For Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother david, "Jesus land" Stretched from their parents' fundamentalist home, past the hostilities of high school, and deep into a christian reform school in the dominican republic. Fo...For Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother david, "Jesus land" Stretched from their parents' fundamentalist home, past the hostilities of high school, and deep into a christian reform school in the dominican republic. For these two teenagers - brother and sister, black and white - the 1980s were a trial by fire.