I had the privilege of being on my sister Ruth's podcast, The Beautiful Kingdom Builders. Almost a decade ago she launched a Facebook group with the purpose of advocating for women, justice, victims of abuse, and healing from church hurt ... her following on that page has grown to more than 75,000 people, which is … Continue reading The Beautiful Kingdom Builders podcast
Honestly, I thought I had said everything I needed to say about the abuse that happened at the Ethnos360 (formerly New Tribes Mission) boarding school I attended. You can find links to all of those posts here. And then I started making TikTok's of me reading my old journal entries from when I was 15 … Continue reading Ethnos360’s Handling of Rich Hine Revisited
As someone who spent a number of my teen years as a missionary kid (MK), historian Holly Berkley Fletcher’s The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism hit home in powerful ways. As an MK herself, she manages to put words to experiences, questions, and disillusionments that are common to the missionary kid experience. … Continue reading The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism [Book Review]
Ethnos360’s (formerly New Tribes Mission) decision to not list the physically abusive missionaries and the deceased sexually abusive missionaries discovered through their investigations mean that men like Rich Hine, who passed away, have not been publicly named by them, regardless of how many victims he may or may not have had, known and unknown. This … Continue reading Ethnos360’s Silence Around Rich Hine
It's been years since I've written about Ethnos360's (formerly New Tribes Mission/NTM) mishandling of their members sexually, physically, and spiritually abusing MK's (missionary kids). You can find my past posts here. Why the delay? Honestly, it takes me time to process and collect my thoughts. In 2019 Ethnos360 released a statement about the past abuse … Continue reading Ethnos360’s Abuse Report Still Falls Short
In the early 90's, I was a victim of abuse at an Ethnos360 boarding school. Over the past decade, the betrayal I have felt from the leadership of Ethnos360 has been far deeper than that of my abuser. Through their manipulation and misleading of former missionary kids (MK's), rather than bringing healing, Ethnos360 has instead … Continue reading Ethnos360 Victimizes Survivors of Abuse
According to Ethnos360, I was physically and emotionally abused by Al Lotz as a fifteen year old at Ethnos360's (formerly named New Tribes Mission) boarding school in Bolivia. After two and a half decades, and years of investigation, the mission has found a "preponderance of evidence" to support this allegation, however, they would prefer that we … Continue reading Ethnos360 (New Tribes Mission) Continues to Protect Abusers
I'm proud of these former missionary kids from Ethnos360 (formerly known as New Tribes Mission) having the courage to bring painful truth to the light. Ethnos360 has not done all they can to protect victims and future victims; particularly in light of their refusal to disclose names of abusers they discovered through their recent investigations. … Continue reading Former New Tribes Mission (Ethnos360) mk’s speak out on alleged sex abuse