Kurt and Andra Green were recalled from Champaign and are sent to Santa Barbara/Goleta to work with Steve and Denise Farrell. Wes Cohen was commended to the Work in Goleta in the spring of 1985. In 1992 Brian Steele, a USB student, had the distinction of being the "First Saint Deprogrammed From the Assembly". In September 1998 the saints in Santa Barbara were aired for a month on a weekly one-hour cable TV program addressing theme "Life's Great Questions" with street interviews and call-in questions by viewers. Goleta had a tent campaign in July 2000. In February 2001 Santa Barbara cable TV broadcast a 26-week series on "Passages of Faith: Signs of the Times" featuring saints in the Santa Barbara Assembly. In March 2001 there was a Single Sisters Retreat in Santa Barbara/SLO, with Tim & Ginger G. speaking.
In 2003 the group renounced George Geftakys and refuses to have anything to do with him. According to one source, "All the former leading brothers have stepped down and are no longer in leadership. As a group we have been painstakingly reevaluating our previous doctrines and views in the past year. A number of individuals regularly visit other Christian gatherings as well. We have moved quite far away [in terms of practice] from where we once were." Wes and Becky Cohen are no longer in attendance.
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