World Services

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World Services (or WS) was a collection of secretive, undercover homes or "units" primarily handling finances, publications, and special projects (e.g. Creations) in The Family International.

WS operated under very surreptitious conditons, even from the rest of the group. Such units were often heavily subsidized or fully supported by funds alloted them formerly by David Berg, and now Karen Zerby and Steven Kelly. Members of such units are taught they are the crème de la crème, since they are specially selected for their talents, trusted with very sensitive information, and their units were or are directly answerable to Berg or Zerby.

Most WS members were required to clock a minimum of 48 hours of work per week (this number occasionally changes).

WS maintained many separate units globally prior to appx. 2003or 2004 when all WS members relocated to 3 main locations in Albuquerque, New Mexico where Karen Zerby and Peter Kelly also lived and worked. After Ricky Rodreguez's murder/suicide of 2005 all WS relocated to Chapala, Mexico where they took up the rent of 4 large properties (Karen Zerby and Steve Kelly also personally purchased a pair of condos at a Manzanilla for Vacationing purposes.

In late 2010, after the "reboot" had been published to the rest of TFI, WS underwent the "WS restructuring" in which essentially most WS members (most outstandingly, many older WS members with health problems and families with children) were "let go," the WS structure itself was downsized, one property as let go and another smaller one rented and nearly rebuilt to accommodate the many apartments that were needed, and many of the remaining WS members moved out to rent their own apartments with stipends paid for their work for WS.

At the same time as the "WS restructuring" the London "home" and separate warehouse and print office used for printing publications was closed down, the board structure that had been in place in TFI until that time was shut down and the various IB teams (International Boards) that had been operating from within the WS units were shut down along with most of their initiatives.

Many Family publications were copyrighted under the name "World Services".

People

(L to R): Joy, Anne, Samuel Perfilio, Rebecca Rapp, Sean Mullen, Barbara Emerson, Phil/Elliot, Jessica Epstein, Karen Zerby, Steven Kelly
- Finance Manager of The Family International since the 1970s
- Aliases: Shemariah Books or Elliot
- senior leader under Kevin Brown; administration
- American
- Aliases: Francis Fisherman or Michael
- member of North American leadership (NACRO) and Director of the TEAM Foundation; former wife of Steven Kelly and mother of Christian Kelly
- American
- Aliases: Abi, Abigail or Damaris
- member of North American leadership (NACRO)
- Aliases: Simon
- member of North American leadership (NACRO) and President of Activated Ministries; former FCF Director
- American
- Aliases: Abner
- Executive Secretary to Karen Zerby
- American
- Aliases: Misty, Libertad
- former spokesman for The Family International
- American
- Resigned and left group in 1996
- an official representative of The Family International
- Canadian
- was Karen Zerby's personal cook in Portugal
- owned properties in New Mexico where Karen Zerby lived
- Swedish
- American
- Aliases: Moon
- personal secretary to Karen Zerby since 1996; publications/secretarial
- American
- Aliases: Joy West, Joy East, Jenna
- American
- GP department
- Aliases: Lorie
- personal secretary to Karen Zerby
  • Nathaniel (SGA)
- administration
- younger brother of Sean Michael Mullen
  • Anne (SGA)
- administration
  • Phil / Elliot (SGA)

Former members of World Services

  • Arthur and Becky
-King's Counselors of World Services and Directors of Wild Wind Productions
- one of the prime editors of all material leaving WS in the 1970s and early 1980s as well as head of the Publications Department. He left the cult in 1981.
- Treasurer of World Services, book keeper, Chief Officer, and Business Manager
- removed from post in 1975
- former personal secretary to David Berg and Karen Zerby
- David Berg's chief "theologian" and prime editor of WS publications until 1999. Has since left the cult
- American
- formerly International Business Manager
  • Zebedee and Zorah (aka "The Z's"; not their legal names)
- former editors of the "Family News" magazine
- a former illustrator for "True Komix". Berg appointed him head of The Family's Art Department in 1981. He left the cult in June 1990
- a former editor

Locations

The following is an incomplete list of past and present locations of WS units and sub-units. Due to the extremely expensive and time-consuming aspect of moving a unit, they usually avoid translocating. As a result of this, many of these units remain in the same area for many years.

  • Fluelen, Switzerland ("EURCRO Office", "Aurora Home", "Family Missions Foundation", etc.)
  • Leányfalu, Budapest (Eastern "EURCRO Office", "MM Home"/EECCC, European "PPC")
  • Dallas, Texas
  • Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Japan
  • Philipines
  • Albuquerque New Mexico (This is where WS first combined into 3 units, the Haven, the Appartments and one other. This was the first time in modern TFI history when WS units were all in the same location. Karen and Steve were living in the larger, rural unit, "Haven" when Pete was meeting with Angela Smith, which inspired a renewed WS's focus on secrecy. The Haven property belonged to ws at the time but has since been sold.)
  • Chapala, Mexico (After leaving Albuquerque, all WS members, averaging 140 from 2007-2010 and including Steve and Karen, living in the small village of Chapala, right outside of Guadalajara, Mexico. WS rented 4 large properties fully outfitted with gyms, swimming pools, school buildings on one property, large industrial kitchens, a fleet of vehicles regularly kept updated, etc. In late 2010 most WS members either left WS, moved to their own apartments and homes relying on stipends paid by WS.)


Family Leadership Structure
Zerby/Kelly | World Services (WS) | Continental Officers (COs) | Visiting Servants (VSs) | Board Members | Home Teamwork

Superseded titles: Continental Reporting Officer (CRO)

Superseded positions: King and Queen Counselor (KQC) / King and Queen Servant (KQS) | Prime Minister

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