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Jones insisted on attending Bloomington's Full Gospel Tabernacle, but eventually compromised and began attending a local Methodist church on most Sunday mornings. He once leaped off a building's roof to demonstrate his abilities to others, but he fell and broke his arm. Moscone subsequently appointed Jones as the chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority Commission. Jones taught his followers that the ends justify the means and authorized them to achieve his vision by any means necessary. In June 1978, Deborah Layton, a Peoples Temple member who escaped Jonestown six months before the massacre, provided the group with a further affidavit detailing crimes by the Temple and substandard living conditions in Jonestown.

One recurring tactic he used was to tell her that one of her close friends or family members had suddenly died, and then comfort her over the loss, before finally admitting to her the story was untrue. Later the same day, November 18, 1978, Jones received word that his security guards failed to kill all of Ryan's party. Jones was careful to explain that his visit to the Peace Mission was so he could "give an authentic, unbiased, and objective statement" about its activities to his fellow Pentecostal ministers. In March 1977, Marshall Kilduff published a story in New West magazine exposing abuses at the Peoples Temple.Their disagreement was possibly related to Branham's racial teachings or Branham's increasingly vocal opposition to communism. Jim Jones stated beforehand, "For many years, we have let our sympathies be quite publicly known, that the United States government was not our mother, but that the Soviet Union was our spiritual motherland. Marceline Jones announced on the public address system that everything was fine and urged locals to go back to their houses after Ryan left Jonestown for Port Kaituma.

Through the Latter Rain movement, Jones became aware of Father Divine, an African American spiritual leader of the International Peace Mission movement who was often derided by Pentecostal ministers for his claims to divinity. He informed the community that Ryan was dead and it was only a matter of time before military commandos descended on their commune and killed them all. Willie Brown spoke out against the Temple's purported enemies at a rally that was attended by Harvey Milk and Assemblyman Art Agnos.Jones began dating a nurse-in-training named Marceline Mae Baldwin while he was working at Reid Hospital. After being "healed" the person would pretend to cough up their tumor, which was actually a chicken gizzard.