Wayne Bent
Wayne Bent, 66, who is known in the church as Michael Travesser, established the church at a rural site called Strong City, north of Clayton in extreme northeastern New Mexico. He said God anointed him Messiah in July 2000.1
By the time Wayne Bent, later to become Michael Travesser, moved to the New Mexico property at Travesser Park in the spring of 2000, he had served as a church pastor and spiritual leader for over thirty years. In this final relocation his thoughts were of retirement, and enjoying the rest and solitude of his new home.2
Film-maker Ben Anthony was afforded entry to the Strong City commune in New Mexico where Michael Travesser, a 66-year-old former sailor previously known as Wayne Bent, modestly calls himself the Son of God. He has spent the past 20 years preparing his 56 devoted disciples for doomsday.3
The worshipful adoration of Wayne Bent as the Second Coming of Christ is a criminal act on this forum. To simply expunge the record of a crime of this magnitude would be a crime all by itself.4
It was about a cult lead by self proclaimed messiah, Michael (a.k.a Wayne Bent). Wayne Bent is a form Seventh Day Adventist minister who claims he was ?taken over by a spirit?5
The leader is a man by the name of Michael Travesser, originally Wayne Bent. He says he’s the Messiah and that God has told him the world would end with an apocalyptic event at midnight on October 31, 2007.6