The houses of the holy - America

Colorado - America:

Cottonwood Springs Ranch, Westcliffe, County of Custer, Colorado

Lot 5, Conquistador, Westcliffe, Count of Custer, Colorado

Note: Since this article was first posted it has become apparent that Klaus Pesch has sold the property at lot 5 Conquistador which he purchased with financial input from multiple team members, and has kept all of the profits for use in another of his projects

The Pesch family and a select group of team members (read: those not already floundering in debt) have systematically purchased blocks of land (and in some cased groups of adjoining block) in Westcliffe Colorado to create an end time community in a place they consider to be one of the safest in America when society collapses. The community in Westcliffe and neighboring Silvercliffe are completely unawares of what is being planned for their valley, all contact with adjoining farms and businesses in town has been carefully engineered to build seemingly innocuous and friendly relationships without revealing the true intent of the group.

Roads and drainage have been built, electricity connections have been planned, buildings have been designed and plans drawn up ready to build; all intended to support the ‘Sanctuary property’, the heart of the reason for being there, which is again owned by the Pesch family.

Many young families have been crippled with debt as they fought to be part of this project, led to believe it was one of the most important spiritual moves for the nation and its long term spiritual survival, buying properties some had never even seen, or taking over the payments for relatives within the team who were unable to keep up with the repayment schedule for properties they had already purchased.

The financial arrangements behind these purchases are sub-prime to put it mildly and the legal documentation is woefully lacking in arrangements where the true ownership of the properties have changed hands sometimes three or four times, between team members.

All those involved are locked into a utopian dream heralded by Klaus Pesch, with very little chance of getting their money out at any stage and obligated to keep on feeding the mountain of debt. The only way out is to walk away and lose the money already invested.

There is a savage malfunction in the minds of people who believe with all their (deluded) hearts that God has lead them through trials and tribulations to the most holy places in Australia, Germany, Switzerland, America …and the list goes on; and equipped them to build a physical home for the Holy Spirit to dwell in as he withdraws to the pre-appointed places during the end times, that they need to resort to corruption, deception and cruelty on an epic scale in order to maintain the progress of their vision and preserve the integrity of their message.

When places become more important than people’s wellbeing; and abuse is necessary to maintain order in the camp, one wonders how far away from faith you can get and still believe you are fulfilling God’s will.

The Pesch family has become so tragically self-absorbed; obsessed with their own version of truth and righteousness that they can no longer see when others are suffering because of their actions.

They only see the ‘end times’, the fulfillment of prophesy (scriptural or modern day) and their own privileged position in the final game plan of God, the elect, the true Sons of God, faithful, long suffering and patient to the end.

This self appointed importance and self righteous justification of all that they do in the name of the lord has blinded them to the needs and well being of those around them. Life is lived to serve their view of God, fulfill their interpretation of the scriptures and to build their version of the Kingdom of God here on earth…with all the real estate they can lay their hands on.

The houses of the holy - Switzerland

Switzerland:

Bleiki 2, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland 8260.

Within walking distance of the property in Oheningen, just across the border in Switzerland, Klaus Pesch and his family own a house who’s garden boundary adjoins the border between Switzerland and Germany.

This affords them the ability to walk across the border undetected by the authorities from either country; it does not take much imagination to see who useful this is to someone like Klaus Pesch and his supporters.

Again the house was identified by Klaus Pesch as a strategic property in the God’s plan for the end times, again he used the funds of team members and their hard labor to renovate and improve the value of the property, again he owns the majority of the property even though it has been divided into apartments and sold to Team members at a handsome profit and again the house and its situation are considered so holy that most of the women in the Team were unable to visit the place in the first seven years that the Pesch family owned it.

This was primarily because Klaus and Christel wanted to maintain a level of holiness around the building and grounds suitable to upgrade the status of the property in the eyes of the Holy Spirit. Of course there were exceptions to this rule and of course it was the women of the Pesch family.

In this way Klaus and his family are able to reinforce their own appearance of spiritual superiority in the eyes of the Team members as well as building a sense of mystery and awe around the property which can be used to control and manipulate team members financially, spiritually and emotionally.

The houses of the holy - Germany

Germany:

Im Grund 20, Öhningen, Germany 78337

Klaus Pesch and his eldest son own a factory unit and office complex in Oheninen, Germany which is rented to multiple companies owned by Team members and their families, thus allowing maximum flexibility in the payment arrangements and transfer of funds between the money making concerns of Team members and assets wholly owned by the Pesch family.

Who rents which office or storage space is continually changing with rental agreements and fake prospective purchase arrangements continually being created to support new loan applications and misrepresent the true value of the assets of various trading entities.

Team members who have divorced their partners can conduct their business affairs through a myriad of small companies which operate in Germany and Switzerland effectively concealing portions of their income, and thus, with a lower declared income, avoid large maintenance payments to their estranged partners and sometimes children.

In this way they can keep a larger proportion of their income available for the debt they have secured to support the work of the Team and the business enterprises of the Pesch family.

The factory unit is also used as a garage for the fleet of trucks and four wheel drive vehicles owned by various Team members which they have built up under the strict instruction of Klaus Pesch and his sons.

These trucks are used as part of the masquerade of being a mission team, but in reality the Team believe they are vital parts of the escape plan for the ‘Christian elect’ as European society collapses during the ‘end times’ and they are able to make their escape to the sacred places set aside by God. Well that’s the Klaus Pesch teaching behind it all.

Ownership of the vehicles also change hands between Team members quite regularly as a way of relieving other team members of debt periodically and keeping people involved in the core goals of the group and the with the work of the team as a whole, whilst also burdening them with debt (if required) so that they are unable to escape the team and its grip on their lives.

The office complex is the hub for Team activity in Europe and America, it is where the bulk of the teaching sessions and Bible studies take place and also houses the second studio of Mount Herron Studios.

It is the respectable face of the team in Germany, the point of contact where first time visitors from all over Europe are overwhelmed by the glitzy organized and efficient whirl of Team activity, sucked in by the visible outpouring of love and concern and where they will find many welcoming arms to care and help bare the load.

Underneath the veneer is a the ever present cancer of fear and spiritual bondage which pervades the entire group.

The houses of the holy - Australia

Klaus and Christel made it their life mission to travel the world (mostly at other peoples expense) searching for ‘Holy places’ which they called “sanctuaries’and which they believed are set aside by God for the refuge of his people during the times of tribulation. These sanctuaries form the key to the mystery of God and his redemptive plan for his people during the final phases of tribulation as outlined in the book of revelation.

In some instances they believed the holy places were of such strategic importance that they would purchase them, sometimes a run down old house, sometimes an empty field, sometimes a warehouse in an industrial area.

The common thread amongst all the purchases were that the properties were a good strategic fit for Klaus Pesch’s business enterprises and using his keen sense of ‘a good real estate deal’ he could lure willing believers to donate their time and finances to create wealth generating businesses for the Pesch family.

In every case the Pesch family would hold either outright ownership or the controlling interest or share in each enterprise; members of ‘The Team’ would be taught to believe that the entire plan was ordained by God which was confirmed by prophesy (conveniently delivered on each occasion with stunning accuracy by Christel Pesch or her sons).

Thus would begin the proven plan of willing participants surrendering a tenth of their time and a tenth of their income to build God’s kingdom here on earth, in the form of a property or enterprise partially or wholly owned and controlled by the Pesch family.

Australia:

79 Mount John Road, Mandurah, 6210, West Australia.

The Pesch family always considered that 79 Mt John Rd in Mandurah was the key to Klaus Pesch’s teaching, the holy place set aside by God as a gift to his long suffering servants after years of faithful service, where he revealed to Klaus that he had earned God’s trust and he should build him a house where the Holy Spirit could reside and where God’s people could come and commune with him (to keep him company and bring an end to the loneliness that he {the Holy Spirit} endures).

As a result of this prophetical revelation from God, delivered with pinpoint accuracy through Christel Pesch and backed up by opening the Bible at random by Klaus Pesch, the Pesch family and their team of followers built two huge towers either side of the existing house on the property.

One tower called ‘The Lords House’ was for the Holy Spirit to dwell in and the other one was for Klaus & Christel to dwell in so that they could be near to the Lord while they lived there.

Three story buildings with a small room at the top of each intended for prayer and solitude (read: upper room).

The ground floor of the ‘Lord’s House’ as everyone in ‘The Team’ called it was the group meeting room for Sunday services and teaching sessions, and doubled as the studio area for Mt Herron Studios. Food and drink were forbidden in this place except for communion which was very rarely celebrated for a multitude of reasons.

The second floor was completed with carpets and blinds but otherwise empty. The Team were taught that this is such a holy room that only Klaus and Christel Pesch were allowed to enter. No one in The Team was considered holy enough to enter the room and; as such not much ever happened up there. Klaus and Christel would pray there once a year but felt that most of the time even they were not holy enough to enter (attack of the conscience maybe?). Sometimes if Team members were feeling especially close to God they could go and sit on the staircase to pray but were warned not to approach the second floor lest their uncleanliness should bring judgment on their family. In the old testament - to approach the holy place with sin was tantamount to death and priests would often enter with a rope around their foot so that they could be dragged out if struck down by God, this was a scripture often used by the Pesch family to warn team members not to approach the holy place to casually. This kind of fear based mechanism was typical of the methods used by the Pesch family to run every aspect of the Lords house from cleaning the windows to keeping the children quiet during a Sunday service.

The upper room on the third floor was where the ‘Holy Spirit’ lives (a kind of ‘Holy of Holies’) and it was unthinkable that anyone would even consider going up there, so much so that a stair case was not installed and the only way up there was by means of a ladder.

The swimming pool in front of the middle house was intended to be symbolically representative of the basin in which the priests of the Old Testament would clean themselves before entering the tabernacle which the Jews transported through the wilderness.

In reality Team members were held accountable for keeping it presentable, purchasing the pool chemicals from their own funds and cleaning it in heir own time, the only people allowed to swim in the pool were members of the Pesch family or their direct relatives.

The vast expanse of lawn and gardens around the ‘Lord’s House’ and the two Pesch’s houses are maintained by Team members, again buying fertilizer, lawn mowers, maintaining sprinkler systems and replacing shrubs from their own funds whilst under obligation to coerce their children to participate in the gardening as an introduction to work in ‘the service of the Lord’, all explained as a sacrifice to the Lord for being able to worship in the house of the Lord.

The children of the various Pesch families, bought up under the spiritual covering of Klaus & Christel, in an assured position of leadership in the kingdom of God, were under no such obligation to get their hands dirty and used that lack of obligation to their advantage, learning how to rule over the other children even at an early age.

The overall advantage to the Pesch family is that they had a selection of willing gardeners, maintenance staff and pool technicians who would maintain their properties and care for the gardens etc using their own money and time. Altogether quite a coup for the Pesch family.

The unfortunate reality of being part of the team in Australia is that the property that the Pesch’s teach is supposed to be the most Holy in Australia is actually the focal point of spiritual and emotional abuse on an epic scale and from which Klaus and his family have master-minded their corrupt and repugnant enslavement of willing Christians.

Ariel view of 'Mount Herron Gardens' showing the 'The Lord's house' at the bottom of the picture.

Mount Herron Studios

The Mount Herron Studios grew out of the vision of Klaus & Christel Pesch, and was intended to be the creative centre of praise and worship for the group where individuals could be immersed in a culture of reverence and creativity dedicated to worship and promoting the gospel of the kingdom as espoused by the Pesch family.

The actual result could not have been further from the initial vision and which eventually evolved into a grotesque culture of emotional and spiritual abuse fostered by the dominant matriarchal figure of Christel Pesch.

With a studio in Australia (Studio A) at Mt Herron Gardens and a studio in Germany (Studio B) Christel threw herself into the task of creating her own brand of self promoting prophetical worship.

Developing a brand of music with an irregular and/or unpredictable tempo and almost devoid of discernable melody which was recorded on the fly, supposedly under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, it became nearly impossible to recreate the music or actually teach it to anyone else. The music was dominated by the constant repetition of short and disjointed fragments of scripture and personal observation which many if not most listeners found difficult to find an affinity with.

Klaus & Christel Pesch created a realm of exclusivity in which select musicians or Team members would be invited (read: forced) to participate and thus be elevated to the heights of favor until such a time that they would fail to perform to expectation, at which point they would be dropped from the program, making room for the next eager soul desperate to be recognized as a spiritual musician and willing to shine in the light of Christel Pesch.

In an attempt to maintain a level of authority in the presence of musicians more gifted with technical ability and creative sensitivity she branded herself as a ‘Psalmist’ which she claimed to be distinctly different from a conventional praise and worship leader, thus introducing a hierarchy in the music ministry which could be used to control and abuse willing participants.

Using her self proclaimed authority Christel Pesch publicly humiliated and abused musicians and singers into believing their musical skills were worthless in the eyes of God unless they yielded to her guidance and were open to learning new ways of worshiping in the spirit of the Lord. She systematically chastised many singers because of their inability to synchronize or harmonize with her unconventional way of expressing herself, eventually moving to pre-programmed music. Her inability to keep tempo was projected as the inability of other musicians to follow the leading of the spirit. This ultimately generated a great deal of confusion and self doubt in very capable people willing to learn something they did not fully comprehend.

Able singers, technicians and musicians were excluded from the worship team for a variety of reasons ranging from; being suspected as having a CD collection containing worldly music through to having an un-teachable spirit. In reality Christel Pesch supported by her husband Klaus Pesch would move people in and out of the music ministry as she saw fit to promote her own musical talent and keep competition as far away as possible.

Many group members would perform the outward ritual of heaping praise onto Christel Pesch for her musical creations, however very few actually listened to the music at home and even fewer ever learned it to be able to perform it.

There was no corporate worship in any of the Sunday meetings or bible studies. The only musical or worship content of any meetings run by Klaus Pesch would consist of everyone listening to Christel Pesch playing a selection of her recordings after which her husband would preach. Occasionally she would perform a song live during which everyone would sit motionless in apparent admiration of her spiritual sensitivity.

This gradual dumbing down of the group in all thing musical resulted in the slow and painful demise of the singing talent of many people in the team as they had less and less opportunity to improve their praise and worship skills in a group setting.

In the mid 1990’s Christel Pesch announced that God had told her to throw away all the songbooks from other artists or churches and that from that time onward she would only be allowed by the spirit of God to sing her own creations.

It followed that all music whether recorded or written from any other organization other than the Team was banned within the team and any of its meetings or services.

It was also ruled that only the music of Christel Pesch would be used in any worship because she was the only anointed worshiper in the entire group and she alone would lead the Team on a quest to rediscover the ‘Song of Moses’.

This edict persisted until about 2002/03 when gradually she started to allow songs written by her grandchildren to be sung but only after considerable vetting and public criticism during meetings.

Using the internet to promote her music Christel Pesch started using her website www.mtherronstudios.com to reach out to the world with her husband’s message. It became her preoccupation for the latter years of her life and she became obsessed with the site traffic statistics believing that the world was hungry for her creative output. The reality was that almost all of the visits to the site were members of the Team. Not one single CD was sold through the website

When she died very suddenly in 2006 it is true to say that her music died with her. There were minor squabbles as various factions of the Pesch family scrambled to take up the perceived anointing associated with the music ministry and ultimate control of the copyright on the music which in reality is worthless because no one is interested in singing the songs.

After her death Klaus Pesch openly preached that God had taken his wife and her gift of music because the members of the Team had failed to support her in her prophetical music ministry by learning and performing her songs.

Many observers agree that Christel Pesch used her world of music and control of the musicians within the Team as a form of escape in which she could hide away from the increasingly tyrannical and hyper-authoritarian rule of her husband Klaus Pesch.

Her life of increasing loneliness and isolation perpetuated by her own brand of manipulation afforded her little in the way of creative outlet and by using the talents of those willing to submit to her leadership she was able to escape the unpleasant pressures of the financial exploitation imposed by her family’s business practices on most of the rest of the group.

Mount Herron Engineering

Mount Herron Engineering was originally established by a core of commited group members and the Pesch family with the aim of developing a business machine within the 'Team' which could finance the kingdom building aspirations of the group. The vision was to build a business in which many of the groups members (many of whom were tradesmen of engineers) would have a chance to contribute or patricipate, investing their skills and time into something which would ultimately benefit the entire group.

Starting with nobel aspirations the working arrangement soon evolved into a highly controlled and abusive environment with group members pressurised into working long hours and working for free on Saturdays as part of their contribution of a 'tenth of their time' to the kingdom.

The companies abilities were vigourously promoted as groundbreaking and spearheading a thrust into emerging markets with promising returns, all supported by unvarified claims and unsubstantiated papers from a multitude of internet sites

Group members were coerced to take out loans on credit cards, personal loans, borrow on the property they owned or borrow money from relatives not inside the group, to fund the developmental stages of the companies growth.

Most of the private investment came from group members in Europe and was documented poorly both on coming into Australia and entering the cash flow of Mount Herron Engineering, thus making it hard for individual group members to extract their investment, or in some cases even be able to earn a dividend on their investment

Klaus Pesch started to use Mount Herron Engineering as a business 'front end' for his activities in Europe and America laundering money through the company as 'consultancy fees' and thus evading tax in Australia. Funds were extracted from Mount Herron Engineerings cash flow and diverted into properties owned by Pesch family members in both Oheningen - Germany and Colorado – USA.

Mt Herron Engineering fraudulently missrepresented the value of its intellectual property, technical ability and business acumen to lending institutions inorder to secure loans which were then ploughed into projects owned by the Pesch family.

The company has floundered as a result of poor engineering practice and lack of qualified input into key disciplines with ineffectual peer review, resulting in fundemental floors in project performance.

Poor internal business practice from inexperienced staff coupled with deficient project outcomes have placed enormous pressure on the company, its investors and the Pesch family.

Given the lack of essential features required to run a successful company such as a motivated and commited staff, proper management structure and a robust governance framework it is unlikely that Mount Herron Engineering will survive in the long term as a sound bussiness entity and many people who have invested their time and effort will ultimately see their sacrifices to a nobel idea dissapear under a mountain of debt and recrimination.