Native Ministries Northwest of the Washington Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church: What You Need To Know

I was once given an ultimatum when I served in Queets, Washington as a missionary for the Seventh-day Adventist Church: Take my blog down and apologize and be able to maybe stay, or accept the $3000 check that Monte Church and Steve Huey of Native Ministries offered me and get the hell out.

My family and I chose the latter.

I took down the blog.

I did not apologize. 

I left.

One year later I walked through Queets, Washington to see that the church that we left sits completely empty. Native Ministries has not been able to find a replacement for us. When I looked upon the property at Queets Days, I saw that the elderly family from Forks had driven 80 miles round trip to mow the lawn. Otherwise, the house sits there, rotting, while Native Americans live sometimes 3 to 5 families in other houses on the reservation. 

What a waste. 

Native Ministries has many such properties on reservations around the United States. From Washington, Montana, and Alaska, many sit empty on reservations that have housing crises. One of my best friends in Queets lives with 15 other people in a two bedroom house. Meanwhile, the two floor parsonage sits empty one block away. It's sad. And it does nothing at all for the people who live in that town.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church, along with Native Ministries and the Washington Conference could not deal with me questioning Ellen White. They could not deal with me asking hard questions. Instead, I was pushed out. They refused to deal with Jay Coon ending electricity payments to the church so he could build a Creation Park in Forks, the closest town, and one with a dying SDA church. 

The Seventh-day Adventist church is dying, friends. And it has nothing to do with the end times. Rather, it has a lot to do with the systematic abuse that is present as well as the fact that people are researching and realizing that one of Adventist's founders and most revered individuals, Ellen G White, is a fraud. When people are pushed out of the church and a community for questioning, there is a problem. Yet, that's how Adventism works. 

The truth is, I always regretted removing my blog. When I removed it and told Monte Church he said it was good to "let go of anger by removing it." Yet, the blog wasn't so much about anger as telling people the truth about the church. The empty parsonage and church in Queets, WA is a concrete manifestation of that truth that nobody can deny. Every person I talked to in Queets this summer mentioned how stupid it was that the church sits there empty. Some go as far as to call it a cult. I could not help but readily agree. I was learning that the Seventh-day Adventist church was indeed a cult when I was training at AFM. When I was punished and isolated by Jay Coon and spied on by Elder Victor Marshall, I knew for a fact that I was dealing with something I wanted absolutely no part of. 

Ellen White's exacting rules are of no use to Native Americans who live off the land, hunt and fish. To tell them they need to change their lifestyles or God won't hear their prayers is insane to me. Prayer is such a huge part of Native American life, yet no pastor or professed Adventist could rebut the fact that Ellen G White states that those who eat meat are in danger of having their prayers ignored by God. Instead, I was told to "take a break from Ellen White until I was more mature, remove my blog, and apologize for exhausting the Forks church."

I imagine the Forks Seventh-day Adventist church had to already be quite exhausted by following Ellen G White's exacting and all-encompassing rules. In fact, I had found that the members of the Forks church were all quite conservative to the point where they lived and breathed Ellen G. To me, this was a terrifying world, and when I found out Ellen White was a fraud who could not follow her own rules, I knew that I had to tell the world. Yet, the church would not have it (study for yourself by reading https://nonegw.org/). 

Sadly, when I presented information to one member, I was told that they "did not have time to read it" because they were "too busy." You are too busy to question what you believe? You are too busy to realize that you were fooled all your life? Too busy or too afraid of what that would mean for your life? Your identity? Your inner peace? Your legacy? 

If you are thinking about serving with Native Ministries or the Washington Conference of Seventh-day Adventists know this: They will babysit you if you start to deviate. They will demand you apologize if you ask questions. And if you don't fall in line, they will give you money to "leave quietly."

"Are we dealing with a church or with the Mafia?" my wife once asked. I ask the same. 

The church pushes for complete silence on issues that make it look bad. This has always been a point of importance and Ellen White stressed this. But now, with the internet, more people are speaking out. Now my story is live once more! People can research and decide for themselves. No more hiding! No more silence! No more abuse! No more pain! 

It is time to tell the world about the intense darkness that exists in these organizations. 

And I sincerely hope that one day the Adventist church leaves Queets and the people can take back the part of their land that they have lost to another colonizer. 

Adventist Frontier Mission Stories #1: Are You Thinking of Joining AFM?

Adventist Frontier Missions of Berrien Springs (or Adventist Frontier Missions Europe of Cluj Napoca, Romania) is an ministry that is not affiliated but closely aligned to the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church. I was a member of AFM at the very start of my deconstruction process with the SDA church, and it was AFM that jumpstarted that deconstruction process. This article is for you if you are considering joining AFM or have recently joined, or just want more information about Adventist Frontier Missions that their website will not tell you. 

If you would like to discuss AFM with me in more detail or have questions about this organization, please reach out to me at disruptingadventism@gmail.com

I also talk about my time in AFM in great detail in my book "The Ellen White Cult." Links to the chapters are on the right.

I had lived in Ukraine when my wife and I decided to enquire about joining AFM. We filled out the application and sent it in. We were told that it would be better for us to work with the ministry we had been working with previously rather than become career missionaries (which I thought was strange). My wife and I accepted this, and within a couple of months were at orientation with AFM in Berrien Springs, Michigan.

Orientation and training at AFM was a huge wake up call for me. One of the things that I immediately noticed was how broken the people are. Now, Adventists will tell you right off the bat that we live in a broken world. But the brokenness I saw at AFM was far, far unlike anything I had seen "in the world." Everyone, from the teachers to the students wore their brokenness on their sleeves. Now, I loved the people a lot who I trained with. I kind of wish we kept in touch, but I think that they thought I was the devil's toenail. You see, I wasn't raised in the Adventist bubble, and that was obvious from the start. It's like Adventists have a radar on that helps them to discern who is truly Adventist and who is not. I mean, we were taken on as "not really AFM" if you will. We were a part of a special "side project" with Steve Huey and Monte Church and Native Ministries to bring Adventism onto Native American reservations. I look back at that and honestly cringe. How f*cking deluded I was.

Where was I? Oh yes. Adventism is LOADED TO THE HILT with brokenness, and now that I have been on Reddit and talked to people who have left the church I know why. But we were always taught that Adventists who left were deluded by Satan. We were not told how they were abused, touched by pastors and leaders, or pushed out. We were not told how they studied the truth about Ellen White for themselves. Instead, they were deluded by Satan or Jesuits. It's so sad. So so sad! And that's where my beef with pastors like Monte Church, Steve Huey, and Conrad Vine lies. These people should KNOW BETTER! They should have done their homewor and researched. They should care more about the truth rather than their status and possessions. I mean, I saw a video of Conrad Vine bragging about how he should buy "another house in Southern California." Yet, general Adventists are supposed to live in poverty and give everything to the church. FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU********KKKKKKKK TTTTTTTHHHHHAAAAATTTTTT

Now I have gotten off topic again. This is about the RAMPANT BROKENNESS that was like a cloud over the Berrien Springs AFM campus. This is about how almost EVERY career missionary trainee had parents who did not accept them. This is how some had been gravely abused. This is how they could never live up to the exacting rules of Ellen White. How she asserted over and over again that the works-obsessed demon god of Adventism would NOT HEAR OUR FU*KING PRAYERS! 

So, when you step foot into AFM. you can expect to be surrounded by the same broken people who have been raped by the same religion that they think is the truth. It's sad as hell to see. But there's so much more. 

AFM's training program includes a lot of classes on a mix of topics. Some of those classes involve demon possession training. And that's where stuff gets weird. By this time you've already invested a bitch ton of time in the program and raised funds to go. So, the cognitive dissonance is easily pushed aside. For me it wasn't because I didn't raise a single cent. While the Vasiles and Cardonas were pushing away the feelings that they had about "demons going up your [ass] during yoga," my sirens were blaring! While the Vieras were excited about raising tens of thousands of dollars to go abroad, my mouth was on the floor when I was told about the grave abuse that Adventism was full of, and nobody was doing anything about because it's our job to "protect Ellen White's church." 

It was AFM that finally woke me the hell up after ten years of being a missionary. It was AFM that slapped me across the face after an entire adulthood entertwined with this crazy ass church! I didn't want to think it was all as crazy as the Countryside offshoot that I attended before, but now I was seeing that mainstream Seventh-day Adventist was off it's rocker! And I was seeing this in all its glory in the hallowed halls of conspiracy theorist vaccine denier Conrad Vine! Holy FU*K!

I would not wish Adventist Frontier Missions on even my worst enemy

I tried to wake up my classmates to the lies of Ellen White, but they peddle this nonsense as if it's their souls that are on the line. In their eyes, I am deluded by Satan because I refuse to apolgoize and say that I am wrong. How Steve Huey, with the knowledge he has, could sit there and smile through all this bullsh*t is beyond me! How he could later come to my home and tell me that Ellen White was not a false prophet is absolute insanity to me. How they could tell me to "just trust her" or "take some time away and come back when you are mature" is beyond asinine. 

Seventh-day Adventism is a religion where people are broken up into tiers

Adventism is a religion with tiers. If you are raised in it, go to the schools, and have parents who are pastors in multigenerational families you are tier one. I saw this at AFM, and such families get respect. Tier two are second generation Adventists who go to the schools and have done things like coulporting, Pathfinders, etc. Many of them are raising the third generation of Ellen White devotees. The third tier includes people more like us. They were not raised Adventist, or were first generation. They probably went to an Adventist college or high school. They are firmly in the church and know it to be the truth. Now, we were fourth tier imbecile Sadventists. We did not go to the schools. We did not go to an Adventist college. We did not do Pathfinders. We never did coulpourting. We were bound to leave because we were not in the system. Conrad Vine KNEW we were a threat basically because of my background in law and the fact that I went to a Jesuit school. I think he KNEW we were going to see through it all and bail. Hell, he said that right at the interview. He just had no f*cking clue that I would write about it and tell the whole f*cking world!

You see, I was a bottom-of-the-barrel bastard tier SDA who was a liability to AFM. That's why Vine didn't want me as a full-fledged member of the club. I could never fit in because I wasn't indoctrinated in the same way everyone else was! That's why in Adventist circles I used to get the side-eye. I tried at times. Damn, I tried so hard at times. But no matter what, the cognative dissonance always fu*king steamrolled me. I always thought Ellen G was full of shit, but I tried to integrate it into my life because some of it made sense and I wanted to identity with the church I was baptised in as a young adult. 

Now, if you are about to join AFM and are reading this, you probably think that Satan has grabbed hold of me and is shaking out these words. Well, that's on you. I will say this: Ever since leaving the SDA cult I have felt a hell of a lot better about myself as a person. If you are raised in this nonsense you are probably not going to see it in the same clear way as someone who came into it as an adult. But, if you can think for yourself and remove yourself from the Adventist bullshit bubble, then more power to you! 

Conrad Vine, Steve Huey, Monte Church, Jay Coon, and all the others who push this baloney onto others are the bottom of the barrel of humanity. They trade inner peace for cash, and if there is a Jesus who said "the love of money is the root of all evil," then these folks definitely fit that 100%. Their cronies who refuse to research deeper and ask the hard questions are just as culpable, especially in the so-called message of Ellen White who says "sins of omission also will keep you out of Heaven." 

Oh, I'm so glad I'm free. Let the gates of Adventist close and AFM fade into beautiful obscurity. Forever and ever. Forever and ever and ever.

Amen. 

My Road to Recovery After Leaving the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Many people wonder what the road to recovery looks like after they leave the SDA church. To be honest, leaving the SDA church was a very traumatic thing for me. Contrary to what pastors and leaders will tell you, leaving a church that has indoctrinated your entire way of thinking is not an easy process that one takes lightly. It's not a "work of Satan" as some may say. Leaving the Seventh-day Adventist church is traumatic, and comes with a lot of heartache.

This is the church that I spent almost half my life in. I spent ten years as a missionary. I taught at Nile Union Academy in Egypt. I worked with Native Ministries in Queets for close to 4 years. I was a missionary teacher in Ukraine. I gave tens of thousands in tithe money to the church. All of these things are INVESTMENTS that benefit the church in many ways. In addition, each investment one gives the church makes it harder to leave. When one invests in something, to go back on it is an admittance that they wasted money or a resource. 

For me, I invested:

•10 years of missionary experience, most of which was unpaid.
•Close to 20 years of believing, reading, attending church, making friends in the church, etc.
•Not using the degrees I had attained (law degree, masters degree, BA degree), not working "in the world" during this time.
•$15,000+ to the church in the form of tithes / offerings

These are considerable investments for me, especially as a person to come from a background of poverty. 

The fact that I left the SDA church was a miracle in itself, especially after the investments I put into it.

Then one has to look at the costs of leaving:

•Spiritual inner struggle (wondering if I am wrong after all I have been taught, and after hearing about how Satan tricks people into leaving).
•Family struggle (Will my wife accept this? What will other family members say?)
•Friendships lost (Adventists are insular people and are taught that those who stray may persecute them when the Sunday law hits).
•Career (I gave my time to the SDA church. This became my career path. I can no longer work in the church).
•Anger/resentment: For the time I lost within the church. This one is a hard thing to deal with. And many can't get past it. 

One must also look at what they gain when they leave the Seventh-day Adventist church:

•PEACE OF MIND: Learning Ellen White was wrong gave me incredible peace of mind. Not everything that I did was a "sin." I learned that the idea of sinning was largley a human construct used to keep people in place or "in line."
•FREEDOM: I was now free to pursue the life I wanted to, without guilt. I could go into any career or live where I wanted. I was no longer bound by Sabbath rules nor did I have to think it was evil to live in the city.
•FRIENDSHIPS: I could have real, deep friendships with other people. I was not limited to being friends only with other Adventists.
•SELF LOVE: I never was able to love myself when in the church, because we were told over and over again how we were immoral and slated for destruction without constant meditation from Jesus and study of Ellen G White. I realized that I am a lovable person and have many good qualities that others also appreciate.
•APPRECIATION OF LIFE: I now can appreciate the beauty of this life. Now I don't have to spend every moment thinking about Heaven and setting aside treasure there (which meant giving all to the church).

There is a lot more that I have gotten since leaving. 

Despite all the costs, leaving the church is worth it to me. I can not imagine being in such a high-control religion. While there were some good things I got out of my time in the church, I could have got all those things out of the church. 

My road to recovery since leaving the SDA church has been brought about by doing many things:

•Discovering the things that I like that I was not allowed to do or was made to feel guilty about in the church. These things include shopping, traveling, fashion, reading books that were looked down upon, etc. 
•Formally leaving the SDA church: I had my membership revoked and that was very good for me psychologically.
•Being honest about leaving: I tell people I am not a member anymore whenever it is brought up.
•Trashing all Ellen White's books and SDA propaganda: I destroyed so many DVDs that I was given by my brother-in-law. I threw away the Ellen White books that were at the parsonage that we lived at (they are now at the Quinault dump). I don't allow any of that in my home or life.
•Allowing myself to do things that were forbidden but not harmful like piercings, tattoos, etc. that I would have never dreamed of as an Adventist. Same with wearing jewelry. I finally purchased wedding rings for us after leaving the church.
•Creating this blog and writing my book "The Ellen White Cult" has been very healing for me. Writing on the subject of Adventism and helping others find freedom brings me happiness and joy.
•Changing my name: I changed my birth name one year after leaving and now I see my past time in the church as marked by when I was known as someone else.
•Going back to school and starting again without the church being a part of my life: I am now going into a career that is mine, and mine alone! No more fitting it in the constraints of the church or feeling that I have to put the church and its mission first! This is my life, and I love it! 

Some triggers include:

•Going back to places that were associated with my time in the church:

My father-in-law recently passed away and I have to return to Countryside Sabbath Fellowship in Deer Park Washington for part of the service. While this is a trigger, it is also a chance for me to take ownership of the fact that I am out of that world! I am excited to go back and claim ownership of that period of life and my present state as an ex-Adventist. I am also excited to set foot on a place I was supposed to be banned from :) Truly, the SDA church and its leaders have no power over me and that is something that I will keep reminding myself of! 

•Interacting with Adventists

I just remind myself that they are people too, and there was a time where I would have never imagined leaving. I picture them one day finding the freedom and joy that I have found outside of Adventism and realize that I can provide the much needed cognitive dissonance by being kind, loving, and showing that I am only happier now and no less "chosen or set aside" by leaving the church. 

Leaving the Seventh-day Adventist church has been incredibly good for me. From Countryside to Steve Huey, Adventist Frontier Missions, and Native Ministries, the SDA church has been loaded with periods of grave spiritual abuse. But I found freedom and I am claiming the goodness that has been a part of life outside of the SDA umbrella! It feels good to be free!

What to know what lead me to wake up and finally say "adios amigos" to the Seventh-day Adventist Church? A book about offshoots and the realization that the mainline SDA church was no more sane in the end. Ten years of missionary work before waking up and seeing that the damage, pain, hurt, and trauma that so many Adventists had in their lives was largely caused by a church that holds people down to archaic and damaging rules based on one woman's disdain for pleasure. Welcome to "The Ellen White Cult."

Review of the Port Angeles Seventh-day Adventist Church

Port Angeles. A small city nestled in the heart of the Olympic National Park. Located on the northside of the park, against the Straight of Juan de Fuca, this little town is home to many things. Straight Slice Pizza, The Olympic National Park Visitors Center, and Alkemy Explorations are all some of places that grace this town. Another place is the Port Angeles Seventh-day Adventist church. This is my review for that establishment.

I have graced the hallowed halls of this church once or twice, but what really stands out about the PA SDA church is the pastor. Jay Coon is unlike any other pastor I have ever met in some ways. A real "Go Getter" is he. And that is admirable in some ways. However, what is not admirable is the fact that once you get on his bad side, he will cut you out faster than you can say "bread and blood."

Pastor Coon was my overseeing pastor when serving as a missionary in Queets, Washington (see the book "The Ellen White Cult" on the right. When I questioned the truth of Ellen White, Coon decided that he had to punish me. How? By ending communication with me and cutting off the electricity for the Native American church in Queets and parsonage! Even though I was an UNPAID MISSIONARY, Coon decided that I should pay for the church, rather than the Seventh-day Adventist church paying for its own church plant's electric bill! 

In addition, Coon had been overreaching and abusing his power in other ways. One such way was buying an RV to sleep in at the Forks Seventh-day Adventist church AGAINST THE WISHES OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS! Coon had overstepped big time, and did not like that I knew about such things! Coon was a far better businessman than pastor, and sadly his pet projects came before a lot of people at both the Forks and Port Angeles churches that he oversaw. 

Pastor Coon's Magnum Opus, the Forks Creation Garden was another such fiasco that came at the expensive of the native people of Queets. Instead of making sure that his Queets church had running utilities, money was funneled into the Creation Garden project. A gated creation garden in Forks, a city that is in the center of the Olympic National Park? Are you kidding me? Is Adventism out of touch with reality or what? 

When Native Ministries leader Steve Huey was made aware of this, he refused to even bring it to Coon's attention! Staying out of Adventist leadership's way was more of the game for Steve, and Monte Church also followed suit. One thing about Adventists is that they hate confrontation. Protect the church at all costs is the name of the game!

These events were a huge reason that I began to question and research Adventism deeper. What else was going on under the hood of this strange religion? I was blown away when I started to see more of the lies that Ellen White had preached. Instead of punishing me for questioning, they could have came to me and studied. Maybe they would have found the same freedom that I found in the fact that Ellen Gould White is a massive fraud! 

Now I'm out and loving it! Thank you Pastor Coon and the Port Angeles, WA Seventh-day Adventist church! Freedom feels so good! 

Still No Replacement for The Queets Seventh-day Adventist Church!

Thinking about working for Native Ministries? You may want to read the story "The Ellen White Cult" (see the links on the right). This is my story of how I was spiritually abused by Steve Huey, Monte Church, The Washington Conference, The Forks Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Port Angeles Seventh-day Adventist Church. 

Even if you are a devout SDA missionary (as I was), everything you say or think will be scrutinized. The Forks SDA church is INCREDIBLY conservative, almost going as far as an offshoot. Ellen White is revered there, and any questioning of her is not looked upon kindly. If you follow the letter of the Spirit of Prophecy, you will be accepted, but once you start to deviate from it, you will find that you will be watched, spied on, isolated, and ousted. This is not the drama you want in your life! 

Missionary work is hard work. It was soul-crushing for me. I would never, ever go back to that nonsense. You are expected to either work for free, fundraise, and then give back at least 10% of all that to a church that wants to send 1 Billion copies of the Great Controversy to the world. What a joke! 

Queets is a lovely little town, and I loved the people there. I loved them so much that I had to start to tell them the truth about the cultish practices involved with the SDA church. When I was back in Queets a couple months back for Queets Days, I saw that the parsonage and church was still empty and unused. This made me smile, because I know that no other missionary family is going through the utter hell we did. I am so glad to no longer be a Seventh-day Adventist!

Are you thinking about working with Native Ministries of the Washington Conference in Queets? Let me be 100% honest with you. After what these people have seen with the church and how "out there" "controlling" and "strange" it is, they are not going to want to be a part of such an organization. The SDA church is a HIGH CONTROL church. If you do not live according to their rules, you are going to not make it. I was absolutely shocked how we were supposed to be reaching Native Americans and bringing them into the church, but how they were looked down upon by the same church. The things I heard the church say about these people were disgusting at times, and completely false at best. The only thing that matters to the church is conquest and numbers. More tithe-payers and Ellen White book-buyers. There comes a time when you will not be accepted, and I learned that the hard way. 

I spent TEN YEARS as a missionary to a church that WOULD NOT ALLOW ME to ask questions. It was GOING TOO FAR when I asked about the truth of Ellen White. None of the evidence I found against her could be refuted by ANY of the Adventist pastors I brought it too. Instead, I was told to "ignore her for a while and come back later when I was more spiritually mature" or to "STOP." I was told that ELLEN G WHITE prophesied my path to apostasy. This church LIVES BREATHES AND WORSHIPS Ellen G White!

Now it's time to get the word out! If you are thinking about working for Monte Church, Steve Huey, Washington Conference Native Ministries in Queets, WA, PLEASE RECONSIDER! IT. IS. NOT. WORTH. IT.

Glad to Be Free From the SDA Church!

It's a good day to reminisce on being free. Back in the high-control religion of Seventh-day Adventism, life was almost pre-determined for me. It was my job to either be a missionary or give give give to the church. It didn't matter what skills I had in life. If they did not benefit the SDA church, they were worthless. 

Now I am free. My father-in-law passed away a couple of days ago, and he was one of those people who was knee deep in Ellen G White. He lived and breathed that woman. Now he's in a place where she is not seen as a prophet. I have no idea what happens after death (I don't believe the Bible's account of death, that's for sure), but I do believe that the soul or spirit lives on in some way. I believe that he has consciousness and I believe that he's either being reborn as a human (and thus has no idea about her), or he's a spirit world / different dimension, and that there is a lot of eye-opening revelations happening there. No matter what, he is no longer here, and his views of Ellen G White are no longer relevant. 

Adventism lost another Ellen Whitehead, and that is going to hurt the church. Like it or not, people are leaving the Adventist church. While pastors like Steve Huey, Monte Church, Jay Coon, and Conrad Vine continue to peddle the lies, the normal people are seeing Adventism for what it truly is: a high control religion that has no bearing in the modern world. We don't want your religion. We don't want your false prophet. We don't want your stupid rules for living. We don't want ANYTHING RELATED TO THE SDA CHURCH!

Now that I am free, I am both getting the word out and getting a LOT more comfortable in my own skin! It feels good to be me again. It's a slow process, but I am seeing results every single day. Adventism was the ultimate slavery. I kept hearing how we were "free in Christ" but what a lie that was! We were SERVANTS to a DEMON church lead by a NASTY FALSE PROPHET. I am glad to be out of the Washington Conference, Native Ministries and all that nonsense. 

I Would Not Get on Noah's Nasty Ol' Ark!

You have heard it time and time again (or at least I have): "Those who were RIGHTEOUS were called to get on his ark, but nobody heard his call. All were rightfully destroyed by a gentle and compassionate God." 

I was talking to a friend of mine in Forks, WA and I told her that this was a NASTY test for God to engage in. How dare God test his people when there are SO MANY who claim and have claimed to have end of the world knowledge and end up hurting those who follow them! How many cults have formed where someone claims to know about the end of the world (the Seventh-day Adventist church is such a cult). 

How many cults have been formed by people who want you to join them before the "end of the world?"

If someone came up to me today and said to go with them into their dark place to await the end of the world, I would say HELL NO! David Koresh, Hale Bopp, Kool Aid... No thank you! Who in their right mind follows someone who claims to know about the end of the world? Why would God create this as a test to be saved? 

This is one huge problem I have with the Bible, yet the SDA church pushed the Noah story so hard. Why? Because the Seventh-day Adventist church is COPYING the Noah story for their own gain. Remember folks, the SDA church is the END TIMES REMNANT church who has the Spirit of Prophecy and keys to salvation. The SDA church claims a world wide Sunday law will cause the mark of the beast and, like the days of Noah, all who accept it won't be saved.

The SDA church and Ellen White claim that today is fast becoming or is like the days of Noah. Yet, when you leave the insular world of the SDA church you find that people on the outside are loving, kind, and peaceful individuals who only want what's best for their families and their lives. Most people are compassionate and would help another in need. I have many friends from around the world who are not Seventh-day Adventists, and never meet anyone who should be destroyed by a LOVING and MERCIFUL God. 

This was always one of those cognitive dissonance issues that I had with the church. I never understood how the Adventist church could claim it was "like the days of Noah" when I saw no reason for God to just start wiping people out. 

In my book "The Ellen White Cult" (see links on the right), I talked about how I was shocked at how Adventist pastors such as Jay Coon and Victor Marshall would spy on me and tattle on my questioning of Ellen White to Native Ministry Pastor Steve Huey! They were vicious when I started to question the church. Ellen White was lifted up like a goddess! And once I saw that and started to compare here with Mormon pioneer prophet Joseph Smith, I was ripped apart! The abuse that exists within the world of Adventism is vile! They say shunning doesn't exist within the SDA church, but it does--it's just not as in your face as others. But once you are out, many will look at you like you are lost. Pastors and leaders will start to back off and leave you. You will be blocked and isolated. This is the SDA way! 

In conclusion: There is no way I would ever get on an end times boat with some lunatic at the helm telling me he/she has end of the world knowledge. After being a part of a cult at Countryside Sabbath Fellowship in Deer Park there is ZERO CHANCE I would EVER set foot on such a boat. I would rather be eternally destroyed than deal with some hate-filled deity that partakes in such half-baked tests for salvation! 

But, you know what, dear reader? Ever since parting ways from Native Ministries leader Steve Huey and Monte Church, and the Seventh-day Adventist church with such folk as extremist Conrad Vine and Jay Coon, I have been 1000000000% happier! I don't need ELLEN G WHITE breathing down my neck and telling me how to organize every aspect of my life! Ellen White is a fraud and has no place in my life or anyone else's. Someone should have told her to MIND HER OWN DAMN BUSINESS and focus on HER OWN SALVATION. Yet, she was too busy eating oysters and duck and telling everyone else not to. That's on her. All I know is that I love my own life, and it's my own life to live. Thank the gods! 

One Year Out of Adventism!

It has been one year since I left the Seventh-day Adventist church and I have never been more empowered in my life! No longer do I bow down to Adventist leadership. People like Adventist Frontier Missions president Conrad Vine, Pastor Steve Huey, Pastor Jay Coon, or offshoot "pastor" Albert Fletcher of Countryside Sabbath Fellowship in Deer Park, WA has no say over my life! I no longer have to feel guilt for not eating what Ellen White says I should eat. I have no more guilt for having too much s*x! I no longer hold guilt for being alive. I no longer feel the need to please some distant God who answers or ignores prayers at his whim. 

I AM FREE!

I no longer have to wonder if Walter Vieth is telling the truth or if he is out there. I know he is. I know they are all! 

I AM FREE!

I love the freedom I feel now that I am no longer a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church!

I imagine (and shudder to think about) what life would be like if I was still in the church. What if I was still an AFM missionary? Oh hell no! What a nightmare! 

The rigid rules of Seventh-day Adventism are soul crushing. It is a HIGH CONTROL RELIGION that brought me to my lowest point in life. I have watched how it has usurped the life out of other people, and I am back to tell my story (I was threatened before by Adventist pastors who did not like my previous blogs and writings). 

I am here to tell the truth about my time in the SDA church. I am here to spread the word about the dangers and deceptions of Seventh-day Adventism. The word is getting out, and I want to be a part of that word!

There is a reason why so many people in my family and many of my friends are now leaving the SDA church. The Adventist church has dismal attrition levels, despite its claim that it is the remnant end times church. 

Here's a newsflash for you: there's no such thing! 

I am glad to be back! This is going to be good!

One year free baby!