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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67. perfect
I’ve been diagnosed with scrupulosity OCD, which means I have obsessive thoughts that I might be a bad person and compulsive actions to “correct” my behavior or reassure myself that I’m not bad.
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66. big shine
After working for the church for about a year, I was recruited into the head pastor’s company, Big Shine.
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65. fragrance of zion
Fragrance of Zion refers to the WMSCOG custom of getting up in front of the whole congregation to share spiritual story or realization.
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64. meeting “mother”
I took a trip to Korea in 2015 to meet Zhang Gil-Jah, the church’s proclaimed spiritual mother. I was so excited to meet God in the flesh.
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63. grammy’s quilt
One of the projects we worked on in the graphics team was the Mother’s Love Art Gallery.