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+aliases:
+  - "Church of the New Revelation"
 tags:
   - Organization
-  - Religious_Front
-  - New_Jersey
+  - ReligiousFront
+  - NewJersey
   - 1970s
-  - Child_Pornography
-  - North_Fox_Island
+  - ChildPornography
+  - NorthFoxIsland
 category: "Private Organization"
-summary: "The Church of New Revelation was a sham religious entity incorporated in New Jersey that served as an umbrella organization for child exploitation operations during the 1970s."
-location: "New Jersey, USA"
+summary: "Tax-exempt church incorporated in Delaware in 1974 with a Kearny, New Jersey, address, under whose auspices Brother Paul's Children's Mission operated; a Tennessee investigator called it a 'referral agency which distributes pornography.'"
+location: "Kearny, New Jersey"
+start: 1974
+relations:
+  - type: head_of
+    with: "[[Adam Starchild]]"
+    reverse: true
+    role: "president"
+    fn: 2
+  - type: employed_by
+    with: "[[Dyer Grossman]]"
+    reverse: true
+    role: "youth director"
+    fn: 2
+created: 2026-04-28
+updated: 2026-09-22
 ---
-The Church of New Revelation was a sham religious entity incorporated in [[New Jersey]] that served as an umbrella organization for child exploitation operations during the 1970s. It was created solely on paper by [[Dyer Grossman]] to gain tax-exempt status for affiliated programs. [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] in Monteagle, Tennessee was incorporated under the Church of New Revelation, as was [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]] on [[North Fox Island]]. The church was described by authorities as a fraudulent referral agency for pornography distribution rather than a legitimate religious organization. [[Francis Shelden]] and [[Adam Starchild]] were connected to the church through their roles in incorporating the North Fox Island mission.[^1]
+The Church of the New Revelation was incorporated in Delaware in 1974, listing its principal place of business in [[New Jersey]]; its articles of incorporation stated that it was formed to train and indoctrinate ministers, brothers and sisters in its teachings and ordain them to carry out its work. [[Adam Starchild]], listed in the Kearny telephone book, was its president and [[Dyer Grossman]] its youth director. The Internal Revenue Service declared it exempt from taxes without challenging or investigating its claim to be a charitable organization. [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]], the camp on [[North Fox Island]] organized by [[Gerald Richards]], was created and operated under its auspices; Richards named the church, the [[Ocean Living Institute]] and the Educational Foundation for Youth as fronts for the production of child pornography. A letter from Grossman found on Richards recommended setting up "child care" sites under the church or the foundation because of their tax exemptions.[^2]
+
+"There is no church," said Pete Bouldin of the Tennessee district attorney general's office. "It's just a referral agency which distributes pornography around the country."[^3]
+
+### Father Bud's Boys Farm
+
+[[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] in Tennessee was said to have been incorporated under the church, and the church to have been created on paper by Grossman; [[Francis Shelden]] and Starchild were connected to it through the incorporation of the North Fox Island mission.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
-[^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). *Eye of the Chickenhawk*. United States: Thehotstar.
+
+[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It gives New Jersey as the state of incorporation. The contemporaneous reporting lists Boys Farm, Inc., of Alto, Tennessee, as a separate organization and names Starchild, not Grossman, as the church's president.
+[^2]: Wright, Marilyn. "Porno Ring Uses Church, Tax Laws." *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1977, reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977, pp. 86-87. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041
+[^3]: *Chicago Tribune,* May 1977, reprinted in U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, 1977. https://archive.org/details/protectionofchil00unit