ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on one as yet unchronicled organization’s early history. The early history of this organization, called Christ Communal Organization (CCO), began in that cauldron of new social movements, Southern California in the late 1960s. It developed at about the time that several other prominent groups within the so-called Jesus movement were starting in the Southern California area. The young man who still serves CCO as president of their nonprofit corporation and head of their “spiritual body” was converted in 1966 while living in Southern California. The move to the new state was made “under the guidance and protection of the Holy Spirit,” according to the leader, who felt directed to go, accompanied by the person who had originally introduced him to Reverend Smith, to visit another area.
