The Collective's Connection to 'Far-Right Extremist' Moms for Liberty Group
And for $899 you can join The Collective's founder for a 'Spiritual Warfare Intensive' and learn how to fight everything from witches to 'homosexuality and transgenderism among family members'
The nationwide charismatic Christian sect known simply as “The Collective,” co-founded by Bob and Jenny Donnelly in Portland, Oregon, is connected to the rightwing political activism group Moms for Liberty through an anti-LGBTQ+ association called the “Her Voice Movement,” according to Naomi Ruth Van Wyk, a spokeswoman for HVM.
In addition to co-founding The Collective and the Her Voice Movement, Jenny Donnelly is also the creator of a campaign called “Don’t Mess With Our Kids,” which has its roots in a 2016 trans and homophobic social movement from Peru.
On August 31, Donnelly and her followers are staging a “March For Kids” in Washington D.C. And on a nationwide Zoom call for event organizers on Aug. 6, DMWOK spokeswoman Naomi Ruth Van Wyk let it slip that Moms for Liberty is backing the event – but that’s not something they want the general public to know.
“The parent company is really Moms for Liberty, but they don’t want to be recognized,” she said. “They really want this movement to be grassroots and to make a public statement that there are hundreds and thousands of people across the country that are coming together under one umbrella.”
In this case, she’s being pretty literal. They want everyone to bring yellow umbrellas to the march.
The Southern Poverty Law Center listed Moms for Liberty as a “far-right extremist organization” and its members have been criticized for harassing school boards, deepening divisions among parents, trying to ban books from school libraries and ram through anti-government and anti-LGBTQ policies under the guise of advancing “parent’s rights.”
According to a 2021 analysis by Media Matters for America, Moms for Liberty benefits financially from right-wing backers and the group has affiliations with the neo-fascist Proud Boys.
But Donnelly last November insisted that the Her Voice Movement is “grassroots” before explaining how they adapted a conspiracy-laden Peruvian social movement called “Con mis hijos no te metas” (“Don't mess with my children”) to fight back against the LGBTQ+ and trans “agenda” in North America.
Connections To The Wenatchee Valley
When asked if they were affiliated with Cashmere’s The Collective, Donnelly and her husband lied and said they didn’t, even though the couple was listed on the “Our Leadership” page of that branch’s website.
After I reached out to the Donnellys to ask about their connection to the Cashmere Collective, the leadership page of the site changed.
Now the page features stock photos, fake names and placeholder copy. When you click on the email “contact” button for the individuals listed it just refreshes the page.
The same photos, names and filler copy can be found on other church websites, like this one in Oklahoma and this one in Corpus Christi, Texas.
The Cashmere Collective is headed up by a couple named Ross and Folake Kellogg and a man named Josh Burlingame.
Folake describes herself as a “prophetess” who speaks for God. In May, Folake stirred up controversy after a “Don’t Mess With Our Kids” presentation at the North Shore Bible Church in Manson. After her presentation, folks from the NSBC shared a “boycott or pray for” list of businesses that supported Chelan’s Pride festival. Another person doxxed Chelan Pride’s board of directors.
Like Donnelly, Folake doesn’t shy away from talking about politics from the pulpit.
Here’s a clip from a recent sermon in which she says “God can’t vote” and that’s why we have to do it for Him. She urges her followers to “vote for righteousness” and then explains what qualities a candidate must have to qualify as righteous.
In case the message of her sermon was too subtle, Kellogg makes no bones about who “real Christians” should, and shouldn’t, vote for in the upcoming presidential election on social media.
Kellogg’s branch of The Collective meets at Apple Annie’s Antique Mall in Cashmere and although the Donnellys attempted to distance themselves from the branch publicly, Folake is clearly important to the larger organization.
In a “Passover Communion Revival” livestream from Portland on April 6, 2023, Collective Co-Founder Ben Rose said they were reaching all 50 states and even folks abroad in other countries.
That service featured a speaker, preacher and another self-described prophet named Lou Engle. Engle founded an organization called The Call, was also listed on the Cashmere Collective’s leadership page, and is somewhat of a spiritual father to The Collective as a charismatic Christian sect.
Further proof of how important Kellogg is to the leaders of The Collective is evidenced by the fact that the day before the Passover service in Portland, Engle was preaching and prophesying in the sanctuary and events center at Apple Annie’s – co-hosting a “call to prayer and communion” with the Kelloggs.
That too was an internationally-live-streamed event.
In the graphic used to promote the event Folake got top billing – right next to one of the charismatic Christian world’s biggest stars, Dutch Sheets, who Rolling Stone Magazine called the “Apostle of Right-Wing Christian Nationalism.”
Donnelly’s Spiritual Warfare Intensive at the “Crestview Manor”
In September, Donnelly will be hosting a “Spiritual Warfare Intensive,” which costs $899 per person. It will take place at the Donnelly’s “Crestview Manor” retreat center in Corbett, Oregon.
The Kelloggs and Burlingame and his wife went to a retreat there in March 2023.
The Spiritual Warfare Intensive will feature special guest Katie Souza. Souza is a reformed convict, former meth cook and member of an organized crime group who became religious during her time in prison and is now an expert in “spiritual warfare.”
Earlier this year, Souza told Donnelly and her co-host about a time when she had to fight off a “warlock and witches” who were trying to spiritually “kill” her before an important event.
You can watch that clip here:
For those who attend, Donnelly promises her seminar will help with “unexplained physical ailments, patterns of financial problems,” and “relational conflict.”
In a list titled “41 Signs that the Enemy is Waging War on You and It’s Time to Defeat Him!” she tells you how to know if you’re under attack from Satan.
If you have any of these symptoms, you’re probably under attack:
Dreams of snakes, scorpions, demons and other evil spirits
Sexual dreams and perverse sexual thoughts
Feelings of fear, panic and shortness of breath
Feeling of wanting to totally give up and quit
Wishing you could die and just be with Jesus
Feelings of being watched or monitored especially when alone
Homosexuality and transgenderism among family members and children
Chronic gossip in your life and in those around you
Marriage and relationship conflicts
Church and ministry splits
Rampant division and strife
Poverty and lack
Bankruptcy
Unusual misfortune, a series of bad events, feelings of being “cursed”
Unexplained sickness, disorder and pain/cases that don’t respond to medical treatment
Gout and arthritis
Pain that moves around
Stomach issues
Cancers, growths, and tumors
I reached out to Kellogg to ask if she would be attending Donnelly’s Spiritual Warfare Intensive. She didn’t respond.
It's interesting that many of the listed "symptoms" said to show a need to join the cult (e.g., Feelings of fear, panic and shortness of breath, etc.) are the exact things they stir up when they preach to people.
Everything is fear, anger, and hatred. Real joy and happiness is replaced by mindless and hypnotic rapture.
Thanks for telling us about this. It shows extremism is spreading all over. I believe in Christianity, but this shows how Christians sometimes fall into irrational ideas when under stress of some kind. This is a very stressful time in America.