We’ve had a great response to our upcoming tour. Most of the events are now fully booked and those which are not are almost full.

If you want to attend an event but haven’t yet booked a place, we suggest that you do so now.

Please note:

• All sincere people are welcome
• You don’t have to have previously registered your interest in the talks in order to attend
• If you did register your interest to attend, but did not receive a personal email response from me, you are still welcome to book a place

You can view all event listings here: https://events.humanitix.com/host/divinetruth

Because of the long waiting lists that we had for the living room talks in the USA, we have added two additional living room talks to the tour.

We will now hold two living room talks in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and two living room talks in San Diego, California.

Most places in these new talks have already been taken by people on the pre-existing waiting lists. However, at the time of writing, there are still a few spots available in the second set of talks in both San Diego and Chapel Hill.

If events are fully booked, you are still free to join the waiting list. Cancellations do happen and you may be able to attend however please don’t count on that happening. We are no longer searching for larger venues in order to accommodate waiting lists (except in the case of Belgium – see below).

Belgium Special Request

As we suspected may happen, Brussels turned out to be our most popular stop in Europe. The living room talk filled up quickly and has a long waiting list.

A number of people who live in Belgium are on the waiting list and have had to book into talks in other countries in order ensure that they can attend an event.

We, and a number of others living in Belgium, have spent a lot of time trying to locate a larger venue in Brussels that would accommodate the current bookings, along with the waiting list registrants. We have not been successful.

If anyone knows of a venue that meets the requirements (listed below) then please let me know. Otherwise, we will stay with our current arrangement using a personal living room.

Brussels Venue Requirements

Dates for venue booking: Thursday 18th – Sunday 21st July (Thursday used for room and audio set up)

Location: Brussels, Belgium (location is not negotiable as we already have accommodation arrangements in Brussels)

Minimum Room & Venue Requirements:
Size – 70 metres square (minimum)
Shape – Rectangular
Seating for up to 70 people
Must have restroom facilities (minimum 3 toilets)
Power outlets to plug in sound equipment
Adequate lighting and quiet for the talks to be seen and heard easily

Booking Requirements:
Venue must be willing to hire to Jesus and Mary, teachers of Divine Truth, from Australia
(We have encountered some prejudice when making bookings for this tour. It is most loving to inform people upfront of who they would be hiring to so as to not waste their, or our, time if they do not wish to hire to us).

The booking must be continuous. That is;

• The room must remain set up for the duration of the event (from mid morning on the 18th July until the evening of 21st July)
• No other people can use or hire the space during this time. This is to ensure that audio equipment is protected and the room does not need to be set up each day of the event.

Jesus and I are looking forward to meeting many new people and having some frank and fun discussions on matters of spiritual importance.

Bye for now,

Mary

Thank you to everyone who registered your interest to attend a living room talk in Europe, North America and Australia. Your registrations have helped us to decide which areas to visit and to realize that in some areas we will need to hire a larger venue in order to accommodate the numbers of you who wish to attend.

A special thanks to those who have offered us their personal living rooms, searched for suitable venues and accommodation, and all of you who have donated funds towards the tour.

We think we now have enough donations to fund the tour and have finalized our itinerary for travel and for the events.

We have tried to ensure that everyone who wants to attend an event will have the chance to do so. To that end, we will hold seminars in some locations and smaller talks in places where it has been difficult to find a larger venue.

We love the less formal and more intimate discussions that happen in living room talks but in order to accommodate everyone who would like to come to an event we would need to travel for a much longer time (and need more living rooms!).

On this trip we are looking to meet with sincere, humble, truth-seeking people and to find venues and presentation formats that will help us to engage with these people more regularly.

We will visit 9 locations, hold an event in each location for 2-3 consecutive days, and be traveling for a total of 15 weeks.

Events will be in;

Belgium, Brussels – 3 Day Living Room
Austria, Innsbruck – 3 Day Living Room
Portugal, Alzejur – 3 Day Living Room
UK, Midlands – 2 Day Seminar
UK, Damerham – 3 Day Seminar
Ireland, Naas – 3 Day Living Room
Canada, Nova Scotia, Falls Lake – 3 Day Seminar
USA, North Carolina, Chapel Hill – 3 Day Living Room
USA, California, San Diego – 2 Day Seminar + 3 Day Living Room

Note for 3 Day Events:

Many events on this tour are scheduled for a Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Changes may be made to the Sunday format for each event. Participants will be informed of any changes on the Saturday afternoon prior.

Changes may include; reduced hours, reduced participants, cancellation of the day. Changes depend on how participants are engaging with the material and if they have a sincere desire for more truth at the end of Saturday discussions.

Please read and agree to the following important information before you register to attend any event.

Participant Release

If you cannot agree to all the terms for a participant attending any Divine Truth event laid out in our Participant Release Form on our website, then you must not attend any of our events. By registering for, or attending any Divine Truth event, you automatically indicate your agreement to those terms.

By registering for and attending any event you consent, in perpetuity:

1. To a recording being made of you (both audio or visual) during the event, and;
2. To the usage and sharing free of charge of any such recording in a public manner, and;
3. To Jesus & Mary sharing the material via the Divine Truth website, Divine Truth public servers, Divine Truth download servers, and Divine Truth video and audio sharing platforms worldwide.

Every Divine Truth event may be audio and video recorded. Recordings are shared to create an accurate public representation of what happened during the event, so that all persons, whether they attend the event or not, are able to benefit from what happened during the event. Please be respectful of the recording and don’t make unnecessary noises during the event. People who are not respectful will be removed from the event.

If you do not wish to have your face or voice recorded, then please do not register for or attend any Divine Truth event.

Important Notes:

1. Jesus and Mary will endeavor to use recordings in a respectful manner, and for teaching purposes.
2. Please consider that unloving people may copy Divine Truth material for free and use the material in a dishonest, disrespectful, or even malicious manner (this is often the case with media outlets).
3. Your likeness and recording of your voice, once shared on the internet, is virtually impossible to remove from the internet even if it is later removed from the Divine Truth website, Divine Truth public servers, Divine Truth download servers, and Divine Truth video and audio sharing platforms worldwide.
4. Insincere participants (as adjudicated by Jesus & Mary) will be asked to leave any event.

Purpose of These Events

Living room talks by Jesus & Mary help sincere participants to understand God’s Truth, receive God’s Love, and apply God’s Truth in their daily lives. Living room talks are designed to help people to live God’s Way. They are interactive and more informal than a seminar.

Seminar events allow participants to hear God’s Truth about a relationship with God, Faith, Humility, Love, Truth, God’s Laws, Life After Death, the Spirit World, the Human Soul, how the Universe works, how Soul Progression occurs and other universally important matters. Questions must remain on topic.

More details about the format for each event is listed on the booking page.

Locations

Specific locations for talks have been chosen with consideration for the following factors:

• the level of sincere interest expressed in the location
• ease of access/travel for people coming from other locations
• where we could find venues that were suitable and willing to rent their space to us

Being Loving

Please be loving when booking to attend any event. Keep in mind;

• Please only book places for people (you and others you may know) who are sincere about receiving personal truth, prepared to confront personal error, and who want to learn more about the practical, personal application of God’s Truth, and who respect Jesus and Mary as a source of God’s Truth on earth.
• People who are unloving to Jesus and Mary, or to other participants, will be asked to leave.
• Do not book if you cannot attend every day of any 2-3 day event.
• As spaces are limited, please cancel your booking if you are no longer able or no longer plan to attend. This loving act will allow a person on the waiting list to take your space.
• If you are on a waitlist we suggest you stay on the waitlist, since we hope to be able to find another larger venue to accommodate the extra people for the same dates
• If you wish to attend living room talks in multiple locations, please consider people who may only be able to attend in one country. Spaces at some venues (e.g. Belgium, Chapel Hill, and Portugal) are very limited. We may ask people who have booked for multiple events to not attend every event they have booked if other people who cannot attend elsewhere, and who are waitlisted for an event, wish to attend.

Booking Information

Seats

Because seats at each location will be limited, it will be necessary to reserve your space at talks in each location.

Waitlists

There will be a waitlist in place for each event. If you are next in line on a waitlist and a space becomes available, the ticket hosting site will automatically generate an email and send you an offer to take up this space. You will only have 30 minutes to take up the space before it is offered to the next person on the list. This 30 minute time period is a limitation of the software that we can’t alter.

Parking

Where available, details about parking will be listed on the event booking page or will be emailed to you prior to your attendance.

FAQ

Are there any prerequisites for attendance?

Yes. A desire to learn more about God’s Love, God’s Truth, to be humble and respect the presenters and other attendees. You do not need to have listened to any material presented by Jesus and Mary before attendance (but you may at times find it difficult to follow if you have not).

Can I bring my child/children?

Children are welcome to attend. However, their safety and conduct are the responsibility of the parent or adult who has brought them. If your child is loud or interruptive, please remove them and yourself from the event so that others can continue to listen, and the recordings are not affected.

What facilities are there at the event?

We try to make rest rooms, and water, available at every event. We recommend every person brings a personal drink bottle. We normally break every hour for around 5-10 minutes to allow for rest room breaks.

The number of rest rooms at people’s homes is obviously limited. Please be respectful of the personal space of the generous people who have provided their homes to meet in. For larger events, the facilities will be provided by the venue, and we shall publish the venue details for you to examine.

Is food provided at any event?

No. Please bring your own drinks, snacks, or lunch for the day. We do not want people eating during the presentations, since it harms the sound recordings.

Some venues do not allow eating inside, but we usually break for 20 minutes halfway through the event if you wish to eat. Some living rooms are very tight for space and may require eating outside. Please be responsible with litter.

Can I attend for only one of the days in a certain location?

No. Please attend for the full 2 or 3 days that the event will run. In some circumstances we may allow alternate arrangements, but this must be approved by Jesus & Mary. Jesus & Mary may also invite people to attend on extra days if spaces become available.

If by arrangement you do attend less days, please be aware that information presented on prior days may be referenced and you may find the material difficult to follow, and we do not wish to repeat information we have previously presented to the rest of the participants.

Accommodation & Travel

Divine Truth Pty Ltd, and Jesus & Mary do not facilitate group bookings or provide assistance for attendees to find accommodation or make travel arrangements.

Divine Truth Pty Ltd, and Jesus & Mary have not previously met most people attending their events and take no responsibility for private share arrangements made by participants.

Jesus & Mary do not vet or police the character of persons attending Divine Truth events, so please make your own arrangements knowing that there are risks associated with each private arrangement, and risks associated with each person you do not know.

To book your place please visit http://event.divinetruth.com.

Thank you to everyone who has enthusiastically expressed their desire for the European Living Room tour. The tour will now definitely take place in July and August, 2024 . At this stage, we plan to stop in 4-5 European locations.

We have also decided to add a North American leg to the tour. We will visit Nova Scotia, Canada and one other North American location (yet to be decided) during September 2024.

If you would like to attend talks in Canada or the USA, could you please email mary@divinetruth.com with the following information:

• Your name and intention to attend in September this year
• Where you are located (your state and town)
• If you would like to offer a living room space/venue OR if would like to help in the search for suitable accommodation and a venue

I plan to book flights, accommodation, and confirm locations for all the talks by the end of February. So, whether you are in Europe or North America, please let me know promptly of your intention to attend and/or any assistance you would like to offer.

Donations & Funding the Tour

We would like to express a special thank you to an anonymous donor in the USA who donated a large sum towards the European tour. Your generosity will enable us to purchase most of the flights for both the European and North American stops on the tour.

We would also like to thank everyone else who has donated so far.

We have not yet received enough to cover all of our other expenses but I will write in more detail about the finances of the trip in a future Living Room Tour update.

Living Room Talks in Australia

Australian living room talks are also possible. If you would like to host or arrange a talk in your area, please email mary@divinetruth.com

Where ever you are in the world, we wish you well in your continued progression with God and hope that we can see you soon. It’s been a pleasure to hear from so many of you over the past few weeks.

Bye for now,

Mary

Hi everyone,

Time for another update from Jesus and I.

I know you that most of you haven’t seen or heard from us in a while but we are still here doing our thing! And we still have plans to bring you some new Divine Truth material and interactions over the coming year.

Jesus has still been teaching regularly in our home and at God’s Way Ltd events multiple times every month but we remain limited in terms of our editing capabilities which is why no new material has appeared on our website or YouTube channels.

Before I get on to the update, Jesus and I would like to express our heartfelt thanks for your donations. We are glad that you find value in what we are passionate about sharing and teaching.

For those in the USA, please note that the bank account details for US transfers (for Divine Truth donations and personal gifts) with Wise have now changed. There is also now an option for direct bank transfers to a Canadian bank account. Details are available on the donate page of the Divine Truth website.

Jesus has also just updated our website to include our financial records for the past 6 years. You can now view those on the same page (scroll down to Divine Truth Financial Records table).

I’d also like to say a special thank you and hello to those of you who write us emails of gratitude sharing the personal benefits that Divine Truth teachings and a relationship with God have brought to your lives. I would love to have time to communicate with all of you personally. Writing emails is just not a good use of our time, but I hope one day we can meet in person and have a chat.

Here are just some of the things we’ve been up to since my last update:

God’s Way Ltd Management & Leadership

Last year Jesus became a director of God’s Way Ltd, making the current board of directors Eloisa Sparks, Jesus, and I.

This year, administrative management of God’s Way Ltd, project leadership, and activity day management have taken up quite a lot of Jesus and my time. While we love this work, we have lots of other projects and ideas for sharing Divine Truth with people beyond those immediately involved in God’s Way activities. So we are hopeful that in time others will qualify to take on these roles.

In July and August, Jesus completed an internal audit of God’s Way Ltd accounts. Following the audit, Jesus highlighted some areas for improvement and Eloisa and I completed a major overhaul of our accounts list and accounting procedures based on his recommendations.

God’s Way Ltd focus in 2023 and for the coming years is on environmental recovery; and the preservation, collection and responsible storage of vital resources such as water. The company has projects tackling these priorities underway.

Regular activity days provide opportunities for participants to engage in these projects while aspiring to love themselves, others and the environment in harmony with God’s Love and Laws.

It has been our pleasure to see certain people among our regular participants blossom this year as they experiment with receiving God’s Love and changing their lives in accordance with that Love. You can read more about God’s Way activities here.

Teaching

Two or three Saturday afternoons per month Jesus and I host a spiritual discussion in our home. Invitees are those people who have participated in God’s Way Ltd activities on these days.

This year, Jesus has lead a group of participants through a number of presentation series on topics such as; Forgiveness & Repentance, Longing for God’s Love (prayer), How Progress Occurs, The Importance of Truth and a number of other moving and motivating themes.

These discussions have had a new depth and quality that many participants have found to be exceptionally helpful in their relating to God and in their engagement of the five key qualities taught in the 2016 Assistance Groups: Love, Truth, Faith, Emotion & Action. Jesus has demonstrated how to use these qualities to solve problems, find direction in life and to establish a relationship with God.

The talks, held in our modest living room, have inspired many to experiment for the first time with receiving God’s Love and helped them to gain appreciation for the beauty and potentials of that relationship. Participants have commented that they feel a new understanding of concepts that they had heard about, but not really connected to, in many Divine Truth seminars in the past.

Jesus has shared that, in future, his focus for presentations to first time listeners will be different to how he approached such talks in the past. I believe that the group who has gathered in our home three out of four Saturdays per month over the past couple of years has benefited directly from Jesus’ change in focus.

This relatively small group has had a unique experience which, I believe, is almost un-quantifiable in its value.

And it is exciting for me to consider how our teaching will further evolve and improve the more Jesus and I grow towards God and each other.

In addition to these living room presentations, Jesus and I often have long informal lunch discussions with participants on God’s Way Ltd activity days. Activity days occur 9-12 days per month and we often talk for 2 or 3 hours. So, these chats, along with the Saturday discussions (in which we often talk for 5 or 6 hours) amount to over 50 hours of teaching a month!

Because God’s Way Ltd activity days offer the opportunity to put God’s principles into practical action, lunchtime questions and remarks often stem from experiences in the morning. As a result the topics Jesus and I have discussed throughout the year have been wide ranging, stemming from matters of practical environmental recovery principles to inter gender addictions, conflicts, and parenting, along with matters of global concern.

Trip to South Australia

In September Jesus and I took a trip to South Australia. There were a number of reasons for this travel. We wanted to investigate some heating options (fireplaces) for our ecotent to cabin conversions. We also wanted to meet with our accountant who operates out of Adelaide and to visit Jesus’ parents who have both been very sick this year.

It turned out to be a hectic 6 day trip but I enjoyed seeing a lot of green grass and trees in South Australia! It was quite the contrast to the very dry and brown landscapes of South East Queensland at the moment.

Home Water collection & Accommodation overhaul and renovations

As I mentioned above we are currently experiencing drought conditions here in South East Queensland and the predictions of rising temperatures as a result of climate change have already become our reality.

Living in a farming community we rapidly see the effects of decreased rain fall and the increased heat. On visits to more coastal, suburban, or industrialized areas we often observe that the starkness of these climate change effects is being buffered by ‘manufactured’ or manicured lawns, plant and tree life that is tended, and nature’s ability to survive in the reduced but still occurring rainfall of coastal areas.

By contrast, the land in our and neighbouring districts is used to farm grains, meat and other primary products – products that those living in more urban areas rely upon. It is this land that is struggling; its fertility and productivity degrading rapidly. I feel that we are on the brink of so many tipping points and most Australian inhabitants aren’t seeing how precarious their food supply is becoming. Looking around our district we see how close to exhaustion the land and resources actually are.

We are passionate about eating a plant based diet, and in creating systems for water storage and food production that are not only sustainable in a hotter and drier future but that also work to support and regenerate surrounding lands for native flora and fauna. The directors of God’s Way have decided to focus our attention over the coming years on water collection, and water security.

Similarly, here at our home, we are conscious of the need to capture as much of the limited rain that does fall (our current rainfall for this year is very, very low) on the land and in tanks for drinking, washing, and basic home facilities.

Our current rain water tank system was installed by previous owners and is quite old now. While it has, over the past 15 years, stored a large amount of water, over the past year, due to ground movement and tree root growth, a large number of the old tanks have developed cracks which means that we’ve lost significant amounts of water. We’ll soon run out of water and so there is an urgency to deal with the problem in a way that is robust and long lasting.

With that urgency in mind, and with the understanding of what a vital resource water will be in the years to come, Jesus has been working hard on design solutions for:

• rain water collection (water harvesting),
• secure undercover tank storage for our drinking and home use, along with
• additional systems for pumping and plumbing dam water for use on our land and gardens.

As I’ve mentioned, our home is the current informal venue for Divine Truth presentations and we would like to be able to host our guests in a larger area and have a set up so that they can use toilets without taxing our water stores. At the moment we don’t have enough water for guests to flush the toilet and so most guests make use of the great outdoors for bathroom breaks.

To meet water goals, Jesus’ new design for water harvesting combines a large roof which doubles as protection for a new bank of tanks and as a place to maybe later mount panels for solar power collection; it has a large open deck for meetings and presentations (with the option of enclosing this space if funds allow in the future); storage for chairs; and a workspace for his computer and server repairs (this will reduce a lot of strain on our studio space which is often overwhelmed by technical build and repair projects).

We are currently awaiting a quote for materials to start this project. The build itself will involve some initial earthworks and construction of a retaining wall to make the ground level for the tanks and roof foundations. If materials and engineering are within our price range, we’ll be using a new flooring and build system. If these systems work well in terms of strength, price and ease of construction they can be used in all future God’s Way Ltd and Divine Truth facility buildings.

We currently don’t have enough funds to complete these projects but we are hopeful that once we get underway and visitors benefit from the improvements that we may attract the necessary funds.

In a prior update I talked about our ecotent conversion into cabins project which is currently on hold due to financial constraints. We are slowly saving money to complete these conversions. Cornelius who is our builder has been working on God’s Way projects this year but we hope he can return to these buildings in the new year if we have sufficient funds.

Divine Truth Sharing

In our hearts there is still a strong desire to share God’s Truth with others. Over the past year we have understood that we must be patient in this endeavour. We are both working on ourselves and our relationship with God; we are limited in terms of time (with God’s Way activities taking up a lot of time); we are still dealing with a backlog of a technical overhaul and working towards a new and improved audio, visual recording and editing set up. While all this is going on, our home, particularly our home water collection and cabin accommodations are in urgent need of repair. And so, we have been doing what we can on all fronts.

Kate’s passing brought a halt to work on the Divine Truth website upgrade and search engine. Thank you to those of you who reached out to us after Kate’s passing to express your affection for her and your kind wishes towards ourselves. We still talk to Kate often and she is adjusting to her life in the spirit world, at times facing certain challenges, but also finding enjoyments and making progress. We miss working with her daily on our projects.

Jesus is currently searching for an Australian based programming team who we can pay to complete the website upgrade and search engine that he and Kate were working on.

We are still in need of humble committed individuals with a passion to share Divine Truth with the world who want to assist us in editing already created Divine Truth videos and audio files. For example, the bulk of the 2019 Assistance Groups have not yet been edited.

In addition, there are now many mediumship sessions, group, and private discussions that Jesus and I have held (including those 50+ hours per month that I mentioned above) which could be output as audio files to benefit and assist others in their spiritual progression.

As I have already said, the topics covered the informal lunch discussions with activity day participants are far reaching. We often share a laugh, or people have their tears, as we discuss the potentials God has created for us to change and to love.

We are still investigating options for live streaming and I will post an update about that project soon.

Over the past 6 months Jesus has continued to maintain our existing Divine Truth website and video sharing services. He was able to transfer our international servers to new overseas locations which are more secure and less costly than our prior arrangement.

Jesus continues to store, manage and back up all raw and onsite data for both Divine Truth & God’s Way Ltd here in our server and network facilities in Wilkesdale.

Mediumship Group

I have been enjoying leading a mediumship development group here in Wilkesdale.

In this group, along with talking with spirits, I’ve been teaching participants about how to engage with mediumship in a loving manner.

Topics we’ve covered include:

• The loving uses for mediumship (which are many and varied)
• How to make a conscious connection with the spirit world, how to engage my spirit sense (e.g. how to answer the question: is this just me or am I channelling a spirit?)
• The various ways we can receive messages from the spirit world (How do I receive communication from spirits? Not everyone receives messages in the same way)
• The ethical and moral principles governing loving mediumship
• The medium’s responsibility to know the spirit’s identity and soul condition before conveying any message
• How to identify the spirit who is speaking and their condition in love
• How rapport occurs (via a combination of factors including; soul condition, intention and sympathetic beliefs or experiences and how these interact)
• The medium’s responsibility to hone their skills in order to convey accurate messages
• Loving considerations and principles for mediums who give spirit messages to people still on Earth

I enjoy this group. In many ways we are just getting started. I hope one day we can reach mediums and aspiring mediums worldwide. I am grateful to Jesus for his mentoring of me in this project. Mediumship is definitely one of our soul’s passions.

Until next time Jesus and I send you our love and hope that we can see you virtually, or in person, sometime soon.

I’ll leave you with some pictures of our resident python who I keep finding in random places around our house.

Jesus & Mary

28 April 1982 – 21 February 2023

On Tuesday 21st of February at 10.45pm our bright and beautiful friend Kate passed away.

Kate is funny, honest, conscientious, intelligent, musical and passionate. She has been a treasured part of our lives for over 10 years and has worked alongside us on many projects. She shares our passion for God’s Truth and she unselfishly did a great many things to help others to learn about it.

Among many things, we will miss her wit, her honesty, her desire and her kindness as a physical presence on Earth.

On Friday 11th of February, Kate became unwell with COVID. On Saturday morning, she came as usual to meet with Jesus to work on the website project. Jesus could see she was feeling sick and sent her home to look after herself.

On Sunday, 12th of February while her flatmate Sorcha was out, Kate had a hemorrhagic stroke and fell on the living room tiles, fracturing her skull. When Sorcha and Tristan returned home they found Kate unconscious. They performed emergency first aid and called an ambulance. Kate was taken to the Kingaroy hospital. Later that night, she was air lifted to Brisbane where emergency surgery was performed to relieve the pressure on her brain. Kate was cared for in the intensive care unit until her passing. There was significant bruising and injury to Kate’s brain and she never regained consciousness.

Jesus and I couldn’t visit the hospital (I had COVID at the same time and Jesus later developed it) so we asked Phoebe, a friend of Kate’s, to be at the hospital to help in anyway she could. A number of others of Kate friends also went to be at the hospital. Kate’s injuries were extremely serious and as the week progressed it became clear that Kate was unlikely to recover.

Jesus and I talked to Kate in her spirit state each day while she was in the hospital. We and other spirit friends were able to assist her to come to terms with the extent of her brain injury and then with her imminent passing and to help her to adjust to her new spirit life. Before her passing Kate had come to terms with what had happened and had visited her new home in the second sphere.

Kate’s family waited until Tuesday the 21st of February at midday, at which time Kate was removed from the ventilator and she passed away less than twelve hours later at 10.45pm.

Kate grew up in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

From a young age Kate wanted to sing and dance. She told me that from when she was small she started to campaign her parents to allow her to attend the Johnny Young Talent School. They eventually relented when Kate was around 6 years old. She attended the school for many years learning various styles of dance and singing. Kate continued to sing and take dance classes until she finished high school.

When Kate was around 5 or 6 she suddenly lost vision in her right eye. Investigations found that she had cancer in her brain and she underwent various forms of treatment to try to remove the cancer.

Radiation treatments left her with reduced hair growth, deafness in her right ear, blindness in her right eye, and some disfigurement around her right eye. Even though she had an immaculate sense of style and beautiful features, Kate often felt self conscious and critical of her appearance. Kate’s hormonal system was also affected by the cancer treatments and she suffered discomfort in her body everyday from her affected eye, her sinuses and other body parts impacted by the interventions to treat her cancer.

After she finished high school Kate attended Swinburne University of Technology and in 2003 obtained a Bachelor of Information Technology.

Throughout high school and university Kate worked in various retail jobs. After she graduated from university she worked as an analyst, programmer and systems consultant with a number of different companies. Kate commented to me that she felt fortunate to have had some good bosses in her time. Kate enjoys working with others.

From a young age Kate has had an interest in finding universal truth, personal meaning and the meaning of life. This led her to find the teachings of Divine Truth. Kate attended talks in Buderim, Melbourne and Kentucky and when God’s Way of Love (now closed) was founded in 2011, Kate moved to Queensland because she wanted to be involved in the organisation.

Kate has been a hard working volunteer in both the Divine Truth and God’s Way Ltd organisations for many years.

Kate has rare and beautiful qualities in her heart. Some of these include her desire to help bring God’s Truth to the world, doing whatever she could to make that happen, and being willing to live on gifts rather than earning an income.

Her efforts often went unnoticed by others but were deeply appreciated by Jesus, myself and the other directors of God’s Way Ltd. God’s Way and Divine Truth gave regular gifts to Kate in thanks for her work. I know Kate was also deeply appreciative of those who gave to her to enable her to continue doing what she loves. You can read a post expressing her gratitude here. (Please note, you should cease any donations or gifts to Kate. Her family has now inherited her estate. None of those gifts will go to anything to do with Divine Truth or God’s Way).

While she has been willing to perform any task required, including cleaning, seeding and weeding, she has given freely and predominantly using her skills in computer programming and other information technology tasks.

Under Jesus’ direction and planning, Kate has assisted in the creation of computer programs to automate tasks that would otherwise be time and labour intensive to perform. She has helped to create standards for naming, storing and sharing data in a consistent manner.

For the transcription and translation team, Kate helped to update document templates and to create programs that automate formatting, editing, presentation and structure for standard Divine Truth documents. She worked on automated processes to create subtitles for Divine Truth videos, templates, and processes for changing transcripts into book format.

Kate also took over management of the Transcription and Translation team some years ago which she has continued until her passing.

Kate has helped Eloisa and Mary with many information technology and document based projects within God’s Way Ltd, especially in relation to sharing web based information and the presentation of the annual directors report. Kate loves to train and teach and it is always easy to learn from her clear and methodical explanations. She trained a number of God’s Way Ltd volunteers in HTML code and was always available to explain a process or procedure to any of us.

Kate is thoughtful and she often brought a sense of fun to the work she did with us. We had many laughs together while getting hard work done!

Over the years, Kate and Jesus have spent a lot of time together, working on programming projects and discussing spiritual and personal ideas and feelings.

Jesus loved working with Kate as she has a number of qualities that are unusual in people on Earth. She is a technologically minded person who is easy to work with; she listens and follows directions. Kate was never concerned with making a lot of money, rather she wanted a life of meaning. And because she is passionate about God’s Truth and assisting others to learn it, Kate lived on a lot less money than she would have received had she been working commercially.

Jesus has often commented that computer programming is a lonely job and, even though Kate loves people and being social, she was willing to work solidly on programming tasks that she and Jesus devised, without attention or accolades from others.

Over the past year Jesus and Kate have met for 4-8 hours once or twice a week as they worked towards the completion of the updated interface for the Divine Truth and God’s Way Ltd websites and a back end database would allow for a search engine on both websites. Following the meetings, Kate would then spend the rest of the God’s Way Ltd work period completing the steps she and Jesus had decided upon. Many of these projects will now be shelved for the foreseeable future. In this way Kate’s contributions are immeasurable. She enabled Jesus and I to work towards big goals by consistently being available and desirous to work on programming tasks, putting in time that Jesus doesn’t have.

Even though Kate’s skills were most often required in computer and information technology tasks, she still sought to learn and understand the goals and aims of every project within Divine Truth and God’s Way Ltd. When she wasn’t programming, she took personal time to visit projects, learn the processes and procedures involved in each one, and whenever she could, she took part in physical labour on every project.

Kate loves educating others about God’s Way and Divine Truth’s goals. She acted as a tour guide for visitors during the God’s Way Ltd Volunteer Selection Programme. She had the aspiration to one day be a manager in God’s Way Ltd.

Kate has a logical nature and always brings attention to detail to whatever project she is involved in. She loves to keep a clean and organized space. Kate also loves making systems more effective. Whenever Kate works on a job she thinks about its purpose and about how to improve it.

Kate is a determined person who values truth. We love that whatever Kate is thinking or feeling, she is honest about it and does not hide it. Kate can be quirky, cheeky, stubborn, playful, annoyed, self reflective, quick witted and passionate – and she never did anything to cover over any of it. Kate is an honest person and this is a part of what makes her a joy to be around.

She shows perseverance in all things she deems to be loving and worthwhile. If Kate thinks a thing is right – even if it was difficult for her to achieve – she sticks with it.

Kate’s femininity shines through in all her expressions and creations.

Even though Kate is a logical thinker, she also has a flair for the aesthetic. This brought added value to her programming work, as she wasn’t simply trying to get the desired technical outcome, she also wanted the end product and user interface to be pleasing for the user. She considers both function and beauty.

She loves design, including home decor and landscape design. Recently she has been painting and refinishing a dining setting in her home. Kate loves the arts and was a supporter of the National Ballet. She has a beautiful bohemian fashion sense.

In the years that we have known Kate she has often gifted us with her singing. As soon as Kate moved to Queensland she began making friends and performing music with others in the local area who are musically inclined.

Kate performed regularly in the local area busking or through paid gigs at markets, weddings, and parties. She also took part in the local Kingaroy musical production of CATS. Recently, another God’s Way director and member, Eloisa, has been writing a musical play and Kate was a keen consultant, contributing musical arrangements and a rap song.

A small group of us share transport for our weekly shopping trip to Kingaroy. We have taken to sharing our creative projects on the drive. As in all things, Kate was considerate and attentive to detail in her feedback on our poems or songs. And each week there was inevitably laughter and tears as we all shared about our lives and personal aspirations. Kate has a dry sense of humour and a level headed honesty which makes it a pleasure to be around her.

Kate loves to host guests and she has often made her home open to people with an interest in Divine Truth who were visiting the local area. Sorcha and Elias recently became her housemates which made Kate very happy. She had wanted to share her home with others for a number of years.

Kate has always shown an independent spirit, including her willingness to choose a path and values different from her family.

Even though she has often found it difficult to receive love from those around her, Kate is passionate about God and having others learn about God. A sadness she felt before passing was not being able to help to demonstrate a practical example of God’s Way of Living on Earth.

Kate has been working to overcome the judgement of emotion that she learned in her early childhood. She was prone to self attack and still at times sought the attention of her family believing it to be love. She had not yet grieved their lack of interest in her life and her personality, though she was aware of it and spoke about it.

At times Kate felt angry about the need to feel through painful, uncomfortable emotion in order to progress. However she always persisted in her exploration of truth and told me she would never give up on learning humility.

In writing this post, it is difficult to capture Kate’s essence and nature. Each description feels inadequate. We feel fortunate to have met her and to know her well.

Jesus and I treasured having Kate as a part of our lives on Earth and we will greatly miss her practical assistance on the many projects she was passionate about. We both enjoyed working with her on tasks that mattered to the distribution of God’s Truth on Earth. We look forward to our ongoing friendship as Kate continues her growth and development in the spirit life.

Since her entry into the spirit world Kate feels liberated of the problems with her eyesight and hearing which she had experienced everyday for over 34 years. She commented to me that she feels full of energy and free to move. As she adjusts to her new home in the second sphere of the spirit world, she will continue to work on her blocks to being loved and receiving love from God.

On Friday, we were talking with Kate about her new home. As is typical for Kate, she is inquisitive about her new life and she is seeking assistance from spirits who want to help her to learn. She has met some of her friends that she had made in her sleep state and she is in a higher sphere than her ancestors who have been invested in influencing her. They can no longer pressure her towards self judgement, withdrawal, and worry about image, as they did while she was on Earth.

Kate commented that everything feels freer and lighter. She loves the quality of colour she can see. Kate’s curious nature and interest in how things work already has her investigating the laws that govern life and matter in the spirit world.

We love you Kate. Thank you for your service to God’s Truth on Earth.

Here I am again with another photo update.

Before I begin, Jesus and I want to send our heartfelt thanks to everyone who continues to donate in appreciation for the teachings of Divine Truth. We appreciate you very much and we continue to work on ourselves, our relationship with each other and our relationship with God, so that we can be become better and better examples of what it means to live in harmony with God’s Love, Truth and Laws.

I also want to say ‘Hi’ and thanks to those of you who send us little notes of appreciation or well wishes via the post or email. I’m sorry that we don’t have time to respond to you personally (or sometimes even to check all our emails these days) but we love you and look forward to a time when we can meet you in person for the first time or catch up with old friends.

Now onto what we did in December…

Teaching

Three Saturdays of every month, Jesus continues to present material on ‘How Progress Occurs’ to the current probation volunteers, volunteers and members of God’s Way Ltd.

Eloisa Sparks leads a small team to convert our living room into a venue each Saturday.

Everyone has lunch together in the small space.

The theme for talks in December focused on seeking forgiveness from God and the workings of compensation.

Most Saturdays we also hear from a group of spirits who have questions about the material being presented.

Technical Projects

Website Upgrade

Kate and Jesus continue to work on the website upgrade each week. A lot has been achieved already. Now they are onto building the database which will allow all Divine Truth and God’s Way data to be searchable. It’s a task that is taking a lot of thinking and problem solving as they try to work out solutions for categorizing, storing, coding and then searching a wide variety of data that will expand over time.

Server Building & Repair, Internet Sharing of Divine Truth Material

As a shared in a previous update, the current methods we use to share Divine Truth teachings include live events, our website, our synchronization servers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and videos via YouTube. To enable this sharing, we store all publicly accessible data on servers in Australia, Canada, and the USA, but only the Canadian servers currently allow public connections. The USA servers are used in the important role as a portal or an intermediate store to send and receive data securely between Australia and the rest of the world.

When Hurricane Ian impacted Florida late last year, the home of Eugene Mindel, who houses our USA servers was impacted. Thanks to donations from many of you, we were able to have the servers shipped back to Australia. They were received in December and Jesus was able to pull them apart to assess them for damage. Aside from requiring a good clean, they were still in working order which is great news.

In December, Jesus and I visited a location in Australia which may be able to offer us similar data storage and internet sharing services to that of our current Canadian and USA servers. There are various benefits to having our main data store here in Australia. Investigations are still underway. However Jesus has begun building some new servers which can be used if this option eventuates.

He has also been working on building/re configuring servers for use in our new home studio set up. These servers will run more quietly than our other serves (since they will sit in on our desk while we work and record). They will also have the capacity needed for video editing live streaming (if we are able to secure a home internet set up which will allow for live stream speeds).

Studio Clear Out

A small team of volunteers continue to work with Jesus & I on clearing out our studio ready for new audience presentations.

In December, volunteers worked on creating an inventory of all technical and ancillary equipment owned by Divine Truth Pty Ltd. I worked on some minutes and reporting needed for God’s Way Ltd.

Volunteer Management

Within the God’s Way Ltd organisation Eloisa Sparks and I manage volunteers to work on various environmental recovery projects.

Toward the end of the year, upon Jesus’ suggestion, we implemented a new work flow for Saturday volunteers. Each Saturday volunteer has now been assigned their own small plot of land. The volunteer is responsible for the management of invasive species on that plot as well as, in the long term, regeneration of the native environment.

In December, volunteers also worked on seeding in the terraces, removal of invasive species on all God’s Way Ltd properties, various other land recovery tasks and cleaning and maintenance tasks.

Terraces

Invasive Species Management

Other Volunteer Works

Infrastructure Projects

Under Jesus’ planning and direction, works continue on completion of the Caretakers’ property owned by God’s Way Ltd.

In December, Cornelius and other volunteers worked on the pathways and landscaping around the house. Works also continued on driveway drainage and water management.

End of Year Party

At the end of each year, Jesus and I like to host a party for the people we have worked with us throughout the year in Divine Truth, God’s Way and the local community.

This year we were fortunate to have some of our volunteers step forward and say that they would like to assist with the planning and execution. Thank you to those people! Special thanks to Rahni and Phoebe who led the planning and Diane who took photographs of everyone on the day.

Along with spiritual discussions we had a few fun games. One game was to try to guess people based on their baby or childhood photos. Everyone took it pretty seriously!

Everyone looked even more beautiful than usual.

Things went on until very late/early the next morning.

And that’s all for us this month. We wish you a wonderful 2023, full of personal discovery and opening to God.

With love,

Jesus & Mary

God’s Way Annual General Meeting

God’s Way Ltd held their annual general meeting in November. You can read the annual report on the God’s Way website soon.

Gods Way Volunteer Days

Check out our beautiful God’s Way Ltd volunteers, probation volunteers, and Jesus and I in action as managers.

Environment & Environment Projects

The local areas is looking beautiful after some lovely rainfall over the past few years combined with the environmental projects we have underway.

Divine Truth Studio & Production Work

The studio is still undergoing a major overhaul . A lot of old equipment is being cleared out, less used items are being catalogued and stored. You can also see pictures below of our new stands for sound suppression boards being put together. These stands will enable the suppression boards to be free standing at various locations around the studio when there is an audience in attendance.

Recorded Presentations

As I’ve mentioned in my previous updates, Jesus has been presenting a series of talks for participants at God’s Way Ltd Saturday volunteer days. He has been speaking on the topic of ‘How Progress Occurs’ and more recently we have been discussing a Padgett Message from Ann Rollins on the topic of forgiveness.

So that is a little of what we’ve been up to this past month or so.

Wherever you are in the world, I hope you are doing well in following your passions and desires in harmony with love and that, in response to your heart’s longings, you are feeling God’s personal and ever present love for you.

Bye for now,

Jesus & Mary

Welcome to another update from Jesus and I. I’ve been thinking about how to bring you more regular updates. Looking back on the blog for the past few years I have been averaging one or two updates throughout the year. The reality is Jesus and I always have so much going on that when I sit down to write it feels that I have a lot to explain. That means I have to set aside a large chunk of time to write an update.

Jesus and I always give a lot of detail in our updates, including explaining the technical ins and outs of what we do. We share this for two reasons. The first is that we always put a lot of thought and research into what we do technically so that what we create is sustainable, high quality and the best use of the donations we receive. So many people in the world have emotional blocks to technology, and thus it is easy for them to underestimate what goes into our production and also the thoroughness and care Jesus takes when planning, implementing and sharing video and audio recordings of our events. I like to share so that people can have appreciation for these efforts.

The second reason I go to some lengths to share about our technical set up is that we live in a world that is addicted to, and reliant on, technological devices and the internet for many day to day conveniences and processes. Yet, most people have no idea how any of that works.

Using but not understanding the ‘behind the scenes’ technology, effort and/or ingenuity that enable the conveniences of our modern life is a major deficit in love that causes dependency, demands, entitlement, addiction and rage. I feel it is an act of love to share the limited amount I understand with you, that way I am not furthering the injured emotions associated with humans using, but not appreciating, technology.

So, with the desire to help you appreciate the scope of what goes on ‘behind the scenes’ technologically and in other ways, I seem bound to continue writing lengthy posts (smile). However I have come up with a few ideas.

My first idea is to create a ‘photo essay’ once a month that will be a pictorial insight into our activities without too much text. Then two or three times a year I can write long updates on how our projects are progressing.

Secondly, I will create a few static pages that I can refer to during blog posts which will contain some background information on each project I reference. That way I don’t have to ‘repeat explain’ each time I write an update.

And thirdly, to help you navigate long updates, I’ll place a summary of the headings at the top of the post (see below) as jump links so that you can click on a heading and jump to that section of the post. I hope that all of this helps you to stay more connected with our activities!

In this post you will find info about:

Our Current Focus

Donations & Our Thanks
Gratitude
Donations from outside of Australia
Cheques from banks outside of Australia

Divine Truth Presentations, Sharing & Production
What is required to share Divine Truth
Production Team Limitations
Internet Connection Upgrade
Server Room Repairs
How Office Upgrade
Video & Audio Editing Equipment Upgrade

Website Upgrade & Software Applications

God’s Way Projects

God’s Way Events

A Personal Note

Our Current Focus

The past eight months have continued to be very busy. We feel an urgency to establish regular sharing of Divine Truth material again and we are both aware of the importance of making personal progress in our relationship with God and each other.

So while we have a lot of competing demands on our time, we have attempted to make some changes to how we use it. Over the past few years, Jesus in particular, but also myself, have spent a significant amount of time working on projects and management of the God’s Way Ltd organisation.

Aside from Eloisa, there is no one else who is really committed on a day to day level to helping God’s Way Ltd achieve its aims and so rather than see the company stagnate, Jesus (and I) have been happy to spend time assisting Eloisa and others to learn about running a company in harmony with God’s Principles. However the production and sharing of Divine Truth material with the world has suffered because of our involvement in God’s Way projects and management.

At the start of 2022, the current members of God’s Way Ltd (Jesus & I, Cornelius, Eloisa & Catherine) made the decision to cut back God’s Way Ltd activities as much as possible and focus on re-establishing the means for Jesus and I to be able to share Divine Truth material easily and regularly.

Since then Cornelius has been assisting Jesus with the various physical and technical repairs, upgrades, and requirements needed to establish a reliable internet link (more on this below), repair faulty air conditioners, and design and construct alterations in the studio which will allow for a small audience to be present during recordings.

Eloisa and I have been working on clearing out the studio so that it can be rewired for the new recording set up and have tried to take over the day to day management of God’s Way Ltd projects and volunteer days as much as possible.

It feels good to be working towards our passion for sharing once again. Of course, we still managed to do a lot of other things during the months since my last update (March to October 2022). Below I’ll give you updates on everything we’ve been working on.

Our Thanks & A Note on Donations

Before I start however, Jesus and I would like to thank you for your donations. We’re glad that you find what we share to be of benefit, and that you wish to help us continue sharing information free of charge.

I know that some of you also share our vision that everyone on Earth has the chance to at least hear God’s Truth once and know of its existence. That way if they decide that they want to pursue a relationship with God they know that they can learn how to do that. Your donations go towards this common aim.

Donations from outside of Australia

On the subject of donations we do notice that around two thirds of what we receive comes from people in Australia. In some ways I understand this, in that having a personal interaction which upholds the teachings of Divine Truth is extremely impactful. It is often the difference between a person hearing words (and thinking they understand them) via the internet and the experience of feeling what those words mean when applied to day to day life and relationships. Donations often arise from a person’s gratitude at having these new understandings.

Meeting Jesus never fails to make an impact on a sincere person. It helps them to see and understand their ‘blindspots’, their façade, their arrogant self-image, their lack of self-assessment, morality and ethics, and the lack of soul understanding of what they intellectually believe they know. It heightens an understanding of what love is, and how love is lived.

Our efforts to improve our internet connection this year will hopefully increase the opportunities for people living outside of Australia to have some of those ‘in person’ interactions albeit digitally via the internet.

We hope to use two means to do that. The first is having regular studio sessions that are available on line that anyone in the world can view as they occur, and a booking system allowing up to 30 people to attend each session in person in our studio. The second is to allow personal involvement in our interviews and public interactions.

With that in mind, it is interesting that the people who would like to see us more and to hear from us via the internet are not generally the people donating to make that possible. We are thankful to our Australian donors for helping your international peers to have more access to Divine Truth ‘in person’.

Cheques from banks outside of Australia

We can no longer receive donations via international cheque. This is because our bank in Australia will no longer process them. Thank you to everyone who has donated to us via cheque in the past. It has always been a lengthy process at the bank to deposit international funds via cheques (checks USA, 30-40 minutes each time) so I suspect that this is why Commbank in Australia has opted to no longer receive and deposit cheques from banks outside of Australia.

Divine Truth Sharing & Production

We love sharing Divine Truth. It brings us joy and it has the power to benefit others. There are still so many matters and truths that we have not had a chance to discuss with you yet.

As I mentioned in my previous post about Divine Truth servers overseas, we are working towards sharing not only new material but also to find new ways to share the material already presented.

These ‘new ways’ are all aimed at making the data already presented easier to access. They include;

• Finding a video hosting/streaming site which can stream videos ad free and that does not respond to the complaints of a few bigoted individuals, and
• Redesigning our website to allow for all data to be searchable, and
• Developing our own video hosting/streaming servers so that we are not dependent on the Terms of Service from video hosting companies

All of these projects are still ongoing. Rest assured that I will update you as soon as we have these in place.

What is required in order to share Divine Truth

Sharing Divine Truth involves a number of basic steps:

1. Attaining the development to receive truth from God and to share it in a humble manner
   
   
2. Presenting the material to a public audience or recording it in our studio
   
   For a studio recording this includes regular maintenance, of camera and recording equipment, firmware updates, battery charging, set up and operation of all audio visual equipment; server updates, virtual machine updates; keeping the studio in a clean and ‘ready to use’ manner
   
   For a live event this involves finding a venue, managing bookings if seating is limited, set up at venue (including audio visual equipment, seating, speakers etc). All of the equipment must have software and firmware updates prior to the event, batteries must be charged etc. Following the event, everything must be packed up and transported back to Wilkesdale where equipment needs to be set up again for use in our studio
   
   
3. Editing the audio, video, and written documents
   
   This takes time, concentration and dedication to high quality recordings which allow the viewer/listener to relax into the material rather than be distracted by extraneous noise or poor image quality.
   
   It requires some spiritual development so that the edited material is not changed in thought or suggestion from the original event.
   
   It also requires the maintenance of the necessary hardware (equipment and computers) required to do this work, keeping software up to date, and the studio work space clean and tidy.
   
   
4. Uploading material onto a sharing platform
   
   This entails careful and methodical labeling of the files, sending it overseas for upload onto Divine Truth servers which not only serve but back up the data; the creation of thumbnails, descriptions and keywords for each presentation; care and time taken to ensure that the files are uploaded properly and are accessible to the public without comments etc.

Over the past few years, we have been without volunteers to assist in any of those steps. So, Jesus and I currently perform (or would perform) these tasks if we had the time! At the moment, 80% of our last Assistance Group remains unedited because we have been busy with other projects.

Production Team Limitations

A great limitation remains that we have no production team locally that could assist us with the set up for recordings and the post production editing and sharing of audio and video materials.

At the moment we aren’t producing any new material aside from a series of talks Jesus has been presenting to the group on God’s Way Ltd volunteer days. This series is called “How Progress Occurs” and I share more about that below. Once we have the studio back up and running however we will start regular recordings again, and potentially also live stream those events, and would benefit greatly from a small (or large) team of committed individuals who wish to assist us.

As I have written before we have a number of pre requisites for those who wish to assist:

• Humble enough to listen and follow direct instructions
• Approach tasks with an attitude of self responsibility
• Able to carefully, methodically and thoroughly complete tasks
• Personally and passionately desire to live in harmony with God’s Laws and Principles
• Willing to be financially supported only by receiving gifts
• Willing to live locally
• Have good technical experience and knowledge, or can be easily taught, or desire to teach themselves

If you haven’t received a reply to your offer to help it is because the pre requirements have not been met.

In particular, if you live interstate or internationally:

• We cannot train you in person
• We don’t have the internet capacity to share the data over the internet that you would need to work on
• You have most likely never received direct feedback in harmony with Divine Truth. Until you receive feedback and respond to it sincerely and humbly, there is little point training you.

So while we thank you for your offer, we cannot work with you at this time.

If you do live locally or are visiting, we require people interested in helping out in Divine Truth to first participate in a number of God’s Way Ltd volunteer days. We find that the God’s Way Ltd volunteer days help us and the participants themselves to see whether or not they meet the spiritual and emotional requirements for working on Divine Truth production.

Ideas for streaming Divine Truth video in the future

As I mentioned in my last post, once Gene has a new or repaired home, we will be sending him some new servers to replace the our USA Divine Truth servers that may have been damaged during the hurricane.

We hope the servers we send to him will also be a trial for a new video streaming service that we would like to implement so that viewers are not reliant on YouTube to watch our videos anymore.

As most of you are aware, YouTube has now started to add advertising to all our videos. We do not gain revenue from YouTube now, and do not wish in the future to gain revenue from any video streaming service, and we certainly don’t want any advertising on any of our sites.

Listening to spiritual material that is interrupted by advertising all of the time is a major impediment to learning and comprehending God’s Truth. Also, it is unethical for any individual or business to earn an income from our free provision of Divine Truth material, or truth that we present generally.

We are happy to pay for resources to share our material, but the Terms of Service (TOS) and conditions of use that all video streaming/hosting companies have, whether a paid or free service, result in many operational and ethical concerns for us.

TOS and conditions of use not only come into play when companies reserve the right to add advertising to our videos, they also impact us when complaints are received by the hosting company about Divine Truth videos. Often those complaints come from angry Christian sources, or from angry family members who do not want their relatives to be able to access our videos freely, or from people who have attended our events with the agreement that we can use their image and words forever, but who later become upset or angry with what has been said to them.

Angry complainants often attempt an internet take down of our material, which results in our having to engage a formal process with the hosting company to resolve the issue and in some cases the companies are prepared to immediately revoke our account without any due process or evidence being presented. We have noticed that very few angry complaints need to be received before companies remove accounts without any discussion or without any evidence of wrongdoing on our part.

So Jesus has been working on a video streaming system, based upon open source free software, which we can install on our servers, that would give us total control over our video streaming services. It will also allow for new servers to be added to a network of servers as streaming bandwidth requirements increase.

This video streaming system will eventually allow anyone with a Linux server to add it to the internet via a 1gbit/sec+ fixed IP connection, setup a trusted connection with our servers, and host streaming of Divine Truth videos. Using this platform we hope to set up a number of servers worldwide which communicate with each other to stream Divine Truth videos ad-free and cost-free to anyone in the world, and also allow syncing Divine Truth videos from those locations to your own local copy of Divine Truth material.

Any of you who listen to Divine Truth who have enough technical skills can also add your own server to the same network, creating a community of servers which share Divine Truth material free of charge worldwide. I will share more about this once it is all up and running.

Internet Connection Upgrade

Because editing Divine Truth recordings is time consuming and our time is limited this year we have focussed on trying to find an internet solution that would allow us to give live online presentations. This would enable us to share Truth widely without time delays entailed with editing material.

To this end Jesus has been working consistently for over a year to try and find an internet solution which will provide us with a low latency, high bandwidth internet connection.

Such a connection would allow us to:

• complete live stream presentations
• record and share live interviews and personal feedback sessions
• cease rental of one of our two overseas servers currently used for data sharing (sync service etc), that is, our Canadian server which we rent for a monthly cost of $350 USD.

It would also create the potential for remote video and audio editing. That is, that raw data could remain stored here in Wilkesdale and a sincere well trained person in another location could access the data via internet link to edit Divine Truth audio and video files.

Below is a list of all of the options we have trialled in order to improve the internet connection. Until this moment, none have been satisfactory however we will continue to work on readying the studio and our home spaces for live internet interactions as Jesus seeks a long term solution.

Trials we have currently completed:

Starlink

Starlink promised high speed connections via low orbiting satellites. While we had high hopes for this service unfortunately we experience intermittent drop outs in connection when using it. It is becoming more reliable, but it may be some time before it is truly so. Download speed is relatively high at around 160mbit/sec, but the very low upload speeds of around 12mbit/sec, and the unreliability, make it unsuitable for reliable live interactions via the net.

Satellite services

Our long standing internet service has been via a geosynchronous satellite connection. Up until a few years ago it was our only option since we didn’t even have any mobile phone coverage at out home. The satellite installation was provided as part of a government scheme to provide internet coverage to rural and remote areas.

The satellite connection delivers low upload speeds and there is a 700 millisecond connection latency, which results in more than 2.8 second delays in attempted conversions, and 1.2 second delays in download requests to a download occurring, and a very limited bandwidth of 150GB per month. The latency, delays, and the limited bandwidth make it unsuitable for live interactions via the net.

Local 4G Phone Tower Reception

Cornelius and Jesus have tried a number of high gain antennas in attempts to capture and improve 4G LTE reception from local phone towers, which are either a long distance away from our studio (more than 20kms), or we do not have line of sight to them.

After a lot of investigation and the purchase and trial of a number of different high gain antennas (up to 25dB), we have confirmed a number of different problems with 4G LTE services at our location. Shared bandwidth to most local towers is less than 100mbit/sec, which means that all of our local towers are saturated, and the speeds are regularly lower than 5mbit/sec on these links. This means that even if we could capture more signal neither the speed nor bandwidth could be improved.

Fortunately we were able to return some of the very expensive antennas we tried for a refund (minus a restocking fee).

Bonding Data Connections using 4G LTE

Jesus investigated the option of purchasing a number of 4G data connections and combining them into a single signal (bonding them). Bonding in this context means joining a number of individual data connections so that they behave as a single connection to receive and send data via the internet.

Since telecommunications towers locally are all saturated, we found that bonding 4G connections together with a corresponding very large increase in up front costs and annual fees results in hardly any improvement in speed.

Rent or purchase of a home with existing fibre to the premises (FTTP) connection

As all of the options thus far were looking to be quite costly we decided to investigate the possibility of renting a home in another location which had an existing fibre to the premises (FTTP) internet connection. FTTP connections offer high speed and bandwidth but in Australia they usually only exist in large town or city locations.

With this option the plan would be to travel to the rented home that has FTTP connected, and stay for 1-2 weeks per month. During that time we would share live presentations, make other recordings and upload live and edited material. We would then travel home for the remaining fortnight.

While this option had the benefit of a very fast 1gbit/sec internet connection, there were a number of major drawbacks:

• Time wasted during travel

Nearest locations with existing fibre to the premises are in Toowoomba, Brisbane or the Sunshine Coast. On average it takes three hours, around 300km, to drive to any of these centres.

• Time away limiting input we would have in the God’s Way Ltd organisation

Adding the travel time and the actual time spent away for recording, would mean a major change to how much we could enjoy our quiet home and oversee and participate in the activities and projects we have going on locally with God’s Way Ltd and on our own property.

• High cost

Current real estate rental and purchase costs in Queensland are high and always increasing as many southerners are moving here following the severe restrictions and cold weather they experienced in southern states during the COVID pandemic. Rental costs for the connection, and the premises would be above $50,000 AUD per annum.

• Studio Equipment

Studio recording and editing equipment would need to be moved between the locations, since we do not have enough funds to have a duplicate setup. This would require days of dismantling and setting up equipment, with the additional wear and tear of travel on the equipment.

Fibre, or a 1gbit/sec connection directly to our Studio

Jesus made contact and had many technical engineering discussions with a number of suppliers who offer the possibility of running fibre connections via overhead power lines, or/and carrier based radio networks (including the installation of 50 metre towers) to our studio. Running fibre overhead is cheaper than laying it in trenches as is commonly done in many parts of the country.

While for a while we were hopeful that this possibility would bear fruit, there were no local locations with existing 1gbit/sec fibre services and so the run proposed would span a distance of some 130 kilometres (80 miles) over undulating terrain making the installation costs over $1 million AUD and the recurring costs over $10,000 AUD per month.

Radio 500mbit/sec connection directly to our Studio

Jesus also investigated a private 500mbit/sec microwave carrier connection to our studio. The costs of doing this are extremely high, since we would need to install two 50 metre towers on different properties owned by God’s Way or Divine Truth, with all of the necessary communications and power requirements. The cost of doing this was also above $1 million AUD.

So, as you can see, we have no real options other than those we already have, or to create an aggregated business Starlink system which will give us no better guarantees with reliability, but potentially better upload speeds. Jesus is currently looking into this.

Of course every investigation so far has cost Jesus a lot of time, and Divine Truth quite a lot of additional funds, for no measurable benefit.

Server Room Repairs

Within the Divine Truth studio is our server room. This room has two racks which contain a total of 12 servers at the moment. Since it is very noisy, it has been sound suppressed, and air-conditioned. This houses the servers which are used to store all current Divine Truth and God’s Way data. We currently have 4 main storage servers which store 4 x 320TB copies of data. We also have 4 main VM servers, which serve our desktops. We also have over 700TB or archived data, which is stored on disks we can load individually.

So when the studio was built, to sound proof it required large amounts of materials and very few windows. It was necessary to install air conditioning both in the data storage area and in the main studio room to keep equipment cool. If equipment overheats in our hot climate, during our recording or editing sessions, it can be damaged and data will be lost.

We have had many ongoing problems with all of the air-conditioning units due to insects, frogs, and gecko lizards. Since we live in a bush setting and we encourage insect, plant and animal life, we have a great abundance insects and reptiles around us. Of course lizards like warm, and frogs like warm and wet, environments. So our air-conditioning units have been a major target as homes. The reptiles get inside the units and fry themselves and short out the circuit boards rendering the boards and air conditioning units useless in the process.

Most recently the air conditioner in the server room has required repairs. The unit was originally poorly installed (by contractors when the studio was originally built) and it has been leaking moisture and part of the wall and roof in the server room has collected water, causing damage.

So Jesus and Cornelius have designed and built shrouds to protect the air conditioners from vermin (which are a work of art), and have also reinstalled the air conditioners to prevent future problems with moisture. All up the project cost more than $20,000 without Jesus and Cornelius’ labour, but now we have a reliable air conditioning system which should last for many years, and which will not break down because of vermin.

Home Office/Studio Improvements

Although our well insulated two bedroom home is very small (less than 84 sqm or 904 sqft) it doubles as a living space for Jesus and I, an office, and a meeting room for up to 25 people at a time. You will see in some future videos how the space is utilized at times.

Our home normally gets very warm in the summer, usually over 38^oC (100^oF) inside the house during the day, and over 30^oC (86^oF) at night. For this reason we could not use much technology in our home office, since the workstations and video recording equipment used for streaming, recording and editing would get so hot they would close down. So Jesus and Cornelius installed an air conditioner in our home, to allow more air conditioned office space to be used so people can edit material in our home office while Jesus and I are recording in the studio.

Of course, this air conditioner also had to be protected from vermin using the same methods. All of the vermin proofing of the air conditioning units is now working very well, and the project has been very successful so far. Our server room is back up and running and we now have additional air conditioned office space in the home.

These upgrades allow us to test out a ‘lounge room studio’ set up. We want to use this space to live share and record internet calls for interviews, individual conversations, and personal feedback sessions with people around the world. This design is something we want in the living quarters of the new Function Centre development, so we wanted to setup a trial to see how it would work.

At the moment, Jesus has not completed the virtual machines part of the installation. We had to remove a window, install a new wall, install a new desk with metal frame to take the weight of the equipment, and complete re-wiring the house to get 10gbit/sec network into it, and also to turn our previous home office into a bedroom so that Jesus had somewhere to sleep when he is processing through emotions (which he is doing a lot of at the moment).

I’ll share more photos of the completed renovation in my December update.

Video & Audio Editing

As some of you may remember from a previous update, our editing of the ‘Understanding Sin & It’s Causes’ Assistance Group was halted due to problems we had with our Apple Mac computers breaking down.

We also had many other projects happening and without volunteers to assist with the editing we had many delays in getting back to the project. The audio editing work for Jesus is very tedious so he needed a break anyway!

The new Macs are now all set up with the necessary software, and Jesus is in the process of sorting out a reliable fast connection to them from our servers. When that is done, Jesus and I will be able to begin editing again. This is another job that falls on the shoulders of Jesus however and so I am not sure how much editing we shall actually get done.

I know many of you are keen to watch and listen to the Understanding Sin & Its Causes talks. We will do our best to get them to you, keeping in mind our renewed focus on love of ourselves and the importance of our personal progression.

Website Upgrade & Software Applications

Jesus and Kate continue to work on the Divine Truth website upgrade and the God’s Way Ltd website. As a reminder the new sites will include a consistent refreshed layout, look and feel. They will also offer a search function, which will be a great feature for finding topical information or answers to questions within the wealth of Divine Truth material Jesus and I have already presented.

As I’ve shared before, the aim is for the new website to be fully functional offline. This means that if you have a copy of all Divine Truth digital material and a copy of the website stored offline, the search facilities will be identical to the online copy of the website.

Jesus and Kate have had to work around security design issues with all modern browser software (Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari) but are now progressing with the design and implementation of the new features. When they are complete, they will be very functional, powerful tools to help your spiritual progress, and will greatly reduce the amount of emails we receive from people who cannot find information that is already on the site.

Jesus and Kate have also been working on the design and implementation of some browser based software applications which will make the creation and presentation of new content on both the Divine Truth and God’s Way websites easy for those of us who don’t write computer code. This is an exciting development and it will reduce Jesus’ workload in future.

In addition, Jesus and Kate are working on a number of other in house applications which will assist with standardised file naming and structured folder storage. This greatly reduces in house data inconsistencies and enforces file and folder naming conventions.

God’s Way Projects

Jesus and I remain involved with all God’s Way Ltd projects. Jesus has a project manager role in almost every project. He advises in the planning, purchasing and implementation phases of every project. He was also recently appointed as a director of the board.

I currently have the following roles volunteer management and activity planning, information sharing, and the director role. In addition I plan and manage at least 5 volunteer activity days per month though this will change next month as we reduce our volunteer days to allow for more information sharing activities by current members.

Function Centre Build

Donations & Use of Donations

Thank you to everyone who has made a contribution to this project already! We have spoken to some of you privately about redirecting some these funds to pay for the new infrastructure required for us to establish a suitable internet connection for Divine Truth. The reasons for this request are:

• We recognise that without regular sharing of God’s Truth via Divine Truth Pty Ltd, God’s Way Ltd cannot flourish.
• Unless God’s Way Ltd grows we will not receive sufficient funds to pay for our dream Function Centre
• Any Divine Truth internet connection would also be used by God’s Way Ltd to share information

Building Design

Jesus has continued to refine plans for our Function Centre Development. Images throughout this post display the improved design, but Jesus feels there is still much work to do with the designs to get them right.

It has been good to be in this design process for an extended period as it allows time for us to refine ideas and become very focused on what we feel is important in the proposed development.

We want to create a place that welcomes curious passers by as well as people who are already familiar with God’s Way and attending a planned event.

The latest design offers the following features:

• An auditorium which will comfortably seat 150 people
• Office space for administrative tasks required by God’s Way and Divine Truth organisations
• Office space for video and audio production
• Guest accommodation
• Resident accommodation
• Café/ share kitchen
• Reception area which includes cubicles for viewing Divine Truth or God’s Way Ltd video and audio
• 2 classroom/meeting rooms
• Presenter ‘green room’
• Ample storage
• Toilet facilities, including disability toilets
• 2 parents & children or emotional processing rooms
• Laundry
• Roof top area
• Ground floor workshop

Over the past few months Jesus has also found the building method that we want to use. This method has many advantages over other methods investigated. The structural building products come from a Scandinavian company called Piekko (https://www.peikko.com.au/), and are available all around the world.

Selecting a building method and materials has been an interesting process. There is no perfect answer on Earth today; since every material has an environmental impact, and many, such as wood, have environmental impacts that are generally not considered in any assessments, but which Jesus and Cornelius always consider. One day we shall present a video about the loving use of building materials, and having a loving assessment of their impact which includes all life. The mono-cultures which produce the raw materials for today’s so-called ‘environmentally sustainable’ building products are one of the main causes of flora and fauna extinctions.

We are planning to build a hard wearing, long lasting, comfortable structure that can be used by future generations so that the impact we have will be spread across time. And our venue will be a place where people can come to learn how to love and repair the damage (spiritual, emotional and physical) that exists on the Earth today.

God’s Way Events

Sharing at Volunteer Days

The God’s Way organisation holds regular volunteer activities. Throughout any given month, probation volunteers and volunteers have the opportunity to sit with Jesus in a relaxed setting and ask questions relating to God’s Principles and how these apply to the work they are doing within God’s Way Ltd. Many hours of great discussion have been spent in this way either in our outside patio, or when that was too cold, inside our home.

Recently I decided that the discussions were too valuable not to be shared with a wider audience and Eloisa and I have begun trying to find audio and video solutions that would enable clear recordings. We do still rely heavily on Jesus’ past training and current input and ideas to get this done. But I am hopeful that we can start to make good recordings.

Of course the limitations to editing audio and video recordings that exist in Divine Truth also apply to God’s Way Ltd. So it is unclear when we will be able to make these discussions public. However if we can capture good recordings then when we have more volunteer editors these can be edited and shared.

Personal Progression

Jesus and I continue to focus on our personal progression towards each other and God. I feel it is my great privilege to know the Way to connect with God and to receive Truth and Love in that process.  I wish each of you well on your exploration of the possibility of that relationship also.

Jesus is now feeling very confident that he is progressing well, and is receiving a lot of inspiration from God about how the 14 returned souls can make progress until they reach their final goal of demonstrating the soul union condition on earth, and the other goals of leading the human race into peace and harmony. He is going through a lot of physical, emotional and spiritual upheavals and expects he will continue to feel a lot of terror and fear until he makes the necessary adjustments to reach the soul union condition.

The person of Alan John Miller, or AJ as many of you know him, is disappearing into oblivion. AJ is finding that process quite emotionally difficult and distressing at times, and very physically demanding, but he also has a very strong desire to continue. Once he reflects our soul in its full sense, he feels very confident he will be able to greatly assist the others of the 14 to take similar steps much more quickly than he has been able to himself.

He makes most of his progress alone, and we have a house nearby that a friend has provided so that he can work through his emotions without interference from technology or people. He currently spends around half of his time there, and each time he returns, we have long discussions about the future, and about the process he is working through. It is impossible for me to share with you what that process is, since my own understanding of it is very limited at the moment, and Jesus does not have the time to share it while he is going through it.

Since his method of progression is what only one of the 14 who returned will need to go through, there is little reason for Jesus to share publicly what he is going through. He does not know how long this phase will take, but he is very enthusiastic about continuing it now that he has a clear understanding of the process.

As for me, for the past year I have been developing the desire to improve my mediumship abilities and embrace our soul’s nature. I feel more introspective these past six months; challenging myself to look further inward and to have the courage to bring deep seated emotions to the fore. I’ve been examining how parts of me have remained frozen in fear for all the years since I had an awakening to who I am and how much I have resisted being different. I am reflective about this significant injury in me pertaining to, not only the fear of attack, but fears of upholding love and truth in situations that are my responsibility and feeling responsible if people are uncomfortable.

I am eager to have Divine Truth begin sharing new material again and have been enthusiastic about getting the main room of the studio sorted out and ready for filming again. There are so many things to be reorganised and packed up but it has granted me the opportunity to learn more about our technical equipment (Jesus is such a wizard; he can pick up the most obscure screw or cable within in a sea of unrelated gear and immediately identify its purpose!)

I’ve enjoyed my engagement with God’s Way volunteer management. I believe strongly in the positive potentials when people come together with a desire to love, serve and be humble. God’s Way provides opportunities for everyone involved to measure their sincerity to develop or resistance to those three desires.

Until next time, with our love,

Mary & Jesus

I have a large update coming to you later today but first, Jesus & I wanted to say a big thank you to all of you who have donated in response to our recent post about how our international servers, and volunteer Eugene, were impacted by Hurricaine Ian.

Thank you for your donations and offers of gifts to not only Eugene but to Divine Truth in order to us to assist us to reestablish our international servers.

Finally, thank you to those of you who have begun regular (or intermittent) donations to the other individuals who assist us. Your support makes a real difference.