The devil is sly. If one way doesn't work to destroy the Sabbath fully, he tries other ways to destroy it partially. One of these ways I've observed is through the feastkeeping movement. Certain ones, Adventists, former Adventists, and other denominations introduce feastkeeping as a necessary requirement which has been forgotten. This seems innocent enough and doesn't seem all that harmful in itself, but once people accept that, then they start introducing other changes. Once you have left your anchor, then you are adrift and soon lured in and become susceptible to other strange ideas itching ears want to hear.
Soon you have the Sabbath split across days, a 12 hour Sabbath, or a Sabbath that starts at noon and ends mid afternoon. If enough confusion and inconsistency is introduced, maybe people will just give up the Sabbath completely. And there's been more than one case where a feastkeeper is no longer going to church, no longer counts themselves as a Seventh-day Adventist, or has given up on God completely.
To promulgate the idea of feastkeeping, one must first decide on when the year starts. And each group picks a day of their own choosing to start the year. Sometimes, they use different criteria different years. You know, as "new light" pops into their heads.
Here are the main ones I have come across. There are several others, but then I would be tempted to title it, the dirty dozen.
Lighted Way, Canyonville, Oregon Where Shauna Manfredine, an alpha-like female, (and Mark) light your path in ways you should not go.
Was listed on 7th day Church of God site:
http://www.7th-day.info/Pages/fot_usa_2016.aspx ?Sabbath Fellowship? Church, was part of the Seventh Day Adventist conference. Sold to those "from many different backgrounds; Baptist, Catholic, Church of God, Seventh Day Adventist and others".
When searching on archive.org, it doesn't show this anymore but found some info at
https://swarkansasnews.com/2015/03/church-in-the-wildwood/ Bible Explorations, Terra Bella, CA Where John VanDenburgh (now deceased) explores new light on all kinds of so-called "truths" for this age.
Unburdened Friday Evenings Where
Charlene Fortsch is probably the most dangerous one against the Sabbath. Rather than outright deny the Sabbath, she promotes shifting it so all those embracing her idea are guilty of breaking part of it.
?This is a very easy study -- and so wonderful to finally have the burden of Friday completely removed. God's way is always better. His yoke is easy, and His burden is indeed light.?
Q: What is the burden of Friday?
A: ?The burden of Friday (at least in the far northern and southern areas) is trying to get ready for Sabbath before the sun sets.?
"and so wonderful to finally have the burden of Friday completely removed."
From the pioneers, Waggoner:
Vogel: in an attempt to support that the first day is to be observed, and made many convoluted statements in such an attempt. He reviews 3 different reckoning the days, dismissing from evening to evening as passing away. Read about his review of morning to morning and Waggoner's responses.
And there was evening and there was morning, one day. (Genesis 1:5 ASV)
So were those terms the beginning points or end points? Vogel says end points. "There could be no evening without a previous period of light." {1872 JHW, WDUS 117.7}
But likewise, one could say, there could be no morning without a previous period of darkness.
Why this motivation for changing when the Sabbath starts?
It could very well be that she lives/had lived in Canada and either she, her husband, or other close family member had Sabbath problems with work.
I do feel for Charlene. I understand that either she and or family have lived in Canada or spent part of their time there. For instance, in December in Vancouver, British Columbia, the sun sets at 4:13 p.m. If you are at Whitehorse, Yukon, it sets at 3:46 p.m! If work requires you to work until 5:00 p.m., that could be a problem for many weeks.
What to do? Change the Sabbath to meet your needs!
So she moves it to start and end at dawn, not sunrise, as that would be pagan. So you just face east and watch for the sun and it's sometime of your own choosing before you actually see the sun. Kind of reminds me of Easter sunrise service.
Timothy Astleford in Alberta, Canada. I believe is a co-author with Charlene and played a big part in misleading her. I have not been able to find much else about him.
An individual in the midwest I do not give the name as they are not advertising themselves.
I see them as a gatherer and distributor, or a disseminator, of all kinds of information. One who has never seen an idea not worth considering as truth and sharing with others.
When Charlene Fortsch said they surprisingly received a DVD about the day starting at dawn, it wouldn't surprise me that the DVD came from or passed through this individual.