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AMF's Cult Like Teaching
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Only a hypocrite would tell others, "The
elderly need love and must be escorted through the transition
through death unto eternal life." (As in Ardith Keef's Daily Devotional
today) after letting their own mother die without seeing their only child
for ten years, when they didn't even know if their mother was
saved. This is disgusting, vile and unchristian behavior. It smacks
of the enemy in it's cruelty and abusive nature.
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| Anchor Missionary Cult Story Updated |
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| Written by Cheryl Dobson | |
| Friday, 26 September 2008 | |
, The "Pastor" who abuses families Many folks think that cults are filled with people who are some kind of weird "cult material." But in reality cults and abusive churches are filled with good people, bright people, business people, lawyers, doctors, executives , pilots, moms, dads, dancers, musicians, teachers etc. Often the church becomes a cult with time ,and especially if there is no accountability on the part of the leaders. The truth is,sometimes a member has no clue it is a cult or abusive until it affects him personally. I was in a cult/abusive church whose beginnings appeared to be very much the same as a normal Christian Church. People from every walk of life can be found in cults. I am a wife and mother and grandmother who simply wanted to love and please the Lord. I also loved people. I met a woman who seemed to teach the truth about Jesus Christ, salvation by faith, and the Cross. Now 20 years later here I am with my whole family, eight of us (four children) put out of the "church" and shunned for questioning the leaders whom we thought to be our friends. The good part is that I was there serving for so long that I truly am still their friend ,and love them unconditionally. I love them enough to tell the truth loud and clear so no other families will ever have to suffer at the hands of these leaders like our family has. Perhaps the leaders of the abusive church will eventually see and hear the truth themselves. This is my earnest desire and heartfelt prayer. It is now Sept 27, 2008. The Web-site has been operating for twenty-one months. Below is the strange but honest truth about how the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church began. My name is Cheryl Dobson. I'm 62 years old. I was there praying, serving the leadersip, being a "pillar" through it all. This is the story of Ardith Keef and her Pastor husband, Bill, how they got rid of their ex's and broke up both their families, virtually destroyed a church, started their own church, and much more all in the name of Jesus... Sadly ,I have seen profound abuse of families, even the Pastor's own family, cloaked in the guise of "spiritual authority" and "obedience" to the "law" of God. What an incredible deception we all came under! For years I supported what "seemed right", but was terribly wrong. Now myself and my whole family have been excommunicated for criticizing the bizarre behavior of Bill and Ardith Keef. This happened in the summer of 2006. My family asked for a chance to talk together with them at least 25 times with no response. Then in May 2007 my son-in-law reached out to Pastor Keef of The Anchor Missionary Fellowship in order to try to reason with him one last time; His wife,Ardith took control refusing to talk or have a meeting of any kind. On July 1, 2007 Pastor Bill Keef tried to hide an illegal listening devise in the ground where my husband had parked his truck, where Don had lawfully exercised his civil rights by demonstrating at the church for 49 weeks. The Pastor was caught red-handed, burying the device in the early hours of Sunday July 1, 2007, by a Police Officer in plain clothes . We are speaking out because it is the only thing we can do......... This is our story................ I have recently undergone the painful process of exiting an abusive church/ cult after 12 and a half years of faithful servce. I spent the previous 8 years under Ardith Keef's control within the confines of the previous church she and her 5th and former husband/pastor led. I've seen whole families abused, divided, and the two people who were married to the present pastor and his wife; cruely shunned for years. One of these folks was labeled 'possessed' and a "witch." the new "pastor",Bill Keef and Ardith's present husband, gave everyone code names at the time. He labeled his then wife,"Spider" when she was no longer wanted. My code name was,"The State Trooper." The other ex, Ardith Keef's pastor husband, a Professor, who had a code name that I cannot disclose, was slandered at the university before his professional peers and colleagues, and before his students, as well as before the church that he had pastored, clearly, and brutally stated that he was morally deficient. Rumors were spread through his workplace and his church that he suffered from a 'brain tumor' and" Alzheimers." The new church prayed for him to die! May I say that the man is 78 years old and in perfect health today, fourteen years later. He still holds down his job and his dignaty in spite of the abuse he has suffered.He prays for the group and he redily forgave me. The slandering and the shunning of this man and woman continues to this day with no evidence of such things! Such cruel abuse rivals the "witch hunts" , hangings and burnings of Salem. At least it was over quickly for those victims.; This is how it all began................. Christian Outreach Association was a small church started around 1983. I became a member in 1986. By early 1994 there were about 65 members. The Pastor was Ardith's husband, seventeen years her senior. He was loved by church members. He was a marvelous teacher ,and the church was growing steadily and thriving. Sometime before the fall of 1992 he began allowing a young married man with four young children,to do some of the preaching on Sundays. During those months before the defrocking of Ardiths husband/pastor, Ardith the former pastors wife was holding "marriage counseling" sessions with the wife of the young man Bill Keef. Ardith has never had any counseling credentials! The same woman/wife of Bill Keef was a few months later conveniently described as 'possessed', In late spring of 1994 everything was turned upside down in the church. Ardith (now Keef) and the young married man prayed alone together periodically in Ardith's university office for some time, and decided to disclose what they considered a moral flaw in the Pastor's character. The young married man, Bill Keef would "take down the pastor." and take over. For most of us it was very sudden and shocking. How long the two people who caused the pastor's demise had been "praying" and planning only God knows. Things had been weird in the church for about a year, but nothing you could put your finger on. The original Pastor was unjustly ousted, shamed, and disgraced before the whole church, he was then shunned and the shunning continues 14 years later. The young man took over as Pastor of the church immediately with no vote , and no authority, outside of the coaching of the former Pastor's wife, Ardith and step-son. This was the son of the ousted Pastor. Eventually they talked a pastor into "ordaining" the "new" pastor and he did it reluctantly. Bill Keef had no schooling or training of any kind to do pastoring duties. I then stayed in the defunct ,former Pastor's home nights with his wife Ardith and him for nine months. I felt that she needed protection from the former pastor , who was made out to be so evil that he was dangerous within five days time. In short, I believed what was said. I did think it strange however, that days and months went by without my ever seeing the former pastor and his wife speak to each other. They still lived together in the same house. I was told by Ardith in no uncertain terms, not to speak to her then defunct,shunned husband even though I was in his home every day. . The church floundered. Over the upcoming months, the sheep scattered until about 19 people remained. There was no help for the hurting flock. Within eight days of the defrocking of her husband, I knew that Ardith was in love with the young man who had in such a bizarre way become the new Pastor. My reason for staying nights also was because of the appearence of evil. They were both still married to their mates. I told Ardith with grave seriousness that she had better protect the members from finding out they were in love for the sake of the Church. I encouraged her to take things very slow. I was right, they were not wise. They were giddy and childish about their feelings while they were both still married to others and in front of Bill's children. The church was virtually destroyed, except for a few easily deceived, die-hard loyalists like myself. Ardith was in love with the very man whose wife she had 'counseled' , the wife who now was suddenly labeled "possessed" and a "witch." Within a year the new Pastor Bill Keef, and the former Pastor's wife, Ardith , now Keef were married to each other. I had moments of apprehension, but backed Ardith all the way. She had all the "spiritual answers." The two spouses who excommunicated the ex's got married to each other on June 5,1995. They became the Church Authority Figures. No one gave them any authority, they just took it on themselves. The former church was destroyed. The young man's four children were left wounded and without their father. Two of his girls were even called demonic and satanic. They are still recovering today from Ardith's and their father's abuse Two families were broken up. According to the church leadership, none of this is their doing. The others, their ex's , were at fault. Possessed. Brain Damaged. Rediculous! But I believed it. I watched it happen to others. I watched families torn and divided in the years since. Ardith's reasoning and teaching seemed so right , but was deceptive and defective, and the fruit of it has been disastrous. How like the enemy who keeps transforming himself into an angel of light! I was blind to what was really going on for twelve and a half years, until it happened to me...... I was called 'Bi-Polar' and evil when I questioned the actions of the leaders. I had worked for the pastor's wife for over seventeen years. I was faithful to her through thick and thin. Then was quickly discarded ,and began to be shunned. I was asked to go to all the services. Then when I went in I was asked to leave them. I have been shunned, slandered, and my whole family has been abused. Even my grandchildren have been seperated from each other and their family split apart. It began the day of our grandsons birth, July 28, 2006 The pastor decided that our daughter-in-law is his daughter and our grandson is his adopted grandson. They have put her on a pedestal as a "godly" woman. In truth she is a gullible woman, easily deceived as was I once. The young impressionable mother and wife has been divided from my son, her husband who dearly loves her. She lived with him until Dec 2007 but her heart and soul and whole mind was always with them. The pastor is the head of her household. nbsp; He has coveted another mans wife. Now as of Sept 2008 Bill and Ardith Keef have this young wife and mother along with her 26 month old son and a newborn boy, at their home ,away from her husband and two young stepsons. The two young boys ages 4 and 12 have not seen one brother since Dec, 2007, and both have never seen their new baby brother. These innocent children are emotionally pained and saddened by this horrendous and sick abuse. The four children live only six miles from one another. Bill and Attorney, Guardian Ad Litem, Ardith Keef have done nothing to help the family, they have only kept dividing the young woman from all who love her. First ,from her own extended family,(Christian missionaries for 25 years,) then from her husbands family, and now from her husband and young stepsons who love, deeply miss, and need her. As of Sept 25,2008 a divorce is nearly accomplished by the young wife against her Christian husband with no Biblical grounds, with the backing of the Anchor church leadership. The young man has done all he can to save his marriage ,and now there is another child between them. The young man has to agree to the divorce in order to get the court to give him time with his new infant son. All in my family have begged the Pastor to meet with us many times , to reason together as the Bible says, but apparently they only want the young woman and children for themselves for whatever reason. You can read about my husband Don, and articles written by my children, Becky, her husband Mike, and my son Brian by clicking onto "Family" on the Home Page. I still love these very deluded people. They are thoroughly deceived. If you are a Christian, please pray for the truth to be exposed so that those at the Anchor Church may be set free. It is my hope and prayer that the following verse does not apply to the leaders of the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church. My earnest desire is that being faced with the truth , they will turn from their sin, repent, and apologise to those they have crushed and broken, divided, and abused for over 14 years. That they may ask forgiveness of those innocent people whom they have discarded, labeling us with these words ........... Unfortunately these very words seem to well describe the leaders of the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church. " They have depraved and distorted minds, and are reprobate and counterfeit, and to be rejected as far as the faith is concerned. But they will not get very far, for their rash folly will become obvious to everybody." 2 Timothy 3 /> |
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