Jan Groenveld

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Jan Groenveld
Queensland, Australia
Occupation(s)Founder,
Cult Awareness and Information Centre
SpouseSimon Groenveld
Children7

Jan Groenveld (1945 – 22 October 2002) was a member of the Latter-day Saints Church and the Jehovah's Witnesses.[1][2] She spent fifteen years in these and other organisations before leaving them in 1975 and resolving to make more information about what she saw as "cults" available to the general public.[1][3]

Anti-cult activities

Groenveld first began providing information about groups she referred to as

counselling affected individuals in 1979.[1] In 1980, she founded the Freedom in Christ ministry,[4] whose purpose was to counsel former members of controversial groups and provide information about coercive religious sects.[3][5]

Groenveld founded the Cult Awareness and Information Centre (CAIC) in 1990.[1][3] Groenveld's CAIC website was started in 1991.[6]

Groenveld was particularly active against the

Scientologists – in Australia.[9][10][11][12]

Groenveld first met

satanic ritual abuse stories".[3]

Presence in media

In 1999 a

destructive cults would show up in Australia during 1999 before the new millennium. The publication and others credited Groenveld as a "cult specialist".[13][14] Other Australian publications like The Courier-Mail, a Brisbane tabloid, and The Mercury, a tabloid in Hobart, titled her a "cult expert."[15][16][17] She warned the publication about a cult called the Twelve Tribes Mission, believing them to possess militant tendencies. She warned that "There are people out there all over the place who would like to be another Jim Jones", referring to the Peoples Temple suicides.[13]

Groenveld's work has also been cited in Robert L. Snow's Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers.[18]

Death

Jan Groenveld died in October 2002, and was survived by her husband, 3 sons, 2 daughters and 2 foster daughters.[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Groenveld, Jan. "About Jan". Cult Awareness and Information Centre. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 8 May 2015.[self-published source]
  2. ^ Whitecross, Darryl (9 April 1987). "'CULT BUSTER' HEADS TRUTH CONFERENCE". The Daily Telegraph.
  3. ^
    ISBN 9781875847297. Archived from the original
    on 28 September 2007.
  4. ^
    Courier-Mail
    .
  5. Courier-Mail
    . 9 October 1986.
  6. ^ Groenveld, Jan. "Who on Earth is the Cult Awareness & Information Centre??". Cult Awareness & Information Centre. Archived from the original on 15 October 2009.[self-published source]
  7. Courier-Mail
    .
  8. Courier-Mail
    .
  9. Sydney Morning Herald
    .
  10. Courier-Mail
    .
  11. ^ K., Dibben (17 May 1992). "CITY KIDS ABUSED SAYS CULT-BUSTER". The Sunday Mail.
  12. Courier-Mail
    .
  13. ^ a b Griffith, Chris. (10 January 1999) "Doom Cults Aussie Alert", The Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Australia) 1, 4.
  14. ^ "Aussie police focus on millennium cults". The Sunday Telegraph. 10 January 1999.
  15. ^ Twelve Tribes Café in Australia Archived 11 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine. Griffith, Chris; Watt, Amanda (26 December 2001), Courier-Mail, Australia, 7.
  16. ^ Binet, Harriet (2 November 2000) "Cult Alert", The Mercury, (Hobart, Australia), 1.
  17. ^ Anderson, Paul; Giles, Tanya (5 April 2000). "Believers fall prey to dangerous cults". Herald Sun.
  18. ISBN 0-275-98052-9
    .
  19. ^ Randy Watters (2 November 2002). "In Memory of Jan Groenveld". freeminds.org. Retrieved 8 May 2015.[self-published source]

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