Comments on: Women ‘mistreated by Mercy Ministries’ - Australia/Christianity

By: julia

julia — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:16:29 +0000

Thank goodness that finally there is some light being shed on the savage wolves in sheeps clothing.

Daniel any website can say anything, doesnt reflect the accuracy of what happens behind closed doors, something that Hillsong and it’s associates seem to have mastered. (that and tax free dollars)

By: Tony Koch

Tony Koch — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:16:58 +0000

The treatment of these women has been appalling. So much hs been uncovered in recent years about abuse in institutions and with organisations such as this lot.
The organisers have no conscience, and not a shred of human decency.

By: N/A

N/A — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:55:13 +0000

Daniel it is a shame that their website does not reflect the reality of what they do to the girls in ther program.

It is secretive in the way it is run, and in the way that young women are not allowed to let their families and friends know what happens to them while at Mercy Ministries.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:54:10 +0000

As a Christian myself I would encourage anyone who feels they cannot cope by themselves to seek professional medical and psychiatric help as well as seeking prayer and support from family, friends and their local church.
While many young women have been helped by mercy ministries it is apparent from these complaints that they have some issues to address as they move forward.
As for secretive - I don’t know where that comes from, anyone can view their website and get a lot of information on what they do. See here: http://mercyministries.com.au

By: Linda Opolion

Linda Opolion — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:18:19 +0000

I was very angered at the article about girls at mercy ministries and the abuse that they recieved. I believe that there has to be a stop put to the beliefs that the mentally ill are the demon pocessed that are mentioned in the bible. I haven,t been involved with mercy ministries but have suffered due to being told that if I delt with my demons then I would be cured of my illness in christian circles. I have been told by christians that they have felt evil in me by their so called spiritual deceirnement.
I was led to believe that the medication only puts a blanket on your emotions and that your not really dealing with the truth about why you are suffering. I was told that at the root of my illnes was a deep bitter root in my life of unforgiveness that had to be delt with which attracted demons.
I was told that if I had prayer that I could be cured of my illness.
I was led to believe that mental illness is a curse so if I had prayers for this to reverse the curses over my life that this would heal me.
If I dealt with my past childhood traumas forgiving my abusers this would also be part of my cure. After 3 years of digging up a painful past which I must say has been like digging up a can of worms that once you start you can;t stop and having prayer for 5 years that this has not been the answer to my illness. In fact I got ill every year due to the stress of digging up the past. When I came to a stage of having enough faith to believe that God had healed me and I had enough guts to get off my medication because I believed that I had got rid of all my demons, I had 8 months of being OK then I to got very very sick. It took me 2 years to get back to being stable on medication again and I could have lost my life in the process of the course of this line of treatment ,what I thought was going to be a cure.
This area of putting false hope into my life of becoming cured has been the worst years of my life and the most painful. On top of that the rejection of being a hopless case and being abandoned by the people who you thought were lovely caring people in church. It has all left me having an unforgiving heart towards all of these people who have fed me what I am starting to believe is utter crap. I have never been so angered with christians and God because of these beliefs due to the suffering I have had to undergo. This is spiritual abuse!! to the extreme. At times I have wanted to run away from church. It has taken me a long time to understand why a loving God would allow this to happen to me. It is not God it is false teaching and I wish I had never believed these christians and what came out of their mouths in the first place. My heart goes out to these girls and their families and the trauma they had to go through I was horrified to find this out.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:29:47 +0000

Many thanks to Ruth Pollard and the SMH for exposing this abusive cult. I know somebody who was at Mercy Ministries a while ago and she was saying similar things. She said she didn’t even get to see a psych or a dietician even though they promised in their information that girls have access to them. She left when she realised it was all a sham because she was getting worse when she was there and they wouldn’t let her talk to her counsellor at home.