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Yes, Bemused, that's the "97 letter that is referred to time and again on these forums. Heralding the "new NTM." Except it didn't work. So these days, they are again talking about another "new NTM." And some supporters/ churches/ trainees are buying this. The ones who are still being abused as adult missionaries are not.

I think that NTM split itself into its many "self governed" parts largely because of the abuse. When we moved to the field a couple of years ago we were told by the regional leadership that one of the reason why NTM split up was because of liability reasons.

But it is a bit of a farce because the EC gives the fields free reign, but they still have them tethered and pull rank whenever they want. They just hide behind the excuse that they are separate entities if they don't want to deal with an issue.

Thats my take on it.

they changed it to look better, no ifs or buts about it. wake up people.

I'll tell a personal story, and leave it up to the reader to determine any parallels to NTM. Once upon a time, I pursued a certain doctorate degree. I had a large number of universities from which to choose, but I was enticed by a particular university which offered me a full tuition scholarship, guaranteed for the first year, then renewable for remainder of the program as long as I maintained a 2.7 GPA. Ok, this school really wanted me, was promising me the world, and all I had to do was keep a 2.7 GPA? (piece of cake, since I had a 3.9 GPA from undergrad), so I decided to decline all other acceptance letters, pack all my belongings, move to a state very far away, and start my new life as a graduate student. The world was at my fingertips.

Year 1 kicked off with two days of orientation. On morning two of orientation, a number of students were kicked out for the remainder of the day for not being able to answer certain questions related to certain assigned reading from orientation day 1. Okay, now I was starting to get the feel for what I had gotten myself in to. That was wakeup call #1. This daily "getting kicked out of class" thing and other more punitive punishment continued for the duration of the program. At the end of the first semester, there were 90 students who took the first major exam (a 44 page essay exam, no less). Exam results were posted: 1 A-, 3 Bs, 60 Cs, 20 Ds, and 6 Fs. I was one of the Cs. Although I had studied night and day for weeks, that scholarship was already in jeopardy. In my mind, that one exam may have ended up costing me about $80,000. That was wakeup call #2.

I now knew that I had made a big mistake choosing this school. But, the only real options were to (1) quit and walk away from the large investment that I had already made and try to pursue another career; or (2) Stay, take my beatings, and risk having to pay huge $$ to finish the program. I and most others chose to stay. Over the next year, more than half of the students lost their scholarships due to intentionally deflated grade curves. (After the scholarships were lost, the grade curves magically increased dramatically...and fyi, I was able to keep mine by the skin of my teeth).

That damned university beckoned us all to come with promises of free tuition, a wonderful faculty, and a great educational experience. Once we had uprooted our lives and committed, they whacked us down one by one by, in the words of the Supreme Court, "abondoning all standards of decency and violating the conscience of English speaking peoples".

Although generations of students had endured a similar fate with no recourse, one brave student started a "Blog" during my last year. This Blog provided an avenue for all students to anonymously tell the true story of what went on behind the public face of that school without fear of recourse. The cat was out of the bag.

Bait and switch. Fear. "Kicking Out". Blogs. Etc.

Sound familiar?

Sounds familiar.

My parents were promised a spiritual journey that was as clean cut as The Mormons. But once the gates closed it turned out to have rules like Orthodox Judaism and when we left we had a good dose of Catholic Guilt. And it was all covered up with secrecy like The Freemasons.

NTM is nothing but abuse, they are a bunch of christian Nazis. They deserve none of the slack they get from people. Their so called investigation is nothing but shameful to all of us who have giving our lives to this evil org. burn in hell

NTM leadership, close the doors! Your not fooling those of us who walk in the light. Your ministry is over. You will not survive simply because you are fighting against God himself. Yes, that is right, you are not seeing things for what they are. God has nothing to do with people who hide things in the dark, especially people who abuse little ones and people who cover it up or give half hearted shallow responses of sorrow and yet do nothing substantive about it. You have exchanged the truth of God for a lie and the innocent continue to suffer. I would refer you to Scripture, but you obviously only use that to your twisted advantage. Looking back, all I can say is I'm soooo thankful I never went into ministry with NTM and I will do everything I can to warn those who might. NTM has had cult like tendancies as long as I can remember and that is the very thing that they claimed they were exposing. It has taken most MKs decades to rewire our lives from your messed up theology of legalistic and controlling indoctrination that the mission has pushed for so long.

No doubt...Millstones are coming

Ironman