Archive for January, 2006

Name Withheld

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

Don’t print my name or email address, please.
I grew up in the WWCG since I was 4 years old. The only thing going for me was that my dad was not a member. The church we went to was about 60 miles away and we drove it every Saturday come hell or […]

Trent Simons

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

benttrent@hotmail.com
I am absolutely flabbergasted by this website’s existence. Sue, your story might as well have come out of my mouth. I often told people I’d not wish my upbringing on my worst enemy. I was a minister’s kid that grew up in this church. I was also born in ‘59. My father was “called” into […]

My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken… The Rose Parade?

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

Growing up in the Worldwide Church of God, we always took pride in the fact that our opulent headquarters campus was in Pasadena, California— right next to the route of the Tournament of Roses Parade. And most years on January 1st I would be out there with my fellow church volunteers either helping sell Kodak […]