The CoG Photo Album.

David Brandt Berg began
ordaining ministers in
the Children of God
movement in 1969 when
he was fifty years old. His
followers called him "Mo"
(short for Moses David)
and "Dad." Shown here
in 1980 at sixty-one years
of age.

Photos courtesy of The
Family.
   
David Berg's parents,
Virginia (shown here)
and Hjalmer, were
evangelists in the
Christian and Missionary
Alliance, a denomination
with several hundred
thousand members.
   

David Berg in 1964 with his
wife Jane and three of their
four children (l-r): Paul, Faith,
and Jonathan. David was
affiliated with the Soul Clinic
ministry in Los Angeles at
the time.

 
   
Intl. Food Convention. Paris
July 1974. L to R -
Karen, Menorah, Prescilla,
Dulcinea, Mom aka
Mother Eve (David
Berg's wife) & Sancho, Sisera &
'Nina, Taberah
   
In 1969, Berg moved to the
Southwest, shown here
speaking at the Rev. Fred
Jordon's Texas ranch.
Berg left behind
the Light Club coffee
house and Teens for
Christ ministries in
Huntington Beach,
bringing many of his
early converts to
the Texas ranch
for missionary training.
   
On the surface, the
Children of God
(shown here in an
early street
demonstration)
resembled the Jesus
People with similar
roots in the 1960s
hippie movement.
But the Children of
God were more
radical in that they
rejected all forms of
institutionalized
Christianity.

   
Singing and dancing in public,
known as a "Holy Ghost
sample," was intended to
present a radical, attention
-drawing witness of Jesus
Christ, as here in
Amersterdam, 1971.
   
Two second-generation
Family members helping
with earthquake relief in
El Salvador in 2001. The
young man being
interviewed is known
among his friends as
"Guatemalan Paul."

   
The Family has become well known for its folk and rock gospel bands.

The group pictured here is based in Japan.