I tracked down the man on the web and found him teaching at a Christian school run by Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, CA. The superintendent fired him after talking with me and getting a confession from him.

Then I posted a blog on the Internet. Another victim contacted me when he Googled the pedophile’s name. He and this two brothers were all molested by the same man. So I contacted TEAM mission and asked them what they planned to do for the victims. I had spent my entire life savings and gone deep into debt to pay for medical expenses and boarding school costs for my son who was too violent to remain at home.

First the denied the abuse. When I produced additional victims, they admitted there had been a problem. But they said they fulfilled their obligation when they sent the abuser home. But they never filed a report with the authorities in Japan or in the States. That is why the pedophile was able to get another job working with young people. And they never did anything for the victims.

To make a long story short, they refused to compensate any of the victims for the losses caused by their negligence. They responded the same way the NTM leaders did, “What can we do now? This all took place so long ago.” Well, that just doesn’t cut it.

When Matthew decided to follow Christ, he repaid three times the amount in taxes that he had stolen from his victims. Religious leaders should not be able to hide behind their clerical status to escape responsibility for actions that those in secular occupations would pay for dearly.

meanwhile, 71 “mission news” updates since 9/20/11
http://usa.ntm.org/field-news/mission-news/P0

the “ministry” will always be the priority…the children will always be in 72nd place

A fellow MK

David G Snure (Dave)

Chris Horgan :I read this blog and know it is all true.
It was my experience too.
I left ntm in January 1992. Even today the shame I feel at allowing myself to be part of an organisation that is as controlling and abusive as ntm is haunts me.
I was told the ntm leadership were the holy spirit in my life, amongst many other things.
I was part of the leadership and a committee member in Australia. After I left I found as many people who suffered under ntm when I was a part of it, whether they were still members or not, and asked their forgiveness for my actions.
I know of people that have ended their lives, and some that have tried. I know of people who are so damaged by their experience they cannot speak of it. I know of people who cannot return to their faith.
This is not a christian experience.
c.

Hi Chris,

Thank you for your honesty. I was a kid when you entered NTM, and remember you as the good sort who taught us how to light fires safely in the bush (maybe that explains my arsonist tendencies, just joking). Then we ended up on the same “field”, where the nightmare really began.

You had the courage to step out when the penny dropped. Wish my father had had the same courage, but then there was a good reason why that never happened. He liked being a big fish in a small pond, it suited his “humble” ego. So he carries on to this day, exploiting others, abusing them if they don’t see things his way and humiliating anyone who gets in his way. I ask myself regularly how someone committed to “opening the eyes of others to the truth”, somehow had his eyes so firmly closed to what was going on around him? Or did he have them closed, did this natural born survivor bought up in the school of hard knocks with a clever mind know exactly what was going on and for his own reasons decided to stay within the environment that was destroying those he pretended he actually cared for?
For your honesty you have my respect and I am confident the respect of many other MKs.
If you read this, would like to make contact. I’m contactable through the personal messages.