A couple of things. 1. I remember first hearing this story in a Christian comic book my mom got me when I was in the sixth grade. Two years later, I saw this documentary in chapel. It was an amazing story of faith inside Howard Rutledge and his family. 2. This needs to be made into a movie.

Hi Everyone, Merrill gave me my first flying job. Now the best part: • Merrill always greeted every employee. • He was the first and last to start and leave the work place. • He dressed impeccably and with perfect posture too. • He never complained, yet I know he was in pain. And all that was 60 years ago. Thank you Merrill for being an inspiration all these years. Sincerely, Terry Moore Good Captain Well Seasoned PS. I have logged over 24,000 flight hours .

That's my great great grandma his wife marge!😊❤

It's okay to have a young adult, mad at God season. God can handle it. Eventually we learn: God is ABBA FATHER

1976 Ken came to my school to debut his "Moses" song. Phenomenal. Gives me goosebumps to this day!! TY Frank Boggs for introducing us to Ken Medema. 😊

The human race are already members of a cult. And most of the cukt nembers and all the leaders scapegoat and gaslight and turn a blind eye, ignore glaring facts and evidence to gaslight another member of the cult. Herd mentality designed to keep people opressed and poor. Never to better themselves or discover positive abilities within themselves. Theres even segregation between classes and everyone takes part in the slaughter of animals and the consumption of animals and their secretions. How is the human race not a cult? We even have leaders. Loved the video 👍

Thank you for being such a blessing in my life and in the lives of so many people

Nosotros vimos éste video en Español hace varios años y ha sido de mucha bendición para todos en la congregación. Quisiera encontrar para compartir pero no encuentro.

When woke goes wrong. A classic example.

And yet this continues to happen. Great documentary with real insight

Thank you, Mel. Your books Stranger at the Gate and Religion Gone Bad touched me so deeply - your story and the hatred from the church. Widen the circle, bring in the outcasts. I’ll never stop trying.

How empty people's lives must be if you have to believe in this.

From all my studying this is my take on Jones. If he had a goal he would do anything to reach that goal whether it was a good goal or bad goal. If his goal was to create a successful biracial church he would litteraly try and steal members from other churches, do fake healings, manipulate, etc. If his goal was to have a mass suicide to make himself famous he went on a campaign to condition people to commit suicide and come up with a plan so they couldn't back out. If his goal was to have sex with a member he would go into full manipulation mode

God bless you sir. Thank you for your testimony and your love for the Lord Jesus.

I am blessed I married Merrill brother Russel’s only son we have 3 grown girls married 30 yrs I can’t complain!❤❤I got to see Merrill at the last family reunion I thanked him and Virginia for helping me and my dad get to be a Christian he sang at my moms funeral I was fortunate to go to Merrill’s funeral ❤with all the family

You can tell that Mel isn't, or wasn't, actually interested in WHO Jim Jones was, or how all of these destitute people came to be under his care. If all we're going to do, is utilize quack psychologizing in order to explain these events, then we're, obviously, not very interested in the truth. These people, he interviewed, who were 'ranking members' of the People's Temple, were undoubtedly agents.

Matthew's Ridge, and the Port Kaituma Area, in Guyana, is one of the most mineral-rich areas on this planet. The airport, at Port Kaituma, was built by Union Carbide, decades earlier. Jonestown was a concentration camp, and once Leo Ryan saw the truth about the People's Temple, he had to be killed. After his murder, the gig was up, and the followers of the temple had to be murdered as well. No one, there, took cyanide. They were all murdered.

37:15 Shall We Learns To Be Friends

Ken came to Australia in 1983. I first saw and heard him at a Christian music conference in Novar Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia. ❤️

32:30 Al, Jeannie, and their daughter Daphene were all murdered soon after this documentary was made in 1979. Shot to death in their home February of 1980. Crime remains unsolved.

I first heard ken years ago at the National Youthworkers' Convention. His music stories are are lively with a sense of humor and often with a lesson too. Hos wrap up song for sermons are the most amazing. I remember 1 time almost everyone in the audience cried cos he sang about healing of all disabilities in heaven🥴

They talk like they've been lobotomized.

This information is so important.

Get a copy of Rutledge's book, In The Presence of Mine Enemies. Fantastic read. Illustrated by Gerald Coffee, a fellow POW. It's astonishing the hate people can inflict on their fellow man ... and what people can endure when they have no choice.

In my memory there is nothing so sad as this. God’s good church. God’s obedient workers deceived by Satan. They only wanted to do good. To be kind. To make a difference for good. Instead they became a by word. A warning. A warning that has crippled churches from then on. Too much or too little, we won’t be guilty, we won’t be taken in. So sad. And yet, God is victorious.

It is the double whammy of being a socialist and a Christian, infantile minds easily deceived and ripe for the plucking. Grow up and take responsibility for your own life instead of relying on a bureaucratic/spiritual leader who may simply guide you blindly into some utopian CIA mind control camp.

Oh my goodness. That was absolutely well made. Thank you and God bless you. 🙏✝📖🦋

What an absolute beautiful testimony. I would never have been able to survive. God bless everyone. 🙏❤🦋

I loved you on the amazing race you were my favored team

3 years 2020-2021-2023 covid deceipt is very similar to the Jim Jones deceipt.

I went to a couple of his concerts in the 70s/80s & a couple of records that he signed.

Hr performed st my elementary school in the early 70s He blew us away

I read his book to my campers at night when I was a camp counselor.

Thank you!!!!

This is incredible. I was in awe over a live concert video (“Moses”) that was mentioned in the book “Thrive” by Mark Hall (Casting Crowns) - and never did it occur to me even once that this man was blind. What a great uplifting and life affirming documentary. They sure don’t make them like they used to.

I remembered this mans story today, why? It was because someone at work I met today had lost their facial features too. I pray she is able to adapt well and find great inner strength.Also deep friendships at junior college.

I saw this movie as a teenager. I am a singer as well and it was such a blessing to see.

Your right sir

Amen!

Please My Friends! Accept Christ As Your Lord And Saviour! Ask Lord Jesus To Forgive Your Sins. We must Follow Christ, Not People! Please My Friends! Please! John 3:16

It was more like the poor sell what you have and give to the becoming rich.

Just listened to several KZbin clips of Ken Medema and couldn't stop smiling ear to ear. I used to listen to him back in the 80's. Someone had given me some cassette recordings and I listened to those for years (until technology changed so much). I was feeling properly down today (long story) and the moment I started listening to 'Moses' from the Azusa Pacific University recording, I just started smiling. Ken, you've touched so many lives. I thank God for you and that you chose to live instead of feeling sorry for yourself.

I think Jones may have been an iIInmjnati member. His name is JWJ, which is 161. This is an alphanumeric way of writing 666. The "number one" mirrors the Hebrew 6; think Monster's drink logo and you will get it. If this is the case, he could have chosen to become a member on his own or his parents may have sold him out. A lot of these people that are given platforms are iIInmjnati traitors. If this is true, then some of his background story would be a well-crafted lie. I'm not saying that they got him to kjII his members, but, by the time he got to South America, he may have already been a demon-possessed leader. This would be something that he'd have in common with any occnIt leader! Such a person could be suicidal and/or genocidal; an evjI entity would also point him at drugs to worsen him, since it doesn't care about Jones. Whatever the case, you have to be careful about those groups whose goal it is to isolate you from society. At this point, you have to ask yourself: what if there is no way out?! If you do decide to go, you can't have a family nor ever have one(BECAUSE YOU WILL ENDANGER THEM) and you have to be willing to die for what their plan now is or what it will be in the future(his/her goals or presentation could change drastically over time). You have expect to be entering into a roaming environment and there can never be any guarantee that you will ever be able to leave! With PT/JT, it began as a seemingly Christian group. By the time it was over, he was throwing bjbjes, sleeping with anyone in the commune he wanted(despite being married), proclaiming himself to be the Almighty, giving suicide tests and readying the congregants for genocide, working people like slaves, swearing, and putting whites in leadership over the overwhelmingly black majority like they did on a plantations*(it was supposed to be racial equality). *According to the Jonestown movie(1980) starring Powers Boothe, these whites in leadership were cruel to blacks like on a plantation, as well. Jones could also order his inner circle to attack, punish, etc.

Mel White was a Christian when he made the movie so he gave the Christian perspective

Thanks for producing this and for covering this story so well. There are many of us on a FB group called Transmissions From Jonestown. I'd encourage you to check it out. You have a lot of rare old footage uploaded. Do you have any more footage or b-reels?

Hmmm. Socialism, "social justice," destruction of the nuclear family, censorship of opposing ideas.

The Mills family at the beginning were all murdered in 1980.

Ken will always be an inspiration. ❤️✝️

4:02 has always been the white mans favorite line! "Many of them were poor& uneducated" What a fucking joke get outta here with that B.S!!!!

I've followed Ken Medema since 1974 when he was introduced over the radio waves @ WMCU FM, called Miami Christian College at the time.