Port Austin - the COG Oneida

Utopian communities are rarely utopian, and the Port Austin Bible Center - or is it the Port Austin Bible Campus - is a sobering example. The Port Austin soap opera has been playing out ever since 2004. In 2007 AW characterized it as "the empire of puddles" following an earlier post that attracted a good deal of comment, "Matchmaker, matchmaker".

In a couple of emails received today, Carolyn Kizer states that she and husband Homer Kizer (one of the principal players along with Norm Edwards and Terry Williams) are returning to Alaska and are no longer associated with the Center. Williams appears to be the last man standing at PABC (the Center, not the Campus?), though given the Byzantine complexities of life at the "tip of Michigan's thumb" I suspect there's more to it than that. Somewhat related ministries (you'd probably need a flow diagram to sort out exactly how they fit in) include the Philadephia Church (nothing to do with PCG) and the Port Austin Sabbatarian Community.