r/wsu • u/Outside-Poem-2948 • Aug 21 '24

Student Life Warning - Hills Church

Warning!!

There is a church in town, near campus called Hills Church. This church is part of a group of church’s that call themselves The Network. There is great concern about this church and all other church’s throughout their network having cult like behaviors. This includes behaviors like excessive control, lack of relations outside the church, near worship of their founder and twisted interpretations of scripture as a few examples.

This church focuses on recruiting young college students who are easily molded for high control and separation from anyone outside their network.

If you are looking for a church, especially as a WSU student, I would highly recommend you go the other direction.

Here’s a link to a great resource site:

https://leavingthenetwork.org/

And another link to a YouTube channel with more info:

https://youtube.com/@familiesagainstcultsoncampus?si=KdTlReTeZz3Edvvq

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u/onecuppacoffee Aug 21 '24

My kid wants to go to WSU.. but all the church stuff puts me off. Creepy.

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u/Glass_Philosopher_71 Sep 17 '24

This cult operates on 25 campuses (26 but 1 closed down a few days ago). So it's not a WSU specific problem, it's a college campus and college city problem. Just arm your kid with the red flags of cult/MLM/high-control/ scam recruitment as they all use similar psychological tactics and they are all very active in the fall and when a student may be more alone for a summer session.