Our survivor stories and statements are firsthand accounts written by survivors of abuse in ACNA contexts.
If you are interested in telling your story of abuse and/or failed response to that abuse by ACNA leadership, you can contact us confidentially here.
Amy’s Story
The lessons of obedience to my husband as to God, combined with the insistence that God (through others) knew me better than I knew myself led directly to my accepting emotional abuse as godly submission to authority. My religious indoctrination groomed me to be an unwitting, but willing victim.
River’s Story
“River” was a Wheaton College student when she met Mark Rivera at Church of the Resurrection. Read her story of how Mark’s grooming in plain view of Rez leaders set her up for sexual abuse at the hands of a female Wheaton professor and others.