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  • Ex-Mormon group offers support to those who've left the fold

    10/06/2009 7:15:27 PM PDT · by Colofornian · 26 replies · 785+ views
    Twin Falls Times-News (ID) ^ | Sept. 19, 2009 | Andrew Weeks
    Wondering what that billboard on U.S. Highway 93 in Jerome County that reads "You are not alone" is all about? Jeff Ricks will tell you it's an invitation. Ricks, 54, was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints... That changed in 1993 when a business venture in Idaho Falls went under and he lost faith in the church's teachings about tithing. He expected blessings from paying a full tithe, not the hardship that came from losing his home and business. "Everybody who leaves the church leaves for different reasons," Ricks said..."Everyone has a trigger that brings them...