Sam Fife

Samuel Drew Fife Jr. (September 1, 1925 – April 26, 1979) was an ex-Baptist preacher who founded and became the principal leader of an international non-denominational Charismatic Christian group known as "The Move" and the "Body of Christ".

Following a period of self-admitted deception, in 1963 while attending prayer meetings, Fife felt he had received the true divine revelation.

In fall 1971, believing the Tribulation and Second Coming of Christ were near, Fife began to preach a message that the end-time saints must go to "the wilderness" "to the place God had prepared for the woman."

Soon after, thousands of his followers left their homes, jobs, and security and moved to locations in Canada, Colombia, and Alaska to establish communal farms in isolated areas.

Fife and three of his American followers died on April 26, 1979 when the private airplane he was piloting through heavy fog crashed into a mountainside in Guatemala.