The Wierwille family ancestry can be traced as far back as the 1300s to a small town in northern France called Vierville-sur-Mer, translated "Wierwille by the Sea." These Viervilles were Huguenots, a group of French Protestants who staunchly resisted Roman Catholic attempts to dominate the religious and social life of France. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many Huguenots left France to escape religious persecution, the Viervilles among them. [Opening paragraph of Mrs. Wierwille's book, 'Born Again to Serve']
At the bottom of this page, the wierwille genealogy details the ancestry back to great-grandfather Johann Heinrich Wierwille (1792-1889) and his immigrating to the United States in 1839.
Blood lines Matter......and mattered immensely to victor paul wierwille.
Sitting in those corps nightowls, year after year......many of us heard wierwille lauding his family heritage in swelling words. Sitting on the grass in the campfire area of the way woods, wierwille talked about his parents and siblings, his upbringing, his childhood adventures, his german-pastor dr. kunst and the greater new Knoxville community. And further......corps in-residence twigs were dutifully scheduled to each attend aunt sevilla's "twig" on subsequent Tuesdays so that all corps were "instructed fully on the wierwille heritage." Closing in on 1982 and wierwille'slegacy....er, "40-year service to God" highlighted.....the bloodline thread was the strength that bound the fabric together. And, it was THIS bloodline that mattered.....The Victor Paul Wierwille Memorial Museum
Everyone else's family line was completely irrelevant. The pathological agenda of this narcissist
had come full-focus in 1982. "The job of the Corps was to take care of the Wierwille family."
In ways that jolt the human mind back from the unthinkable....."What did this man (and his enablers)
really think about the Christ line?"
The Martindale era (and bloodline)......is not even a whisper any more.
The Geer-man, the sycophant who slaved years at wierwille's side.....detested.
The wife and mother of wierwille's five children.....buried in a distant cemetery.
Yet, wierwille's elevated shrine is the focal point of The Garden of Living Waters.
The Wierwille Heritage
No matter how many ways twi spins their website and programs, there is no mistaking the wierwille adulation and symbolism that marks its headquarters. The Wierwille Homestead is the shrine of the wierwille bloodline.
The DNA genetics of twi is wierwille.
That is "The Code" they're protecting.
Without it, everything unravels.
At the bottom of this page, the wierwille genealogy details the ancestry back to great-grandfather Johann Heinrich Wierwille (1792-1889) and his immigrating to the United States in 1839.
Blood lines Matter......and mattered immensely to victor paul wierwille.
Broken Arrow, on 14 July 2010 - 11:19 PM, said:
Remember them reading A Day with the Wierwille's at Corps week?. They made thousands of us sit for hours in a tent and listen to a time when the Wierwille's all got together as a family and played in the snow at Gunnison. People, some with small kids, drove thousands of miles, spent days on the road, spent hundreds of dollars, sacrificed vacations, quit jobs etc. to sit around on a farm in humid Ohio and hear about VP meeting with his family. (Well, at least there were pictures.) If you were there, do you remember the great concluding statement, the great point of the whole story? Go get your barf bucket and I'll remind you. It was this: "If the Wierwille family does not stand together on The Word, the Word of God will not live in our day and time." Yessir, that was it! Our job as Corps was to take care of the Wierwille family. Not to herald the Word of God, but to take care of a "bless-ed holy family". That was the only way the Word was going to live, at least that was the implication. I was headed into my final year in residence then. I vividly remember walking across that bridge on Wierwille Rd. and being heartbroken. I couldn't believe what I'd just heard. There was no question it was a lie. But I was Corps which meant I believed VP was the Man of God which meant he didn't lie. I know now that I was starting to see that there was a serious flaw in the whole thing. I sort of just put the thing on the back burner. No one talked about it. At least not where I was present.
Meanwhile, everyone else's family line was completely irrelevant.
Meanwhile, everyone else's family line was completely irrelevant.
Sitting in those corps nightowls, year after year......many of us heard wierwille lauding his family heritage in swelling words. Sitting on the grass in the campfire area of the way woods, wierwille talked about his parents and siblings, his upbringing, his childhood adventures, his german-pastor dr. kunst and the greater new Knoxville community. And further......corps in-residence twigs were dutifully scheduled to each attend aunt sevilla's "twig" on subsequent Tuesdays so that all corps were "instructed fully on the wierwille heritage." Closing in on 1982 and wierwille's
Everyone else's family line was completely irrelevant. The pathological agenda of this narcissist
had come full-focus in 1982. "The job of the Corps was to take care of the Wierwille family."
In ways that jolt the human mind back from the unthinkable....."What did this man (and his enablers)
really think about the Christ line?"
The Martindale era (and bloodline)......is not even a whisper any more.
The Geer-man, the sycophant who slaved years at wierwille's side.....detested.
The wife and mother of wierwille's five children.....buried in a distant cemetery.
Yet, wierwille's elevated shrine is the focal point of The Garden of Living Waters.
The Wierwille Heritage
No matter how many ways twi spins their website and programs, there is no mistaking the wierwille adulation and symbolism that marks its headquarters. The Wierwille Homestead is the shrine of the wierwille bloodline.
The DNA genetics of twi is wierwille.
That is "The Code" they're protecting.
Without it, everything unravels.