Warning from someone who was previously a member when this place was called Sword of the Spirit…read more Please don't take this review lightly.
Many years of therapy have led me to finally release my experience of this place.
I have nothing to gain but to know that someone was saved from experiencing the trauma I got from here, or that someone has experienced that there is no need to fear this place.
Why now write this review after so many years? I left thinking that if I was bold enough to leave, maybe others would do the same. Boy, was I wrong. I thought well, perhaps the abuse would stop with me, another lie.
After being contacted by someone who recently left the church and had attempted suicide, as I also tried to in the past when I attended this ministry, thinking it was the only way to escape this place.
I hope to shine a light on those who are afraid to leave, as I was, but now live a life free and healed in Jesus' name.
I was also advised by the detective not try to contact anyone at the time, because they could cause harm. Shortly after leaving, many of the members harassed me at my job, leaving me to restart my career elsewhere in fear that they would try to harm my family and me.
They told me I had a choice to volunteer my time and give, but didn't really give me an option to not do so. I would have to clean the home of the socalled "Apostle," including one room that was filled with guns, which he would preach about how he would use them on people if they came against him.
The most terrifying thing I witnessed was being forced to give everything I have to this place, my body, finances, time, EVERYTHING. If I was to say no, I was threatened, and told that this place was a last stop shop, and that if I didn't obey, I would die and go to hell for disobeying Tyrone Howell I was forced to accept gifts from this man to shut me up, and if I did not take them, I was rebuked in front of the church and shamed. The sad part is that everyone in that church continues to go through this abuse, watch others go through this, and cover it up as the gospel of Jesus Christ.