When we first started the ten-website internet mission, we were told to pick names connected to negative rumors about the church.

Mine was called “Cult of Ahnsahnghong,” to attract traffic from people searching the “cult” keyword in association with the WMSCOG.

The headquarters in Korea was aware of what we were doing. The missionary in charge had sent photos and descriptions of the ten of us to Korea, and our mission went forward at the headquarters’ approval.

At a certain point, however, Korea told us to take down the websites that mentioned the word “cult” too much. It was time for the next phase in cleaning up the internet.

The church wanted to remove all associations with “slanderous remarks” from the internet, including the decoy sites, and replace them with official sites or positive review sites.

“Cult of Ahnsahnghong,” of course, went down, and the rest of the decoy sites followed.

Instead, there was a push to create a series of individual websites for each state and church location in order to flood Google searches.

I waved goodbye to writing, since it wasn’t my mission anymore, and drove all over the east coast taking “professional-quality” photos of each location for the new official sites.

Amusingly, those websites have barely been updated since I left.

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The mission to clean up the internet of any negative press on the church and push down criticism was calculated and systematic, carried out in phases.