Thread by @johnhsather

1. Fear & intimidation run wild in the Christian org we fled two years ago with an NDA. Because of the nature of the abuses to us & other missionary staff, we consider the abuse issues to be very serious & urgent in being fully disclosed.

2. Unless there are significant steps taken to address the abuser(s) & the organization’s practices, it seems this story should be exposed to the public regardless of our NDA's. (My abuse ended in PTSD & my great struggle at the time of signing the NDA was my disassociation/fear

3. Word clearly states, “Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent—the Lord detests them both.”-Proverbs 17:15

4. There could be hundreds of staff with similar stories of mistreatment & abuses, who’d come forward to share their own experiences of emotional, spiritual, psychological, physical, harassment, sexual abuse, racism, verbal threats, and a toxic organizational indifference.

5. If the org is innocent these 5 demands should be easily agreed to. This could have happened 4 years ago but the org protected its VP, HR leader, and President and used the org's Religious Order (RO) to control every detail of quieting us & others! RO needs to be fully exposed

6. Our request is the org act on these 5 requests immediately:
"Release us from our NDA's and release the other couple (wife was harrassed) from their NDA's as well. This other couple wishes to remain anonymous currently."

7. "We ask that the abuser(s), BOD, US National Director, the President & those complicit to confess, apologize, & repent of their actions both privately and publicly to us and to the other staff abused. And in a public letter. "

8. "Make financial amends in a meaningful way to all who were abused which would include full disclosure of the limitations of the religious order for current and prospective staff members, and financial settlement to all those deemed abused or traumatized."

9 a. "Hire an independent third-party investigative team to examine and evaluate the organization’s culture and behaviors. This would include investigating staff members and former staff members who have experienced abuse & trauma within the org."

9 b. "We are aware that @NetGrace or @GuidepostGlobal do these types of investigations. The findings should go to the BOD, to the staff abused and to the public."

10. "That the BOD of the org, hire @R_Denhollander , an attorney & advocate, to serve as a consultant & liaison for abuse survivors within the org or who have left the org but were abused during their years on missionary staff with the org."

11. FYI: @BozT @vhobbs5 @curtisfyee @lisasharper @JemarTisby @drcrussell @BryanPickering @cachebarnes @wartwatch @wademullen @KyleJamesHoward @DianeLangberg @RobDownenChron @bobsmietana @spulliam @reachjulieroys @KSPrior @drmoore @danielsilliman

12. @DavidAFrench (The Dispatch) stated about Christian Orgs & NDA's: “Nondisclosure agreements—especially in Christian ministries—are poisonous & enable additional abuse. Do not trust instincts over evidence. Never say, “I know this man, & he would never do anything like this.”

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