---
aliases:
- Church of the New Revelation
category: Private Organization
created: 2026-04-28
location: Kearny, New Jersey
relations: null
start: 1974
summary: Tax-exempt church incorporated in Delaware in 1974 with a Kearny, New Jersey,
  address, under whose auspices Brother Paul's Children's Mission operated; a Tennessee
  investigator called it a 'referral agency which distributes pornography.'
tags:
- Organization
- ReligiousFront
- NewJersey
- 1970s
- ChildPornography
- NorthFoxIsland
updated: 2026-09-23
---

The Church of the New Revelation was incorporated in Delaware in 1974, listing its principal place of business in [New Jersey](/places/new-jersey/); its articles of incorporation stated that it was formed to train and indoctrinate ministers, brothers and sisters in its teachings and ordain them to carry out its work. [Adam Starchild](/people/adam-starchild/), listed in the Kearny telephone book, was its president and [Dyer Grossman](/people/dyer-grossman/) its youth director. The Internal Revenue Service declared it exempt from taxes without challenging or investigating its claim to be a charitable organization. [Brother Paul's Children's Mission](/organizations/brother-pauls-childrens-mission/), the camp on [North Fox Island](/places/north-fox-island/) organized by [Gerald Richards](/people/gerald-richards/), was created and operated under its auspices; Richards named the church, the [Ocean Living Institute](/organizations/ocean-living-institute/) and the Educational Foundation for Youth as fronts for the production of child pornography. A letter from Grossman found on Richards recommended setting up "child care" sites under the church or the foundation because of their tax exemptions.[^1]

"There is no church," said Pete Bouldin of the Tennessee district attorney general's office. "It's just a referral agency which distributes pornography around the country."[^2]

### Father Bud's Boys Farm

The writer S. Dovey wrote that [Father Bud's Boys Farm](/organizations/father-buds-boys-farm/) in Tennessee was incorporated under the church and that Grossman created the church on paper; [Francis Shelden](/people/francis-shelden/) and Starchild were connected to it through the incorporation of the North Fox Island mission.[^3]

[^1]: Wright, Marilyn. "Porno Ring Uses Church, Tax Laws." *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1977, reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977, pp. 86-87. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041
[^2]: *Chicago Tribune,* May 1977, reprinted in U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, 1977. https://archive.org/details/protectionofchil00unit
[^3]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It gives New Jersey as the state of incorporation. The contemporaneous reporting lists Boys Farm, Inc., of Alto, Tennessee, as a separate organization and names Starchild, not Grossman, as the church's president. Sole source for the passages so cited.