Christ*Biblical-Justice *Empathy*Hope *Gen 50:20*Micah 6:8: The posts on this site are my own personal opinions. They are not read or approved by CityJoy.
Apr 27, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1/ "Slowly, I began to understand that power, deception, and abuse were all tangled up together. People who were highly esteemed and seen as godly were, in fact, deceiving themselves and others in order to commit and conceal ungodly deeds.
2/ As time went on, I saw entire systems do the same thing. Systemic abuse, an utterly foreign concept to me at the time, became clearer as I discovered that sometimes the people of God unite to "protect" God's name
Aug 26, 2021 • 11 tweets • 8 min read
Wow, it was 4 years ago when the abuse of 6 of us (plus others who have not shared) happened by a top VP of #crutoo. I often talk about the other's abuse (as we are friends) & the focus should not just be on me/us. Having said that we tried for 2 yrs on #crutoo to make it...
but the leaders above the abuser, Cru attorney & all the leaders on the abuser's team protected the VP & began a coverup that exists to this day. Plus 4 of us at our lowest moments signed an NDA (which I would never do today). I beat myself up for doing that 😪.
Jun 8, 2021 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
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
Apr 25, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
I was confronted by a person recently, "just break the NDA & get on with it". Not that easy! Some of us who are missionaries do not have a boatload of monies to hire attorney's & once you have been abused (resulting in PTSD) one will fight or flight. I am a fighter but when your
up against a $633/million dollar supposed Christian org; that has multiple attorney's working for them; have a Religious Order that muffles the voices of ALL present staff in the org; & leadership from the President and & BOD who will not do a 3rd party independent investigation
Apr 25, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
This profound quote depicts the VP abuser of a mega para-church ministry. I worked under this narcissistic VP for 5+ yrs. It was hell and it ended with him abusing a number of us in a urban ministry. Gaslighting was 100% in his DNA for nearly everything he did or said.
His spiritual, emotional, psychological abuses; along with his harassment of a staff woman and his constant pattern of threats & secrecy made it impossible to trust him and the complicit leaders over him—who knew what he was doing. The abuses led to PTSD (hospitalization & years
Feb 21, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
As we struggle w/ possibly declaring our story regardless of our NDA we deal w/ the para-church ministry, which abused us & others. The org is so wealthy & so powerful that they would want to squash us with legal proceedings & sue us for damage. Ministry takes in $633 million/yr
and they have an army of attorneys and PR firms at their whim. Plus being missionaries for 45 yrs it's not like we have $$ to spend on hiring our own attorney. But the truth must be told for the sake of other missionaries still there & those who left the org abused and fearful.
