Academic Report

One full year of research, interviews across over a dozen families from GCC, both active and inactive as of the commissioning of this report, extending from the role of elders and administrators all the way down to parishioners and youths, Master’s Seminary Representatives and the President of Founders Ministries, and over 1,000 hours of therapeutic interventions which are ongoing, comprise the scope of this report’s summary of findings. As of the writing of this report, over 200 congregants have been displaced so far, as a direct result of GCC’s coercion and totalistic practices. This report, commissioned by families recovering from their time at GCC and concerned by the ongoing harm to congregants who remain there, describes how the leadership structure at GCC has organized itself in a way that permits, facilitates, and perpetuates abuse toward the congregation, especially the youth.