Controversy FAQ Interview Question 35

Did you change your name to ACCD from Mashiyach Ministries in order to disassociate from criticism on the internet attached to the name Mashiyach/Momentus?

On our history on our website, we mention that Mashiyach was our former name, so if we were trying to disassociate from that, we wouldn't have it on our website. The answer is no. Mashiyach means 'Messiah'. We initially used that name because the essence of what we were about was to be in service to Jesus the Messiah. But it was too confusing to people. No one knew what the word meant, so we changed the name in an attempt to have a name that clearly reflected what we were committed to, and that's how we came up with "The Association for Christian Character Development." That's part of our history, and we embrace it. It's been part of the journey that God has made for us.

We embrace it, just as Daniel Tocchini embraces his time at Lifespring, and the work that he did at the Catholic Church, and every organization he has been with, because God's used everybody in his past to contribute in his life.

Momentus was the original name for what we now call the Breakthrough Training. This was the first Training Dan Tocchini developed. When Dan developed the Discovery Seminar in 1999, we changed the name of the Momentus training to the "Breakthrough Training". The majority of the defamatory content on the internet is in relation to the Momentus training, now called Breakthrough, and it is over ten years old.

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