Cashmere's 'Collective' Kicks Off 'Kingdom Defense' Survival Workshop This Saturday
The four-weekend workshop will include firearms training, trauma first aid, 'survival readiness' and how to 'defeat' threats to your family and 'the Kingdom'
On Saturday leaders of two partner organizations called “The Collective” and “Kingdom Defense Ministries” located in Cashmere, Washington will host a four-hour workshop focused on fostering a “Biblical preparedness mindset” and “food-ready fundamentals.”
Other workshops will include a “stop the bleed clinic,” pointers on how to tie a tourniquet and “chest seal application,” firearms training and “high stress” team communications, according to the registration website.
In a promotional video that cuts between footage recorded during worship services in Cashmere and scenes from a drag queen story hour, pro-choice marches and what appears to be Islamic terrorists preparing to execute hostages, a male narrator explains the need for Christians to partake in training sessions like these.
“We must be pioneers in a world that just wants to bully us into the consensus,” he said.
The total cost for all four workshops comes to $1000.
You can watch a few clips from that video here:
The man narrating and starring in the video is Josh Burlingame, and although he is not listed on the leadership page on The Collective’s website, he is a leader of the local chapter.
The other two are Ross and “prophetess” Folake Kellogg (also not listed on the leadership page). The three do most of the preaching on Sundays, according to the recordings of past sermons on their website.
The people who are listed on the leadership page on their website are Bob and Jenny Donnelly, Lou Engle, Clyde Lewis, Mufa David Besic and Malachi Salcido. Of those leaders, only Salcido is local and according to his bio he’s also a member of Sage Hills Church’s strategic board and sits on The River Academy’s board. I reached out to Salcido to ask about how involved he is in the church, but have not heard back.
But it’s the Donnellys and Engle who seem to provide the theological and cultural backbone to the Cashmere church – as well as the name. The Collective is an organization co-founded by The Donnellys, who are based in Portland, Oregon.
What’s most interesting though is that in their bio they reference the seven-mountain mandate.
I’ve written about the seven-mountain mandate before, but essentially it’s a dominionist conservative Christian movement within Pentecostal and evangelical Christianity that teaches Christians must control the “seven mountains” of cultural influence in order to bring about the second coming of Jesus Christ. It’s a movement that started in 1975 after three men reported to have received messages from God laying out the prophecy. And it’s a prophecy in which its adherents believe that dominating the seven mountains will bring about the end of the world.
It’s a belief system that has been incorporated into a new right-wing religious movement called the New Apostolic Reformation. According to Wikipedia, the NAR is “a theological belief and movement that combines elements of Pentecostalism, evangelicalism and the Seven Mountain Mandate to advocate for spiritual warfare to bring about Christian dominion over all aspects of society, and end or weaken the separation of church and state.”
And the Donnellys seem to be pretty interested in combining religion and politics. On the website for their Tetelestai Ministries brand, their stated goal is to “turn America back to God” and they write they are “gathering the body of Christ as an army, not an audience.”
Their latest attempt to do that was the “Don’t Mess With Our Kids” protests at state capitols, including Olympia, Wa. on April 13. The event at Pennsylvania’s state capitol was covered by the Buck’s County Beacon, and they linked Donnelly to the NAR and Moms for Liberty.
The Beacon describes Donnelly’s organization as “anti-LGBTQ+” and in promotional videos for the event she says there are states currently considering legislation that would “legalize kidnapping when a parent refuses to affirm their child’s gender transition.”
Here’s Donnelly’s invite address for the April 13 “Don’t Mess With Our Kids” events at state capitols.
Folake Kellogg was one of the women who attended the rally in Washington’s capitol, and while there she was interviewed by former state legislator Matt Shea, who authored a manifesto called “The Biblical Basis of War” and was found to have participated in domestic terrorism by his colleagues in Olympia. He was censured and eventually drummed out of the legislature and the state GOP. He has a podcast now called “Patriot Radio.”
And Jenny Donnelly went on that podcast to promote the Don’t Mess With Our Kids rally ahead of the event, where she quoted Hitler and warned about losing “Generation Z.”
“We know the LGBTQ indoctrination has gone like wildfire and we are watching a whole generation, generation Z, one in three right now have self-identified as LGBTQ,” she said. “Meaning they feel like God made a mistake…”
Just a few days before that, Kellogg was invited to speak to the Republican Women of Wenatchee group where she posed for a photo with Washington’s 12th District Representatives Keith Goehner and Mike Steele as well as State Senator Brad Hawkins.
However, according to Bob Donnelly, he and his wife Jenny are not affiliated with Cashmere’s Collective.
I reached out to both of them to request interviews and Bob got back to me. Here’s the most relevant part of our Q&A:
DB: “I was curious what denomination the church is most closely affiliated with, and if its part of the new apostolic reformation? I noticed the mention of the seven mountains in your bio on the site.”
BD: “I’m not affiliated with The Collective so I don’t know if there are denomnational ties… What is the new apostolic reformation? I’ve heard that term a few times but I don’t know what it is?”
DB: “Oh that’s strange because you’re listed under the leadership tab. And here’s the Wikipedia entry for it (NAR). I don’t know much about it other than what I’ve read online.”
BD: “Wrong collective.”
DB: “So this organization in Cashmere is not affiliated with your organization also called the collective?”
BD: “No, it’s not affiliated. Sorry! Have a great day!”
BD: “We are friends with the collective in cashmere, and we aid in leadership but not affiliated organizationally.”
DB: “Ah I see. Ok. Do you know why they would put you and your wife on the leadership page? I went there because I was trying to contact the local leaders.”
BD: “Probably because of leadership… and personal mentorship. That’s interesting about the new apostolic reformation, I’ve never heard of it! I’ll do some searching but I know I am not affiliated with an organization that is named that. Thank you for contacting me! Have a good day!”
It should be noted that Folake appeared on Jenny’s “Esther Network” podcast in November of last year and described a militant dream about being ready “for what’s coming.”
You can watch a clip of that here.
Before I reached out to the Jenny and Bob Donnelly, I tried making contact with the Kelloggs and Josh Burlingame via the church’s website. Ross and Folake are both active on Instagram, so I sent both direct messages on that platform as well. They did not respond to requests for comment.
I was especially curious about a recent sermon preached by Ross in which he said they need to take a “wartime leadership stance” and “take back ground.”
“We have to take land,” he said. “And you don’t take land with part-time warriors. We take land with full-time Spartans.”
As things get “more hostile towards Christianity and Christians” the need for people to carry out God’s mission forward is more important than ever, he said.
Like the Donnellys, Lou Engle is keenly aware of the power of gathering large groups at symbolic and important political places. And like them, he wants to harness the political power of conservative women during what will surely be a high-energy election year.
Engle is the founder of an organization called The Call, which evolved out of the Promise Keepers movement that hit the peak of its popularity in the late 90s. He, like Jenny Donnelly, is no stranger to prophecy and hearing the voice of God and he said that’s who told him to organize “an Esther call on the mall” in October of this year.
In this video Engle explains his prophetic dream to gather a million women to march on Washington DC, and how he understood the dream because he watched the film, “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.”
The video is also embedded on the webpage for Jenny Donnelly’s “Her Voice Movement.”
A major common denominator is the focus on the end times, and that’s something that both Collectives address in their very similar “What We Believe” sections of their websites. You can see for yourself by checking out the Cashmere Collective’s “What We Believe” page and then skimming through the counterpart pages on Tetelestai website and the official Collective site.
At the end of each section is a reference to the end times, or “The Rapture,” which could explain part of the reason why Burlingame and the Kelloggs are so focused on training for violence and preparing for the end of the world as we know it.
The best way to know is to ask them, which I did. Time will tell whether or not they answer my questions. If they get back to me I will update this article with their responses.
So scary. Thanks for your reporting. We stand ever vigilant of cults and those that want to destroy the separation of church and state, one of the foundations of our democracy.
Appreciate you making us aware of this type of situation happening around us. It’s pretty concerning.