MayaPapaya

Wow! Your story matches mine a lot! I always felt like I wasn’t good enough. My mother and stepfather (married when I was 15) were really strict with me. They had harsh rules and I felt like I was being punished for things I hadn’t done or didn’t even think of doing. My father (also an alcoholic) died when I was a senior in high school. She had cut off all contact with him and also any contact with my sister and I. So, she didn’t even let us know that he passed until it was too late to make arrangements to go to his funeral. At the time, they believed that nothing good would come of it.

Renewed Mind is the Key ahahahahaha TWI knew that none of their followers listen to mainstream music and wouldn’t notice that that beat was clearly stolen from Destiny’s Child “Bugaboo”. I love to watch that clip. Those are some sweet dance moves.

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! It’s been fun reading through old posts and seeing some familiar names or hearing about certain events through the eyes of an adult rather than a child.

Hi all! I was brought into TWI by my mother in 2nd grade (about 1992). I stopped attending fellowship as soon as I moved out to go to college in 2002 and haven’t looked back. I was part of fellowships in NC but we also spent one year in WV when I was in 5th grade. We were supposed to go out WOW the year that they canceled it and for whatever reason we (me, Mom, and sister) were placed with another couple of Way Corps people in WV for a year. In 6th/7th grade, I was sexually abused by the adult son of our fellowship coordinators. I told my mother. Rather than informing the authorities