Our Journey to Elden in Jan 1971

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Elden1971

Let me make something explicitly clear regarding Witness Lee. I knew Witness Lee, I was a guest in his apartment on Westmoreland in LA, in his apartment on Juno in Anaheim and I helped move him into his duplex along with his son Philip. I knew 3 of his 6 children and I spent private one on one time with him and all of them. I know personally 10 of the blended brothers. When I post about them it is from my personal experience not from something I have read. John, Bill, Al and Godfred were all friends and I still have periodic contact with them. Don Hardy and I visit almost every week and his testimony is being written and hopefully will appear soon. I would welcome calls from anyone who wishes to know the truth of the early years and the results of my research over the past 35 years.

Don Rutledge posted on this forum (as Hope) frequently, though not of SoCal, he also knew many brothers from those early days.

Did you know he also was writing his own account about the LC's? After posting 2 chapters, he was visited by 3 brothers from LSM. His writing then stopped.

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Don Rutledge posted on this forum (as Hope) frequently, though not of SoCal, he also knew many brothers from those early days.

Did you know he also was writing his own account about the LC's? After posting 2 chapters, he was visited by 3 brothers from LSM. His writing then stopped.

Ohio, I believe there were other circumstances affecting the stoppage. Although the brother's visit does appear to be quite a coincidence.

[Elden1971]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Don Rutledge posted on this forum (as Hope) frequently, though not of SoCal, he also knew many brothers from those early days.

Did you know he also was writing his own account about the LC's? After posting 2 chapters, he was visited by 3 brothers from LSM. His writing then stopped.

I would wish that Hope would continue writing his history because every locality had unique experiences and it is helpful to get the varied perspectives. I have encouraged Don Hardy to share his experience because of his close involvement with the Lee family, Daystar, Elden and Rosemead

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Elden1971

I would wish that Hope would continue writing his history because every locality had unique experiences and it is helpful to get the varied perspectives. I have encouraged Don Hardy to share his experience because of his close involvement with the Lee family, Daystar, Elden and Rosemead

Unfortunately, Hope took a lot of heat from other posters because they felt he was too kind to some of the folks he wrote about, and not sympathetic to those former members who cried foul.

There are also a bunch of emails between Don Hardy and Steve Isitt all strung together which were sent to me and to others years ago. They actually started out pretty graphic, since Hardy has seen things of Philip Lee which should never have happened in the offices of LSM. I put them into a Word doc, and as I was reading through them, I tried to clean them up a little, unifying fonts and the like.