Brenda Phillips is a Baby Boomer born in Toronto in 1954 when cars had wings and milk was delivered to your door in glass bottles. She lived a somewhat sheltered life in Swansea Village until her peer group changed upon entering Western Technical High School. At a time when America was sending young men to Vietnam to fight a war they would ultimately lose, protesters were being shot on their university campuses by their fellow countrymen. While hippies and flower children were dropping out of society to live in peaceful communities, her relentless search for the Truth took her on a quest that eventually led to the Children of God, a radical, Christian organization she believed would not only help to find the answers she sought, but provide an opportunity to lay down her life in service to God and humanity.