Our personal story |
posted on other sites |
The violent hostile take-over by western workers in Vietnam 2013 |
|
---|---|---|---|
More info on the Alberta mass-excommunication. |
Recent
Documents |
||
|
|||
New ZealandSecond man linked to 'The Truth' 2x2 religious sect charged with sex crimes2024-11-29 |
Shared on FB group
2x2 ChurchUp dates
|
||
The prime reasoning by these self proclaimed 'Servants of God' is that internal bible interpretation is sufficient regulation... Additional regulation in life should not be applied or regarded. (Drivers licience??) |
Minnesota – Iowa Ministry offically Rejects CSA Policy 2024-11-17 Published on "Wings for truth"
|
||
Clickable image |
An journalistic article to be published in the winter edition of the
Chatelaine
magazine in Canada 2024-11-09 Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group
|
||
Analysis of the Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) by Workers
John E. VanDenBerg, Ph.D. October 10, 2024 Published on "Wings for truth"
|
Hard to understand the official 2x2
dishonorable response "Sexual abuse is an insignificant problem" |
||
Potential long-term effects of child sexual abuse2024-11-07
|
The disregard for the extensive mental damage done in Sexual Abuse is blatently unique for 2x2ism. As well, 2x2isms unique willingness to harbor known sexual abusers in closed social circles is an afront to basic honor and dignity in the normal world. |
||
A quote:"Understanding how the cult operates from within, I can speak to the ways in which it disrupts the core identity of every individual under its power, creating layers of distortion that disorient those born or brought into the system." |
Lauren
Rohs letter about the role AFTT has played in the ongoing ugly and
corrrupt CSA issues within
the 2x2 organization 2024-11-03 Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
||
Recent (2024-10-21) 5 year conviction 2024-10-26 Shared on FB group 2x2 ChurchUp dates
|
Posted here as a reminder that these issues are not just something of the past. Neither is the extensive cover up and crime acceptance by senior workers. |
||
Comox Valley woman alleges child sexual abuse by a church minister2024-10-24 Shared on FB group 2x2 ChurchUp dates |
Lyndell Montgomery A region on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada |
||
Shared on
'Exposing
Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
COMVOX VALLEY RECORD Part 2 of a 3 part series from Canada 2024-10-16
|
||
From the owners of a Belgian convention grounds Letter to Overseers and Ministers in Europe 2024-10-13 Published on "Wings for truth"
|
This is the letter itself ..
quite long! 2024-10-13 Published on "Wings for truth"
|
||
WINGS Note: The Advocates for the Truth team have reported statistics for current allegations against US male workers:US male workers with allegations who are still living
– 100 The following report provides detailed analysis of prevalence. |
CSA
Prevalence in US Male Workers 2024-10-13 Published on "Wings for truth" |
||
47 specified sexual abuse convictions within 2x2ism 2024-10-12 Published on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group These are direct convictions!!
-- As well, there are 100s and hundreds of allegations that are still under
investigation or haven't yet been taken up in the legal system. To remember, is that for every typical conviction and allegation multiple victims have most often been targeted and abused. This indicates that numbers are in the thousands within the fellowship who have suffered life destructive abuse.
|
Compiled and published by Pamela Walton
|
||
Is there forgiveness for wrongdoings in alcoholism?
Yes of course there is. ---- But this forgiveness does not change the diagnosis
of alcoholism and this of course includes long term (often lifetime) suitable
constructive restrictions. --- Refusal to deal with the scientifically so well defined risks for relapse, is irresponsible at best, and clearly criminal in western society. This is what is happening within the 2x2 fellowship now. (And has been systematically happening for the last 100 years.
|
|||
This is a very major development within the "2x2
reform movements". Amongst other things he has been prime figure in the "WingsForTruth"
2x2 information
service since its founding. A good and valued friend of mine going back to some of my first years in the work 55 years ago.
|
2024-10-05
A
final communication as an 'insider' from Bruce Murdoch to 2x2 leadership
Now with the recent defections of most of the most honorable long standing
remaining forces in membership – the remaining participators have downgraded
themselves to a group of either the "willful ignorant" .. or to those with a
basic non-interest in basic decency or moral honor.
|
||
An example of an extremely low moral standard in a so
called Christian group Perpetrator support och complete victim disregard! |
Article from BC Canada The Chilliwack Progress Welcomed back to 2x2 fellowship upon being released from a prison
sentence for sexual crimes.
Cited on FB group 2x2 ChurchUp dates
|
||
News report from Albany county, New YorkReligious group with Albany presence holds dark secretCited on FB group 2x2 ChurchUp dates 2024-10-03
|
Just another public news media report of the extremely dark side of 2x2ism. | ||
2024-10-01 An open Letter to Mike Hassett and Merlin Affleck re Aaron Farough Published on "Wings for truth"
|
2024-10-01
Aaron
Farough convicted and imprisoned for of sex crimes involving rape of 12 year old
girls
|
||
Another public news article about 2x2 sexual abuse in
California A quote from the article: At least 982 perpetrators have been reported to AFTT, and over 2,000 survivors have reported their abuse as of the most recent count in August, according to the group.
Cited on FB group 2x2 ChurchUpdates |
From Fresnoland news media in California 2024-09-29 |
||
Clickable image
|
Former Australian worker, and New South Wales overseer, Clyde
Mackay, has been named in multiple allegations of childhood sexual abuse and
sexual assault. . Clyde was in the work from approximately 1959 to 2022, when he stepped down from his position in the ministry. . Multiple workers were aware of Clyde’s crimes prior to him leaving the ministry. Posted on FB group 2x2 ChurchUpdates Cited on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
||
William Stephen Easton admits 55 child sex abuse charges while member of Two by Twos
Cited on 'Exposing
Abuse: 2x2s' FB group Published on "Wings for truth" |
Former worker
2024-09-24
|
||
I could never have thought that it would come to this. The approval and disaproval of our fellow men!! |
2024-09-19 Craig Winquists plan to stop the wrong people from listening to the gospel at convention From FB group 2x2 ChurchUpdates |
||
The lingering effects of sexual trauma An interesting and authorative article by knowledgable people at the Majo clinic regarding sexual abuse/trauma even in less violent situations. |
I think it is uncontestable that the 2x2 population in
general grossly under-estimates the life damage that sexual abuse is responsible
for. Especially workers have little compassion for the very large body of
victims with symptoms years later. Exaggeration is the first ugly word
that membership will come up with in discussion. And now paradoxly the major discussion in 2x2ism is how to deal with proven perpetrators. |
||
Early September 2024 Open letter to the Dutch Staff Bart Hartemink Martin Roest and Wim Ruvenkamp Cited on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
A comprehensive open letter to senior workers regarding 2x2 Indias wide ranging moral misconduct including Child sexual abuse and many other criminal issues. | ||
Interesting that in a commercial during the Trump-Harris debate an advertising flash for a media report on 2x2 sexual abuse came up. Just 7 seconds -- but anyways!!!! |
2024-09-10
The whole world knows and is appalled yet the "bubble folk" still keep their noses high and haughty with their claim to a monopoly on their ugly home-made "perfect way" |
||
Secretive church under investigation by FBI holds annual York, Nebraska
convention
Cited on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
2024-09-07
Ridiculous, ignorant and dishonest attempts to deflect guilt for the crimes involved |
||
I just noticed this article posted a couple of months ago regarding 2x2 sexual abuse in Australia |
Posted here
2024-09-03
FBI investigating Two by Twos for historical child sexual abuse claims in
Australia |
||
Posted here
2024-09-03
Investigation from Boise Idaho |
Another comprehensive video report done by local media on the sexual abuse issues within 2x2ism | ||
A video interview from June but posted here 2024-09-03 ABC7News interview with the older "worker" Gary Paul California |
An interesting interview explaining a 2x2 point of view regarding the sexual abuse issues of today (and why women shouldn´t wear pants!!) |
||
A video article from Spokane Washington regarding the "Massive FBI sexual abuse" investigation within 2x2ism throughout the world |
Posted 2024-09-02
Cited on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group
|
||
Another news media report on 2x2 history in the
sexual abuse that the group itself denies and diminshes to a 'non-significant
issue' Note: On the right side of the newspaper page there are a number of links to other articles regarding 2x2 sexual abuse reports Shared from FB group
2x2 ChurchUpdates |
Former member of Two by Twos sect arrested for alleged historical sex offendingPosted 2024-08-31
|
||
Posted
2024-08-25 The sinister Scottish cult at the centre of a global FBI probe into thousands of abuse cases Cited on 'Exposing
Abuse: 2x2s' FB group
|
One of the only reasons that 2x2ism has excaped
accountability for the the ugliness of their organizational policy .. is
the "under the radar" posture they have managed to maintain. Not any more |
||
Somewhat painful for me as a Canadian with a long history within 2x2ism, to notice the unusually high acceptance of sexual abuse allegations within the Canadian 2x2 organization these days. |
Posted
2024-08-23
Conventions where sexual abuse allegations are clearly disregarded
Shared on 'Exposing
Abuse: 2x2s' FB group
|
||
Posted
2024-08-19
Shared on 'Exposing
Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
This is an intereasting list of the conventions Dean
Bruer attended (several hundred conventions) until his passing 2022 when his
extremely acitve and criminal sex life was revealed. For senior workers, convention tours give a major amount of personal time with little or no accountability. |
||
Posted 2024-08-17 Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group
|
The enormous scale of sexual abuse within the 2x2
organization that is turning up is astounding ... When the Dean Bruer issue hit the light, the suggestion was that it was an isolated instance. Not so! Now literally hundreds if not thousands of cases have turned up. And more are revealed every day. |
||
2024-08-08
Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
Posted 2024-08-16 Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
||
2024-08-06 Darryl Doland arranging special "volunteer" fellowship meetings for sexual offenders Published on FB group
2x2 Church Updates |
Sexual offenders approved and welcomed into
the organization at the same time as hundreds of us expelled and barred
simply for the questions we asked -- or for forbidden loving family
relationships!!
Maximum unadulterated hypocrisy! |
||
Utica SD convention closing 2024-08-02 Published on FB group 2x2 Church Updates
|
A short note from workers (not to be shared except verbaly!) explaining the planned closing of the convention in Utica, SD USA. | ||
If you’re curious if things are improving… Ray Hoffman spoke today at Milford that parents are responsible for the safety of their children.
|
2024-08-01 This was posted on Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group as a quote from Milford convention where the work openly denies responsibility for the sexual abuse that workers commit. "Not our responsibility!" |
||
2024-07-29
|
This is an interesting 3rd YouTube interview with
Laura McConnell regarding her history with 2x2ism, recent developments and
her work with the Australian Royal Commission on sexual abuse.
Also shared on After ‘The Truth’ & Meetings | An Ex-Professing/Two-By-Two Group |
||
Descriptive letter by Coralyn Borecki of 2x2 CSA in Ontario Canada
|
A well written description from Ontario Canada of the systematic 2x2 policy of actively protecting and supporting child sexual abusers .. and of then cruelly degrading and showing complete disregard for the moral and mental welfare of those who were available "sexual abuse objects" within the organisation . Is there a better word than ‘evil’ to describe the active and aware underwriters (participators) of such a long time immoral and well established organisation? 2024-07-2 4Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
||
Sharon Hoecherl Smith
Travel Timeline Credible allegation of child sex abuse. She is a former worker from Alberta (1982-2004) and Saskatchewan (2004-2008), Canada.
2024-07-22 Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group
|
|||
2024-07-17 From 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
2024-07-19
A list of folks with
Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
||
Merlin Affleck Emo convention 2024 "You should put a gun to your head" From 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
|
||
2024-07-16 Published on FB group AFTT (AdvocatesForTheTruth) |
Posted 2024-07-13 Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group
Propagating a lie --- Diminshing abuse |
||
Posted 2024-07-11 Elders letter to Overseer Doyle Smith Published on "Wings for truth" |
Posted 2024-07-10
Kishe Colton Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group
|
||
2024-07-05 A well written letter accurately
describing the extensive sexual abuse issue within the fellowship and expressing
a certain determination to deal with it. Yet it does
skillfully evade the hottest issue of them all -- "How and if perpetrators and
enablers" should be accepted and welcomed in the fellowship meeting culture!" FB group 2x2 Church Updates added the following note.Some added context that we found interesting and worth mentioning is that there are approximately 250-350 church members in the Netherlands, with 12-14 workers assigned to fields within the country.
|
|||
2024-07-03 Workers Letter to Montana Elder and Wife Published on "Wings for truth"
2024-07-05 Published on FB group 2x2 Church Updates
|
This post and the previous are part of the same ugly power-grab sequence. The ultra self-righteous claim to be the "higest power" -- and the right to disregard their own miserable failures.
* AFTT response to this "Fendler" letter Published on FB group AFTT (AdvocatesForTheTruth) |
||
*A very significant recent hard-line policy declaration by 2x2 spokesmen!
This is, in reality an age old 2x2
policy from the groups begining in the
late 1800s |
Harsh letter to a Montana meeting demanding 100% loyalty to "the work" or else! 2024-07-03 Published on "Wings for truth"
The Letter from concerned friends that began fhis violent outburst by the worker in Montana Published on FB group 2x2 Church Updates |
||
Pamela Walton
posts a convention list
|
This is a list of conventions where workers with "perpetrator allegations" have been made welcome. Sadly, Canada is well represented on this list. Note that when 2x2 senior workers have welcomed folks with 'allegations', it also indicates that leadership has choosen to publicly declare the surviving victims as 'untruthful' and that their sexual trauma has been deemed insignificant to the organization.
Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group
|
||
A very sad and touching description of a 2x2 childhood .. written by a very courageous woman in a beautiful non-contentious manner 2024-06-30
Published on FB group AFTT (AdvocatesForTheTruth)
|
|||
2024-06-29 From
"The Brave Truth"
|
|||
Independant |
Another main line media
channel takes 2x2 moral decay seriously.
Published on FB group
2x2 Church Updates
|
||
|
Regarding legal proceedings for ex-worker Lee-Ann McChesney who was arrested Tuesday January 23, 2024 on charges of Sexual Assault and Sexual Exploitation
"Court went well today. We have scheduled another meeting with the Court on January 22, 2025. Pre-trial applications will be heard May 27-28. Unfortunately, witnesses are to be excluded from both of those proceedings. The trial is scheduled for September 8-12, 2025. We had to shift it from the August dates because the Court was worried we would not have a judge available to hear the matter." Published on FB group 2x2 Church Updates 2024-06-25
|
||
|
A work-around by senior workers as substitute for Ellershouse convention Nova Scotia Canada, that was closed at the owners request. (Owners expressed 'discomfort' with recent moral developments in the fellowship ) Information was posted
here |
(NEW)
Kentville, Nova Scotia Canada, June 2024. To replace Ellershouse Convention the
workers are having a three day convention at Kentville, NS. Meetings will be
held from July 19-21 at NSCC Kingstec Campus. No meals or overnight
accommodations will be provided, however, the workers have been in touch with
Acadia University for rooms in their residence. Dorm rooms are single/double
occupancy. There are also suites that can accommodate 4-6 people. Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group 2024-06-23 |
|
In principle this letter says that as long as no forensic evidence gets left behind (witness), molesting children is declared acceptable within 2x2ism and perpetrators protected (This policy is justified by 2x2 bible interpretation!!) Not only have perpetrators been declared innocent ... those who have been exposed and victimized have been condemned as guilty of dishonesty. By this letter 2x2 leadership has clearly accused and determined that the victims are guilty of false accusation--- And condemned to that shame. Highly unlikely they have the slightest forensic proof for this accusation . These victims aren't even mentioned in this high sounding senior worker proclamation of clear self interest
|
2x2 Church internal Investigation in India Finds No Wrong???
|
||
A longer and more detailed 'YouTube' version of the CBC report on the extensive Sexual Abuse issue within 2x2ism Secretive Christian sect under scrutiny for allegattions of sexual abuse in Canada I found this link on FB
group
2x2 Church Updates |
A significant and explanitory documentary (7minutes) including interview input from a number of very credible folks. Folks known for their integrity and truthfulness including Bruce Murdock from "Wings for truth" | ||
2024-06-19
'2x2 Church Updates' response to Darryl Dolands decision |
|
||
The active choice of the ministry NOT to accept or implement guidelines drawn up by the team that was meant to dimish the dangers of the Child Sexual Abuse and other Sexual abuse issues that have proven to be extensive within the ministry and fellowship. WA NID AK Staff Discussion re Guidelines 2024-06-18
Guidelines Team Update |
Somewhat of a pityfull
discussion made in a futile attempt to salvage vanished
organizational dignity!! "There is widespread belief by workers that actions should be guided by common sense and the Spirit, yet that has failed over the last century. Being spirit-led, i.e. doing what I feel is right, has resulted in rampant dishonesty, manipulation and harm to thousands of victims and has violated Christ’s principles, virtues, compassion, truth and even basic justice." |
||
2024-06-14 From 'AFTT (Advocates for the Truth') |
|||
Gary Paul veteran worker interview "CSA is not a problem" !!??
From FB group 2x2 Church Updates |
Gary Paul, current senior member of the WA/NID/AK ministry, offered an interview to ABC. In this interview, Gary states that women should not wear pants, he hasn't seen CSA to be a problem, the FBI investigation isn't necessary, and that the vulnerability of families with ministers staying in their homes is the way the ministry was intended. There are many other highly alarming statements. Please watch.
|
||
Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
Sheri VanDermyden
Autrey
On June 13, 2024, ABC Hulu will air a 50-minute segment about sexual abuse in a secret sect referred to as the "2x2s." Part of the segment tells my story about being sexually assaulted in 1982 by Steve Rohs when I was 14 years old. Since 1986, I have been pleading for the 2x2 leadership to protect other youth from Steve Rohs. They refused. I have since learned that my experience was not isolated, and child sexual assault and sexual assault is rampant in the organization. This has caused me to commit a significant part of my life to expose the widespread abuse in the 2x2s to protect others. When I started this mission of exposure, I could never have predicted that 38 years later there would be a documentary exposing the massive amount of crimes within the 2x2 organization. I could never have predicted that my experience was just one of thousands; that countless other survivors like myself had been silenced for decades; or, that the 2x2 leadership would protect and promote pedophiles and perpetrators within the organization. Now, the crimes and corruption of the 2x2s is finally brought to light for the entire world to see in this stunningly accurate and factual documentary produced by Lauren Lantry of ABC. Despite having to relive the abuse, I feel honored to be a part of this project. I am filled with gratitude for the research and integrity that Lauren Lantry and ABC have displayed through these last several months in producing this documentary. I am only one of many survivors who participated in this documentary. I admire and respect every survivor whose courage and bravery allowed their voice to be heard in this documentary. My heart goes out to all survivors of the corrupt 2x2 organization. My hope and prayers are healing for each and every one of you. https://www.hulu.com/.../af1993c5-df67-4d5d-b1e9...Together we are making a difference~ |
||
A key term in recent discussions about 2x2 moral issues is "allegation." An allegation is essentially a well-founded and shared suspicion/suggestion of some form of misconduct. It does not necessarily require forensic evidence. When evaluating an allegation, the burden of proof need not rest on the identified victim but more on the alleged offender. The term "allegation" then remains active until the matter be conclusively resolved |
|||
This post is particularly significant to me because it addresses numerous forms of abuse beyond child sexual abuse. These other forms of abuse are equally pervasive and devastating within the group but have received less focus in current discussions. Visitors to Canada with allegations
(this includes Canadian workers labouring abroad) You will find, in the
following google document, information about workers with allegations, who
visited (mostly Eastern) Canada during the years 1972-2023. ****This document was vetted by investigator Cynthia Liles at AFTT.***Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group
|
A contraversial document naming
allegations of many of the workers with top positions within 2x2ism
Explanation from
FB group
'Exposing
Abuse: 2x2s'
There has been some confusion about the two Google docs I posted. First, they are not mine and I did not compile the information. The owner of the docs asked if they could be shared here and so I agreed. Second, the dates on the document are the dates the worker was attending that convention. It does not mean that they abused someone at each convention they attended. There is also a column that lists their allegations. Third, this was only compiled with a few conventions in Eastern Canada from 1972 to 2023. So it is not a complete lists of all the different conventions across Canada. Lastly, since we don't have the information as to what year they abused someone, we just lists all the conventions they have attended. I hope this brings a bit more of an understanding on how to read the two documents. |
||
2024-06-08 Grant Radbourne of Massey Ontario Canada pled guilty to charges related to childhood sexual abuse Senior workers lack of concern in reporting was mentioned by judge From FB group 2x2 Church Updates |
|
||
2024-06-05 Moral and safety concerns expressed for the convention at Dunville, Ontario, Canada Published on "Wings for truth" |
|||
|
2024-05-29 Yet another account in national news media regarding crime within 2x2ism Religious sect investigated by FBI, NZ Police apologises to child sexual abuse victims Shared on 'Exposing
Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
||
2024-05-25 Another
New
Zealand Abuse survivor speaks out on national media Published on "Wings for truth" |
Another comprehensive (5
page) media report of the abusive policies within 2x2ism |
||
2024-05-23 New Zealand Woman speaks of sexual violence she faced in Two by Twos Published on "Wings for truth" |
A New Zealand media article exposing the ugly and secretive workings of 2x2ism ... and their intricate and dishonest methods of denying any wrong doing. |
||
2024-05-22
Australian News Network Article |
2024-05-22
Australian News Network Article Shared on 'Exposing Abuse: 2x2s' FB group |
||
2024-05-19 Eric Hawkins a worker on the WA/N.ID/AK staff asked to leave the work From FB group 2x2 Church Updates |
|
||
2024-05-16 Published on "Wings for truth" |
A well written and
comprehensive summary of recent developments within 2x2ism. Dr Natalie Bolin, a co-author of this letter, is an Executive Director at Advocates For The Truth
|
||
2024-05-12
UPDATE Robert Corfield
|
Information has been published stating that Robert Corfield (admitted pedophile) has been holding gospel meetings in the Great Falls, MT area. |
||
2024-05-08 Wisconsin ex-worker faces charges Published on "Wings for truth"
|
Evan
Byers was in the work in Wisconsin 1994-2001. He married in 2003 A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10.30 am May 10, 2024
|
||
2024-05-05
NZ Ministry Fail to Alert Friends after US Abuser Visit Published on "Wings for truth"
|
The international aspect of 2x2ism shows its face in indecency and vice!! |
||
2024-05-01 En extensive media (7
pages) report about the darkest aspects of 2x2ism that have come to light in
recent times. |
Hard to understand that inspite of the never
ending reports of extreme moral decay within the group ... they still hang on to
the self-good internal teaching that they are supreme in their standing before
God. That they alone represent Gods people on the earth!!!!!??? They persistantly claim that all other groups on the earth are less favored by God. |
||
2024-04-27
Albert Clark asked to leave the work in
Atlantic Canada and Quebec for allegations of CSA From FB group
2x2 Church Updates |
FB group 2x2 Church Update
|
||
2024-04-24 From FB group 2x2 Church Updates
|
|
||
|
2024-04-23 National Radio Broadcast regarding sexual abuse in New Zealand in a 'secret sect' (2x2ism) (a link to an audio file) |
||
FBI investigates reports of historical child sexual abuse within sect also operating in New Zealand 2024-04-19 (posted by 'WingsForTruth' with links to news items published in New Zealand)
|
|||
2024-04-07
The owners of Ellershouse
convention grounds Nova Scotia have cancelled convention on their property (from Facebook group '2x2 church updates')
Also published on "Wings for truth"
|
|||
Top leadership figure in Alaska
- Dan Lawty withdraws from the ministry (published by WingsForTruth)
|
Di
Lin