Jonathan Berg

From XFamily - Children of God
Revision as of 11:38, 25 August 2006 by Thorwald (talk | contribs) (more info on family and location in Macau)
Faith and Jonathan Berg with Muammar Qaddafi, "Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya", 1973.

Jonathan Emanuel Berg (US citizen, born January 1949) is the youngest son of David Berg and Jane Miller. He was known as "Hosea David" or "Ho" in the Children of God. He was also known as "Jondy."

Jonathan ran a farm, with a compound on the property, in Hac Sa, Coloane, Macau from 1978 to 1988. This was the same place where the Detention Teens were sent (e.g. Merry Berg).

Jonathan has had two wives: Esther David and Ruth. He had six children (five boys, one girl) with Esther.

According to a September 1974 report by the New York Attorney General's Charity Frauds Bureau, he was arrested in 1968 and 1969 and jumped bail:

Twenty-one (21) members of the "Teens for Christ" group were arrested for violation of California Penal Code 602.9 (interference with peaceful conduct or activities of a school) in December, 1968 and February, 1969. Twenty of the members including, Jonathan Berg and Paul Berg, sons of David Berg, jumped bail set at an aggregate of $34, 500 and arrest warrants were issued, but have not been executed. [Huntingdon, California Police Dept. Report dated May 21, 1973]

Source: Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God to Hon. Louis J. Lefkowitz Attorney General of the State of New York — 1974-09-30.

Press Reports

Related Family Publications


This article is a "stub". This means it is an incomplete article needing further elaboration.

You can help xFamily.org by contributing information or writing a more complete article. Please use the Forum to send us content whenever possible.