AssemblyTimeline2

Tentative Assembly Timeline - Additions/corrections invited! Once an outreach becomes an Assembly details are continued on its own page, with the exception of major events in Assemblies such as Tuscola, San Luis Obispo and Fullerton.

1969	Spring - Steve and Margaret Irons meet the Maddux's, Hartman's and Yousling's at a retreat hosted by Floyd Police's Sparks-style group in La Puente, CA. Irons begin attending the informal weekly gathering in Maddux's home in the San Fernando Valley.
	September - George and Betty Geftakys visit Westmoreland Chapel to hear Bakht Singh. Tom allows George to lead their home gathering in the San Fernando Valley and turn it into a chapter summary Bible study.
	1969-1972 A wave of spiritual awakening sweeps across the US. George and Betty Geftakys catch the wave.
1970	Memorial Day Weekend - First seminar in George and Betty Geftakys' home in Fullerton
	July - Sister Harrison accompanies George on a trip across the US to introduce him to her acquaintances from the Sparks ministry One stop is in Norfolk, Nebraska, to meet Hap and Helen Gensler and the Steinke's. They attend the Atlantic States Christian Convocation where T. Austin-Sparks is one of the speakers. George has meetings in Tuscola, IL, and many are saved, including Gerald and Marilyn M., and Dale and Barb (McC.) Kerns. Bible study begins in Fred and Jan Boyer's home.
	Labor Day weekend - Second seminar in George's home
	First Workers prayer meeting begins in George's home after the second seminar
	Fall - Another trip across US with Sister Harrison
1971	Christmas/New Year's weekend - first seminar at Hillcrest Park Recreation Center (on "The Sign GIfts"?)
	February - First meeting for worship at Hillcrest Park Recreation Center, about 35 people in attendance
	Steve Irons and Tom Maddux are appointed Leading Brothers. Weekly Leading Brothers meeting is begun on Sunday evenings.
	March - George and Betty and Sister Harrison travel across the US and Europe for 6 months, with more introductions. They visit Tuscola on the way, and there is more salvation, including Brinda M.. It is on his return from this trip that George insists on being addressed henceforth as "Brother George".
	July - George, Betty and Sister Harrison visit Tuscola again on the way home from Europe. There is a big baptism at Lake Sarah and the Tuscola Assembly begins.
1972	Fall - outreach begins in St. Louis/St. Charles, MO. through students at Logan College of Chiropractic.
1973	Fred Boyer and Dave and Doris Bragg are excommunicated from the Tuscola Assembly. Cecil Smith and Denny Fredericks are made Leading Brothers, Gerald M. was made an elder.
	George begins to distance himself from Sister Harrison around this time (?). She is eventually ejected from the Assembly and the Work (not excommunicated), but told to leave).
	Champaign, IL, outreach begins in home of Dave and Tonda Perry
	Kurt and Andra Green are sent as Workers to Champaign
	May - Mike and Brenda Houk leave the Baptist church and an Assembly Bible study begins in their home in Oakland, IL.
1974	Holy Convocation with Bakht Singh at Pacific Christian College in Fullerton (?)
	David and Judy Geftakys are married
1975	August - The first Workers Seminar is held in Estes Park, CO
	The House of Prayer begins as an outreach center to the colleges.
1976	Dan Notti is sent out as a Worker to St. Louis. The meeting is moved to Bel Nor to be near the UMSL campus
	Omaha Assembly begins in the Miller home, Jim & Cheryl Hayman are sent as Workers.
	(Date?) Sister Mayo buys the Woodcrest House to be used as a Brothers House. It is to be sold and the money applied toward purchasing a gathering place when a suitable facility is found.
	The Assembly in Springfield, IL, begins in the home of Bob and Carolyn Wenneborg
1977	Summer - First Fullerton tent campaign
	August 21 - Bakht Singh spoke to the Fullerton Assembly at the Women's Assistance League at 11 am, 3 pm and 7 pm.
	Dennis and Linda Patrick commended to the work in St. Louis. Dennis leads a Gospel march on UMSL campus.
1978	Assembly sues City of Fullerton for refusing to continue to grant us exclusive use of the Hillcrest Park Recreation Center on Sundays. We lose, meetings are moved to the Women's Assistance League of Fullerton.
	Timothy Geftakys becomes the first recognized paid full-time Worker in addition to George(?)
?	Kurt and Andra Green are recalled from Champaign to Fullerton (?), and then are sent to Santa Barbara/Goleta to work with Steve and Denise Farrell (?)
	Chuck and Maryann Miller leave the Omaha Assembly
1979	First tent campaign in Huntington Beach
	Tim G. introduces "The Four Anchors"
	Puppet ministry begins in the San Fernando Valley with Glenn Strohm
1980	Fullerton ANOP time is changed from 10 pm-5 am to 7 pm to 2 am.
	Samuel Ochenjele meets Roger Grant in Chicago and is introduced to the Assembly
	Dennis P. is excommunicated from the Fullerton Assembly
1981	1981-1992 Saints in Huntington Beach outreach leases storefront on Main Street for outreach and Thursday night prayer meetings.
	The mansion on Commonwealth is purchased for Cornerstone, but the City of Fullerton denies conditional use permit. It becomes Tim and Ginger G's residence and a sisters house.
1982	Cornerstone Academy is begun at the House of Prayer in Fullerton
	Jeff Lemkuhl is sent out from Fullerton to San Luis Obispo. He is a student at Cal Poly SLO.
	"Pilgrim Journal" is begun as a publication for the campus outreach
1983	Early May, "Centrality of the Cross" series in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
	May, Mid-West Seminar
	September 18 - Huntington Beach Assembly begins with breaking of bread.
	Summer - First MTT team; goes to SLO and afterward they begin to break bread. Keith and Gay Walker are sent to SLO from Fullerton.
	Wayne and Pat Mathews are sent to Norfolk, NE.
1984	Placentia Assembly begins at the Placentia Round Table, relieving crowding at the Fullerton Assistance League
	May - Midwest Seminar - "The Fulness of the Spirit"
	MTT team goes to West Los Angeles (WLA) for the Olympics
1985	San Fernando Valley Assembly begins with breaking of bread.
	Wes Cohen is commended to the Work in Santa Barbara
	Summer - David and Judy Geftakys are sent to San Luis Obispo to replace Keith and Gay Walker who are recalled to Fullerton.
	Paul and Debbie Hohulin replace the Green's as Workers in Champaign. Paul has leg surgery, Bill and Kristi Bradbury are sent to take over the Work. Paul and Debbie go to the Philippines to work with Paul's parents who were missionaries.
?	Mission and Training Team is sent out to Annandale, VA
	"The Believers' Prayer Letter" is begun
1987	East Coast Conference, Tim Geftakys speaking
1988	Jim and Brinda M., Gerald and Marilyn M. and many others leave the Tuscola Assembly. The Houks and other Oakland saints remain, except for the Fredericks who leave at this time.
1989	Wayne and Pat (Miller) Mathews replace Bill and Kristi Bradbury in Champaign, who return to California to head up the Work in West LA. Charlie and Sheryl Mather replace the Mathews in Norfolk, NE.
	West LA begins breaking bread as an Assembly under the leadership of Bill and Kristi Bradbury.
	July - MTT team sent to San Diego
	Steve Irons accompanies George to Africa, comes back very discouraged.
	The Maddux family leaves the Fullerton Assembly
1990	February - East Coast Conference: "Christ in You, the Hope of Glory"
	March 4 - Irons family leaves the Fullerton Assembly
	The Houks leave the Tuscola Assembly, and then all the other Oakland saints leave. They begin gathering for worship on their own in Oakland.
1991	Fullerton Assembly moves to the Palm industrial park facility
1992	May - Mid-West Seminar: "The Preciousness of Faith"
	Brian Steele has the distinction of being the "First Saint Deprogrammed From the Assembly". Rick Ross is the deprogrammer. Rick calls Steve & Margaret Irons and has them talk to Brian as well.
1993	Teen Teams are begun, to help stem the tide of teenage rebellion among the second generation
	August - First children's camp in the Midwest for the Workers Seminar
1994	MTT team sent to Sacramento
1994	Bob and Sherrie S. commended to the Work in San Diego
	George's Summer School in Fullerton is on the Book of Romans.
	Outreach begins to Lombard, IL.
	MTT team sent to Madison, WI. Gary Mau and family sent from the Chicago Assembly to the outreach in Madison.
1995	January: South Coast Campus Conference, Tim G. speaker; North Coast Campus Conference, Jim Hayman speaker.
	Randy Spivey commended to the Work in Annandale, VA
	Don and Lee Mader are sent from Fullerton to Lombard.
	Midwest Seminar - "The Pattern of the Original"
	MTT team goes again to Madison, WI.
1996	January: South Coast Campus Conference, Tim G. speaker; North Coast Campus Conference, Jim Hayman speaker.
	February: Two Fugate "Family Building" seminars, "Biblical Marriage" and "Biblical Child Training"
	David Geftakys beats his eldest daughter Rachel, causing permanent injury. She obtains a restraining order against him.
	First tent campaign in Springfield.
	MTT team led by Rod Zach is sent to Lombard, IL.
	Mark and Connie Lovik are sent from Chicago to Lombard
	Second MTT team is sent to Riverside, CA., headed by Bill and Kristi Bradbury
	First ETT (Evangelistic Training Team) of single college students and teens, led by Danny and Kimber Edwards, goes to Hastings, NE. and Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
	Spring - Assembly begins in Madison, WI.
	Art and Annie Farlow visit San Cristobal, Venezuela, to minister and preach the Gospel.
1997	January: South Coast Campus Conference, Tim G. speaker; North Coast Campus Conference, Jim Hayman speaker.
	July - Sacramento Assembly begins
	MTT team is sent to St. Louis
	Santa Barbara cable TV begins airing a 26-week series of Assembly brothers preaching on the theme, "Passages of Faith"
	Several of GG's publications now available in translations
1998	Judy G. tells Tim and Ginger Geftakys about David's domestic violence; they go to George. George asks Dan Notti to meet with David and Judy to resolve "difficulties". After 6 months of no progress, Dan strongly advises George to remove them from San Luis Obispo.
	March - Riverside, CA, Assembly begins.
	March - first Nebraska Conference, Mike Zach and Jim Hayman speaking.
	Two new Assemblies begin in Kenya, Nyaru and Kesses.
	Saints in Santa Barbara are being aired for the month of September on a weekly one-hour cable TV program addressing theme "Life's Great Questions" with street interviews and call-in questions by viewers.
	April - The new Assembly in Paris hosts a weekend Convocation for saints from England, Holland & Spain. Tim Geftakys bring the ministry. Simultaneously, Otukpo, Nigeria hosts their Spring Conference, with over 50 Assemblies coming. Samuel Ochengele, James Ogebe and Daniel Ochepo are the main speakers.
	June/July - the first(?) teen team launched in Fullerton in connection with G. Geftakys' Summer School
	November - three-day conference in Kesses, Kenya.
	December - the Fullerton Assembly sends rice and beans to victims of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras
1999	June/July - Teen Team in Fullerton, G. Geftakys' Summer School
	First summer/fall with no tent campaign in Fullerton?
	October - Midwest Campus Conference, Tim Geftakys and Jim Hayman speaking
	September - Mike and Cheryl Zach stay in David and Judy G's home for a month to help resolve the situation
	September - Assembly begins in Bandung, Indonesia
	Nigeria and Kenya Conferences, G. Geftakys speaking
2000	June - Brent and Suzie T. leave the SLO Assembly over David G's behavior and GG's failure to discipline him
	Paul and Debbie Hohulin leave the Geftakys ministry, and go to the Philippines to work with Paul's parents, who are missionaries.
	June - Conference in N____, Kenya, visiting speakers.
	June/July - Teen Team & G. Geftakys' Summer School
	July - Santa Barbara Tent Meetings
	July - MTT teams to France, England, Bloomington IL, Fresno, San Jose, Seattle
	September - Judy G. leaves David, David is removed from Assembly leadership
2001	Over 40 people leave the San Luis Obispo Assembly over David Geftakys' domestic violence. Brent T. posts on Rickross.com about the Assembly. Kirk C. resigns from leadership in the SLO Assembly.
	Betty Geftakys holds couples' retreats in Nebraska, Fullerton, San Fernando Valley and West Los Angeles.
	Summer MTT teams go to England, Holland, Spain, Mexico, Nigeria (medical team), as well as San Diego, Seattle, Fresno, and Bloomington, IL.
	Living Stone Academy is begun in Otukpo, Nigeria
	GG held meetings in Hungary
	February - East Coast Conference (Tim G. speaking?)
	February - Betty Geftakys conducting weekend retreats in Nebraska, Fullerton and San Fernando Valley
	February - Santa Barbara cable TV broadcasts 26-week series on "Passages of Faith: Signs of the Times" featuring saints in the Santa Barbara Assembly
	Spring - Danny and Kimber Edwards are sent to SLO. Brent T. discusses issues with Danny in July
	March - Southern California Missionary Convocation, Single Sisters Retreat in Santa Barbara/SLO, Tim & Ginger G. speaking
	March - Nebraska Conference, Mike Zach & Jim Hayman speaking
	March - Single Sisters Retreat in Santa Barbara/SLO, Tim & Ginger G. speaking
	March - Betty Geftakys conducting Couples Retreat in West Los Angeles, and a special weekend time with high school and college sisters in Fullerton and Placentia
	May - Midwest Seminar; Southwest Conference; Northwest Conference
	June - Teen Team, 140 teens & counselors, and G. Geftakys' Summer School
	Summer - MTT teams to Holland, Spain, France, England, Cuernavaca, San Diego, Fresno, Seattle and Bloomington IL.
	July - Hector P. writes a letter to the Fullerton Leading Brothers detailing their failure to protect Judy. Mark Miller and Dan Notti discuss it with George. Mark and Dan confront Betty with her failure to inform George of the extent of David's domestic violence.
	September - Midwest Campus Conference in Iowa, Jim Hayman & Danny Edwards speaking
	October - Pacific Northwest Conference in Oregon, Tim G. speaking
	October - Couples Workshop in Ottawa, Mike & Cheryl Zach speaking.
	December 23 - Southern California Convocation of Assemblies
2002	March - Nebraska Conference, Mike Zach and Danny Edwards speaking
	April - Brent T. posts information on the Assembly on the Rickross.com site, and ii excommunicated from the SLO Assembly
	June/July - Teen Team and G. Geftakys' Summer School
	September - David G. is reinstated to the Lord's supper and is again allowed to preach and teach.
	November - Brent T. begins this website with the publication of Rachel G.'s story to expose George and Betty's cover-up of David Geftakys' domestic violence and Rachel's restraining order against David.
2003	January 16 - the elders in Fullerton learn of George's immoral relations with a sister in fellowship; further revelations of immorality follow quickly. January 19 - the Leading Brothers of the Fullerton Assembly excommunicate George Geftakys for his failure to deal with his son's domestic violence, and for his own immoral relationships with women in the Assemblies over the years. Brent announces reconciliation with the SLO brethren, on the condition that he remove offensive articles from the website. March - the Irons' take over this website to shape it into a means for recovery from the spiritual abuse and betrayal of G. Geftakys and the Assembly system.

Anybody remember when....?

First Gospel March?
First ANOP?
First Children's Hour, mimes, juvenile hall ministry, retirement home ministry, other ministries?
New Song began? Was it for the first tent campaign in Fullerton?
First Summer School? Was the first one at CSUF?
First Seminar at CSUF?
~~Wasn't there a publication called "Dayspring"? When?~~ (It was actually called Daystar. There was only one issue.)
Tracts published - titles and when?
First Torch and Testimony?
First T & T in Spanish?
First book published? How many books were published? titles?
First Memorial Day "All Saints Day" (later became "Ebenezer Fellowships")
First East Coast Conference? West Coast Conference?
First Midwest Seminar?
Didn't we have "Holy Convocations" at one time? When? Didn't Bakht Singh come to one of them at what used to be Pacific Christian College on Nutwood? I've posted on tentatively in 1974
First Teen Conference?

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