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Damien Daville
Founder of the Vampire Church
Question:
"The Vampire Church is a huge organization. From what you have said in
the past, it has grown beyond what you had as an original concept. In
hindsight what would you do differently if you were building such an
organization today? And are there changes that we can expect to see in
the VC of the future?
Greetings..
This is a good question but also a difficult one. I have often thought about how I started
the Vampire Church and how it has changed over the years. I brought the group online in 1996
and began with just a few people. It was an easy group to manage then and I never thought
back then that it would ever get the attention that it does now and has for some time. I
thought that with what I knew about real vampirism, I would be quite exclusive from what I
saw others doing at the time with portraying vampirism as a lifestyle, which it is not. I was
looking for people who have the real vampire condition, an energy deficiency for life giving
energies, not role players.
After the first year, I thought I should open a public discussion group for people as well as a public
website for the purposes of educating people about real vampirism. That is when interest and
traffic to the Vampire Church picked up and within a couple of years I found myself in a
situation where I could no longer do the management responsibilities without more time and
effort. What really helped me was meeting some people who were willing to give
their time and efforts to helping me manage the programs the Vampire Church has been sponsoring.
If it had not been for that, there would have been a lot less I could do. While the idea of
asking for membership fees came up, I decided that asking for the free labor of people would
be the way I would go. I did not want to appear like I was "selling" vampirism like I saw some
others doing.
Now, I have come to the point where I have no more additional time I can give to the Vampire Church and
that includes accounting for the current help I am receiving from members. The older I get, the
more difficult it becomes for me to give on the level I am doing so. It is an effort to
answer email, manage the website, and produce the VC Magazine. I have no other time for other
involvement. What would I do different? I would probably change little, but I do wish I
had been more exclusive and kept the group smaller. I could have been a more effective
manager and leader.
What do I see for the future? I still see the group doing what it is doing
today. I know I will be scaling back on the amount
of effort and time I give to the Organization. I just don't have that to give anymore. I am
sure this will affect in some way the programs I offer. I have learned to expect little from
people and to be more discriminating in whom I choose to work with. In hindsight, I have learned
much about being an effective leader and manager of this group which includes knowing how much
you have to give. I have learned that one cannot work one job and then expect to manage a group
the size of the Vampire Church, and that is the mistake I have made thinking I could. That I
would change in hindsight before starting such a group the size of the Vampire Church.
Regards..
Damien Daville
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