Peoples Temple

===Recruiting, faith healings, and fund raising===
The Temple used ten to fifteen [[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound]]-type bus cruisers to transport members up and down California freeways each week for recruitment and fundraising.<ref name="raven166">Reiterman 1982. pp. 166–168.</ref> Jones always rode in bus number seven, which contained armed guards and a special section lined with protective metal plates.<ref name="raven166" /> He told members that the Temple would not bother scheduling a trip unless it could net $100,000, and the Temple's goal for annual net income from bus trips was $1 million.<ref name="raven166" />

Beginning in the 1970s, the bus caravan also traveled across the U.S. quarterly, including to [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="raven166" /> In June 1973, [[United States House of Representatives|Representative]] [[George Brown, Jr.]] entered a lengthy and laudatory description of the Temple into the ''[[Congressional Record]]''.<ref name="raven166" /> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' ran an August 18, 1973, editorial-page item stating that the 660 Temple visitors were the "hands down winners of anybody's tourists of the year award" after spending an hour cleaning up the [[United States Capitol|Capitol]] grounds.<ref name="raven166" />

The Temple distributed pamphlets in cities along the route of these fundraising trips bragging of Jones's prowess at "spiritual healing" without mentioning the Temple's Marxist goals.<ref name="raven166" /> Stops included large cities such as [[Houston]], [[Detroit]], and [[Cleveland]].<ref name="raven166" /> Temple members pretended to be locals and acted as [[shill]]s in the various faked healings and "revelations".<ref name="raven166" /> Local viewers did not realize they were in the minority in the audience.<ref name="raven166" /> The weekly take from offerings and healing services was $15,000 to $25,000 in Los Angeles and $8,000 to $12,000 in San Francisco.<ref name="raven169" /> There were smaller collections from trips around the "mother church" in Redwood Valley.<ref name="raven169" />

The Temple also set up Truth Enterprises, a direct mailing branch that sent out 30,000 to 50,000 mailers monthly to people who had attended Temple services or written to the Temple after listening to Temple radio programs.<ref name="raven169">Reiterman 1982. pp. 169–171.</ref> Donations were mailed in from all over the continental U.S., Hawaii, South America, and Europe.<ref name="raven169" /> In addition to receiving donations, the Temple sold trinkets, such as pieces of Jones's robes, healing oil, Temple rings, key chains, and lockets.<ref name="raven169" /> In peak periods, mailer revenue grossed $300 to $400 daily.<ref name="raven169" /> This figure even surprised Jones.<ref name="raven169" />

Although Jones had earlier asked Temple members to destroy photos of him because he did not want members worshiping him as Catholics "worshiped plaster statues", Jeannie and Al Mills (who would later defect) convinced Jones to sell anointed and blessed photos to raise money.<ref name="raven169" /> Jones worried that "they're gonna get me for [[mail fraud]] someday."<ref name="raven169" /> In 1973, the Temple also formed Brotherhood Records, a subsidiary [[record label]] that produced music from the Temple's "large interracial youth choir and orchestra".<ref name="kilduff42">Kilduff, Marshall and Ron Javers. ''Suicide Cult:  The Inside Story of the Peoples Temple Sect and the Massacre in Guyana''. Bantam Books, New York, 1978. {{ISBN|978-0553129205}}. p. 42.</ref>