Aug 15, 2021

Jim Jones had a gift for recognizing and cultivating a person’s capacity for magical thinking or the belief that unrelated events are connected by invisible, supernatural threads. Those who followed Jim Jones surrendered their will, believing that, whatever Father was planning, he had the power and knowledge to guide...

Aug 15, 2021

The paranormal healing ministry drew new members to Peoples Temple with Jim Jones’ promises of supernatural support for the cause. The divine gifts physically took a toll on Jim Jones as he felt the sickness and pain of others pass through his own body as he healed them. To keep the miracles coming, he began...

Aug 15, 2021

Welcome to the Sunday Service, a 3-part immersive experience exploring Jim Jones’ paranormal ministry and the mystery of the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. Your first visit to Peoples Temple will involve a profound, life changing, spiritual experience of the paranormal variety. 

The blind shall see, the deaf shall...

May 21, 2021

Denise was three years old when her family joined Peoples Temple. Like so many early childhood memories, obscured by the lenses of time,  Denise’s recollections are vivid emotional snapshots that paint a portrait of Jim Jones and Temple life rarely seen, one that complicates the narrative shaped by Jonestown’s...

Mar 5, 2021

Music was often peoples first, and last impression of Peoples Temple. From the moment you walked into a temple service, the music created a certain atmosphere. The voices of the choir lifted the spirits of the congregants, electrifying the audience. In 1973 the temple recorded the gospel funk album “He’s Able”....