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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17. more missions, then nothing
In the months after I got back from New York, the euphoria faded, and I was given more missions—more graphic design, admin work, a team to take care of, choir, offerings, cleaning the altar.
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16. mental illness or the church?
I may have been manic when I joined the church and made irreversible mistakes as a result.
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14. no boyfriends allowed
Thomas and I entered a secret relationship right around the time I joined the church, after I broke up with my French boyfriend.