Is God still the same? II. Current State 2012 Time and again the question rises up whether God is still with me or with us all from the Panorama Center, just like He has been in the beginning. While some wish very much that He still is, others would rather not see it that way. A few years ago, precisely during the time when we were just about to “rev up”, some “established apostles and prophets” confronted me with the following prophecy: An elderly couple which thought to be exercising a “prophetic and judgement ministry” said: “Ivo, God is no longer with you. Therefore from now on you will not succeed any more… From now on you won’t achieve anything anymore in your life.” The disciple of another “prophetic ministry” in turn wrote: “Ivo, go back to repairing cars.” Actually he was saying: “There is simply no place for you in the ministry of God’s kingdom.” A church founder and “apostle” offered me shortly before his retirement: “I will always be there for you, Ivo, but only if I may help you to leave again whatever you have built up.” These three examples are just representing a stack of even more drastic “prophecies” and demands to quit the service, these eventually being tough accusations and condemnations… all in the name of God, of course. Only he who himself is genuinely striving to please God and do only those works, which God 1
Himself works through us, can guess what kind of giant struggles these were. Of course, one can even now argue endlessly what should count as the will of God or just mere works of men. Here and now I just want to testify to what would never have come about, if I or we had just even begun to listen to these “servants of God”. While, by the way, our ministry was caught by an unprecedented uplift after those prophecies, those “God-sent” and their works where haunted by heavy decay, confusions, sickness, accidents and strokes of fate – even unto falling away from God and physical death. Therefore every reader may judge for himself whether all of what is testified on the following pages could possibly ever have come to pass without the blessing, the will and the power of God. If we would want to assign a new project to our eleventh child Boasa as well, like we have done in the first part of this book, we literally wouldn’t know where to start. She may therefore symbolically stand at the same time for our new media center (MZA) in St. Margrethen (see photo gallery No 1) but also for our newly built OCG mission station in the Ukraine (photo gallery Nr. 3) and Romania with their several thousand square meters of attached agricultural fields each, the new mission station in Magadan on the eastern-most tip of Russia not even counted yet. But maybe she also stands for the two big mission coaches or the 22 vehicles, which have meanwhile become necessary for the ministry, etc. Transformed Schism in XXL-Size Whereas the schisms and the discord among the Christian churches, denominations and movements are getting more 2
and more out of hand - which really is a scandal - the OCG has been flowing along with the stream of God harmoniously united for decades. Since 2004 we have been able to serve organically united easily with more than 50 different spiritual backgrounds without any quarrels about Christian teachings. Today there are probably more than twice the number of backgrounds. If I mention here our complete unity in the ministry, I am not thinking of the question, e.g. which song we are going to sing together or if we choose it out of the song book of the Roman Catholics, the Reformed, the Pentecostal or the Darbistic church, or others. Here already you could find hundreds of different songbooks. In fact - we are talking about complete different dimensions. What we mean is, that we have got already more than 500 training sectors, that have come forth from the transformation of the rehabilitation ministry “Obadja”. Just mentioning that on the side, through this united glory in the ministry entire new song books of commonly made songs have been created. The basic goal of the new training sectors yet has remained the same in every single area: In everything we are promoting the ability of every individual to dock on to God’s life, workings and power of ability. This, however, not in an egoistic individualistic sense, but in an organically united form. Us humans are together making up a living organism – the body of God. Just like every single member of the human body it only makes sense to work together with all the other members of the body – especially the head – that’s how it’s supposed to be like between us humans and God. It makes no difference, if we – as we have done it in the times of “Obadja” – learn to “talk and build” organically together with those seeking help, or as we are doing today – make films, write informative pamphlets, produce books and so on – one thing all this activities have in common: Each work is just a means to an 3
end: the reestablishment of God’s workings and life through us; it’s just a way of training to be able to live and function together in an organic union with Christ. To show you – even just in parts – some of the more than 500 training sectors in which every OCG-mentor teaches this organic practice to the others, I just want to name 30 examples: Beginning with the several areas of housekeeping, e.g. kitchen, laundry, cleaning, garbage, shopping and so on, followed by departments concerning production of tapes, CDs/DVDs, graphic animation, film, cut, sound finishing, synchronisation, compositing and distribution, … and so forth; Mentioning also: typesetting, proofreading, book printing and book finishing and even translations into more than 20 foreign languages. You will find ministry branches dealing with ushers, decoration, car-park attendants, bodyguards or live-cut, stage-, light- and sound technology or recording, and much more. From coordination of lodging to logistics and storage, to text proofing, music productions, casting and coaching of all sorts. Finally there is orchestra, singing, moderation, acting and dancing, and so on. There would be hundreds more to mention. The whole thing involves always from 20 to 2000 people at the same time. And all this in a whole host of heavenly peace and divine power, so that at last everyone always says “thank you” to the other for at all being allowed to be part of this harmonious flow of the Holy Spirit. Prophets on Trial Apparently a never ending tragedy is the fact that people straightforwardly listen to slanderous voices without 4
checking them. If they once have been taken in by slanderers, they seem to be hit by blindness and ignorance as if they were not able to add together 1+1 anymore. That was one of the reasons I have established the ministry of evaluation in 1996. Even though it is still misunderstood by many and therefore despised and even hated. But this reporting and the following example may show the simple logic of how important evaluation is: Because it is possible to examine the truth content in all cognitive, spiritual and therefore invisible things, let us evaluate the previously mentioned prophecies in a totally pragmatic way. As a reminder: “Ivo, God will not be with you anymore, therefore from now on you will not have any success anymore… Henceforth you will not accomplish anything in your life.” At the time this assertion was made, the Lord of transformation through us had managed to provide over 17,000 meals a year to people seeking help. After that claim though, up to 57,000 meals a year have been served. Since that destructive prophecy, we have, in other words, given out about a half million meals – and that still free of charge. At this point the evaluation basically would have reached its goal. As we now have to suffer not a little under all the permanent accusations and “divine advice” and so on, we will continue the evaluation a bit: All these bad prophecies cannot hide the fact that ever since we, however, had to report over 64,000 overnight stays by persons seeking help. Additionally, over 18,000 individual persons got practical training in our training camps, movie, presentation and other project training days. While we counted about 450 guests a year in our open meetings before those bad prophecies, in 5
the meantime the number has increased to 2,000 in one single meeting. “Despite God's withdrawal from us”, we since then have clearly managed along with our internal meetings that more than 100,000 people from all over the world have enlisted our services. Up to that time, we supplied foremost the German speaking areas with our publications, whereas now you can find them in 56 countries (as of 2012). While we were working with three to four languages previously, we now count over 25 foreign languages. Our Christian Rehabilitation Center, as well as all other Christian and private rehabs, was very hard-pressured by the Government (home supervisory authorities etc.). Step by step, many rehabs' caring and home licenses were withdrawn. Instead of rehabilitation and so on, “our government” now administers methadone to the drug addicts which also is only a drug (a bit less strong than heroin). A new law was passed to this purpose, making the taxpayer bear all costs. Actually, this is a bad acknowledgment to institutions on a voluntary basis. They did not only save “father state” millions of tax money every year, but also they brought in more money by enabling patients to work again. As we are, however, not resentful and in principle repay evil with good, we now do the same job in only three days, which previously took three years: In the early stages, we rehabilitated the persons seeking help with a team by seven committed Swiss co-workers, whereas now we do the same with over 2,000 co-workers in 27 countries. And as we do, not one of them claims money for their efforts. In the past, we had to spend three to seven 6
years rehabilitating one patient, but today we achieve the same results in three to seven days. How is this possible? Evaluation! You see, I really like to come back again and again to this topic. Furthermore, it is possible through the training-camps (TC’s) and the over 500 different areas of training events earlier mentioned. At this point I close the evaluation of those prophesies. Certainly, there are much more news to tell and to inform you about. We have not even spoken of the development of the I-VO (interlinear full analysis of the NT), of the AGB (Anti-GenocideMovement), of the AZK (Anti-Censorship-Coalition), of Sasek-TV, of the V&C (Voice and Countervoice), of the power-team express (only for leaders) and power-team trainings. Also we have not mentioned, yet, all our waves of cinema- and film festivals, the latest home-cinema chains and opinion-fitness evenings. Moreover, chapter by chapter could be reported about our web TV1 medienklagemauer.tv (“media wailing wall”); jugend-tv.net 1 The following websites may not serve as an excuse for having an internet connection. Many loose their bliss because they get entangled in this web. Only who is able to surf our websites aimed and without distraction may do it. Basically we advise everybody against having an internet connection – unless for strategic reasons, just as we reach those people in this way, which you cannot reach in any other way anymore. www.sasek.tv; www.ivo-sasek.ch ; www.familie-sasek.ch; www.klagemauer.tv; www.panorama-film.ch ; www.anti-zensur.info; www.stimmvereinigung.org ; www.agb-antigenozidbewegung.de; www.agp-schweiz.ch ; www.ocg-jugend.com; www.novatorium.de ; www.veraendert.de; www.jugend-tv.net; www.medien-kommentar.tv 7
(“youth tv”) and medien-kommentar.tv (“mediacommentary”) originated in 2012. By the way, the latter three fulfill among other things a part of the prophesy of Enoch in Jude 15. This sounds in the new translation of the I-VO like that: “There, here! IN His holy ones, the Lord has come for Himself, in order to cause judicial separation to the bottom in everybody and in everything; and to disprove in a convicting way every soul with evidence from investigations, in view of all the entirety of their wicked ventures…” Now then, being aware of everything that still is worth mentioning, I would like my wife and our eleven children to get a chance to contribute. They as well have a big wish, to make fond to you the Lord of transformation. For they experience Him at the very front and can keep silent about Him just as little as I can. He is simply inexpressible, mighty and marvelous! Our God is worthy to be loved with all our heart and with all our strength. He is doing all these deeds in, at and through us, through Jesus Christ living in us. “Threshold Metamorphoses” As we all know, we do not stumble over houses but over thresholds. To say it in other words: Not the big problems in our lives make us fall but the small things in everyday life. Therefore, Ivo’s preaching ministry has always been focusing on the little, practical, sturdy changes in grey everyday life, and from there going on to the worldwide global vi8
sions. I liked that very much and right from the very beginning of our –at that time- small family, I carried this longing and only aim in my heart to have a heavenly marriage and love and a home full of heavenly harmony. I was concerned however to observe some kind of “threshold metamorphosis” everywhere, often also in Christian circles: fine to the outside, nothing on the inside. Right after getting home, the affectionate tone turns into a despiteful one, friendly manners turn into bad behavior, diligence into laziness, love into dispute, order into chaos, etc. However, it is easier said than done to show a good example in all these things, especially with a family growing as fast as ours did. (We had 5 children after 7 years of marriage and 9 after 13 years …) I was and still am so grateful for Ivo’s practically oriented sermons and teachings which always speak into the actual situation. He preached about 1,300 sermons during the years 1985 to 2011. If we add the sermons of the oratories, mission journeys and this year’s sermons (2012), it’s about 1,500 (not including the external invitations to churches or seminars where Ivo ministered four to five days a month before the OCG was founded)! All the lessons, books, brochures, basical training courses and seminars – everything has derived directly from practice, teaching us countless precious laws of life. Lessons like “Rest on every side”1, “Marriage and Family Series” and “Child Education”2 have always been of great help to our growing family. If I only think of the one in raising children: to never wait until you have a fully grown tree with a thick trunk and strong roots in front of you, but to identify every bad plant when it’s only a seed and to pull it out early! 1 DVD “Educate with a Vision”, Brochure “Rest on every side” 2 MP3-CD “Marriage/Family/Child Education” 9
Transformed Home So our inner harmony started to attract increasing attention. That was the hour of birth of our School of Life and family support. Not we were calling the people, but they would come to us: “We want to learn from you, we can see it in your children: That´s it! There is nothing forced, they can live, they are cheerful and yet they obey – that´s what we want”! The ministry that used to devote itself to people from absolutely shattered circumstances (drugs, alcohol and psychic problems) started changing into a preventive direction (International Family Support). That is how I found myself, despite the wish to only be there for my dear ones, more and more often supporting the School of Life with family coaching and writing as well as speaking at women’s breakfast meetings. In the context of the School of Life we opened our home for mothers, so they could join in with their children for one or two weeks. But luckily this branch of our ministry was displaced by the more effective days of evaluation. Because after these exhausting weeks I often regretfully had to conclude that this kind of help didn´t show the desired results. The transformation of the home does truly come from the inside. That is why the evaluation that starts on the inside is so important. That is how in all these years countless shattered problem marriages changed into healthy and flourishing families. Just to give you one example: a young couple that had already split up was facing divorce. Through our family support their hearts found back to each other. Today they have eight lovely children and the whole family is enthusiastically involved with our ministry. Many families that used to live in resignation, sin and irreconcilability have grown to small and large families that are mature: Transformed fathers who take over responsibility again, trans10
formed mothers who love their task, transformed children who support their parents, and so on. This is the principle of transformation: everything proceeds from the smallest, from a healthy basis, to the big matters. Besides many other things, the basic order, which we used to practise with the children for many years, became a substantial basic order victory within the OCG-homes. The basic order on the desk and in the pencil case of Lois has lead to a perfect management of the entire event technology with over 500 large boxes with materials. Down to the smallest screw everything is labeled and is faithfully cared for and held in trust in hundreds of so called box-babies (see as well the article from Lois “Transformed Hall Attendants” in this book). Sulamith’s love for order has lead to harddrive order systems and computer administration order which is the basis for all our film studios. With our jolly “hands-upactions” we together as a family deal with mountains of dirty dishes, mountains of laundry and a lot of house work at a record time.1 These were enthusiastically imitated by all the “OCG–countries.” Well, the saying of Ivo comes true: “The new world begins at home”! www.sasek.tv?keyword=kurzclips, Küchenaktion und Wohnungsputz Transformed Summer Tours We made a little musical from the profound story “The Beggar from the Palace” for grandma’s 98th birthday and performed it in the old people’s home. With pretty sets, nice costumes, songs and poems the children (3 to 16 years old) moved the old people’s, the visitors’ and the staff’s hearts. Encouraged by the good acceptance, we decided to go on a 11
little musical summer tour as a family. At family celebrations, consecrations and weddings the lovely children’s performances were already favored (1999 “David and Goliat”). So we performed the musical in several cities about 20 times and had at least 4 till about 300 visitors. The highlight was the live broadcast at the “Offener Kanal” in Berlin. Because a TV-expert let us down, some OCG-brothers and sisters, who had already known the Lord of Transformation, dared themselves to host, shoot and do a live-cut. It was just this very broadcast, which was aired more than 60 times! And right away the so-called “sect expert” Georg O. Schmid was yelling after us in the media: “The Sasek travelling around with his family, handcrafted sets and absolute amateurish shows throughout the country”. But the Lord of Transformations obviously didn’t allow that to happen! In the following years 2001 till 2011 we produced 3-hour family oratories for the yearly summer tours with 12 professionally arranged songs each and various afternoon programs. There we presented OCG-productions from the apostolic prayer choir to the monumental movies of our Panorama-filmwork, which has grown in the meantime. Within the 8 oratories the children from the youngest to the oldest along with us parents presented subjects1 like “Steadfast as a Family – Steadfast as a Child”, “Relationship to God = Relationship to one another”, “Upbringing with a Vision” and “Kingdom of Peace.” During this time in halls that were steadily getting larger about 35.000 visitors were expressing that they really had another opinion than the “sect experts." More and more almost all of the visitors in the full halls gave their handshake to become accountable in the filled halls. From 2003 the summer tours extended to countries like France, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Ukraine, Romania and Lithuania. Innumerable grateful handshakes, shining eyes, tears of conviction, of re12
pentance and joy have remained in me as a vivid memory. Only moved people, who through these novatorium days received new hope and faith in the Lord of Transformation into their greatest family, cultural and existential problems. During these summer tours we as a family went more than twice around the globe (about 89.000 km), first in our 17seater minibus and later with the large Panorama-Film coaches and with that we spent about 29 weeks of our lives in vehicles on highways or foreign rumbling roads. The most beautiful thing in with this is that we could sow the lovely Lordship of God into the people’s hearts and it goes on and on... By the way, if you want to take a glimpse at our “completely amateurish little circus”: There is a picture gallery of all these “hand-knitted” productions , (photo gallery No 5-10). Sulamith would like to say something about other forecasts of the “sect experts”. Sect-Expert Audit (by Sulamith, age 22) I still remember vividly the reports of so-called sect-experts which were published in the media. They claimed that we Sasek children will have escaped the “corset of our parents” no later than our 18th birthday. They predicted: “Just wait until you’re 18. Then you will see that not everything is as easy as your father says. Someday you will also go your own way.” If it didn’t happen, we would hear: “Well, then when you’re 20…”. There were even requests on the internet to pray for the “poor Sasek children” that they would be “freed from the hands of this influential sect guru”. Thus we also grew up with constant enticing attempts and more and more importune letters. Even with valuable gifts and tempt13
ing promises manipulative pressure was executed to lure us Sasek children on other paths away from our home. However all these temptations never bothered us. Because in each of us, independently from each other, the biggest desire of our heart was to join as quickly as possible fulltime the ministry of our parents, the international family aid. Since dad always put a great emphasis on the fact that we would follow the call of our own hearts without manipulation, all options were always possible for us without resistance. Actually it was never a given thing that we children could just enter into the ministry. Rather the contrary, so far every Sasek child had to strive sincerely for their job in the Panorama-Center. Lois (24) was the first. It was in 2003 when the greatest opportunities lay before her. Since she was getting exceptionally good grades as the best in her class, the teachers were constantly pushing her to continue and study at a university. Yet she let go every attractive education opportunity to be able to work fulltime in our ministry. She decided spontaneously on her own initiative to quit school one year before the official graduation and completed her education as media designer at Panorama Film between 2003 and 2007. This is what she calls “the best decision of my life” today, nine years later. Like this more than her childhood dream, to become dads’ secretary, has become reality. Since 2008 she is head of production of different departments of Panorama-Film. She manages the camera teams, cutters, 3D-Animation, sound productions, compositing etc. Under her supervision there is a constant flow of smaller and bigger productions (cinema-film processing, documentaries, educational clips, making-of’s, music clips and much more) which she manages and distributes among many studios. Meanwhile Panorama Film is the biggest film company in Switzerland and Lois has supervised the setting up of 44 14
branch film- and sound-studios in 13 countries. Within just a few weeks she has established 30 news studios (as of 2012) for Medien-Klagemauer.TV and she is constantly giving extensive trainings (see also www.klagemauer.tv / www.- panorama-film.ch / www.sasek.tv / www.familie-sasek.ch). At the same time she manages great areas of responsibility in the technical setup and organization of large events of the OCG, AZK, S&G etc. (1500-2000 visitors, as of 2012). Large and highly qualified film companies have therefore already tried to recruit Lois. Also Simon (28) was constantly encouraged to continue studying because of his brilliant grades as the best of his class. But despite top career perspectives the wish of his heart was stronger to conduct a practical handicraft education to be able to work hands-on in the international family aid ministry. So he became a carpenter and finished his education with a special reward. In 2004 he joined the ministry and after eight years of fulltime engagement he is more than ever in it with all of his heart. He says: “At home I always had everything. Only those who miss something need to search further.” This year he has trained himself many more skills beyond his professional expertise and uses these skills to conduct extensive practical trainings. In the cause of practical projects (i.e. building sound- and film-studios and warehouses for technical equipment and much more) he is managing training-camps with a duration of 1-2 days and he instructs the participants (families and groups of 200-300 people) how to work together organically in daily life. Above all he is leading evaluation meetings of several days. This is where help-seeking people receive assistance to start over in their (often chaotic) lifes to come under the lovely kingdom’s reign of God (see report “changed resistance to suffer”). To balance his work Simon is a passionate musician and produces film music and several film-songs for Panorama-Film (which can be listened-to and ordered at 15
www.panorama-film.ch). Thus even his hobby, which he fosters since he was little, bears great fruit. Since December 2010 he is married to Elmira (23) (photo gallery No. 11) who is lovingly supporting him in all his duties1. She has also taken over many tasks in the base administration of the Panorama-Center. They both live in the new media center in St. Margrethen. David (26) also followed his heart’s desire. As he wished to do, what daddy did since being small, he started a training to become a car mechanic. He finished this training with best marks and also he was the best of Eastern Switzerland. After that, he was offered an exclusive job as an airplane mechanic with international external duty. Instead of this attractive offer he chose to work in our ministry. During the past six years he has never regretted that one single day. Now he carries the responsibility for the whole Panorama vehicle park, including two big coaches/motor-homes, several transporters, trailers, mini buses, cars (altogether – 22 means of transport). Also there are the workshops with lifting ramps, removal crane and everything else that is a part of that. On the basis of further training in the sector of ventilation and air conditioning, he acquired a license to be a technician in this sector. He also acquired a lot of further vocational skills by himself and on big training days he teaches through extensive projects (for example how to make a double-decker bus into an eighteen bed mission motor-home), how to work together organically and how to transfer it into everyday life. In this way participants learn how “I” becomes “you” and how through this all help-seeking people become socially acceptable. Together with Simon he is leading evaluation days and he is allowed to be a witness of 1 For a glimpse into the wedding: www.sasek.tv/index.php?keyword=sielhochzeit 16
many changed people. Besides he is a talented actor. For example, he played a leading part in the movie “HEROES DIE DIFFERENTLY” (photo gallery number 10). In 2006, the same year as David, I, Sulamith (age 22) was allowed also to start to serve in our ministry. This has been my biggest heart’s desire for a long time and I believe nobody could have talked me out of it to follow this desire. I didn’t spent one single day vainly in school. For this reason I left school one year earlier than usual (directly after fulfilling the demanded amount of years by law), to change right away to the Panorama – film studio. Although during all the years in school my siblings and I were often despised and rejected by many classmates, my colleagues at school showed me in a friendship-book what I meant to them at the end of my time at school. For example one girl wrote me that actually I was her motivation for attending school and lessons, all the years. Finally I could start my dream job as media designer with Panorama-film. From 2006 – 2010, I enjoyed a many sided and very practical training in the sectors film- and live-cut, graphics, compositing, DVD-authoring, cut, and as camera woman I learned to use many types of cameras. I may have responsibility in film-projects and I’m leading the whole sector of the film studio-base and archives management etc. Today I can happily say: “I don’t regret one single day of these six years, in this exciting ministry”! The Lord of transformation turned our film-production from a very tiny “movie plant” in the beginnings to a really mighty tree today, so that people and groups throughout the world come in our training to be trained from the basic order of data files up to moderating television programs. (Results to be seen and ordered under: www.panorama-film.ch / www.klage-mauer.tv / www.sasek.tv) 17
Noemi (23) successfully finished her training as inside decoration sewer; She was the best of eastern Switzerland and second best in entire Switzerland. Her very enlightening dissertation about “radio-frequency-identification” (RFID) and the danger of total control.1 She received best marks (6,0 in Switzerland, A in the U.S.). Her workbooks were awarded twice in east Switzerland and also in the whole of Switzerland. Although she was very successful and talented in her job and her boss actually wanted to promote her into the management, she had no greater longing than to work in our family-relief ministry after her training. That’s where her heart was and she also followed this inner longing. So since 2008 she has been a supporting pillar in the whole home economics department of the Panorama-Center and all guesthouses. She cares for the infrastructure, for entire catering and accommodation on project days with 200 – 300 participants. With great joy she also is active in family coaching, she leads practice orientated schooling projects for mothers and their children to restore families. Thanks to her profession she is involved in one of our latest ministry areas, the development of radio wave protection clothes. In spite of intensive challenges you can meet her everyday radiant with joy. She is happy that she chose this way. Elias (20) is also involved with all of his heart. Some years ago the printed media (in the biggest Swiss newspaper with a circulation of over more than 1 million) wrote in a defaming lying smear campaign that Elias had escaped the house of his parents. Quote: “The hard-to-be-raised child was able to escape this sect.“ (!) Indeed Elias was and is just the con1to be obtained at Elaion-Verlag, CH-9428 Walzenhausen 18
trary of a hard-to-raise child and has never ever even thought of “dropping-out”. Indignant, sad and powerless in the face of this defaming campaign he continuously followed this way he felt drawn to in his heart. Since he had already realized very early that there was a big need for computer-, software- and internetwork in our ministry, he chose to become a computer specialist in the field of software development. Amongst lots of applicants he got the job in a renowned software company and showed himself to be extraordinarily gifted. He finished his training with top marks and received different diplomas, awards and prizes, for example the Apprentice Prize 2012 and the second rank in the Apprenticeship Olympics of Eastern Switzerland. Besides the very demanding training and achieving highest at school, he recruited a permanently growing internet team in our ministry and developed infrastructures and numerous internet websites (see chapter “Prophets on trial”) at the same time. In the meantime these websites have been visited by thousands of visitors. Already during the time of his training he was almost a full-time worker in our ministry. At our big events he is managing the recording team consisting of 30 people and is leading the technical team of the simultaneous translations. After having completed his training Elias decided to reduce his working time in his training company, because he also felt strongly drawn into the ministry of evaluation besides the Internet work. In the meantime he has become part-time worker in our ministry and he desires to become a full-timer as soon as the circumstances allow. – While I am still writing this text, Elias just received green light to be a full-time member in our international family support ministry. So his heart’s desire will become reality starting from March 2013 on. Since summer 2012 our sister Anna-Sophia (15) is new in the team, too. During her school time Anna-Sophia has 19
already been a cheerful and big support in our film studio, where she spent every minute of her free time. She preferred to invest her effervescent energy into something meaningful and lasting instead of doing nonsense with her friends. She carried out her little services with all of her heart in her typical “cyber speed” manner, and you could feel how much she was enjoying it. “I wish I could always work here …”. In every appropriate or inappropriate moment she was mentioning to our family that it would be her desire to work fulltime in the film studio like her sisters. After several attempts she succeeded in getting the authorisation to do her apprenticeship at “Panorama Film”. Now she is full-heartedly involved and is steadily growing into a support which is starting to become unthinkable without her. At the moment besides a 50% household- and kitchen training she is getting trained in media administration and archiving, cutting, DVD authoring, graphics, secretary’s and so on. Step by step she is growing into all sectors in which Lois and I are already active. Joschua (19) started with his apprenticeship in 2009 as constructing engineer in the engine building sector and is already in his 4th year. He is very talented in drawing; his achievement at school as well as his gift of technical imagination have always been excellent. (His teacher already gave him the (not existing) mark of A+ in different school subjects and social behaviour because he didn’t want to judge Joschua “only” with the best mark .) In the same way his heart is beating very strongly for the family support ministry. In every free minute he is doing something meaningful like his brothers and sisters and does not feel the urge to hang around with friends, to loose the time at parties or to make his life difficult by untimely flirting. Rather he wants to do something meaningful and is doing demanding tech20
nical projects with OCG-teenagers that serve our ministry and the whole. He stops immediately and gets to the bottom of it, if he does not find the bubbling life on someone’s face anymore. Instead of being the problem himself, he is jerking others out of their problems. By the way, his hobby is the 3D film animation, where he already achieved striking results. Similar to him is our brother Jan-Henoch (17). He is in the 2nd year of his apprenticeship as a poly-mechanic in a top company. His craft skills and talent is already showing up strongly. Like his brothers and sisters he got top marks by his instructors, teachers and his boss in technical and social skills, and everybody is taking much pleasure in him. His desire is, to apply at home what he is learning, in different parts of the ministry as far as his training allows. Therefore he is allowed to support his brother David in the area of car maintenance and in training camps (TCs) more and more and is really enjoying these technical services. Furthermore he invests himself diligently as an assistant in the film team at our big events. Prior to this his biggest desire is to bail teenagers of his age out of drugs and all sorts of addictions, because he sees where these dependencies lead to, and he wants to give his part, that they are relieved and get to know the relationship to Jesus in everyday life. Ruth Elpida (12 years old) and Boasa Jachina (8 years old) are currently our last sisters going to school. They get extremely extolled and praised by their teachers too; the more so as it is obvious that the classes one of the Sasek-kids are in, are much more content and better behaved than other classes. Often we heard teachers saying: “ I have never ever experienced such a lovely class. - Your children are only praiseworthy …” 21
Ruth Elpida really likes to work on the computer and wished to be allowed to help in the ministry during her free time. So she is already allowed to support Dad’s secretary Bettina in the office once a week and she looks forward to her little paperwork every time. Of course with her everything only goes high speed. She has already been practicing by herself the ten-finger typing system at home with a touch program since she was ten years old. She plays the piano too and practices hard now with the goal to produce movie soundtracks later on, like her older brother Simon. She could already learn how to compose a song progression by herself thanks to the support of our faithful staff. At the moment Boasa’s wish is to become a farmer. She does like it to assist in the film studio though too, in “paper dissolving”; getting paper printed only on one side ready again for use. Even more than this, she would like to cut films, but for that she is too young yet. However, the greatest pleasure for her and always possible, is to assist with the setting-up and dismantling of our big events. There she can show many girls of her age how to remove cable adhesive tape from the floor and to join in wherever possible. Given that she was nearly born at a big event, she is simply at home there and the many people are her family. Apart from that she is a helpful “little housewife” for mom. These reports about my brothers and sisters should just be a few rays of light that highlight, what the Lord of transformation does. They should express our thanks to Him too, who carried us so far in spite of all these persecutions and temptations. Other extensively daily adventures are written by us Sasek-Kids in the book “Revival at the basis”. Furthermore the extraordinary booklet “Mama please …” originated in 1999 that my three older brothers and sisters have written at their perspective at that time with 15, 14 and 11 years. 22
That is it so far, about the evaluation of the “grandiose expertise” of the “sect experts”, who prophesied in the public media that at the latest with 18 years we Sasek-kids would hatefully have turned away from our parents and faith. Everyone may now answer for himself how clever it is for the peoples to count on such “sect experts”. Transformed Internet Defamation (by Elias, age 20) After our last performance of the family oratorio "Organism - Our Destiny", in 2010 again a targeted smear campaign rolled out by all Swiss media. "The Sect-Family in Action" was written in large letters everywhere. Triggered again by so called sect experts our event was defamed as “diffuse doctrine” and again they spread slanderous statements about our dad and family all over Switzerland and on the Internet. All the more I cheered when we found out about an exponential run on our websites the following days. The number of visitors from at that time on an average 300 to 400 visitors a day rose to over 20,000 visitors on August 17th, 2010. The Lord of transformation had turned this wave of slandering into one magnificent advertising campaign! The stream of visitors on our web pages doesn't come off. Alone within the last three years (2010 to 2012) we had over 1.5 million visits that reached our internet pages from 82 countries. Over 40 terabyte of data are downloaded every year from our web servers. If a single person wanted to obtain this amount of data for her- or himself with an average Internet connection, it would take ten years to download files day and night. Our 23-language Internet TV station “Medien-Klagemauer.TV” (Media-Wailing-Wall.TV) meanwhile airs daily news of the current world affairs and the stream of 23
visitors grows every day. On our 15-language Internet-TV channel “Sasek.TV” you can watch already over 200 hours of film material (current in 2012) together with all online available books, sound recordings etc. Within the last two years over 180 further web pages arose from seven countries next to our 12 main Internet presences. In a revealing way they describe how the Lord of transformation has worked practical transformation in their life and still does. Testimonies, how broken marriages were restored by the OCG ministry, people get freed from their addictions and bondages, individualistic persons invest themselves for the whole, etc., etc. The are denying the slanderous prejudices in an impressive way (see www.veraendert.de). What still wasn't conceivable few months ago, the Lord of transformation starts to accomplish within these days. The upper ranks of the Internet search engines aren't occupied by an army of reports, which are slanderous and infecting each other anymore. At present the best ranks are made up of our own Internet presences and with testimonies of transformed people. Do you have also something positive to report about us and the OCG? Then publish it on the Internet, too! Important note: Our Internet services would like to reach only the members of society addicted to the Internet to direct them away from this wrong path, and not into the same. We therefore ask for especially careful dealing with this means. In the case of doubt, a complete abandonment brings about the bigger blessing. Transformed Fear of Suffering In the sermon from our Friends’ Meeting 2010 (“7 Secrets of driving power”) dad talked about the Bible verse in John 14:12, where it says: “He who believes into me will also do 24
these things out of me and will even do greater things than these.” He taught us what those greater deeds consist of, by showing according to the Greek original text that Jesus talks about more significant, important or meaningful deeds than He accomplished during His lifetime. For example that it is more important to understand what is making us sick or how rehabilitation happens, than simply being healed. Urged by the Spirit to continue those greater deeds of rehabilitation according to the character which the Lord initiated by my father, my brother Simon told me one morning during our prayer meeting that he felt drawn to grow into the OCG evaluation ministry. I had just turned 20 years old and the tears came to my eyes. Just as if I already knew at that time that there is no harder, more despised job than calling to people’s attention the correlations they do not want to see or speak to them about laws of cause and effect, which they do not want to hear about. (I knew the story about the origin of the evaluation ministry, which only exists because my parents and their team were facing tough challenges already at the beginning of their ministry. Challenges like trying to convince those listening to the sermon that the preaching of faith was not given in order, for example, to conquer a divorced or married woman.) Despite the helplessness that I felt going into this ministry with my brother at the time, I felt the same lovely call in me that led me out on the water like Peter. So we went into training with Zita, who has already led 200 evaluation meetings. That means she has spent more than two years of her life in evaluation meetings. She experienced a lot of depressing lows because she identified herself with the great deficits and needs of the people. Up to the present day she bore even all the insults and disgrace and did this service, which normally should not be expected to be shouldered by a woman, without any complaining. Although up to that time there were no men to support the OCG evaluation ministry and despite much persecution 25
and disregard it was established internationally. So now there are evaluation meetings with up to six simultaneously translated languages at the same time. The participants are not afraid of long distances and already in the year 2009 an evaluation meeting took place with participants from Bulgaria, Estonia, Australia, Bolivia, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The rehabilitation that lasted three years in the beginning was possible in three months with the Life School. By initiating the evaluation ministry in 1998 this same process of rehabilitation was reduced to one week. In 2002 this period of time was shortened from 7 to 3 days with the same rehabilitation results. Today in 2012 I am already leading evaluation meetings myself and witness signs and wonders and the more significant powerful deeds of Jesus in these days. What could be more meaningful than when broken families and ruined marriages start to live together in heavenly harmony again, when separated couples find each other again….when crowds of people convert from “self-life” to complete “you-life”, submitting themselves again under the rulership of God, regretting their sins, in tears starting up anew…when thieves bring to light their sins, unemployed and receivers of social security are urged by the Spirit to quit sponging and to reintegrate themselves into society - willingly and diligently...when people turn away from the destructive standard of the static “word only”, from arguments and division to the standard of life and peace out of God...when they experience lasting freedom from their addictions and obsessions…when the “I” becomes “you”…when sicknesses lasting for years instantaneously are completely healed, for example acute hearing loss, being overcome by following the message that had been heard….when kids and teenagers start to see the world in the light of Jesus and consider everything as crap that is 26
not He himself (I could continue for hours). These are powerful deeds that have the potential to change the entire world! They are miracles because these things seem to have become impossible in our times. This is why you too should come to an evaluation meeting to become a witness that the Lord of transformation is alive! He wants to completely restore and transform also your life! Transformed Children’s Ministry In the early stages of the work for rehabilitation Daddy often preached five times each week to all participants. For us children it was totally natural to take part in these meetings. After the meetings we always reviewed the sermon and its spiritual realities in the little circle of our family. Our Dad and Mum always were very happy because we as children often understood more of what was being said than the adults did. But even though for us it has always been natural that children are to be a part of the meetings, there was a sudden change, which is typical for the Lord of Transformation. At the time from the turn of the millennium when our meetings started to expand like an explosion and people and families seeking help came from everywhere, us the Sasek-children were moved by the Holy Ghost to relieve the adults. Not going conform with the former basic principles we were allowed to review the sermons that we had heard together with all the children just like our parents had done it with us before. So in the year 1999 Simon, Lois, Noemi, Sulamith and I and a little later also Elias, Joschua and Anna-Sophia started with the children’s ministry, in which we shared all the spiri27
tual realities that we had been taught with hundreds of children. The parents who wee added were able to absorb the word without any distraction and to grow in a good way, and also the children’s ministry yielded many good fruits. But after ten years, this start up was no more necessary and so everything was brought back to the initial paths. Today again we are all together in the meetings, from the youngest to the oldest and we are all listening very attentively to what is said on stage and we write eagerly into our notebooks like we had done in former times. In the meantime their own parents do this sermon reviewing and this you can see in every meeting when you watch the children how bright and how filled with joy they are during the meetings while cooperating always actively. You also can recognize it when you read all those exuberant testimonials in the practical reports in the book „OCG-youth“. Also I‘m tremendously pleased, when I see all the little kids from former days now serving in their different services, some of which meanwhile are taller than I. Yes, they really became supporting pillars, and a lot of the things we do today would be impossible to without them. Whenever I look at all these marvelous children and the lovely families and I think back to all these slanderous and dark prognoses from the so-called “sect-experts” I wish that all the nations could recognize to whom they have lent their ear and in what kind of persons they gave their trust. To Congregate is Cool (by Boasa, age 8) In the past I helped in the children's hour and motivated the children. But since the time, that we don't have children's 28
hour anymore, all the children stay in the assembly hall, and I was able to understand very well and to take a lot of notes. When Mama wrote down a good sentence in her booklet, I copied that, and I understood other things much more. I one assembly I wrote down even 18 pages. The message is always totally cool and I asked Dad once, how he conceives that all the time. I also look forward always to the installation and deinstallation. At the installation I was allowed to help Jan-Henoch and Ruth to set up a camera. It was so beautiful. And at the deinstallation I was allowed to put away little parts of the big traverse. Many times I collected adhesive tapes and waste from the floor with many children until everything looked like “licked”. Expression of Revival (by Joschua, age 19) During the past decades many songs were generated. A wellknown wisdom says, that where there is revival, there new songs are born. In the midst of all the tribulation which Dad walked through, from the rehabilitation work until today, he composed almost 100 songs, which testify about confidence, perseverance and much more1. That way, together with many other songs nine song collections came into existence, in addition to all oratorios. Most of the other songs (approximately 700) came into existence through the messages of Dad. Johannes Brändli, a staff member of the OCG for many years, got it in his heart all the time to summarize the central ideas of the message into a song. Till this day the fullness of the word flows by this talent again and again into wonderful songs, which 29
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