My Short Story of Leaving NTCC
I was in NTCC from 2002-2011. I was reached in Anchorage Alaska, went to Seminary in Graham, WA, and worked to build churches in Olympia, WA, Tillicum, WA, and Mildenhall, England. England was where our eyes were opened to the truth of NTCC.
Even after a year of telling Rev. Olson we couldn't handle it in England anymore, the best he offered was, "We love you, God loves you, we are praying for you, and maybe, just maybe, you will have 100 people in service and someone might write a thousand dollar check." What a crook, con artist huckster Olson is. Same old song and dance. "We Love you, we are praying for you". What a joke. Jam 2:16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Sound familiar. Olson to a tee.
Then you just press on, right? But the fact remained, what he said never happened, they were never really concerned for us, and we were ready to leave. England, and the NTCC.
Rev Olson and Pastor Davis had no one to replace us when our two years was about up. They even asked us to extend our visas another two years! After we were adamant about not extending, it was explained that they would've had someone there sooner, but they still had to replace them and the ones replacing them still had to be replaced! Sounds like a lot of replacements. The NTCC's sorry revolving door of failures. There was a problem because someone that was supposed to replace someone, had left NTCC. Imagine that. They ought to call NTCC ministers "The Expendables". Not sure if it was the Annis', but I think they wanted them to replace us.
Rev. Olson had asked, "What about the church?" And we responded, "What about us?" Go figure. What about the offering plate. Man who cares about the minister and his wife; they are replaceable - expendable.
Pastor Davis ended up saying they would close the church. Ding dong, you just won the prize Davis. Didn't take a genius to figure that one out.
This was about one month before our visas were to expire and we were told to sell everything, including the car, and to make as much as we can to buy our plane tickets.
Later, Pastor Davis told us that the church in England was going downhill even before we got there. Oh my. Would have been nice to know that from the get go. Just another failed experiment. I saw plenty of those while I was a part of the NTCC. Nothing new there.
Mike Kekel said he originally didn't even want us to go, and he even offered my husband a lay pastor position back in Graham. Mind you, this was after we said we were not coming back to Graham. He tried buying us with a position. Keep the money in Graham. Got to fund the Kekel's lavish lifestyle. Tanya the spoiled brat with the silver spoon in her mouth needs some new furniture.
We began to read these blogs and realized many other good people were leaving and we saw people weren't afraid to question the leaders of this organization.
That's why they don't like these blogs. Yeah baby, I'm sure they won't like this testimony either. LOL.
We began to see very similar stories, how NTCC draws people in, and then takes advantage of them. We started looking back, to the beginning, and realized there were so many red flags that we ignored.
Sister Kekel wanted us back in Graham when I told her I decided to get a job. She said that many women in Graham work jobs. CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT!!! According to the NTCC crooks, it was a sin for a woman to work. I knew they couldn't stick with that forever; too much lost tithe dollars with the slave women not working. I responded that I know that, but that they also preach against women working and they look down upon those women. She said her husband has never preached against women working. Really? Rev Kekel? Dog gone lying hypocrite. Old compromising Kekel but what's new. Davis definitely preached it and so did every other NTCC minister I EVER knew. I knew at that moment she was lying.
I don't say the above in anger, bitterness, or jealousy...I say the above as a proclamation of the DOUBLE STANDARD and HYPOCRISY and GREEDINESS that exists and is allowed in the NTCC leadership and organization. There is so much more to say. I'd love to hear from more people who have left and their story. Lots of young couples have left, but why? Where is the outcry. Why are they staying shut? Are they scared? Of what!? The truth!? Were you made to agree not to talk bad about them?
They say, "If you leave NTCC, you leave God."
A false doctrine.
NTCC truly is a cult. AMEN SISTER. PREACH.
Oh, to hear the stories of others, I'm sure they would be similar.
In love, Diana Molino (Bullington)