Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 8, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fajg saturday couple feels guilty about Church role by Douglas Todd Vancouver Sun North up shut satan shut up the pastors and elders who pinned screaming 17yearold an Drea Davison to the floor of the Lynn Valley evangelical Church yelled at the Devil they believed tormented new life Christian Centre pastor Wayne stilling and assistant Pas Tor Rand Baynton held her Shoul Ders and arms to the while two Church women sat on her they placed bibles around her Davison growled and screeched for some Sang the theme from the horror show Friday the thirteenth Freddys coming for better lock the she explain what was happen ing but she knew it want satan voice coming i kept saying to come come its but they kept saying shut satan shut up the Church leaders allow Davison Roger into the they pressed a Bible on Davison then she blacked the episode came near the end of a yearlong ordeal in which Davison and Parton immersed themselves in the rituals and beliefs of this satan haunted Wing of Canadas roughly evangelical Christian the guilt and uncertainty remained As they gave a series of interviews about two months after leaving the the son of former Vancouver Sun columnist Nicole spoke articulately and frequently flipped through his the two didst see Many demons cast out when they first joined new but they eventually Learned exorcisms were going on in Back rooms and after both had their restrictions Parton said stilling told him the Church didst initially reveal exorcisms to newcomers for fear they think the Church a As the two committed deeper to new they Felt restrictions Church leaders said sinful members would go to that it was crucial to prepare for the imminent end of the that Par tons classical piano playing was unholy and that the couple Ever spend time alone the two Felt their every move must be approved through the Pas tors or people continually went to Church leaders with stories about the final Straw came when Bayn an assistant preached about the dangers of and he said human rights Are the lie of the Parton 1 just Felt like getting up and walking said i dont think god put us on this Earth and didst give us freaked one of the last times Davison saw stilling at new she said he came up to held her Chin and told her satan was doing a Job on Davison remembers stilling say ing do you still love me do you still love me you know you said Parton and Davi son left his 150member Church be cause they freaked he said he Doest remember most of the events the two he said he probably took part in casting a Demon out of but cant remember the possessions Are wild he they happen All the time she was under the influence of something that want at a recent new life prayer parishioners spoke in oddest of rumbled a Mon like voice As deep As the dead double Dup woman laughed re a Little Girllie voice Praise Praise dozens of others the prayer service sounded fear but it looked no More fright ening than a playground for clean Middle class they rolled on the carpet and wandered through the modern Church satan will cripple finance9 two men were lying on the step near the Church appearing to carry on a conversation in a vaguely arabic sounding Lan Guage which believers think comes directly from god and Only fellow believers can children were lying on sleeping bags under the pews while their parents prayed and moaned above when Cardigan Clad elder Harry Mccullough walked to the Micro the chanting i believe satan is taking hold of certain people Here he there is a lot of sickness in the body and too Many people Are get Ting i just feel in my spirit tonight that maybe some of us have left an opening for satan and dont realize satan will cripple hell cripple your your hell cripple you every Way Possi ble if you have any animosity or hatred or strife in your youve got to get rid of the elder concluded 1 want you to come up Here and Well Pray Over or Pray where you Deal with people walked up to join those already at the several men Laid hands on a kneeling members walked around waving their hugged or kissed each Parton first got involved in this world while working at a fast food a coworker kept talk ing to Parton about his it was very Parton raised in a no churchgoing fam ily and ignorant of evangelizing Parton was Davison took a different route to new until age 12 she attended pentecostal but shed fallen away after having disputes with her and left a staff social worker at Davison group who was also a Chris Tian Centre recruited Davison through repeated the two Felt attracted by the sense of Community at new and the idea that satan was responsible for their Stillings Faith in the and his Charis fatherly Drew Parton became one of the most zealous attending sunday night services that began about 7 and often stretched into Early since members Are encouraged to bring Parton regularly toured the Community shopping mall and Parks looking for souls to hed befriend the Many of whom used drugs and alcohol and came from unhappy hed introduce his he would Pray for eventually laying hands on some to heal their he committed Many to he but discomforting questions submissive i started feeling Parton if i didst spend a few hours a Day praying and Reading the Parton said stilling told him the Beethoven and Mozart he played in the Middle of the Day on new lifes grand piano gave him a bad feel ing in the in an stilling first denied asking Parton to Stop play but later acknowledged he did a stilling performs exorcisms regularly at new life Christian Centre in but Only because Parton worked himself into a Fervour and played which upset the Church Sec Davison and Parton were told to stay a metre apart in the Pew and never to spend time together stilling said Davison and Parton Arent suited to each Al though the pastor said his memory is hazy about whether he recommended the couple stay still ing said others might have told them to do followers were Parton to be submissive to the pastor and people who disagreed with them were tagged dissent Parton said he remembers still ing thanking him for doing gods work when he informed on a Church member who questioned Stillings Parton also said he Felt told on when his a new life told stilling that Parton had been mimicking the intense Way pastor Baynton delivered his Parton believes he was at a Vul stressful time in his and he believes he Felt possessed by demons because of hypnotic Sug ceaseless chanting and exhaustion an analysis with which Simon Fraser University psychologist Barry Meyerstein since leaving the Parton has returned to his piano music and applied to Davison is working on finishing High fundamentalists Parton talked with a family senator Ray who counselled a churchgoing Perrault said theres nothing he can do about going son at new people Are entitled to worship god in their own As Long As there not trampling on the rights of but Perrault would like to see Christian fundamentalists tolerate other forms of i dont think Ive developed a monopoly on truth and i dont think anybody the lord my fathers House has Many Man Parton said he Felt terrific after leaving new but doubt soon set distressed after an argument with Parton was Reading the Bible at a restaurant when in walked new life they said they really missed me i was Parton phoned said he wanted to come Back and agreed to lunch with his former but Parton Felt the vices Clamp ing Down and he never showed it was a very close democracy in Eastern Europe fuels increased antisemitism Miracle services prophetic ministries by Meriel Seattle Vienna Reuter East Ern Europe surviving jew ish ravaged by the nazi holocaust and repressed during decades of say antisemitism has found a new Breeding we supported the glasnost policy in Eastern Europe because there was official Czechoslovakia jewish Council Secre tary Richard Svoboda now we dont have any govern mental antisemitism but democracy has made it possible for unofficial antisemitism to show in within a few months of the Leader ship and policy changes which brought democratic reforms to East Ern jewish synagogues and monuments in the soviet Union and Poland were damaged or daubed with people Tell us of having stars of David put on their having their children harassed in and having teachers humiliate their children in said Bruce director of the Vienna based Aid Agency Hias which deals with a rising number of jewish emigrants from Eastern eur in Gustav presi Dent of the israeli religious Community of said his office received dozens of threatening let ters and Anonymous rude phone Calls every week and synagogues received bomb last april a Monument to Raoul a swedish Diplomat who saved thousands of hungarian jews during the second world was in free elections in Hungary and Campaign posters for a number of jewish candidates were repeatedly defaced with Antisemitic antisemitism existed Over the past 40 but it was always intangible and Zoltai its manifestations Over the course of democratization have undoubtedly strengthened every in parts of the soviet anti semitism has penetrated newspapers and places of in Home to a Large portion of the soviet unions two million Strong jewish Antisemitic articles have been circulated in the press and at under ground last a director at Lenin grads music conservatory tried to ban jewish provoking resignations among faculty Blind Eye in reports of Antisemitic attacks have begun to emerge since last decembers uprising that overthrew dictator Nicolae cause synagogue furniture and religious objects were smashed in the North Western town of Oradea in Gebru three months later 30 Graves were vandalized in the Transylvan Ian town of Stirgu in the tiny jewish Community that survived the nazi pogroms protested recently that the country was experiencing its worst wave of antisemitism in in a letter to the polish govern jewish leaders accused the country democratically elected parliament and powerful roman Catholic Church of turning a Blind Eye to the jewish Community leaders say jews in East Bulgaria and parts of Czechoslovakia say they have not experienced As Many prob lems As their but there has been harassment in the czechoslovak Region of Slovakia where officials unveiled a memorial plaque to War criminal Jozef blamed for the deportation and death of slovak including in Gas the plaque was removed earlier this month after mass protests and government Leimsidor says the wave of anti semitism is due to traditional resentment and unprecedented free Dom of there Are two one is that the lid is off you can express what you Leimsidor the economic situation has become increasingly catastrophic in these countries and that has always been linked to rises in anti for Many the Only remain ing solution is to for Israel or the United International jew ish organizations like Hias say they fear the jewish communities of Eastern Europe will be allowed to die i dont think that the govern ments Are going to for the Sake of their jewish antagonizing forces which they consider Nec Essary for their own Leimsidor i really dont see very much future for maybe the czech part of but certainly not in certainly not in Roma if the economic situation gets better in Hungary then maybe peo ple will be Able to come to terms with the he but if i were living 1 evangelist Dolores Berry Carlton inn 220 Carlton Street 131415 at 16 at 3 this is your appointment with Golf ministering in the gifts and Power of the holy ghost to meet your you wont leave like you come in Jesus apostles ministries of Faith Eck Ankar societies of Canada Manitoba welcomes you to Eck worship service theme the love of soul the Eck worship service has been brought into the world Lor the uplift ment of it is Lor those who desire True True Wisdom and sri Harold Klemp september 9 at Winnipeg Eck Ankar Centre 159 Marlon Street rear Entrance 400 Margrave at notre Dame duplicate worship services and pastor James Barber promotion Day in the sunday school worship 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