The Collective To Open New School, Acquire Land To Prep For 'Catastrophes'

And according to self-described 'prophetess' Folake Kellogg, donations from followers to the new initiatives are to be 'above your normal tithes'

Josh Burlingame showing a girl how to use a pistol, Folake Kellogg at the 2024 “Million Women March” in Washington D.C., Kellogg and Collective founder Jennifer Donnelly and Kellogg’s daughter graduating from The Collective’s Liberty Homeschool Academy.

The leaders of the Cashmere, Wa. branch of The Collective announced that they’re opening a new private school and are in the process of acquiring property to provide “aftercare” to victims of human trafficking.

Ross and Folake Kellogg and fellow Collective leader Josh Burlingame announced March 28 that fundraising had already began for a new three-pronged initiative called Nehemiah, Goshen and Freedom.

And members of the small church that meets at Apple Annie’s Antique Mall in the sleepy Central Washington town of 3,200 are expected to give on top of their normal donations.

“This is above your tithes,” Folake said during a prayer. “And I’m telling you God will bless it.”

Burlingame said they had already had a successful fundraising dinner and Folake said they’re currently looking two properties. In good times, the properties can be used for church retreats. When things get bad they will provide a “refuge in times of natural or manmade catastrophes,” their website says.

But they still need everyone’s generous offerings because the enemy is afoot and after our children through the guise of public education. Burlingame said that God is telling them to get as many students out of public schools as possible as soon as possible, and then lied about schools kidnapping children.

“If you know anything about Washington state you know that they’ve basically taken our rights as parents and said, ‘It doesn’t matter anymore,’” he said. “Can you imagine going to pick up your five or six-year-old child from school and the school counselor saying, ‘You can’t have her. We’ve taken her to an institution because we’ve heard of some of the things you’re teaching her,’” he said. “That is now their legal right. You are not guaranteed that when you go to school that you can take your child home.”

It’s of “the devil” he said, and they have to “liberate” as many kids as they can. Then Burlingame insisted he was telling the truth.

“And if you think I’m lying, we know people that this has happened to,” he said.

You can watch that clip here:

They’re going to call their new school LAEL, which stands for “Liberty Academy of Excellence and Learning,” he said.

It’s a build-out of their current Liberty Homeschool Academy, and means “belonging to God,” he said. The new school will become the “educational umbrella” for all of their educational efforts moving forward, Burlingame said.

After that Folake explained why providing “aftercare” for victims of human trafficking who have been freed by President Trump is also one of the priorities, and then they called for everyone to gather around the stage.

What followed was a 20-minute ending prayer set to music that sometimes blended into overt fundraising. Politics even came up at one point.

“I wanted to say something that the Lord showed me,” Folake said as she took over the prayer.

She said that God wanted her to read Isaiah 58, which she did, and then honed in on the “gossips and liars” who are tearing his people apart.

“And the Lord gave me this picture: You know why the democrats are so powerful? Because they stand united as one,” she said. “He said ‘But my own body does not stand together as one.’”

Near the end of her 10-minute portion of the prayer she pivoted to the plea for money, making sure to communicate that the donations they’re giving to these three initiatives are in addition to their normal offerings.

“Thank you all. You are faithful givers. You give your offerings. And I’m so thankful for it,” she said. “But the Lord put on my heart – we’ve never done this, you guys know us – we’ve never even passed the bucket, we don’t do those kinds of things. But when God gives instructions I feel like we need to obey it.”

Then she told them to go to their website, look at the pieces of paper that were handed out at that service, scan the QR code and make financial pledges to one or all of the three new initiatives.

You can watch her entire prayer/plea for funds here:

And you can watch the entire March 28 service on YouTube here.

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Another Whopper, This Time From Collective Founder Jenny Donnelly

Burlingame’s unabashed lie about public schools might seem unbelievable to those unaccustomed to how those in The Collective and other high-control religious groups bend and break the truth to suit their needs.

He’s only following the example set by The Collective’s Co-Founder, Jenny Donnelly.

Donnelly made millions in multi-level marketing schemes like Advocare before pivoting to religious and political activism during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has become a rising star in the New Apostolic Reformation movement and was declared a “prophet” by NAR leader Che Ahn.

I interviewed Dr. Matthew D. Taylor, who literally wrote the book about the NAR, last year and you can learn more about the movement here.

One of Donnelly’s mentees is Folake and together the two have been caught lying about taking over drag queen story time at local libraries, even though no local libraries have drag queen story times.

I debunked that lie last fall and you can read about it here.

But recently while promoting her next big event, “MAYDAY USA,” Donnelly has been caught repeating another lie. This time it’s in service of playing up the victimhood narrative that Christians are persecuted second-class citizens for simply living their faith.

“In Peru, people were being jailed for refusing to use someone’s preferred pronouns,” Donnelly wrote on Instagram.

In the clip, she also fantasized about what it would be like to be so persecuted her in the US and what she would do in response to the completely-fabricated persecution.

You can watch it here:

We’ll take a closer look at MAYDAY USA, which stems from a “prophetic” dream Folake had last year, in the near future.

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