We suggest that the time to accept the invite is today. It is time to put on the wedding garments, for the Lord’s Return is at hand. We encourage you to look up, look to the things that are happening in prophecy and you will see that His coming is upon us.

Our roots go back to 1972 and the outpouring of The Holy Spirit which came as a deluge from heaven upon all the world-wide churches in those remarkable years in the 1960s and 70s. Our ministry from that time has been to actively promote the prophetic word of the Bible while passively viewing the signs of Christ’s return as they cascaded down upon this present world.

In 1972 Rev. LeRoy Gardenier applied for and received a papal dispensation from his Augustinian priestly vows and together with Eloise M. Smith, later to be his wife, began a home fellowship/prayer group in Eloise’s home in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.

This was the start of what evolved into a functioning body of believers, ministering and being ministered to in full scriptural fashion with the offices, functionaries, worship and gifts being ministered by the Holy Ghost in an orderly consistent ministry of Christ.

God gathered together a diversified group of believers ranging in age from teen-agers to an octogenarian. While small, it was a wide mix of nationalities, races, talents, education and skills, ranging in education from public education to college grads and doctors. We were made up from time to time of tradesmen, students, journalists, technicians, office workers, janitors, archivists, artists, farmers, businessmen, teachers, real estate agents, technical engineers and more.

Although we may not look or act like stereotypical church folk we are proudly orthodox concerning Scriptural doctrine and belief. We ascribe to the perfection of the 66 books of the Bible as presented in the time-tested version known as the King James Bible.

Originally dubbed The Christian Spirit Fellowship we have only recently taken up the name: Elisha’s Outcast Eagles. We have always believed that:

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” 2 Tim 3:16-17

Just as important, we have always been highly serious about our scriptural faith as well as our allegiance to Jesus Christ personally, which includes above all that we are most serious about having a personal relationship with Christ through being born-again. This is our beginning and our end.

We have always declared that Jesus is the only bonding agent that can bind relationships together with an eternal knot which can never be undone or broken. It is only Jesus Christ’s saving grace coupled with the individual’s desire, which he also builds in their heart, to find true spiritual nurture and fellowship, that has guided our hope and purpose for better than forty years.

We were established during the great revival of the Holy Ghost in these last days. We take our precedent for ministry from the earliest and most holy churches of all.

Yet, we are not surprised that to today’s orthodox Christian we seem untraditional and unconventional. Though we have had a traditional public church location, and been involved with traditional church establishments, we have always believed that the church starts and ends in the home. Home churches were the mainstays of the primitive and early churches of Christ. We note the epistles that either address themselves to a church in the home (as with Philemon and John’s elect lady) or the references in scripture to such people as the man Stephanas, the friends of Paul that couple Priscilla and Aquila, and to the woman who had meetings in the very house of Caesar himself. Up ‘til the third century it was disallowed by Roman Law for unauthorized groups to own property or buildings, or to have public gatherings without permission. It took more than two centuries after the resurrection of Christ and the day of Pentecost, before it became legal for churches to go public. It is a testimony to the ‘church in the home’ that Christianity flourished in those days to the extent that it can make claim to being the golden age of The Church. Many churches conducted their services and ministry across the Roman Empire from the home of a gracious patrician or converted patron of the gospel. Other churches were held in hidden or secluded places like fields, caves and various other inconspicuous places like barns and temples of provincial gods, gods displaced by people who were worshipping the one true God, the living Christ.

As time went on the home group grew in numbers and shape and form. Everything we enjoyed as saints was attributed directly to gifts from God by way of the Holy Ghost. As promised by Jesus himself, the Holy Ghost guided us and is always faithful to guide us into all truth. We have only had to be faithful to allow Him to do so. He opened up the prophetic word to us and revealed to us the importance of the times in which we live. He instructed us in the faith of the end-times Church. He has personally instructed us in doctrines such as: What is the Church? What is Communion? What is the Rapture and what type of Christian it takes to be among the Raptured? Not to mention what is the Baptism in the Holy Ghost, how to walk with Him, and why it is so vital that we listen to and obey
The Spirit.

The Lord has not made us isolationists. In our history we have reached out to many in the church and to individuals not in the church. We have gone to bible studies and prayer meetings in people’s homes when invited. We published a monthly magazine, The Christian Spirit for over 10 years, which presented a forum for any Christian to publish testimonies or other items to edify the brethren (much of The Outcast Eagles invitation portion of this website is made up from the archives of The Christian Spirit Magazine). The Christian Spirit Mag presented many of the teachings which the Holy Ghost had blessed us with the 70’s, 80’s, and during the nineties into the new Millennium. The Open Door Fellowship was a charter member of New England Christian Fellowship, a consortium of a dozen (mostly Pentecostal) churches from northern New England states, including Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, dedicated to networking with those of Biblical and Spiritual foundations
in Christ.

It was in the 2010’s that as The Open Door Fellowship we occupied a storefront church in Fitchburg, Ma. from where we preached and taught on end-times prophecy, the judgment and perilous times in which we live, worldwide antichrist advances, and especially the truth concerning the Bride of Christ and the coming Rapture of faithful bride-like believers and the impending judgment declared in the book of Revelation that must come upon the world and the peoples of the ill-advised Churches.

As time and prophecy have progressed God has perfected our publishing of the end-times message into a science which Pastor Terry Myers Smith has dubbed Prophistory. The prime purpose of presenting this scriptural science is to encourage people who have been turned off to the Laodicean Church of gimme faith; or put off by arrogant modern Christianity; or have just been bruised by the crazy things of this cold modern world with its broken homes and failed love; or held captive by sin and confusion; or left alone by life’s cruel circumstances; to offer them an invite to come to God, to be invited to the Marriage Supper of Christ and to walk in faith and truth without regard to the insanity of the world which already holds every man woman and child hostage to its evil crazy grip. Our church’s forum today is this website. The Churches are deaf to God’s plea, they have all gone their own way cared for their own prosperity, their own needs and not the needs of the downtrodden and forsaken. They preach a weird gospel. But God today still helps, still cares about, still saves the poor and the needy. This is where we are at in these last days of the approaching judgment of God, living in this totally degraded world. We are advising the disenfranchised and disillusioned to leave religion, even the prominent Laodicea religion of Christianity behind, we are inviting anyone that can hear, to come freely to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
This is where we are now at.
Signed:
Pastor and Editor, Terry Myers Smith