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The family International founding
The Family International was founded in Huntington Beach, California in 1968 by David Berg. The group has gone by several names including Children of God, The Family of Love, and Teens for Christ. -
"Flirty Fishing"
Flirty Fishing is a method that used Sex to "Show Gods love and mercy", This resulted in a lot of controversy. The leader at the time "David Berg" would also go by many names like king David, Moses, and The last End Time prophet -
Sexual Abuse Allegations
During the 1980s The Family International faced a lot of sexual abuse allegations including Children Se#ual Assault allegations during this time the Family international cast a shadow over its self and it began losing followers and members -
Reform and rebrand
In Light of the allegations "The family International attempted rebranding and renaming the religion to things like "Children of God" or "The family of Love" -
"Damage Control"
In another attempt to cover up there past they started giving aid to hurricane survivors and refugees, and supporting Mutiple charitable projects. -
What we know now
The Family international despite its efforts couldn't amass the same following they had years ago, Yet they still do missionaries and have multiple locations opened in the US like NYC but multiple other religions like Christians constantly warn passer Byers of there deeds.