Jesus and I would love to come to Europe for 6-8 weeks and spend some time with people who are interested in learning more about the practical application of Divine Truth.
We are proposing to stop for 10-12 days in three different European locations. In each location, we’d like to meet with groups of up to 30 people in an informal setting (like a large living room or affordable venue) to hold a series of discussions over a period of 7-10 days. These talks would following one or more themes and allow for questions and answers.
This format will allow participants to:
gain a deeper understanding of God’s Principles and how to apply them to daily life, relationships, and problems
gain a clearer picture of their current spiritual and emotional condition; including their biggest blocks to God at that time
have time for reflection and processing between meetings and to raise follow up questions as they arise over the 10 day period
Jesus and I have been teaching using this format in our own living room and patio area for about five years. Many of the participants at these talks have found these informal long-themed discussions to be very effective in helping them to challenge their façade, understand their biggest blocks, develop a sincere longing for God, and to value God’s Opinion (God’s Morality) for the first time.
We know that many people overseas are not making spiritual changes in harmony with the principles of God’s Truth. We would like to offer this opportunity to sincere people in Europe so that they can engage with a similar style of teaching to that which we have been using in our own home here in Australia.
This is why we are proposing the ‘living room tour’.
What we require to make the tour happen
Assistance with Logistics
Motivated people in Europe (at least one in each location we visit) who are willing to work with me, Mary, to help with logistical arrangements to ensure our requirements are met.
These people must be humble to feedback and willing to listen to and implement requests.
Accommodation
10-14 days accommodation in each area we will visit to give talks
It is important that Jesus and I have our own accommodation in each location. We have found that it is not suitable for us to stay with people in their homes as people often become angry when they receive personal feedback and/or are needy for our time and attention.
We must have time and space for our own emotions and relaxation. However we don’t mind if our accommodation is also the venue for discussions; that is, it would be fine if the venue was a large living room in the house or apartment where we are staying.
Our small home becomes a venue most Saturdays We move furniture from the kitchen, living, dining and office areas to create one large area about 32 square meters in size
Meeting Space
A 30-40 square meter space where people can come and meet with us, and where we can hold talks. This is the minimum space required.
The space could be a living room area in our accommodation, space in someone else’s home, or a local venue. Ideally, Jesus and I should have ready access to the space and it would be best if we could leave our minimal recording equipment set up for the duration of our stay.
The benefit of the meeting space being in, or near to, our accommodation is that we can ensure that equipment is well cared for and safe. It also allows us to hold impromptu gatherings based on our desires.
Funds
Donations to cover air fares to Europe and pay for accommodation/venues in each country.
Please keep in mind that when we travel we still have to cover our regular expenses here in Australia. Note, that if you already donate to us to cover our expenses (thank you), and simply switch your donations to be towards this trip, our net funds available for travel are not increased.
Donations will need to be in addition to our normal funds received.
Equipment
Hire or purchase of some basic cables for audio recording in the country we visit
We will bring audio recording equipment, that is, microphones and a small mixer, but will need some cabling to connect these in each country that we visit.
If people wish to video record the meetings, that would need to be arranged with Jesus and I prior to the event and all recordings shared with us.
Timing
We would like to make this trip in the months of July and August in either 2024 or 2025.
Which year we visit will be dependent upon:
The current God’s Way Ltd & Divine Truth building plans and how to time a trip so that these building works are least interrupted
Whether or not there are people in Europe who are sincere, humble, and willing to assist with logistics; including people who can help us to find accommodation and a venue
Whether or not we receive enough donations to cover the expenses of this trip
What You Can Do To Register Your Interest to Help or Attend
At the moment, Jesus and I don’t have a clear indication of how many people would be interested in such an opportunity.
To register your interest to attend, or to help out, you can:
Send an email to mary@divinetruth.com expressing your interest to attend one or more discussion and telling me your location (or your preferred location for talks)
If you have the ability to assist with logistics please also outline what you feel you can help with; including if you have a venue or accommodation in mind that may meet our requirements.
If you would like to donate towards the living room tour you can do so via the usual channels which are detailed on our website, please use the code: DTASSISTGRP. You can use the clickable link ‘Divine Truth Assistance Group’ under ‘Select Your Donation Type’ on the Divine Truth website donation page.
I will provide further updates via the blog once we gauge interest and potential assistance in each location.
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.
Jesus weeding invasive species
Mary writing annual report
Mary managing Gods Way activity day
Mary managing invasive species removal day
Jesus & Eloisa planning terracing and roadways
Jesus researching technology
Mary & Eloisa management meeting
Jesus & Cornelius design rain water flush systems
Mary & Eloisa work on accounts
Jesus & Cornelius engineering building designs
Eloisa & Mary planning participant activities
Jesus & Cornelius planning the week
Mary & Eloisa discuss seed documentation
Jesus & Cornelius planning retaining walls
Jesus directs centre land management
Jesus & Cornelius planning for plumbing systems
Mary with invasive species removal group
Mary & Eloisa plant specimen documentation
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.
Mediumship with the Participant Group. Jesus in discussion with a spirit through Mary.Jesus presents on Faith
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.
The God’s Way Ltd Function Centre terrace project takes up the top left hand two thirds of this image. In the top right you see neighbouring farm land. This photo was taken when there was rainfall last summer. Today the right hand paddock is completely barren and the farmer is buying food for stock kept there.
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.
Currently everyone crams into our little home for talks on Saturdays
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.
Here you can see the tent conversions as they are now with fly roof and outer framework complete
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, Elias, Kate & I in July 2022
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.
Audio and Visual recordings have taken place for many events held in our home
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.
Sharing a laugh at a participant lunch discussion
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.
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.
Kate & CavilKate & ArchieKate with Ang, Rob & Elias
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.
Kate seeds terracesKate giving HTML trainingKate having a laugh during environment tasksKate tries her hand at audio editingLunch break during environment activitiesCornelius, Mary & Kate collect wattle seedKate & Sandra weed mother of millions
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!
Kate helps out with the annual reportKate helps out with the annual reportKate & EloisaKate preparing to be tour guide for visitors during the God’s Way Ltd Volunteer Selection Programme
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.
Kate & Jesus working togetherKate & Jesus solving problems
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 (centre) with the team, after a morning digging & seeding in terraces
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 & CasKate with God’s Way Ltd members & volunteers in 2019Kate, Tristan & Jesus make some musicKate & Rahni work on house cleaning & painting projectKate with group at Jesus & Mary’s home
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.
Kate & her ukulele Kate sings with JohnKate performs at a Divine Truth concertKate & John perform at a Divine Truth concertKate, Josh, Liam & John perform in Kentucky
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 hosting guests in her home – January 2023
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.
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.
Getting the house set upAudio recording & mixingEloisa handles the set up for recording and manages the sound during presentationsReady for the audienceThe kitchen bench holds cameras
Everyone has lunch together in the small space.
You can see Eloisa & Cornelius in the background making final camera arrangements
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.
Spirits came to ask questions about the two ways to progressThere were two groups helped on this day
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.
Kate & Jesus met at least 4 times during December – these photos are from multiple days. You can’t tell because they tend to wear the same clothes each week!
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.
Jesus cleans the servers which were returned from FloridaThank fully there was no water damage
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).
Server buildingVolunteer assists with minor tasks required for the new server build
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
A new terrace before seeding (after rain)Ready for a day of seedingVolunteers seeing in terracesSeed Mix for spreading in terracesSeed MixSeed MixSeed MixSeed MixBroadcasting seedAfter a long day’s workWattle Seeds carpet the base of older terracesWattle Seed in abundanceCornelius stands with well established growth in an older terraces
Invasive Species Management
Other Volunteer Works
Native Bee Hive in a terracePlanningVolunteers shell seed harvested from the local areaClean UpLunch BreakClean UpWho discovered mud in the terraces?Lunch BreakVolunteers give presentation on first aid kits
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.
Ranhi sets up seatingPhoebe sets up for one of the games!Sorcha works on lightingBrittany & Kate work on chairsRahni & PhoebePhoebe & Brittany assemble flower arrangementsUsually Jesus & I cater this event but this year guests brought a plate from a set list of recipes
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!
The set upIntense guessing!Can you spot anyone you know?
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.
God’s Way Ltd held their annual general meeting in November. You can read the annual report on the God’s Way website soon.
AGM – Jesus & I chatting before lunchAGM – Volunteers & Members read the Annual Report
Gods Way Volunteer Days
Check out our beautiful God’s Way Ltd volunteers, probation volunteers, and Jesus and I in action as managers.
Eloisa & I – sun safe managers!Clean up timeJesus & Cornelius are always designing for projects and figuring things outLunch break discussions
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.
Function Centre – Recent terrace after rainFunction Centre – Amazing growth in a terraceFeijoa trees in flower on our hillsideEnvironment CentreEloisa & I pick cherry tomatoes – grown wild in our front gardenAngela volunteer – takes cuttings from our front garden for use on the God’s Way centres
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.
Finally a patch of clear floor!Storing extras in the shipping containersJesus & Cornelius make design to improve the air flow in a serverSound suppression board stands under constructionJesus spends a lot of time here – researching & finding solutions for our operations, servicing our info technology, websites and data networking and many other things!
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.
Our little home is converted into a meeting space each morning of the talksThe lovely Dianne sewed some covers for our old arm chairs
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.
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!
Jesus & I during a small group presentation for God’s Way Ltd
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.
Eloisa, Jesus & I – during lunch on a busy God’s Way Ltd volunteer day
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.
Studio Clear Out & Reorganisation: Eloisa & I sort screws for various technical equipment
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.
Having a laugh about what it feels like to receive personal truth in the early days!
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’.
Jesus teaching in our home – “How Progress Occurs” Series
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:
Attaining the development to receive truth from God and to share it in a humble manner
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
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.
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 sincerewell 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).
Various Antenna Tests in Action
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.
Vermin proof shrouds designed by Jesus & built by Cornelius
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 38oC (100oF) inside the house during the day, and over 30oC (86oF) 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.
Repainting the home studio area after the window is filled in
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.
Website upgrades in progress – new search function displayed
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.
Laid Back Listening to Truth
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.
Eloisa works hard to do what she can – to help in the sharing of Love and Truth
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.
Jesus presenting to volunteers in the topic ‘How Progression Occurs’
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.
Volunteer Management: Cornelius discusses the loving purpose of weedsPeople of all ages and backgrounds come together in God’s Way to learn about God’s Principles in action
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.
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.
Some History
For nearly 5 years Gene (Eugene) Mindel in the USA has been assisting us by hosting 2 x rackmount dual CPU, 256GB RAM, 10G network, 48TB ZFS RaidZ2 servers 24×7 in his home, along with a permanent 1gbit/sec link to the internet.
Due to the large video file sizes of our Divine Truth video files, we cannot send them or upload them via the internet in Australia. Even our recently installed Starlink, our only unlimited internet connection, averages 10mbit/sec upload, and it fails completely at least 4 times per day. Jesus has examined all of the possible ways to improve this connection, and all of them we are currently unable to do (more about this in my next post).
Our minimum upload is usually 120GB at any one time, and sometimes, due to overseas server breakdown or changeovers etc, we need to upload around 4TB of data. Once God’s Way Ltd begins producing data, the upload requirements will quadruple. A 4TB upload would take 890 hours or more from our location (assuming the link did not fail). Uploads from an Australian internet connection in our location actually take much longer than physically sending via air freight a data package to Gene in the USA, and then remotely controlling the USA servers to upload the data worldwide, to our Canada server, YouTube, AWS and other services.
Jesus is able to remotely secure access the USA servers from any place in the world. Via this connection, he is able to economically upload and download data using the much higher speed and unlimited bandwidth allowances provided by internet connections in the United States.
We purchased the USA servers at our own expense (for around $30,000 USD, or $46,000 AUD total) in March 2018 (4.5 years ago) and had them sent to Gene’s home in Baltimore at the time. We also contribute to the monthly payment for the 1gbit/sec connection which our servers use at his home.
Jesus working on a server similar to the two in Eugene’s home
In 2021 Gene relocated to Florida, and eventually purchased a house in Sarasota, Florida. He continued to host the servers in each home he lived in, and in his current home, and while we haven’t uploaded new material to the internet in the past few years, Jesus continued to use the servers regularly to transfer data to us, to upload data to a replacement Canada server, and Jesus has continued to maintain the servers and keep them up to date in terms of software.
Although these servers are large, noisy and heavy, they store all of our shared public data, are very reliable, and can be remotely powered on and off (which is essential because Gene is often not home). These servers have played an essential part in our being able to share Divine Truth for free.
Hurricane Ian
At the end of September 2022 Hurricane Ian made landfall almost directly above Gene’s home in Sarasota, Florida. Gene and his partner Marina were forced to evacuate and their home suffered major structural and water damage as a large tree fell through the roof. One end of the home is relatively unscathed, but the other end, where Gene’s office and our servers were located, are damaged the most.
Gene and Marina’s clothing survived the Hurricane, but Gene’s office and the regions surrounding it, did not. They had to relocate to a motel for a few weeks until the structural damage could be assessed. Obviously since then they have been very busy, and do not know how long it will take to get their life back to normal, given the shortage of resources and workers after such a large disaster.
Their home was insured but as you can see from the photos there was a lot of damage to their house and personal possessions. At the moment he and Marina are living in motels.
If you would like to help Gene and Marina, there are a number of ways you can do so:
If anyone in the West Coast of Florida between Sarasota, FL and Venice, FL has a short term rental property that Gene and Marina can rent while they are waiting for the insurance situation to play out, and the house repairs to be complete, please email Gene: emindonline@gmail.com
If you would like to send any physical items, please email Eugene for a current address beforehand as his address is constantly changing at the moment.
If you would like to help Gene and Marina financially as they get back to normal, you can gift to them via Transferwise. Details and instructions are listed on Gene’s webpage: https://emindonline.wordpress.com/
Prior to Hurricane Ian making landfall, before leaving his home in a rush, Gene did his best to store and protect our servers. However due to the high amount of damage to his home they were not fully protected. Although his home was insured, our servers are not.
This is the room where the servers were. You can see the UPS in the corner. Gene was able to cover the servers under plastic before he and Marina evacuated.
So for many reasons, we have decided it is best for Gene to remove all of the drives from our servers (which are 35 x 4TB capacity, heavy and more than 6 years old) and give them away. Then he will send the servers back to us here in Wilkesdale, Queensland, Australia for Jesus to repair and repurpose to use in our racks here.
Jesus is also now building new, smaller servers which he can remote control (16 core XeonD processor, 128GB RAM, 80TB storage, video rendering) which cost around $12,000 AUD each. We intend to send these to Gene when his life is back to normal and his home is repaired, which may take some months or longer. While we have no servers in the USA, we will be unable to upload data to the internet, unless the data sizes are small enough to do it directly using our connections in Australia.
If you would like to contribute towards the costs of air freight to have the servers sent back to Australia (this is expected to be around $3000 USD or more), towards the repairs of the servers, or towards the new server setup in Gene’s home, then you can donate to us via the ‘Divine Truth General Expenses’ option on the donations page
As always, Jesus and I are grateful for your interest in our work sharing Divine Truth with the world. We would like to thank you for your interest in supporting the volunteers who help us as well.
Next week I will write a long update on what we have been doing this year.
There are four individuals who currently work (most of them full time) for the God’s Way Ltd not for profit organisation. They are Eloisa Lytton-Hitchins, Catherine Spence, Cornelius (David Walsh) and Kate Eckersall.
Eloisa, Cornelius & Kate provide essential services to both God’s Way Ltd and Divine Truth Pty Ltd. Without them, Jesus and I would not be able to achieve the day to day requirements of managing God’s Way Ltd, or be able to provide as many Divine Truth Pty Ltd services free of charge as we do.
Catherine provides finances for all of God’s Way Ltd operations. All current God’s Way Ltd operations would be impossible without her constant help.
Eloisa
Eloisa is the Managing Director and Company Secretary of God’s Way Ltd. She is also the Administration Branch Manager, and the Environment Branch Manager (she manages the day to day operations of all administration and environment projects) for God’s Way Ltd.
She currently does not receive any payment for these services from either Divine Truth Pty Ltd or God’s Way Ltd.
Eloisa’s current roles include:
Full Time Unpaid Volunteer, God’s Way Ltd & Divine Truth Pty Ltd, Australia
Member, Managing Director & Company Secretary, God’s Way Ltd, Australia
Branch Manager, Administration, God’s Way Ltd, Australia
Branch Manager, Environment, God’s Way Ltd, Australia
Eloisa’s contributions include:
Gifted 1/4 finances to purchase 600 acres of land (Environment Centre) for God’s Way Ltd
Gifted 1/2 finances to purchase God’s Way Ltd servers
Operations Manager of God’s Way Ltd Accounts & Legal
Operations Manager of all God’s Way Ltd Environmental Projects
Management of volunteer activities for God’s Way Ltd
Manages, co-ordinates and performs manual labour for environmental projects
Mentors and trains new God’s Way Ltd managers
Manages and co-ordinates meetings and recording sessions
Manages and provides day to day accounting and legal requirements of God’s Way Ltd
Handles research, accounts orders and payments, and volunteer training for God’s Way Ltd
Jesus is able to delegate many of these tasks to Eloisa because she sincerely practices and implements Divine Truth teachings in her personal life, and remains a very humble person. Jesus has mentored Eloisa in each role she has in the God’s Way Ltd organisation since 2016. He is very confident in Eloisa’s abilities, and enjoys the process of mentoring her because of her humility and passion for God’s Truth, her strong desire to have a relationship with God and to be a loving person in every aspect of her life.
Eloisa’s dedication to living God’s Way and managing God’s Way Ltd organisation greatly reduces the amount of time Jesus and I would otherwise have to spend completing these tasks in order for to the company to remain solvent and operational.
At the moment Eloisa uses her personal funds to pay all of her living expenses. She recieves a very small sum each month via donations. This is not a sustainable situation for her and unless she begins to receive more substantial and regular donations she may need to return to regular work as a teacher. Eloisa has a Masters Degree in Education.
Eloisa has enough personal funds to support her and her three children for about another year before she will need to seek employment elsewhere. If that happens, her return to work would severely affect everything Jesus and I are attempting to achieve. Most God’s Way Ltd operations would need to close down.
At the moment, Eloisa is the person that we would most like to receive donated funds. If she could receive enough donated funds, or Divine Truth Pty Ltd could receive more funds to cover her employment, then we have an excellent manager to sustain the development of the God’s Way organisation in Australia.
Catherine is a Director of, and a part time unpaid volunteer for, God’s Way Ltd. She currently does not receive any payment from either Divine Truth Pty Ltd or God’s Way Ltd.
Catherine’s current roles include:
Part Time Unpaid Volunteer, God’s Way Ltd, Australia
Member & Director of God’s Way Ltd
Catherine’s contributions include:
Gifted all finances to purchase 400 acres of land (Function Centre) for God’s Way Ltd
Gifted 1/2 finances to purchase 600 acres of land (Environment Centre) for God’s Way Ltd
Gifted 1/2 finances to purchase God’s Way Ltd servers
Gifted all finances to build Divine Truth Pty Ltd recording studio
Gifted Bulldozer, Excavator and Tractor for God’s Way Ltd Environment Projects
Continues gifting backup financial funding for all God’s Way projects
Continues gifting operational expenses for God’s Way Ltd Environment Projects
Continues gifting operational expenses for God’s Way Ltd Building Projects
Due to her passion for Divine Truth and for the goals of the God’s Way Ltd organisation, Catherine donates a substantial amount of funds every year to God’s Way operations (over $150,000 per annum). This is not a sustainable situation for her or the organisation. If she continues to contribute similar amounts, she will run out of funds within four to five years.
If others could contribute to God’s Way Ltd projects directly, then her funds can be used either for building the Function Centre, as backup funds to sustain the company in case of sudden unexpected costs or in times when other donations reduce.
Of course, Catherine no longer providing these funds would severely affect everything Jesus and I are attempting to achieve with God’s Way Ltd. Without Catherine’s contributions most areas of God’s Way Ltd operations would cease.
Catherine doesn’t feel that she needs any donations from others at this time, but the more that others donate to the God’s Way projects she supports, the more funds she can provide to God’s Way Ltd to help build our Function Centre Stage 1 Power, Auditorium, Kitchen and Visitor facilities.
Cornelius (David Walsh) is a Member of, and a full time, partially paid, worker/volunteer for God’s Way Ltd. He currently does receive some payments from Divine Truth Pty Ltd and God’s Way Ltd.
Cornelius works very closely with Jesus on building plans and building materials research required for both the new construction and renovation of God’s Way Ltd infrastructure and building projects here on our personal property. These projects include, a large scale shed extension, new shed buildings, the caretakers’ home renovation, new cabins to replace our eco tents, and the Function Centre building development.
He is the only carpenter/builder currently working for God’s Way Ltd and Divine Truth Pty Ltd which means that he also physically implements (builds) the projects. He supervises and liases with external contractors, God’s Way Ltd volunteers, and private individuals employed by Jesus and I to assist with building on our property, and for the God’s Way Ltd organisation.
Jesus and Cornelius are often looking for alternate means and innovation when approaching building and spend many hours brainstorming and logically analysing possible solutions.
Cornelius’ current roles include:
Full Time (Partially Paid) Volunteer, God’s Way Ltd & Divine Truth Pty Ltd, Australia
Member & Branch Manager, Building & Construction, God’s Way Ltd, Australia
Builder & Camera Operator, Divine Truth Pty Ltd, Australia
Cornelius’ contributions include:
Building services for Divine Truth Pty Ltd & God’s Way Ltd
Building design for Divine Truth Pty Ltd & God’s Way Ltd
Building material research for Divine Truth Pty Ltd & God’s Way Ltd
Management of volunteer activities for God’s Way Ltd
Primary camera operator at Divine Truth events
Backup video switcher at Divine Truth events
Cornelius is a builder with over 35 years experience working in domestic, industrial, commercial and civil construction.
Cornelius currently receives small payments from God’s Way Ltd and Divine Truth Pty Ltd of $1000 per month from each organisation, or $2000 per month total. This is the same amount Jesus and I pay ourselves from the Divine Truth Pty Ltd organisation.
If others could contribute to Cornelius directly, then God’s Way Ltd or Divine Truth Pty Ltd would not need to pay him directly, which would make more of the funds we receive available for projects and teaching.
Kate is also a keen musician, she is in the centre singing with Jesus & Tristan
Kate is a full time paid worker for God’s Way Ltd. She currently does receive payments from Divine Truth Pty Ltd and God’s Way Ltd.
Under Jesus’ direction she is helping to redesign our website and writing important programming code which will simplify our day to day running requirements. She manages the Divine Truth transcription and translation teams.
She is also involved in the redesign of the God’s Way Ltd website (which will closely resemble the Divine Truth website). This includes providing programming assistance to design new Project Pages which summarise projects and their progress on the new God’s Way website.
Kate assists managers with various technical shortcuts and strategies to streamline information sharing. Along with Jesus, she provides input on database compilation and creation now underway within the Environment Branch (database creation will also expand into other branches over time).
Kate’s current roles include:
Full Time Paid Volunteer, Divine Truth Pty Ltd & God’s Way Ltd, Australia
Programmer, Divine Truth Pty Ltd & God’s Way Ltd, Australia
Manager Transcription & Translation Teams, Divine Truth Pty Ltd, Australia
Kate’s contributions include:
HTML, CSS, and Javascript Programming
Website & Web Applications Programming
Visual Basic & Visual Basic For Applications Programming
Programmer for the Transcription & Translation Team
Maintain Code for Transcription, Translations, Transliterations, Subtitling & Book Production
CAD Drawing for Machines, Tools, Function Centre & Housing
Computer training for all God’s Way members
Kate holds a Bachelor Degree of Information Technology.
Kate currently does receive payments from God’s Way Ltd of $1000 per month, and $2000 per month from Divine Truth Pty Ltd, or $3000 per month total. She is our highest paid volunteer, mostly because she pays rent for the house she lives in (while all the other volunteers mentioned above own their own home).
Without Kate helping him, it would be very difficult for Jesus, since he would have to do all of the programming that Kate does in order for us to share Divine Truth for free.
If others could contribute to Kate directly, then God’s Way Ltd or Divine Truth Pty Ltd would not need to pay her directly, which would make more funds we receive avialable for projects and teaching.
As mentioned above, Eloisa does not receive any funds at all from God’s Way Ltd, or from Divine Truth Pty Ltd. Eloisa, Kate and Cornelius are each fully qualified in their chosen fields and would receive quite a lot more money than they currently do if they were to work in those professions.
If you would like to see projects in both God’s Way Ltd and Divine Truth Pty Ltd continue, making a regular donation to Eloisa as a priority, and then to Kate and Cornelius, would greatly assist us. It would mean that Jesus and I, Divine Truth Pty Ltd, or God’s Way Ltd would not need to pay them directly.
Of course, one off donations are always welcomed and assist us greatly. But if each person currently listening to Divine Truth could afford to gift $10 per month, $100,000 per month would be available, which is well beyond what we would need to not only pay all those who are fulltime voluntary workers, but would also be enough for us to easily complete at least the first stage of our Function Centre Power, Auditorium, Kitchen and Visitors build. At the moment, less than 1 in 100, or 1% of people regularly donate to Divine Truth Pty Ltd, and far less regularly donate to God’s Way Ltd.
If Eloisa, Cornelius and Kate received enough donations directly, they could focus solely on their roles within Divine Truth Pty Ltd and God’s Way Ltd, removing concerns about the potential need to seek paid employment elsewhere. This would also enable God’s Way Ltd and Divine Truth Pty Ltd to use the funds currently paid to Kate and Cornelius towards other projects.
Thanks for the wonderful truths you have shared with the world. I have loved them. I have heard that you are supporting the recent vaccines from several sources including Alex. It makes me wonder if you are fully informed about what you are supporting.
Do you know
1. The ingredients and contents of the vax 2. The intentions of the creators of the vax 3. The efficacy or effectiveness of the vax
It seems to me that it would not be ethical to support the vax without being fully informed about these issues.
So, I wonder, have you researched these issues, or do you disagree with my analysis of what is ethical?
Hope you are well, Kris
Wattle in bloom – God’s Way Ltd Function Centre
Hi Kris
I find it very revealing that your email to me (is it your first communication with me?) contains no desire to discuss issues regarding a relationship with God, loving principles affecting yourself and your behaviour, or anything about your own soul condition. These are areas that I personally wish to discuss and I have virtually no interest at all in discussing vaccines.
I must say though that, like you, many others have sent emails with a similar theme, usually criticizing what they believe I have said or done without personally having had any interaction with me, and without bearing in mind that all third party musings are subject to being modified by the condition of love existing in the people sharing them. I also must say that these kinds of questions demonstrate many unloving motives, including a large amount of fear, presumption and arrogance in the person sending them to me.
That being said, I will provide a short (and certainly not complete) answer to your questions, as I currently have a little time to do so. So here goes.
In regards to disease, what happens to a person’s physical body is directly under the control of the soul and its condition of love, and limited by the physical design parameters of the body itself.
Voluntarily medical procedures (including taking a vaccine) are of no direct risk to the soul and its development, nor do they generally interfere with the soul’s relationship with God. Indirectly, engaging medical procedures frequently indicates a high degree of fear about death and pain, and if the soul is in any degree of fear, this is, of course, very damaging to a relationship with God and with others.
From the soul’s perspective, there are many loving reasons why a person with limited development in love may consider taking a vaccine, however, once a soul is completely in harmony with God’s Love, there is never any need for any vaccine.
However, even in a condition of at-onement with God, there may be reasons why a person chooses to use a vaccine even though they do not need one (such as conforming to Human made Laws in order to more easily share God’s Truth), but there would be no fear of any vaccine. The vaccine of choice would be one that mimics as closely as possible the normal process of being exposed to a virus. Fear of death is not a valid reason for taking a vaccine, just as fear of a vaccine is not a valid reason for refusing a vaccine. Fear is the primary cause of all human problems, and fear itself is in direct contradiction to love.
Taking a vaccine is potentially very risky for the physical body, unless the vaccine mimics as closely as possible the normal process of being exposed to a virus. God has made the human body with the ability to cope with many risks, and, as long as the soul is in harmony with love, the body will respond to any virus in a loving manner by creating its own resilience to the infection.
Medicines or drugs (including recreational drugs, alcohol, caffeinated coffee, etc) can interfere with the soul’s connection to the body by interfering with the communication of information between the spirit body and the physical body through the silver cord that connects the two bodies. They can also interfere with the correct operation of the body by interfering with the design parameters of the body such as the brain, hormones, the nervous system, the vascular system and so on. So under many circumstances medicines or drugs can be permanently dangerous to the body itself.
Medicines or drugs (including recreational drugs, alcohol, caffeinated coffee, etc) can also be dangerous to the soul if the person taking them feels or acts out of harmony with love towards oneself or others either in the motivation to take, or under the influence of, such compounds. Of course, a vaccine is often less dangerous to the soul than something like alcohol, drugs, or coffee is, since a person addicted to alcohol, drugs, or coffee often acts unlovingly to others, whereas it is highly unlikely a person will become addicted to a vaccine, and less likely they will act unlovingly due to taking a vaccine (although the current superior attitude that often develops from taking a vaccine of course does affect the development of the soul).
On the other hand, many people refusing a vaccine are very unloving and superior as well, and they often resort to very unloving behaviour towards others, which of course damages their own soul condition. It is ironic that they try to “protect” their body in a flawed manner, but further destroy their soul condition by their actions and attitudes. The best protection of the body comes from soul condition improvements.
A person can be in a loving state and take a vaccine, and they also can be in a loving state and not take a vaccine. It depends very much on the motivation of the individual and if fear is driving either decision.
I do not know what you have been told Kris, but I personally do not “support” (as you call it) any vaccine. You do not know me personally very well, and have not had any real personal discussions with me. Listening to or believing other persons interpretations of what I have said or believe, and then accusing me based upon your assumptions, is very unloving behaviour towards me, and illustrates my points above. Of course, the persons who have shared their erroneous interpretations of what I have said with you are also being unloving to me and to you.
If you must get a vaccine at all, I do personally believe that some vaccines are safer than others to use (due to the technology used within the vaccine). If you wish to get a vaccine, that is your personal decision, just as if you wish to not have a vaccine, that is also your personal decision. What you do with your body and its safety is your personal responsibility. I have no business interfering with your personal decision, and no doctor or government has any business interfering with your personal decision either, just as you have no business interfering with my personal decision (which is one of your bad motives I was talking about at the beginning of this email). Of course, any personal decision you make that is out of harmony with love towards your soul or the soul of others, will damage your soul.
The current fearful political, social and economic climate regarding vaccines, and the unloving intentions of governments and many of the earth’s industries (such as but not limited to the pharmaceutical, weapons manufacturing, media, and social media companies), is where much more damage is occurring to humanity at the soul level.
These matters certainly deserve exposure and discussion from God’s perspective. God expects humans to solve these severe problems but they can only be solved by changing our condition of love as individuals. Loving individuals create loving governments and industry.
The current COVID panic (read panic, not pandemic), being the result of greed and fear, indicates severe problems in the human condition which existed before the COVID panic. COVID has merely highlighted these issues to westerners in particular. Much of the world’s population was already living with the consequences of unloving and corrupt government and industry before the COVID panic, and western government and industry is often the cause of a huge amount of pain and injustice for all of humanity.
As I have said to everyone I have spoken to, I personally have no intention of getting a vaccine unless:
1. It can be proven to me that the vaccine mimics as closely as possible the normal process of being exposed to a virus, and;
2. I have a reason that is loving towards others to get the vaccine (such as improving my flexibility to travel in order to share Divine Truth personally with others).
I have no desire to dictate to others (as you obviously do) as to what they should do. I have taught for many years God’s principles of Love and Truth, along with God’s Laws, and many like yourself, through comments made in emails to me, demonstrate they do not understand the fundamentals God’s Laws, the Soul, and the Principles of Love and Truth. This indicates that either the listener is insincere, or/and that I have much more work to do sharing these truths.
If people emailing me about COVID and vaccines did understand God’s Laws, the Soul, and the Principles of Love and Truth, they would feel like I do, and have virtually no interest at all in discussing vaccines, but rather would be much more interested in discussing matters about their own personal soul development, and understanding better God’s principles of Love and Truth, and be even more strongly motivated to bring their own soul and its actions into harmony with God’s Loving Laws.
Instead, I see most people, including those who have been listening to God’s Truth, living in their addictions and fears, and COVID has become a trigger for their justification of even more unloving actions. This is very unfortunate, but it does expose the true soul condition of the individual.
Anyway Kris, that is all I have the time to share on the subject at the moment. Remember that I am interested in your soul’s welfare first. I encourage you to be more interested in developing the loving condition of your soul, rather than using unloving behaviour to attempt to control things that only love can solve.