Hi Seekingsusan I too have members of my family who still go to Struthers. I know how painful that can be, however they are our family and we have to go on loving them in the hope that someday the truth will triumph. I understand why they would still want to go there. I myself found an amazing presence of God. That is one thing I can never explain to anyone, If the abuse and false doctrine, a
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Dear out of it I can only say again how sorry I am about your experiences at SMC, however its a good thing that lovealways has done. I will explain why. To start with she along with many others, were given false information about you. Now you are on this forum letting people know the truth about what really happened and that has to be a good thing. If more people would come on this forum and
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Dear out of it I am sorry if you have been upset by anyone on this forum. but to be fair and help you understand, the victims themselves have obvoiusly been fed a lot of false information from the leadership in S.M.C. about the situation regarding your wife. This as you will know is the normal procedure in S.M.C. regarding people who leave. Do not let this put you of from adding your voice to
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Hi Rensil I know what you mean by the other branches of S.M.C. having the same abusive system in place. I would like to point out to you, that the Pastor of the Cumbernauld branch is more known for her so called decernment than anything else. She holds great sway over the other branches of Struthers and her word is paramount in the church as a whole. I do believe that many an unsuspecting so
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Hi remoderator the answer to your questions dated 6-17-2002. All the time I was there I never knew or was I ever told where any of tithes and such like went. Also how pastors were hired, I was told God put them their, not sure what God they mean't. There was never anywhere you could ask or complain to about anything you thought was wrong or even illegal. As far I know S.M.C. is and always
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Hi Lorna I believe what you say, however that does not mean that it is the same for others who have been there, or even for the ones that are still there. If you haven't recieved any of "the special treatment" then you must be one of the chosen who only get encouraged, or maybe you are related in some way to one of the leaders. I do not know your situation, but I know this f
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Hi ANON for every healing and deliverance that happens in S.M.C. there is is a life that has been and is being systematically destroyed by the leaders of Struthers Memorial Church. The healings are being manifested by the grace of God he is the healer they are the abusers. I think you are rather confused in you reasoning of this situation. If God decides he wants to heal one of his chidren th
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Hi Covlass Thank you for your prayers. Is has taken me a while to speak out about this one, reason being I felt really stupid that I sat so long under that kind of abuse, while I happily gave my tithes every week, as well as my time in doing things for the church coffee shop. I knew also that no one would believe me. I had known there was something very wrong for a long time, but I could not
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Hi all My experience of S.M.C. When I went there at first no one was allowed to talk to me. The Pastor of the Cumbernauld branch seemed to hate me on sight. The time I was there I was emotioally abused. The abuse was very subtle it came in the form of; giving me dirty looks at every meeting, throwing remarks at me from the platform while she was preaching, ignoring me, saying and doing very u
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