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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27. kids room horror stories
I thought my experience in the kids room might have been an outlier, but after leaving the church, I had a chance to speak to other former members about their own experiences.
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26. kids room
The “kids room” on the Sabbath was no Sunday school. It wasn’t the sweet garden of cherubs that promotional videos would have the general public believe.
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25. kid arc part 1
I had never been interested in kids before, but one day I woke up and suddenly wanted to take care of kids.
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24. no fruit
The messages in the church about bearing fruit were very strong—to bear no fruit was akin to being dead.