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Hope, faith and big bucks
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Hope, faith and big bucks

: | The Press | Paul Madgwick | Article archived: National Library A remote West Coast complex houses a growing sect with multimillion- dollar businesses. Even infrequent trips by some of the 300 members into Greymouth put $300,000 monthly into the town’s stores. Welfare, benefits, and pensions are foreign concepts; community…
Jury finds Cust sect leader guilty
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Jury finds Cust sect leader guilty

: The Press | A man who faced three charges of indecent assault arising from incidents at the Cust Christian community was found guilty on all three counts by a jury in the Christchurch district Court yesterday. Further reading:  Jury finds Cust sect leader guilty      …
After the Fall
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After the Fall

: | Listener | Jane Gray | To the members of his community, Neville Cooper was the voice of God, obeyed without question.  Now he answers to an earthly authority. Hopeful Christian, born Neville Barclay Cooper, stood in the Christchurch District Court dock in the blue jersey, shirt and trousers and…
Ministry fails sect schools
Articles, Education

Ministry fails sect schools

: | Press | Colin Espiner | TWO schools run by the Cooperite Christian sect have been refused provisional licences by the Ministry of Education. Ministry and Department of Social Welfare officials, acting on information from the police, visited a school and an early childhood centre at the Cust Christian Community’s…
Probe today of sect’s schools
Articles, Education

Probe today of sect’s schools

: | Press | Colin Espiner | The Ministry of Education will today investigate two schools run by the Cooperite Christian sect. The police have advised the ministry that two schools, one of which is a kindergarten, are operating without a licence at the Cust Christian Community’s Haupiri property in north…
Education ‘inadequate’
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Education ‘inadequate’

: | Press | Children in the. Cooperite communities should receive their education in an ordinary school, says a former sect member. Mr Mel Hansen, whose children were taught by the Cooperite school at Cust, said yesterday that he hoped the Ministry of Education’s investigation into the sect’s Haupiri schools would…
The Miracle Plane Crash
Articles, Gloriavale Promo

The Miracle Plane Crash

: Gloriavale Publication | Gloriavale Website | In 1967, the Queensland newspapers proclaimed a miracle had happened when a light plane crashed with four people on board – and everybody survived. The plane was piloted by the founder of the Gloriavale Christian Community while he was returning from mission work in…