One or two members will approach a student and invite him to a party or a Christian study group, said Rev. Bob Ogden, campus chaplain at Simon Fraser University. It has very little to do with the Bible and has more to do with mind control. Ti's father, Chao-Min Chung, sits in pained silence as he recalls a time when his daughter joined a student Christian group. Happy at first that his daughter had made new friends, he began to worry as Ti spent more and more time away from home at group Bible study sessions. One day, he confronted her about her plummeting grades.
Universities are fertile ground for cult-recruiters.
Many students are away from home for the first time, often for their first experience in a big city. Others don't have a close relationship with their parents. Along with the love comes manipulation. Cults control their recruits' use of time and money and try to isolate them from other friends, encouraging them to live in homes with other cult members. They tell them their natural family is evil, their new family good.