The Delaware Affair: Understanding the Error of Pastor Sam Rosa

There's nothing more dangerous than a "friend" who has taken up the cause of a very real and very wiley enemy. We didn't go out of our way to discover a grotesque and contemporary example of this - it came slapping us in our face in the fall of 2022 when we were in the midst of producing podcasts on the advance of the Xenos/Dwell cult in Ohio. 

This podcast details the initiative we had to launch to confront an evil so winsomely established within a community of Christians being errantly led by its pastor down the proverbial gates to hell.

 Listen to it HERE.

 

The Absence of Love In Abusive Spirituality: Our EMNR 2023 Video Online

This is probably our most indepth look into the spiritual depravity of cultism we've ever had an opportunity to produce.It takes a long and hard look at why two "cutting edge" churches are just plain cutting cults.

This is a review of how Biblical agape is absent from the indoctrination of cultism, specifically in the toxic formation practiced by two Ohio Valley cults largely off the radar of countercult discernment, who have been enthusiastically abusing their recruits for a total of some seventy years. Our case studies will focus on Xenos Christian Fellowship (now called Dwell Community Church) and Gladstone Community (now called Madison Place Community Church), fulfilling Matthew 24:12.

A video presentation first broadcast at the EMNR conference entitled "Engage 2023: The Cost of Failed Discipleship.' WARNING - Explicit testimony of cult abuses may trigger cult survivors. View it HERE.

Update On Our "Brother Trickster" Ebook on the Gladstone / Madison Cult

Thanks for visiting our blog, which due to the sheer amount of work we've done online, through our podcast and with many other ministry projects, didn't begin to reflect the amount of updating we've been wanting to make mention here. We're sorry for not being more in touch!

THE BROTHER TRICKSTER E-BOOK IS COMING! It is the adaptation of our six part expose on the cult of Zac Kijinski's creation called the Madison Community "Church" in Cincinatti, but is more widely known at the Gladstone Community "Church" about one of the most insidiously parasitical abusive cults we've ever seen.

The editing has gotten more involved than we thought as well as our attempts to , but we hope within a month's time to finally have it ready for distribution. We are still weighing options for how to make it available. We will be asking a donation for a download of each book, and depending upon our delivery system we choose to go with, the amount of that requested donation will vary. We will keep you advised. 

In the mean time, you can read the expose in six parts here.

 

Discerning The Journey of Change Our Fallen World Slouches Along To ..

Why is it so dark?

In the beginning, it is always dark.

We are indeed going somewhere. Our podcast summarizes our direction for the coming year in helping shine a light on the very dark places we are going that are awash in sunshine and flowers.

 

Round Two : A Request For Renewed Dialogue With Dwell

Rafael Martinez with Megan Cox

Spiritwatch Ministries
Post Office Box 2165
Hammond, IN, 46323

Thursday, January 17, 2024

Conrad Hilario and Kate Mizelle
Dwell Community Church
1340 Community Park Dr

Columbus, OH 43229

Dear Conrad and Kate:

It has been two years since our last communication regarding the testimonies we have presented to you about the abuses of a substantial number of people within your church community. We have long wanted to reconnect with you for further conversation on this very matter but our email connection came to a disappointing end. 

At the time, we were affiliated with Everywoman Studios and no longer are. Yet our position then remains as it is now, that a disturbingly persistent subculture involving authoritarian and manipulative domination appears to be far more rampant within your movement then how you have represented it. Additional personal discussion with former members and leaders confirms this over the past 2 years, much of which I am certain you are quite aware of. 

We would like to ask that you candidly respond to this additional evidence and do so in the same format as we previously dialogued with you, using online meetings to do so. We would use Google Meet, record them and make this recording available to you as soon as technically possible afterwards. The recording would be used publicly in our ongoing discussions about Dwell as you used the first recordings from 2021 for your own purposes.

There's far more, Conrad and Kate, then you thought you'd encounter by opening this discussion. We are not seeking damnation but discernment and have approached this not to scandalize but with sobriety. There are very clear problems within your movement that are well documented which you need to squarely address that dishonor the Gospel and militate against your belief that Dwell is an embodiment of New Testament Christian community. 

And I as an activist against institutionalized abuse and Megan as a survivor of it have a real desire for frank discussion on this and are requesting that you - or anyone else in senior X/D leadership at your level - to respond to our invitation and actually do so.

We look forward to your response.

Rafael Martinez
Spiritwatch Ministries ****** USPS Tracking HERE.