The 1980s Move To Queensland
The move to Toowoomba involved much preparation, including members selling homes and other assets in New South Wales and the Logos Foundation acquiring many homes, businesses and commercial properties in Toowoomba and the Darling Downs.
In the process of relocating the organisation and most of its members, it absorbed a number of other small Christian Churches in Toowoomba. Many of these were "House Churches" more or less affiliated with Carter's other organisations.
In 1989 Logos involved itself in the Queensland State election, running a campaign of surveys and advertisements pushing the line that candidates' adherence to Fundamentalist Christian principles were more important than their attitude to the corruption that had been exposed by the Fitzgerald Inquiry. This controversial action backfired, with many mainstream Churches and religious organisations distancing themselves from Logos Foundation.
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