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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77. debt
My feeling of guilt and indebtedness only increased when Mr. Dan, aka Pastor Daniel Lee, declared that a room would be built for me in the Big Shine office.
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76. asking for help
While I was working for both the church and Big Shine, I could feel my mental health getting worse.
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75. sin of not preaching
Members were expected to attend a “preaching assembly” every single day, then be sent out to recruit new members.
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74. food obsession
It started when I was cast as a dancer in a WMSCOG stage production and we were all told to diet. I decided to do the keto diet.
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73. family meeting
I found these notes from a “family meeting” with Pastor Daniel Lee among my notebooks.