From what I've read, Bethel World Outreach in Brentwood is still a disciple making church. It is my understanding that Desert Life Church was also. The Desert Life Church is now called Impact Church. It continues to be a disciple making church. Troy Johnson is now pastor of Discover Life Church in Carlsbad, CA. It is also disciple making church. From what I have read about discipling c
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QuotefcultsI posted on here publicly to defend your nephew Lee and I believe your side of the story. I was there at TSU and witnessed how cultish Lee's friends at the time were. Troy Johnson and his brother in law Rudy considered Lee and me too as someone who was "their disciple". In Troy's album "I Will" (a gospel recording of his) Troy refers to his brother in law
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QuoteurbanevangieQuoteGreenaroo The police managed to talk to my nephew's college friend/church pastor a week ago. He claimed not to have had any contact with my nephew for several weeks and didn't seem concerned about his disappearance. Our family thought this was most curious since they were such close friends and both deeply involved with this church. I couldn't help but wond
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I'm not familiar with SRA and I don't know whether this church group induces any of it's members to have false memories. Here is what I do know about this group. When my nephew first became involved with them it was through a campus ministry when he lived with his family in Nashville. A college friend introduced him to it. The group criticized his family's church, (Cat
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Thanks for your good thoughts, Eggplant. I'll try posting this in "Former Cult Members and Affected Families" to see if anyone can enlighten me.
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I originally posted this under Destructive Churches but decided that former cult members might have more information to offer. Have there been other cases of people who are deeply involved with questionable religious organizations simply vanishing? Do these groups have so much control over an individual that the person would willingly go to who-knows-where without mentioning it to any family
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This is kind of a long story. So I'll condense it as much as possible. My nephew's college friend introduced him to a campus ministry at Tennessee State University during the late 1990's. After 2 years at T.S.U. my nephew enlisted in the Army and planned to continue his education when his tour of duty ended. Instead of doing this, he moved to Arizona where his former college
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