Assembly-History

History of the Assembly

Bits and chunks of Assembly history are scattered everywhere on this site. In this section we will try to bring it together for a birds eye view. Everything in this section is very much a work in progress. We will be slowly gleaning info from other sections of the site to add here, but additions and corrections are pleadingly solicited from all you FAM's (former Assembly members). Here is the beginning of a list of missing information. Maybe you have some clues....

The Assembly Timeline came to birth in response to Dave Mauldin's request for a list of major events to be included in his oral history project on the Assembly. There are imbedded links to pages on some of the individual Assemblies.

When Steve Irons was a Leading Brother he prepared a detailed prayer list for himself to lead each All Night of Prayer. The list for the December 1989 ANOP focused on the Assemblies in the US and Canada. It really drills down and shows the scope and extent of the Work and the Assemblies as they existed not long before the Irons left in March, 1990.

Assembly Locations lists all the Assemblies and outreaches over the 33 years of the Assembly. This list also has imbedded links to individual pages on some Assemblies.

A consecutive list of seminars is under construction. There is also a page for readers' contributions and comments on the seminars. Calculating three seminars a year every year in Fullerton for thirty two years, plus one Midwest seminar every year for perhaps twenty years, G. Geftakys gave over one hundred seminars, each on a different theme--but all riding favorite hobby horses.

So far the page on the history of the Work is a small collection of memories. David Kirby has written an account of how the House of Christian Love became a growing center for Bible teaching and how it was taken over by George Geftakys.

A few "Letters from Abroad" have been gleaned from "The Believers' Prayer Letters", expressing gratitude to GG for his ministry and giving updates on the Work in their locations.

Assembly publications: a list of types of publications in the Work, and a list of Torch and Testimony publications in translation, are important documentation regarding the lingering influence of the Geftakys ministry in the USA and around the world. Excerpts from " The Believers' Prayer Letter" are being added on an ongoing basis.

Assembly bulletin boards and forum provide a wealth of historical information:

• A partial archive of the original Assembly bulletin board
• The current Assembly bulletin board
• A "George Geftakys" thread on the Rick Ross' Cult Education Forum

Although "The Work" and most of the Geftakys Assemblies have disbanded since January 2003, when George was excommunicated, Assembly history is not over yet. There are still a number of continuing Assemblies, there are former leaders dispersing into evangelical churches, and George and Betty Geftakys are still a danger. They have relocated to Plymouth Village assisted living community in Redlands, CA, where George leads Bible studies and Sunday meetings in their home.

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