The “tea party” movement is organizing and swelling, and officials pledge changes are imminent.

More than 5,000 activists are expected to swarm Lakeview Middle School in Warsaw from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday for the first-ever Indiana Tea Party. The massive coalition will consist of 12 groups from around the state united under one vision - change.

Early ticket sales suggest more than 500 of those individuals will be from Fort Wayne.

“The purpose of (the tea party) is to bring similar and like-minded groups together from across the state to rally support for the growing voice of Americans who are wanting to return to a God-centric, constitutional fidelity with limited government and fiscal responsibility and change the direction that we feel the country's been going down since the current administration took over,” said party spokesman Peter Recchio.

Recchio said that the activists are fed up with the Obama administration's lack of focus on the “moral compass” that they say was present when the county was founded. Under that umbrella falls the groups' discontent that the government is straying from the U.S. Constitution and its spending during a time of economic crisis.

They'll voice those concerns, as well as the plans to turn things around, Saturday.

“The first thing we need to do is stop with any new law that doesn't have fidelity to the Constitution,” Recchio said. “The second thing we do is to stop with any spending of any kind for anything, the same thing you or I would if we were part of this recession. Those are just common-sense things, so we need to return to common sense.”

Scheduled to speak at Saturday's event are Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachman, the Rev. C. L. Bryant, author Thomas Tabback, blogger Peter Heck, state community activist Emery McClendon and tea party veteran and candidate for state office Wes Robinson.

The group will fill the Lakeview gymnasium and adjacent rooms, Recchio said.

And don't think it will be a quiet gathering.

“It'll be impossible not to hear us, because what we're going to tell local, state and federal officials is anybody that doesn't pay attention will have a price to pay in the elections,” said Recchio. “The point being here is there are a lot of us, we are the majority, but we are silent no more. America's coming back home.”