Complaint Review: Gracewalk Church - phoenix Arizona

 I loved this church at first. I wanted to involve myself into all of the volunteer programs. It was during Mexico mission trip that i saw the the absence of the fruits of the spirit. UNBELIEVABLE.. I have never seen such blatant nasty christian people, especially the woman's group, in my life. Before the Mexico mission trip, I saw Pastor Joe in the lobby and asked him how his recent trip.

The pastors run around trying to to get people to put up good reviews. Don't believe it. They would do alot better if they didn't let the jealous women run the church. I mentioned I was going on mission trip to Mexico. He gasped, "WHAT, YOU'RE GOING.' In an unwelcoming tone. And then turned away to talk to another woman coming in the door.

A woman standing next to me, said "WOW, WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE HE MEANT BY THAT. She said, HE DOESN'T SEEM LIKE HE WANTS YOU TO GO." I said, I am sure I don't know. I didn't even know anyone there. I was always nice to everyone, although, i was just brand new. So there was no reason for that. Usually volunteers are welcomed with open arms everywhere else that I go. Well, i had already paid the 350.00 and never been on a mission trip and i really wanted to help people in a third world country.

So, I still went. BIG MISTAKE. I should have heeded the big red flag that pastor joe was waving. The group of woman in ignite christian group including mary rodriguez, the leader, Kerry, Katherine, Kris and a few others, began abuse at me and another woman. I had spent close to 2000.00 on that trip, with all the donations i gave and i bought a bunch of new items, enough for 200 people.

Not one shred of the Fruits of the Spirit could be seen with these women. A woman at the orphanage slammed a door in my roommates face. Because my roommate needed to get special food to take her pills. kerry had brought her own food, but some of us didn't think to do that. She was one of the first to condemn. Kris helped with the ongoing attack for no reason. My roommate and I did 3 loads of laundry and hung them to dry and made koolaid and took all of the donations and turned an area with all the donations into a tiny dept store.

One man asked how we knew how to do that. Because it really was quite incredible. katherine actually claimed that we were lazy, right to our face, and she can't even walk. We did an amazing job. And i ate some lettuce and had some kind of dissentary and my roommate had it too, so we both had to go to emergency room when we got back to get well. They wanted a gym treadmill moved from the orphanage, and since i had stict orders not to lift much weight so soon after colotis which i got from pneumonia shot that was pushed on me by my doctor who was saying pneumonia was going around and i might get it, so i had to pass on lifting it.

The doctor told me the colotis would pass but i had to wait to lift anything for awhile. Those nasty woman from ignite group, dragged it out of there and literally threw it at me and it landed just in front of me outside. Even if someone had paid the 350.00 to go and taken 5 days off from work and just taken notes as to the condition that these people were living in and the generosity that these people were receiving and did hugs, and nothing else would have been considered astronomical, could have not been judged. Which was not the case with me and my roommate.

We also planted trees at the school and pulled weeds. And they still tried to say that we were worthless. Not to mention the 1650.00 besides that i spent on 200 toothbrushes, toothpaste, perfume, cologne, bows for the little girls hair, shawls for the ladies, baseball caps for the men. It was sooo important to me to intermingle with the locals instead of throwing a bag of clothes at them. It was so sad to see this treatment.

I was up all night with heartburn and we were all sitting around for 4 hours with nothing more to do there. So i suggested my roommate and i take van to motel we paid for and i take a nap and she get her special food. Since we had finished everything. And we would come back and pick them up. .Mary rodriguez tried screaming in my face. Pastor Fred was back at motel taking a nap.

We were not allowed to leave and we were nailed with bible scripture as though it was a weapon by mary rodriguez. She was saying, these people are starving and have nothing and Jesus suffered on the cross so we should suffer too. All of them were coming at us with tooth and nail. That was pure evil.

The women were trying to show each other up and trying to tear me down because they were jealous to make themselves look better. The rest of the 5 days stayed as nasty as that, with these woman talking behind our backs, just loud enough so we could hear it but not the pastors, and shunning us. We were made to feel if we complained about any of their behavior that we were not accepting the suffering we were meant to receive, because the people there were suffering and Jesus suffered.

I can't believe that a Christian mission trip was that evil. This church must have a curse to harbor so much instant ill will. So if you dare to volunteer, you will be persecuted in the name Of Jesus, or so they claim. While Pastor Fred was taking a nap back at the motel that each one of us paid 350.00 for that we were condemned for, if we wanted to do the same thing.

WHAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!! I AM STILL FLABBERGASTED !!!!!!!!! I told the truth and a member of the church told me in secret that they are all pissed off. You wouldn't believe the dirty looks i've been getting. No different than before, when i was just trying to be loving, kind and generous. At the end of the 5 days we finally said something about the abuse and those women denied any abuse, of course.

The pastors told them they have to be nice, and of course, they put on their best fake nice that they could in front of the pastors. As though nothing ever happened. Not one apologized. Seems to me, that they should have shown love and kindness in the first place. #youwillknowthembytheirfruit# I have feelings of the Holy Spirit all the time, like you are talking about in the series on May 23. But, one particular time I was slain in the Spirit.

Pastor Fred witnessed the whole thing. I finally got him to admit it, but he was looking at the floor in shame when he admitted it because it took him so long to admit it. Can you imagine, a real encounter with God for me and he saw the whole thing and refused to admit it and told me not to talk about it. I had to go see a Pastor outside that church and he told me that apparently God likes hanging out with you and He wanted you to know that He is with you.

That Pastor said that was a huge encounter with God that I had. I was telling the people from Grace Walk Church about it and they all walked away and said nothing and Pastor Fred walked away too. He witnessed it and he said nothing. SHAME ON YOU.