Our Beginning

Although this is the longest page, it is also among the most important pages, so please read until the end.

The Start Meeting

After drafting the modernized Ten Commandments, Dan attended his church’s Start Meeting—an introductory session for newcomers. Led deep into the church’s catacombs, the small group of 8 or 9 settled into a cafeteria where a few committee members were already seated, waiting.

The room fell silent when the head pastor unexpectedly entered and began by stating that we should start at the beginning with the Ten Commandments. He then posed a question: “Does anyone know how many of these laws govern the relationship between man and God?”

When the room remained silent, Dan raised his hand and correctly identified that the first four commandments were directed toward God. The room—pastor included—seemed visibly impressed. A committee member in the back was asked to find the Commandments passage in their Bible but Dan interjected, claiming he knew them by heart. Skeptical, the pastor challenged him to recite them.

Dan began his recitation, delivering them nearly word-for-word—though he was actually reciting the revised version he had recently written. He spoke with such conviction that the pastor only stopped him when he reached the ninth commandment, as time was running out for the class. To close the session, the pastor turned the focus back to the group, asking the newcomers what had ultimately drawn them to the church.

One woman told her story. She explained that after dying during surgery, God had filled her with a light and told her she was being sent back to be a witness. When Dan heard this, he nearly fell out of his chair. He did the math and was shaken; out of the less than fifteen people in the room, three people said they had heard the voice of God. There was the woman brought back from the dead to be a witness, the pastor had told the entire church how he was divinely directed to find and save the church and then there was Dan, himself, whom God had entrusted with the Blueprints for a new religion meant to save the world. ( Please continue reading )

The Cost of the Calling

Of course, Dan is aware of ” how far out there” his story sounds—he’s the first to admit he would have trouble accepting it himself. The reality is that he never asked to be the architect of a new faith and often wonders why God didn’t choose someone better equipped. The “job” has already cost him dearly, fracturing his family and thinning his circle of friends.

He has also had to brace himself for the potential backlash, knowing full well that messages of peace often feel like threats to those in power. But Dan has learned that when God gives you an assignment, you can’t run away forever…. His own “run” ended on December 25, 2015. After a lifetime of silence and what had been a very trying year, he finally reached out in prayer, only to find that God had been lying in wait.

“Dan didn’t just find God that Christmas morning; he was bushwhacked by Him”.

Plan All You Want, But…

It all began on a freezing February night while Dan was working sales in Ontario. He had returned to Montreal after sixteen years on the East Coast—a move he once vowed he would never make. Having been away from Quebec for over two decades, he had grown weary of the political landscape and the language laws, swearing he’d never call the province home again.

Fate, however, had other plans. After his mother suffered a stroke that left her with vascular dementia, Dan moved her to Nova Scotia to care for her himself. But a year later, the pull of family became too much for her to bear. To keep her close to her other children, Dan brought her back to Montreal. In what felt almost like a sign, he managed to sublet a large apartment directly above his sister—who was already caring for their two ailing brothers—putting the entire family under one roof except for one other sister who lived with her husband abroad.

After over a decade of caregiving, a second fall—resulting in a re-fractured hip and pelvis—meant that Dan’s mother finally required professional care. Even then, Dan felt a sense of divine favor; he secured her a home just one street away, allowing him to keep his daily vigil.

The Trumpets in the Night

It was a bright, frigid February night 10 months before that Christmas morning in 2015 when Dan was racing back to Montreal after a late sales call. He was desperate to arrive in time to tuck his mother in. Years of caregiving had created a deep dependency; she often refused food or medication unless he was there.

As a diabetic, her refusal was life-threatening—without her late-night snack, she risked a hypoglycemic coma before morning. He was driving through the middle of nowhere on a desolate stretch of highway, with not a single carlight or building in sight, when the silence was shattered. Out of nowhere, the sound of trumpets began to blast across the night sky. ( Actual recordings on the next page )

As Dan silenced his car radio, the sounds from above intensified, stretching across the skyline from end to end. It wasn’t just a single noise; it was a symphony of different tones emanating from the heavens. Lowering his window, he was met with a surreal shift: the freezing night air had turned incredibly warm and tropic-like, smelling and tasting remarkably sweet. He later compared the experience of what he heard that night to the highest-quality surround-sound system imaginable, turned up to full volume.

Yet, even in the face of the supernatural, Dan’s devotion to his mother didn’t waver. He didn’t stop to investigate; he just kept motoring through the night. While he didn’t dwell on the trumpets at the time, the experience must have planted a seed

Christmas Morning: The Epiphany

After what had been a very trying year, that dormant memory finally surfaced on Christmas morning, leading him to his knees in sincere prayer for the first time in his life.

The moment Dan got on his knees and closed his eyes, he realized he wasn’t alone. It was as if God had been standing there, waiting for him. A sudden surge of light and energy struck him with such force that it nearly lifted him off the floor. The sensation was staggering: he felt a rush of pure adrenaline and excitement, yet an overwhelming sense of warmth and calm. He also admits he felt a slight tinge of fear.

The Three Fundamental Truths

Dan had originally intended to pray for guidance on a business venture called the DIFY Community Store, a project focused on helping neighbors save money through DIY tools. But God had a different “DIFY” in mind. In an instant, the store was replaced. God flooded Dan’s mind with the Blueprints for the DIFY Religion. God told Dan that it would transcend every border and every religion and also left carved into Dan’s consciousness 3 truths:

1. We are all His children. 
2. We are all equal in His eyes.
3. He wants us all to play on and enjoy this paradise He has created for us.

Whether the encounter lasted a minute or an hour, Dan couldn’t say—time stood still.

A Full Circle Destiny

In the wake of his epiphany, Dan was left in a state of profound shock. He was utterly overwhelmed; he had no idea how to start. He had no religious circle to turn to; he didn’t even know a single person who attended church.

A few days later, still in a daze of disbelief, Dan found himself at his mother’s side. Despite what now felt like the weight of the entire world on his shoulders, her needs remained his priority. As he cared for her that evening, a persistent voice in the back of his mind urged him to speak up. It told him to tell Mary-Lynne—an acquaintance whose mother lived in the same residence—that God had spoken to him. Dan braced himself for mockery, fully expecting her to laugh in his face. Instead, she listened intently.

Very much to Dan’s astonishment, Mary-Lynne didn’t doubt him. She must have felt a shared destiny with someone she knew. She told Dan about a friend of hers who had been driving down the road when God spoke to him with a clear command: “Find and save a church.” Her pastor friend followed that voice and did find and save a church and it wasn’t just any church.

When Mary-Lynne revealed the location of this church, Dan was floored. It was the site of his own baptism and first communion—a building that had narrowly escaped the wrecking ball. The “run” was over; the work had begun.

The Circle Closes: A Childhood Reconnected

A couple of weeks later, after Dan had worked up his nerve, he stood before the church Mary-Lynne described and memories of his First Communion flooded back.

He thought back to that communion day decades ago. He had been a handful, misbehaving the entire bus ride across Montreal. He never understood why his mother had been so insistent on that specific church when others were so much closer. Now, the coincidence felt like a confirmation.

What once seemed like an inconvenient journey now felt like divine choreography. He wasn’t just finding a church; he was returning to the very place where his spiritual journey began.

The Retreat into Silence

When Dan finally entered the church and approached the pastor to share that he, too, had heard the Voice. The pastor asked Dan what God had said to him but Dan was still feeling overwhelmed and wasn’t ready to lay it all out yet. He found himself paralyzed by the magnitude of the mission, so he offered only the name “DIFY” before retreating into a period of quiet observation and study,

The Abandonment

For two years, Dan found a rare sense of peace within those church walls. Attending every Sunday, he felt a profound connection to the church of his childhood—a feeling of finally being “home.” He was deeply grateful for the pastor’s teachings, which provided a spiritual foundation for his new path. But that sense of comfort ended abruptly on the morning his mother passed away.

Devastated, Dan attended the service and waited afterward, hoping for a few words of consolation from the man who had become his mentor. Instead, he witnessed something heart-wrenching: the pastor saw him waiting, turned, and slipped out the back door. After their initial encounter in the basement, the pastor had grown increasingly distant. Whether he felt threatened by Dan’s calling or realized that the DIFY Blueprints challenged his own traditional beliefs, he chose to avoid him. That Sunday was the last time Dan ever set foot in that church.

From Hurt to Healing

Years later, Dan’s perspective has shifted from resentment to empathy. He had recently watched a few of the sermons online. The pastor spoke of the church’s struggles during the pandemic, as the congregation’s numbers had declined and didn’t recover. Dan could also see that the many entertaining musical guests who performed before and after the sermon were now reduced to a single group led by the pastor’s wife. The pastor also told of his own personal trials, one of which included a direct attack on his life while he was inside the church.

Today, Dan bears no ill will. The abandonment, though painful, served a purpose: it forced him out of the comfort of the pews and into the world to fulfill his role as the Architect of DIFY. He has moved past the slights of the past, focusing entirely on the global mission ahead.