Hello! I’m Luca, a former WMSCOG member, and this website is the home for never again, my story about spending a decade in the World Mission Society Church of God with untreated mental illness.
Each chapter contains a written narrative and an audio file that you can also listen to if you prefer. Click here for a full listing of chapters. You can also listen through the entire story in chronological order using this site’s audio player or on Spotify.
This story is incomplete and continuously updating. If you want to be in the loop, follow me on Instagram to read the stories as soon as they post.
Don’t know where to start? How about at the beginning:
chapter one: the hook
Never again will I let my freedom be stolen from me.
Never again will I betray my values.
Never again will I lose my sense of self.
latest chapters
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57. conflict of interest
There was so much pressure within the church to change and to become perfect.
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56. photo (eu)genic
One of my tasks in the graphics team was to select photos for use in media publications and to report to the church’s headquarters in Korea.
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55. still cursed
My daughter would often cry during services. I would take her out because she was disrupting the service and try to soothe her, but nothing seemed to work.
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54. tech baby
After my daughter was born, I spent one unpleasant day crammed in a tiny room for infants in the kids quarters with other new mothers before being granted special permission to bring her to the tech area.
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53. fake photoshoot
Shortly before I was supposed to give birth, my parents drove from Maryland to visit the church I attended in New Windsor, New York.