[3] The group was committed to living in the present – "Now is the time" was one of their mottoes – to the point that they avoided making appointments or incurring debt.

[5] Additional prohibitions including smoking, owning clocks, mirrors, or watches, and reading books or magazines other than the Bible.

[8] The Love Family began in October 1968 as a communal household on Queen Anne Hill, Seattle, with their charter being written in 1971.

[3] As more people arrived and settled in the surrounding neighborhood, Erdmann, as the leader, continued to inherit land and homes (primarily from those who joined) in other, more rural areas of Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii.

[2][6] In 1974, plenty of Love Israel Family members danced and sang on stage at the World’s Fair in Spokane, Washington.

[3] This culminated in 1984, when the family returned $1.6 million and 14 Seattle properties to former member Daniel Gruener (Richness Israel) as part of an out-of-court settlement.

The greater community became a social network of autonomous households that interacted through a shared culture they have continued to create together, without the robes and peer-enforced order.

Presently, those that continue to claim membership in what remains of the Family are concentrated in homes and lots on the shore of the Columbia River (Lake Roosevelt), where they own the China Bend Winery, just south of Canada.

They also believe that their gathering has Biblical roots and that their purpose is to help fulfill directed prophecies to benefit man and the promises of Jesus.

A few family members continue to be renamed (and newborns named) to remind all that each person's character is gifted with a predominant attribute such as Charity, Honor, Honesty or Contentment, that may already be who they are or part of where they need to be.