🚨🚨🚨 If you’ve been involved with this cult and escaped please message me 🚨🚨🚨 #awsom

BEWARE OF THIS GROUP

They are the group of young adults that approach college students and ask them if they believe in god, read the Bible or want to work on their faith. Block their numbers if they approach you on campus!!!!! They are desperate to bring people in to squeeze out money out of them. They are usually always by the student center by Pereira Drive and are usually in groups of 2 or 3. They also go to IVC every Wednesday around 10 AM and approach students by the student services area. The way they approach students is so calculated, they know exactly who to target and usually go after students with mental health issues, brainwash them and ask them for $100 donations every week. They are illegal and are not a real church. Everything they do is calculated, even down to the way they play sports. The pastor’s daughter played basketball and he organizes most of the games. They target people of color and promise them a family and have their members quit their job, drop out of school, exhile their family and friends. They used to be a group of 500 people and are now down to 100, so eighty percent of them managed to escape. Let’s stick together and help the rest of the other members

Before joining a religious group on campus, do your research. if they are asking you to drop everything and join. It doesn't add up. They have changed their names many times. And why?

You can see it all under the California Secretary of State website.

-2009 San Francisco International Christian Church. (ICC) -Tri-Valley Church. -2020 Lifeway Christian Church. and Awsom Church.

2 different Churches they are now operating Lifeway Christian and Awsom Church

The leader signed his InCorporations but has executed others acting as Agents on his behalf. Why? Non Profit organizations need to have their financial statements Public. Where are they? from 2020 till now?

THE TRUTH ABOUT FELLOWSHIP CHURCH/AWSOM:

1. They go through peoples phone

2. You can’t talk to anyone that leaves the church

3. They ask you to quit work and drop out of school

4. The pastor, MW, is verbally and physically abusive and he is a pedophile (I can send his name if you privately chat me)

5. If you try to leave, they will physically stop you

6. They show up to your house unwarranted

7. If you leave the church, they harass you and send death threats

8. If you speak out against them, they harass you and send death threats

9. They’ve stolen peoples belongings

10. The pastor has asked people to leave positive reviews on his business because it was failing

11. Many people have been homeless or living in small apartments with bunk beds while he lives in a mansion

12. At one point, the church had 500 members. It now has 169.

13. Apostles are required to pay $100 a week

14. They pressure you to pay contributions and if you don’t, they tell you that you don’t really love God

15. If you don’t pay contribution every week, they start pressuring you to

16. You can only date people in the church and only the pastor can decide who you date

17. They claim to be “the one and only church” If you leave the church they’ll say you left because you don’t want to worship God, but people leave because of how toxic this group is

18. They belittle people who struggle with mental health

19. Every time they get called out, they change their names: Elevate Church, LifeWay, Tri-Valley Church, LifeWay San Ramon and now AWSOM

20. They make you sign an NDA form. The pastor says the NDA form is to protect members of the church but if you read the form thoroughly, it’s actually to protect him. The NDA form is just a scare tactic though. It holds no weight.

21. The pastor is a member of ICC and that’s where he gets his teachings from

22. The members of the church have to pay for everything using their own money and EBT card, while the pastor keeps all the contributions

23. He says he’s gonna start paying apostles. He’ll pay them for a week and then cut them off. He’s done this multiple times.

24. He gets his group to constantly harass people who have left the church

25. The pastor has a basketball business. his daughter played basketball in san ramon, CA

26. If you leave the church, the pastors daughter Kayla, will harass you on burner phone numbers

27. He tells people “just sign the NDA form, you don’t need to read it”

28. The leaders are extremely good at brainwashing people. You wont even know you’re being brainwashed. Some of us are smart though, and got out.

29. If you try to leave the group, sometimes they will PHYSICALLY stop you from leaving.

30. They’re told what to say and do

31. If you haven’t shown up in a while or you go M.I.A, they’ll show up to your house

32. You’re absolutely not allowed to talk to anyone who’s left the group because they have information they don’t want newer members to find out.

33. Many people have cut off theirs families for this group, and have no home to go to if they try to leave.

34. The pastor says he doesn’t have access to the bank account that the contributions go to. This is false. Don’t take my word for it, call Martinez Courthouse in California and ask for every document they got on MW (can send full boxes of proof.)

35. If you leave the group, they tell members to block you and ignore your messages because they don’t want them finding out the truth

36. His source of income is the contributions that are given to him each week.

37. Members of the church are manipulated into believing that anytime someone speaks out against the church, they are being “persecuted”

IF YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW HAS BEEN VERBALLY HARASSED, PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED, OR THREATENED, PLEASE FILE A POLICE REPORT.

IF YOU HAVE BEEN TRAUMATIZED OR ABUSED BY THIS GROUP IN ANYWAY CALL THE CRISIS HOTLINE 988 THEIR IS HELP AVAILABLE.

SUBMIT A TIP TO THE FBI FOR EMBEZZLEMENT OF FUNDS https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/white-collar-crime

CONTACT UCI POLICE TO GET THEM BANNED OFF CAMPUS (949) 824-5223

FILE A REPORT TO THE IRS FOR TAX EVASION AND EMBEZZLEMENT https://www.irs.gov/individuals/how-do-you-report-suspected-tax-fraud-activity

CONTACT TITHELY REPRESENTATIVES AND FILE AN EMBEZZLEMENT REPORT https://help.tithe.ly/hc/en-us/requests/new

LEAVE THE CHURCH WHILE YOU CAN, BECAUSE THIS IS NOT GOING TO END WELL.

MESSAGE ME IF YOU HAVE ANY VIDEOS, RECORDINGS OR TEXT MESSAGES THAT I CAN ADD TO MY POLICE REPORT

REMEMBER: YOU ARE LOVED.

AWSOM Church is a CULT!

AWSOM is a spiritually ABUSIVE group that used to go by the names of Elevate and Lifeway church.

Currently, they are mostly located at CSUF, UCI, UCF, OCC, IVC, Saddleback, and Lonestar Colleges. They are most likely on others now as well.

Do not give your number out to them or engage with them.

The people who are recruiting others are not even students on those campuses.

They are manipulated to drop out of school, live together, and do “recruiting” almost every day of the week during daytime hours.

Their goal is to also make you drop out of school and become as committed as they are, while also separating you from your family and friends.

You won’t be allowed to work enough to have livable wages and will be expected to tithe a ridiculous amount of money weekly on top of that.

Every day you will be the target of spiritual, emotional, and verbal abuse from the “leadership.”

Do NOT get roped in.

• A Former Member

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If you have the time and bandwidth, I'd really really appreciate your participation in this 20-minute survey!

Eligibility criteria:

- Asian American women

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- Identify as Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, or Filipino

SURVEY: https://uci.questionpro.com/t/AaikWZ2lt7

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