The travelling evangelist, Neville Cooper, originating as the Springbank Christian Community, the group established a settlement called Gloriavale in the South Island's West Coast Region during the 1990s. Gloriavale Christian Community became a self-sufficient community with its own school and various agricultural, tourism, and transportation businesses including a short-lived airline called Air West Coast.
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Sources:
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
NBC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-02/
Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/article
The Nice Cult: https://thenicecult.com
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