[18] Life Church, Manurewa in Auckland,[19] Tasman Church and Hope Community Church in Nelson. "The words 'I love you'," she said, "are written on the blackboard of my heart with permanent marker and can't ever be removed.". This is ironic, because among the activities forbidden for members of the movement are such things as watching television, listening to the radio, reading newspapers and using computers and the internet. It was organised through Universal Business Team (UBT), a business . 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