I Have A Name Part 3 - Highlights From The Comments Section

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other!

There were some important topics that have been shared in the comments of the last blog post; and there are other things that we don't want to get lost in the comments section; so we are doing this blog post as a refresher for what we have learned.  We appreciate Julie's willingness to share.  So many people are afraid to share because they have been convinced through much brainwashing that they are 'gossiping' or they are speaking against 'the Man of Gawd'.  However, these same folks that are brainwashed do not hold these so called preachers to the same standards.  We also want to share what Julie wrote about salvation so that the ntcc transgressors and the victims of abuse will know that they too can find God's Grace.  Here are a few topics:

1.  Gym class:

"Like when he (Kekel) tried to explain sports I thought how dumb can you be. I didn't get a "F" in gym for failing to dress for P.E. for nothing."

Many kids in the ntcc had their childhoods robbed from them.  They were expected to present a note from their parents to the gym teacher stating that it was against their religious beliefs to wear lascivious gym clothing.  Many have shared how this made their children feel like outcasts and how they grew up feeling like dorks because they were expected to wear clothing from the 19th Century.

Not Grant Kekel.  He ushered in a whole new era in the ntcc.  He was not only allowed to wear shorts but he also was allowed to participate in sports activities which had been frowned upon and preached against.  His extra curricular sports activities were so important to Tanya and Mike that they allowed him to wear lascivious football pants and miss church services.  They raised him as a sinner by their own standards; but they don't care.  When Grant finishes law school he'll return as a prodigal son; and one day he will be the one making and breaking the rules in the ntcc.

While Taking A Break From Keeping Us Safe, These Troops Have Fun Playing Football

2.  Sports at Servicemen's Homes:

"Servicemen's homes got in trouble if they even had anything that related to sports on the property. I know I lived in servicemen's homes."

Many can attest to this.  I've seen Davis pull up in his Recreational Vehicle for fellowship meetings and jack up the preacher for allowing members to play volleyball or football.  Many have testified that they were not allowed to have any type of sporting events or picnics or BBQ's at servicemen's homes.  When Davis came around we were all expected to act super spiritual with our bibles and sit in a room while nobody said a word.  How awkward is that?

Not at Kekel's house.  At the 2009 4th of July bash we have pictures of ministers playing basketball, foosball and volleyball.  Can you say hypocrite?  Kekel threw Davis under the bus to justify his own rebellion to the rules.

Poor Grant Kekel! All Those DVD's He Watched On The 'Gaming Monitor' Must Have Robbed Him Of Salvation.

3.  TV and the "Devil Vision"

"They tried to explain away the fact that they had TVs. Oh Julie that is something new in recent years. No it isn't I found their secret TVs a long time ago as a kid.  I found Davis' TV in St. Louis back in lets see 79 or 80 but yet he left his last church since they decided to allow the devil-vision. Hmmmmm.  I was playing hide and go seek in his house when I found it. Yes it was hooked up. You should have seen that trying to be explained and yes I got in trouble for going to the area it was kept."

There you have it.  Long before many of us heard our first sermon against the evil "Devil Vision" we find that Davis had one hooked up and was watching it.  You have to wonder what he was watching. Porn?  I mean what could be so important to watch that he would hide a TV in his house and suffer a young girl to get in trouble for finding it?  If it's not a sin, you don't hide it and jack up a young child for finding it.  I doubt that he was just watching the news on it.  We all heard the stories how Davis left the COG's because they were 'compromising' and had 'Devil Visions'.  Ministers in the ntcc were not allowed to have TV's but here we see the big hypocrite Davis making rules that apply to everyone but himself.   Kekel and Kinson would later follow in Davis's footsteps and usher in the computer "Gaming Monitor" and DVD era.  Bunch of heathen.

Poof!  You Now Look Like You Are Of Legal Age To Marry That Older Preacher!

4.  Tanya and the Pentecostal 'Poof':

"Oh your comments make me think of the poofing the front of women's hair. I remember they said It was important for women to look older so minister's wives wouldn't be looked down upon for being so young.

So having a 14 yr old poof their hair is going to gain more respect no that just gained more guys looking at them. It does no good trying to make a 16 or 20 year old look like their 35. It is like an 85 year old trying to dress like a 15. It looks insane and for those that have trouble poofing their hair it makes them look stupid. So I look my age or younger then let me do a happy dance.

It also makes me think of the big deal about knowing a minister's age is such a bad deal. Well if you know the minister is 23 and he says something stupid then you can chalk it up to his age. If you think the 23 year old is 35 then you think worse of him then you would if you knew his age.

I will never forget the day I had to start poofing my hair. I was 14 years old. I had already been wearing pantyhose and high heels since 11 years old. Tanya Kekel came over and took me up to the sttic in the Lakewood house which was my room. She sat me down and without warning began poofing my hair. I began to cry for I didn't want the hair do. I was told I would get the belt if I didn't stop and go forward with a willing attitude. I feared who would be giving it so I numbed the pain away. (My father or Kekel) The next month I was told who I was going to date and eventual marry.

As far as hair pieces many many women wear them in the borg. There is so much to say."

This is disturbing on so many levels.  It exposes the culture of what kind of expectations exist in a child's life growing up in the ntcc.  It's no wonder that so many of the kids that grew up in the ntcc, now want nothing to do with this cult. It seems like Tanya was on a power trip of her own and was extremely cruel and manipulative towards Julie.  Under fear of getting the belt from either Kekel or her Dad she forced back tears and endured the humiliation.  The ntcc is a freak show.  No child should ever have to suffer like this.  This should be mandatory reading for every member and minister of the ntcc freak show.  I would think that if this information were made public to all the members of the ntcc, that at least half of them would leave.  The half that still has a heart.  Do you people actually realize how sick you are?  Is this a healthy Christian environment in which kids should be raised?   I thought my 'sinner childhood' was bad.  I would take what I went through growing up as a 'sinner' a hundred times over what these sick hypocrites are doing to children in the ntcc.  

Matching Clothing With Accessories Is Almost As Important As
 Matching Young Girls With Older Men In The NTCC

5.  Ntcc treating young girls like objects:

"How many remember how your purse had to match your shoes. If it didn't people's lives would be destroy.

Okay who didn't match their purse and shoes? I remember the first time I was brave enough not to match. I thought it was really going to kill me or hurt someone. Ihad no idea others had been doing it for years. People outside the group thought I was crazy but that was all I knew.

I can't count how many times I forgot something in another purse. I would be humilated because I was told if I wasn't so dumb/retarded I would forget to put things from one purse to another. How hard can that be?

Now it is said that was never a rule. Well I am here to say I got in trouble by Davis himself for failure to match."

This is another example of the CULTure inside the ntcc.  As you all can see by now, Julie is not stupid or retarded.  In fact she is a very bright and intelligent woman who has a whole lot of courage and is willing to share her experiences to help other people.  She was treated as less than a human being, and yet she has a message of love and forgiveness and salvation for all.  Rather than choosing to be bitter and angry, she has chosen to share God's word with all who read this. Many of you claim to believe in the bible; so don't get mad at her for sharing what is on her heart.  You should be ashamed rather of the people in the ntcc who you hold in high esteem who are living contrary to the words which you claim to believe. You don't have to follow the blind anymore.  You can be a Christian outside of the ntcc.

Grace and Mercy For All!

Julie shares:

As this New Year begins I don’t know where you are at in your journey. You may be at a point of hopeless. Well I want to offer you hope. You may say there is no hope for me Julie. If you are reading this there is hope for YOU!!
I don’t care how low you have gone you can still go to the top. My heart has cried to the Lord for you this morning. You say you don’t know me. How could you have prayed for me? I prayed for every hurting soul that reads this and God knows your name.

Spiritual abuse can be one of the hardest abuses to recover from because though people can blame God for any abuse, God is more attached to spiritual abuse in people’s mind like no other form of abuse.
You may say I am so mad at God. I have a dog and there has been times I haven’t seen her I step back ending up stepping on her paw. She will make a noise but yet in her unconditional love she wants to still love on me. That is awesome thing about God is he has the unconditional love just like my dog.
You can hate God and he will still love you. I John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

You may be sinking as you read this. It may feel like quick sand to you but I want to offer this to you.
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Matthew 11:28-29
You say that is nice but you don’t know what I have done. I am so shame of being stupid to fall for things I did. I preached to people in a way I feel so guilty for it. Julie, I have said and done things I can’t even bring myself to mention. God has something to say to you.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18

Though the error of your ways seems great, God still says he can wash them clean. You don’t have to carry the burden of your mistakes anymore.

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled. In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight. Colossians 1:21-22

When you repent you become once again “Holy, blameless as you stand before your Heavenly Father without a single fault.
We have a very patient God that lovely waits for us to come to him. He will be there whenever you are ready.

I think of a line from a movie that goes like this “ Yous kind, Yous smart, Yous important”. I know it isn’t good English but you are important to God don’t ever forget it.

May this be truly a New Year for you and a good one too!

Hugs,
Julie

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