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Tulessa said:
Hubby says if I don't sleep tonight, he's gonna have the internet took out. :floorlaugh: :scared:
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LOL, at night I get all into reading the threads and researching stuff and the next thing i know, the sun is coming up.

The "apostle" comes off as a super creepy, egomaniac to me. You can look at him and tell he ain't right in the head. Neither he or his wife has a natural , happy ,relaxed look. They both look really fake and trying way too hard to look perfect. These types are exactly the kind of types that have turned me off of organized religions that have a leader telling you how YOU need to live and taking YOUR money and living it up on it, then getting busted for some scandal and begging for forgiveness. (Insert puking smiley here!)

They act like they have been sent to save you when in fact they are just living off of the very people they are supposed to be serving.

Me, i like the Quaker philosophy. Basically Quakers respect the fact that each individual has their own relationship with God and that it is not our business to tell them how they need to believe. However you want to believe is between you and God. You don't need a fancy preacher as a middle man to get to God.

This story is definitely very hinky. I'm going to look for some more info on this church and the exalted "apostle".
 
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The Carpenters grew up in small towns in South Carolina. Hope was a cheerleader from Calhoun Falls while Ron lived in Possum Kingdom, which he jokingly refers to as “a wide place in the road.” Graduates of IPHC’s Emmanuel College, the couple fell in love as students, married in 1990 and began Redemption the next year in a drab warehouse with a handful of people. Today the church has thousands of members, and Ron, who is only 44, leads an apostolic network with 1,400 affiliated ministers who look to him for covering.
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http://www.charismanews.com/us/41394-please-pray-for-the-wounded-shepherds
 
So, a father was treated in Texas, and a son was treated for a year, now his missing wife is being treated in Texas for a year?
 
I'm still here but am on other sites reading other reports and blogs and comments on this situation. It's mostly not MSM so i can't post links but it is very interesting and we are not the only ones who think this is hinky. One female minister (who hasn't met and doesn't know Hope) is so alarmed that she wrote two blog post on it and started a webpage looking for hope. i hope it is ok to link it. If not, then please remove it mods and my apologies.
http://hopehilleycarpenter.blogspot.com/

This female minister made a good point that many other preachers have confessed to affairs and other sordid sins but THEY weren't sent off for a year of isolation.
 
Ron Carpenter
If I'm going to Hell, I might as well go in a Bentley.

I'm sure by now, he's made enough to own one.

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BlueberryBird said:
So, a father was treated in Texas, and a son was treated for a year, now his missing wife is being treated in Texas for a year?
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Good morning everyone! I am interested in knowing what the connection is to Texas, being that his family appears to have been in SC for many years. Is there family there? Another church he is affiliated with?

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The Carpenters grew up in small towns in South Carolina. Hope was a cheerleader from Calhoun Falls while Ron lived in Possum Kingdom, which he jokingly refers to as “a wide place in the road.” Graduates of IPHC’s Emmanuel College, the couple fell in love as students, married in 1990 and began Redemption the next year in a drab warehouse with a handful of people. Today the church has thousands of members, and Ron, who is only 44, leads an apostolic network with 1,400 affiliated ministers who look to him for covering.
http://www.charismanews.com/us/41394...nded-shepherds

Possum Kingdom, S.C. is not a town. It is a tiny area of about 2-3 streets. The people actually live in a section of Belton, S. C.
 
SwampMama said:
I'm still here but am on other sites reading other reports and blogs and comments on this situation. It's mostly not MSM so i can't post links but it is very interesting and we are not the only ones who think this is hinky. One female minister (who hasn't met and doesn't know Hope) is so alarmed that she wrote two blog post on it and started a webpage looking for hope. i hope it is ok to link it. If not, then please remove it mods and my apologies.
http://hopehilleycarpenter.blogspot.com/

This female minister made a good point that many other preachers have confessed to affairs and other sordid sins but THEY weren't sent off for a year of isolation.
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BeginnersLuck said:
Here is a list of some of the christian rehab centers in Texas. Some show the length of the program.

http://www.christian-rehab.org/christiandrugrehab/texaschristiandrugrehab.html
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Aren't those drug/ alcohol rehab. centers? He said " Psych. program" which is much different.
Also, would a religious based center take on a case of what he is describing as sexual addiction ? ( Many therapists do not believe sexual addiction fits the criteria for true addiction, but is a maladaptive coping behavior.)
 
I have visions of Hope being sent to someplace that Ron has an affiliation with and can control somewhat. I keep thinking he probably sent her to some really whacked "faith" based program where she is probably be treated much like an exorcism or something. A place where she is being made to feel that something is seriously wrong with her and the she is possessed by demons and crap and that her soul is in peril and that damnation is in her future.

Please understand, I have no issues with faith and all that. I simply do NOT like it being used to manipulate or abuse people or brainwash them. So if I say something negative about this church or "apostle" it is based on abuses of religion I have seen, not an indictment of religion itself. I am solid and content in my faith and my husband is a good Christian man, as is his family amd our community.Good solid hardworking people, friendly and are very caring and giving.

I consider myself Quaker and love their belief that faith is individual to a person and I don't believe there is only one way to believe. It's not up to us to tell others what to believe or try to save their soul by telling them how to live.

Quakers are unique in that there can be Christian Quakers, Buddhist Quakers and even atheist Quakers. They can all gather together under one roof and spend time together, respecting each others different beliefs and exchanging ideas on their experiences in faith and learning from each other.

Often their church services (aka "meetings") are unprogrammed, meaning that there is no preacher up there preaching and telling you what you need to do. Friends (as Quakers call themselves) gather and may sit quietly and if someone feels compelled to speak and share something meaningful, then they do. Anyone can contribute their thoughts or experiences to the meeting.

People may have completely different views on things but they are always respectful of the other persons right to believe as they want to. We can all learn from each other whether we see it the same way or not.

Ok, I'm done preaching my faith here. I just wanted to make sure that nobody thought I was bashing religion or God or anything because I do have some very harsh thoughts about this "apostle" and his church and how this matter of his wife is being dealt with.

I really wonder what/how his children feel about all of this.
 
It is very scary that a woman can be locked away for a year, isolated, in an unknown location to anyone but her husband and perhaps her family, because of having affairs. Last I checked, it is not illegal, or even a sign of mental illness, to have affairs. Even numerous ones. How many male public figures (and private ones) engage in the same behavior, but are never locked away in a facility for it?

This smacks to me of some weird religious thing where the man must control his wife. If she does not conform to the weird behavioral standards she is sent in for some sort of re-education or religious brainwashing. It's like shades of The Handmaid's Tale. Incredibly creepy. This is a GROWN ADULT WOMAN. How the heck can this happen? Who knows what is happening to her under the guise of "therapy"?!

And don't even get me started on what a crock the whole prosperity gospel is, either. That's a whole entire other issue that others me with this guy too.
 
SeekingJana said:
Please see my post # 110 prior to this one for the Texas connection. Ron lived in Possum Kingdom, TX. He obviously knows someone in TX, probably from living in the state, who does extensively long inpatient therapy. I have suggested one possible person. :) IDK, but I think it's a possibility.
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Thank you for the information. The statement he lived in Possum Kingdom was in the same sentence as her growing up in SC therefore it appeared it was in the same state. Now I can see the connection.

:)
 
So on the sex addiction possibility that someone offered earlier, I remembered the very publicized story of how David Duchovny (X Files, Californication) went o rehab for sex addiction. Looking up those stories, it seems he was in rehab for two months.

So why would this woman be in for a year. A YEAR. How can this be done?! What kind of place facility is she in? Is it a medical facility, or some religious counseling place where they brainwash you (like those "pray the gay away" places)?
 
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