Editing Twelve Tribes communities (section)

=== Expansion ===

[[File:TT-literature.jpg|thumb|right|"We Need Radical Change", an example of Twelve Tribes "free paper" commonly distributed at events as a form of evangelism<ref name="Livingasone"/><ref name="a church of their own"/><ref name="WomeninNR"/>]]
By 1989, the church had become widely accepted in Island Pond<ref name='underfire'>{{cite news | title=Vt. Village Warms to Church | date=July 5, 1989 | publisher=[[Tribune Company]] | work =The Hartford Courant |page=17}}</ref> and grew substantially during the 1980s and 1990s, opening branches in several different countries, including the Czech Republic, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Spain, Germany, Argentina, and the United Kingdom. During this expansion in the early 1990s, the group used the name Messianic Communities, until 1995 when the group became known as the Twelve Tribes.<ref name='Palmer2010'/>

Through the mid-2000s, the group remained controversial, with allegations of [[child labor]],<ref name="labor">{{cite news | first=Kenneth | last=Lovett | title=Upstate 'Soap' Cult fined for Child Labor | date=October 4, 2001 | publisher=[[News Corporation (1980–2013)|News Corporation]] | url =http://www.nypost.com/p/news/upstate_soap_cult_fined_for_child_Eoi0z2cBQc5W4LlE1al4FK | work =New York Post | access-date = December 15, 2009  }}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=March 2026}} [[Child abduction#Parental child abduction|custodial interference]],<ref name="amc"/> and illegal [[homeschooling]].<ref name='homeschoolgerman'>{{cite news | title=Fundamentalist Christian Group Gets School of Their Own | date=August 31, 2006 | url =http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2151809,00.html | work =Deutsche Welle | access-date = November 17, 2009  }}</ref> In 2006, the Tribes re-established a community in Chattanooga. This group also established its 12th and final tribe, Benjamin—named after the historical [[Tribe of Benjamin]] of Israel—centered around the [[Southeastern United States|American southeast]].<ref name='Palmer2010'/> In 2006, the group held a reunion in Chattanooga commemorating the occasion.<ref name='Return2'>{{cite news | first=Robert T. | last=Nash | title=Chattanooga Yellow Deli Reunion Draws Crowd | date=April 16, 2006 | publisher=Chattanooga Publishing Company, Inc. | url=http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_83886.asp | work=Chattanoogan | access-date=November 17, 2009 | archive-date=June 28, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628210127/http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_83886.asp | url-status=dead }}</ref> The Tribes opened a new Yellow Deli in Chattanooga in 2008, nearly 30 years after leaving Chattanooga.<ref name="hosts"/>