The following are quotes taken from Sherry Douglass in the November 2004 edition of Charisma in a Story called
They Found His Mercy By Carol Chapman Stertzer
The whole article is worth reading but below are some highlights:
Sherry Douglas is or was the executive director of programs for Mercy Ministries.
Part of Mercy Ministries' effectiveness is related to its counseling model. Sherry Douglas, executive director of programs for Mercy Ministries, says the model consists of three key areas:
- Belief system: The women work on identifying the lies they have come to believe about themselves and replacing them with the truth.
- Generational sins and patterns: The women identify patterns of sin in the past generations of their families and then, through prayer, break those patterns, according to Galatians 3:13.
- Hurts and wounds: The women focus on forgiving others who have hurt them and letting go of all bitterness. Once they have forgiven others, they can anticipate healing in those areas where they have been wounded.
After receiving forgiveness for their sins, some women need to pray and trust God for demonic influences to be broken, Douglas says. However, she emphasizes that deliverance cannot be separated from the other components.
"Deliverance is not enough," Douglas maintains. "This body you live in is your house. ... But unless you know how to take authority and stand in that authority for your own house, the devil is going to come back and possibly bring friends."
Before a young woman graduates from the program (six months is the typical stay), she must line up an accountability partner in the city where she will live and establish a church affiliation. Douglas is confident that if a graduate stays in the Word, in prayer, in Christian fellowship and in church, she will make it when she re-enters society. "It doesn't mean she won't have a hard day or a fall, but she will know what to do if it happens," she says.
So I'll leave to you the reader to draw your own conclusions. It seems obvious to me that they use and believe in the concept of deliverance ministry.
It is also interesting to note that it is a requirement to establish a church affiliation, is this simply after patient care? Do Mercy have favourite churches or types of churches that they influence their graduates to attend?
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That's interesting. when I asked a girl at Gloria Jeans a couple of months ago about Mercy Ministries using demonic exorcisms to treat girls instead of psychiatric treatment, she said "that's not true" and said she had seen/been to the facility. I asked her if she used to go there and she said no. She was adamant. Why would care so much? And what on earth will be the "spin" when I show her the proof we now have?
Exorcisms/casting demons out is widely used at Mercy Ministries. The staff know this, but not all mercy supporters will know it. Probably because of what Peter Irvine said in his damage control media speil, he said that they don't do exorcisms or casting out demons. That was a blantant lie, or he has no idea what the organisation he is meant to be heading up does.
When girls are in Mercy, staff tell them they don't need to see qualified people to have their illnesses treated. Staff say that in fact, mental illnesses are caused by demons. They say that is why professionals can't help, no matter what their qualifications are. They say only Mercy can help because they have the power of God so they can cast the demons out.
Then when girls continue to have symptoms after the exorcism is performed, the girls are blamed for not having enough faith and other ridiculous things.
It's so frustrating to me when people claim that the fact that they've been to the home, or toured it, is proof that MM does not practice exorcism/casting out demons. It wasn't at all obvious from just touring.
The home in Nashville reminded me very much of my sorority house. It was very well kept (by us), well lit, with a friendly atmosphere to visitors. They did not divulge their counseling model to visitors, nobody looked in our RTF binders, they were not in our personal counseling sessions or the group prophetic/casting out demons session that we had with Paula Kilpatrick. Only the staff, Nancy, and the residents were at those, or privy to what actually went on there.
So, people who say they have made brief visits to the home, or taken a standard tour as some of the larger contributors did, and claim they did not see anything out of the ordinary, are probably telling the truth, but it doesn't mean that what we are saying is not true.
I am sure that when people went to the Magdalene Laundries they thought they were wonderful too.
It's hard to see evidence of abuse when it's hidden and when you really don't want to see it in the first place.
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