1 03-01-88 10:16 aps ill., texas, n.j.

   SPOKANE, Wash. (UPI) _ A controversial church has disbanded in
the  wake  of  the  death  of  the  10-year-old son of one of its
members of  untreated  juvenile  diabetes,  a  church  elder  has
confirmed.

   The so-called No-Name Fellowship in Spokane had formed in 1981
and  boasted  about  40 adult members, but it decided recently it
would no longer meet.

   "We are not  meeting  any  longer,"  Elder  Mark  Roloff  said
Monday. "I just don't have any more to say to you than that."

   Spokane   County  Sheriff's  Detective  Jim  Hansen  has  been
investigating the Dec. 20 death of Aaron Norman,  son  of  church
members Bob and Judith Norman.  The boy died of juvenile diabetes
at  his  suburban  Mead home, and the couple's 8-year-old boy has
been placed in foster care.

   The  county  prosecutor  plans  to  review  reports  from  the
sheriff's  department  to determine if criminal charges should be
filed.

   The fellowship, which was founded by former  college  football
star   Doug   Klever  in  Champaign,  Ill.,  had  been  called  a
destructive cult  by  the  National  Cult  Awareness  Network  in
Chicago.

   Church  leaders  reportedly  told  members  how  to live their
lives, how to dress, where to work and  what  to  eat,  and  some
children were allegedly subjected to excessive discipline.

   Because  church leaders have stressed the power of prayer, the
Normans did not take their son to  a  doctor  before  his  death.
Church  officials  have  contended  that  the Normans had no idea
their son was seriously ill.

   The boy was spanked on the advice  of  church  leaders  a  day
before he died, but the spanking was not a factor in his death.

   The  group, which was dubbed the No-Name Fellowship because it
has no official name, claimed about 200 adult members in churches
in Spokane, Champaign, Plano, Tex., and Passaic, N.J. The  status
of the other churches was not immediately known.

   Elders   of  the  Spokane  church  reportedly  have  moved  to
Champaign.