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Thanks Paw... I enjoyed looking at those... IT reminded me of all the fun I did have, only now it is remembered with an understanding of the real intent of the ministry. Seeing those pictures reminded me of why I got involved and that sometimes what you see on the surface is not what some thing is inside.

IT helps me to understand why I got involved and why so many others got invovlved.

When people ask how my husband and I met I just say we were involved with a ministry and we met through it. I explain we were both on a one year mission in the same state and that we kept crossing paths. When we became unhappy with the way things were changing and our lives in the ministry we decided to leave.

When i am asked about my WOW year I call it a mission where I took one year of my life to serve God and learn more about him and focus on his word for one year.
That is what I was doing... I was pretty much oblivious to the whole Cult Aspect of it. Now Of course I am completly clued in. But it is what I was doing never mind that TWI was all about me bringiong in Money for their Coffers. I realize it now but at that time I was a naive kid.

I still speak in tongues but not like I did in TWI .. and when I first left TWI I stopped praying and SITing for a while.. Now when I am stressed or am praying for some one and don't know what to say or I just want to Praise GOD I speak or Sing in Tongues..
I don't know what it is... and I only do it in private now.. never in front of other people... it is private between me and God. IT is not every day or even every week sometimes I will go a long time without doing it.

For me I don't always have the words to say what I feel to God... My thankfulness for the life I have sometimes is overwhelming and that is when I SIT. OR when I am trying to sort through a situation and I can't find the answer I need I will SIT to remove my spinning mind from the equation... to give me a moment of Peace.

LOL at the Prince tale.

Back in my day it wa Barry Manilow that took the class etc.

We left of course long before LCM got really rolling, but we left in the middle of the night, and we spent the next few days on the road, literally terrified that GOD would strike us dead for leaving the ministry..this was in 83 by the way...
What kind of Ministry teaches you to be terrified of GOD, and that God would be so angry at us he would kill us for not being part of that ministry?

The most evil vile kind.


And before you say it, now, I wondser how I could have bought into that? But when that is what you are hearing,constantly, how could you not buy into it?

Free to be me should be my new moto LOL!

Once we left we just had a regular life, we are blessed and have been very happy, We have two beautiful successful Daughters we have our own home and we have fun together, and all out side the Way Ministry.

I never regret leaving and honostly, coming to Greasespot has helped me to see just how evil The Way International really is.

Edited to fix some of my errors(commas are so important) and to add Hubby was Corps and I was in charge of Childrens fellowship.. Not big wigs but leasreship none the less.