Holy fuck, I've seen this meme before, but I never knew this. Read the abuse section. It's absolutely insane. They were fighting abuse, kidnapping, and brainwashing allegations literally during the time this photo was taken.
founder is not pictured here, but the one to the far left is Brooke Covington. shes the woman who went to court for physically assaulting a man because he is gay. shhhhyoudidnthearitfromme.
They and the rest of these cults are
Lunatics. Totally brainwashed people that follow them. I just don’t understand why the hell anyone would follow such groups or listen to all these mega church “preachers” who are just in it for the money. Crazy people believe in any of this religious shit.
The book is called Broken Faith. It’s by the reporters who wrote the AP exposés on the cult for abusing LGBT members, physical violence, control and allegations of human trafficking of “servants” from their Brazil affiliate church.
“Word of Faith Fellowship began in 1979, when Jane Whaley, then a math teacher, and her husband Sam Whaley converted a former steakhouse into a chapel”
Holy fuck first sentence and i already can’t believe how trashy a cult can be
Eh, there’s a lot to criticize them for, but this isn’t an objectionable choice. A steakhouse would have high ceilings and lots of open plan floorspace. Plus, it’s cheaper than building from scratch, and when you’re starting a cult, that initial infusion of cash is better spent corrupting local officials and buying influence in the community.
Thank you for the information. I have a grandaughter that says she is marrying someone from area nearby .We have warned her of the red flags in this person &his beliefs. She is blinded by love. I am going to tell her to avoid this church ( they are looking at the Lake Lure area to live ) — Red Flag example: demanding he will only have relationship with her if she cuts her family & friends out if her life — of course he backtracked when she refused - said he will give them another chance ; But, we all know what happens once they become officially Wed.
As church leaders have acknowledged in legal proceedings, Word of Faith relies on a practice known as “strong” or “blasting” prayer. Former church members have described the entire congregation surrounding and screaming at a single member for as long as an hour in an effort to expunge the evil from the person. Church officials say this characterization is overstated.
Beginning with a report by the TV news journal “Inside Edition” in 1995 and culminating in an investigative series by two Associated Press reporters that would become a book in 2020, numerous former church members have come forward and described being physically assaulted during such prayers.
I use archive.is to get around most paywalls. Copy the link of the article. Go to archive.is and paste it into the box and click search. It will generate a short link to their scrape of the article. Here is for the article above about the weirdos https://archive.is/dGgAI
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u/OccasionallyWright 20d ago
They travel to his rallies and they're form the same North Carolina church.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us/politics/trump-women-church-north-carolina.html