We were a bunch of people
in or looking at the hippie culture brought together by all
sorts of different circumstances... We ended up staying together
because of a shared hunger to "know truth." We met the Lord at
some point in the journey and made individual commitments to
Him. We then began to read scripture together every evening
after dinner. The more scripture we read the more our lives
began to change. We eventually lived together and started "doing
music." We all went back to work instead of just living a hippie
lifestyle.
We decided to travel the
country to see how people who called themselves "Christians"
lived. That journey took us to many different communities of
believers and exposed us to many different life styles and
expressions of faith. Eventually we ended up in Houston at
Redeemer because of
Redeemer's testimony of straights and hippies living together in
love. It was the testimony of our life *SOS" together, that
inspired Fisherfolk's traveling
ministry and their life together in
England.
However, for us, there
was a split because of a confrontation of leadership between
Shipen and Graham. At that
point Ruth, Rog/Claudia, Stephanie and another young man Randy
(who was not in the original group) - stayed behind and "The
Trees" left to complete their journey to CA and back to NYC
where we all started.
contributed by Stephanie in July 2012 - links
by Bob Andrew |