“I have a mental health diagnosis because of Xenos, which I was brought into as a kid. “When there’s so many stories that are identical, it’s clearly an issue,” said another former member who asked to speak anonymously because he, too, has a parent that currently belongs to Dwell. “As I’ve been in therapy and gotten a little bit stronger in my, I think, conviction that life does have meaning outside of being in this specific church.”Įx-Xenos members detail experiences leaving the church “We really don’t talk a lot about religion anymore, it’s kind of an unspoken,” she said of her relationship with her parent. This woman spoke with NBC4 Investigates on the condition of anonymity because she still has a parent in the church. “They told everyone while I was there, then they came back and prayed over me.” “The church leaders and my discipler basically split up the boys and the girls into two different rooms, while I was there, and revealed to the boys that I had gone to school with since I was in first grade, that I lost my virginity,” she said.
“For me, it’s just wanting people to know that there are things that are happening in youth groups, specifically, but across the entire church that are just completely un-okay, and not acceptable,” said one woman, who said she was asked to leave her small group within the church in her mid-teens after confiding in a friend about a sexual experience. Former Xenos leader describes tactics, manipulation used by church
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