Our Journey Podcast

22/07/2022

Randi's third episode is out now on your favorite podcast app and now ON YOUTUBE.

Here's a couple clips from our tiktok with Randi and Laci talking about confusion in GO Ministries International.

21/07/2022

I am in the process of starting a YouTube page for the podcast that has video clips and full episodes with subtitles. When I used the youtube search bar to see if you can find the page, an ad for audible with our podcast on it came up! I didn't even know we were on audible! But that's another great way to listen and even download episodes.
-Mercedes

14/07/2022

Was it God's will for your family to join a cult?

12/07/2022

Episode 2 out of 3 for Randi drops tonight at midnight!

09/07/2022

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRYAhBoE/?k=1

Rating apologies from GO Ministries International

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07/07/2022

So many people loved Randi on the road!

Did you know she is Steve Munds' niece?
Did you know her whole family was involved with GO?
Did you know she was involved with GO for over 10 years?

Her first podcast episode is out now!

06/07/2022

Randi's Episode drops tomorrow!

05/07/2022

29/06/2022

The lineup for this conference is so problematic to me because all the ones the GO leaders are teaching on are ones we have mentioned in the podcast as being the foundation for controlling interns and causing lasting damage.

It might sound good to learn about honor. Until you realize that the view of honor they are teaching is for you to be loyal to your abuser because God has put them in your life. For you to not question their direction or you are dishonored God.

And then right after you get a lesson on how you should love the abuse leadership hands you because it's done out of a love for you and to make you a better person. And not only should you love it, you should ask them for more. You should smile and tell them thank you.

But that's not all! The next day you get to hear again about how good leadership is and the pedestal you should have them on in your life.

And then you get to hear about their views on homos*xuality. Despite your own personal views on this, I'm willing to guess you won't like how they tell any young women that become close friends with another young women that they are homos*xuals and in sin. I bet you won't like how this view isolates young people as they are also told they shouldn't be too close of friends with the opposite s*x. So they just shouldn't have close friends that they can talk to about things that bother them or they might be committing s*xual sin. You also might be able to talk out about how troublesome these teachings are if you have a close friend so they want they stopped all together.

If anyone has recordings of these teachings I would love to hear them!

20/06/2022

I dont know anything about the docu-series she has up in the background but what she's saying about emotional outbursts was so true at GO!

Members of leadership would get to have "righteous anger" and direct it at us interns and maybe even angrily chew us out for these long wordy "teachings".

This also just reminded me of a time when the road team was around Laci but at the ranch with rest of us and mentioned how if someone was having trouble with customer service just let Laci get on the phone and she will set them straight. Then they laughingly told stories about orders being messed up and Laci calling and "being mama bear" and getting their money back or something. The story conveyed to me that she was yelling at people who were just trying to do their job which seemed opposite the public persona we were told to have.

Do any ex-interns know what I'm talking about? I never witnessed it for myself, just this conversation so maybe it was portrayed wrong. Any one have examples?

19/04/2022

It seems a little extra sad when a Bible verse just reminds you of past abuse.

This verse was used during the GO Ministriest Internship to get us to put down our personality and pick up our cult personality.

They didn't use those words.

It was much more sly. Much more manipulative.

You see, a cult personality is the personality you put on to survive in a high control environment. Remember how all the interns are so energetic, always excited, and always ready to help? It's not just good work ethic and a sunny disposition. They were informed that that's is what they are supposed to be like, that that's what it means to have Christ living in you.

But what happens if you fail to exhibit those exact characteristics? PUNISHMENT.
Maybe it's writing Bible verses hundreds of times. Maybe it's running till you puke, or on frozen ground in dress shoes. Maybe it's the shame of being called out and berated in front of your peers. The thing is, you never knew what the punishment was going to be, you just knew it was coming.

So in order to avoid punishment... In order to protect your teammates from being punished for you.... In order to not upset the leadership that took the place of god in our lives... You "acted like Christ" at all times.

So instead of these pictures bringing joy of seeing lives changed for the better, they bring fear. Fear of another young person trusting GO Ministriest Intl with a position of influence in their lives only to leave with trauma, confusion, and less self-respect.

19/04/2022

Champions 4 Christ has historically been one of the biggest recruiting grounds for GO Ministries International and it looks like they will have that chance to influence the unsuspecting youth there this year as well.

06/03/2022

I know this picture is really small so it's all pixelated. I wanted to see if anyone remembered what this is! A former intern sent the picture in to us.

Just as a little update, we are getting episodes edited and will be putting more out there soon! We also have many former interns and a few former leaders lined up to record their journey as well!

We are not done exposing what GO Ministries has done.

27/12/2021

Spotify will soon be adding a ratings feature! Once it rolls out, once you listen to an episode for at least 30 seconds you'll be able to rate us. We appreciate all your feedback!

06/12/2021

There is incredible healing in reflection. This time of year it is normal to reminisce on where you have been.

This month we will be reposting a few impactful moments from this year’s journey together.

Join us in the New Year for the next episode of Our Journey!

23/11/2021

I just realized that I said in the intro that Victoria was in the internship during the same time Carissa was but she actually says in the podcast that Carissa wasn’t there.

I apologize for messing that up.

-Mercedes

23/11/2021

“I actually was trying to leave from bootcamp and I wasn’t allowed to.”

Victoria’s episode is up now!

09/11/2021

Hahaha. Wut?