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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
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