Former pastor Clement Okusi states that Wayman Mitchell stayed away from his daughter Sharon Mastin’s funeral. Inside The Fellowship, the absence was the rule.
In 2023 Pastor Thomas Cunningham withdrew his Ohio church from Christian Fellowship Ministries, alleging accusation without evidence, shunning, and legal pressure in the Joe Stephens case. His letter in full, with analysis and the other side noted.
In October 1990, missionary pastor Larry Neville resigned his CFM eldership rather than shun the men Wayman Mitchell had cut off. His letter, in full, with analysis.
Ex-Potter’s House pastor Clement Okusi’s widely read guide to surviving ex-communication, organized around freedom, faith, finances, friends, family, forgiveness, and facts. A feature on why it still matters.
A 1999 testimony describes being disfellowshipped and branded a “witch” after an affair with a pastor who faced no lasting consequence, and the double standard it reveals in how the Potter’s House disciplines sexual sin.
A 1998 letter from a Praise Chapel pastor’s wife corrects the record on her fellowship’s ties to the Potter’s House, and describes a tithing dispute that ended with Wayman Mitchell declaring an entire sister fellowship “the enemy.”
After eleven devoted years, a Door member who asked to leave was told, “whatever you have to do, do it quickly,” and likened to Judas. A 1998 testimony, and what the comparison gets wrong.
Four former Christian Fellowship pastors, some with decades inside, described Victory Chapel Cape Cod to the Cape Cod Times in 1995: cursing rituals, burned shunning letters, and a founder who said preachers proclaim rather than dialogue.
Ronald Enroth’s 1992 book Churches That Abuse recorded Bruce Hogan’s six years in the Potter’s House, the collapse from exhaustion, and the shunning that met him when he left.
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