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Originally Posted by Dave
When I read this I knew immediately that I needed to pray for this sister of yours. I hope we all pray for her healing from the influence of the LC. Don't get me wrong. I don't pray routinely. But I just had a sense of urgency for this sister and for God's mercy.
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Thank you Dave. Your prayers will definitely help since there may not be many praying for her outside of her family. She trusted her life with the LC, but the LC spit her back out and treated her like a leper due to mental illness. Yet I shouldn't have said her life is ruined. It may seem so, but we believe God still has a plan for her life and will pray for her healing from hurt and betrayal.
Actually during one of the winter or summer trainings they made an announcement that anyone "with psychological problems should not apply to the FTTA", suggesting that my sister in law was not the only person to develop mental illness during the training. The irony was my sister-in law probably along with many others was perfectly healthy before going into the training. She was a normal happy and joyful person who loved Jesus. After she left, she became a totally different person and the joy and happiness left her completely and she was later diagnosed with schizophrenia (had to be hospitalized and given life-long medication).
Yet along with what aron said, I agree the FTTA isn't a place to find rest or be rehabilitated. As they themselves say, it's a place "to get trained", therefore anything goes. The FTTA is a Witness Lee cloning factory that only takes model LC saints as input to mold them into hardcore soldiers for the "Lord's Recovery". Any saints with defects and don't fit the standard model are to be thrown away and discarded.
Matthew 11:28
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."
The only good thing to come out of it so far was that it opened my wife's eyes to what the LC leadership was really like in the hypocritical way they and the elders of my LC treated my sister. It opened the door for me to share all my feelings with my wife and lead her into reading more of LCs history. After we left, we even got calls from my wife's aunt (her and her husband are elders of an LC in Texas) telling her "not to blame the ministry" for what happened to her sister. In their eyes, even though they were family, they couldn't bring themselves to blame the ministry which was beyond reproach. If something went wrong, my sister-in law was to blame and not the toxic environment in the FTTA and the absence of love in the LC elite.