A Sample Community
Deep in the Heart of Texas
David and his followers left California in April of 1969, for a brief stay in Tucson, Arizona. From there, they crisscrossed North America on a year-long witnessing trek which attracted much media attention and about 50 new disciples. A newspaper reporter in Camden, New Jersey, was the first to liken them to "Moses and the Children of God," and the names stuck.
"We are proving that it can be done, a total 100% living for God!"
In January 1970, the group settled at an abandoned ranch in Texas that had formerly been Fred Jordan's "Texas Soul Clinic" (TSC) missionary training camp. Since leaving California, the group had doubled in size to about 120. Here David set about implementing his vision for a true New Testament community. He trained the young converts, and encouraged them to be a living sample of true Christianity and to reach the world with the Gospel. At the time he wrote: "We are here to preach not a 50% or a 70%, but a total 100% living for God: living in a totally new society, loving one another and having the Truth. Our message will go over the whole world … [T]hey will hear about Jesus from you because you will be living it. You will be a living ensample of the Truth. You are preaching it in the greatest way of preaching—by living it!" [1]