We always enjoy when the dogs at YWAM get gored by somone's bull.
The recent articles on Ensign and C House and YWAM and The Family were brought to my attention by a friend as I got on line after riding into Show Low, Arizona with our great horse Hampton. Show Low is a lot cooler, so it was a good time to go back to war. A woman wrote me about the issue after seeing it on our website, what we thought of YWAM.
But the current fury has more parts.....
In the mid 1990's I was invited to a man's restaurant because he wanted to make a donation to my work, and he double up and invited another organization as well, so we all had lunch together at the Won Ton Suki in Chiangrai, Thailand.
He didn't trust The Family, that is why he invited them together, to see what I thought.
Well, they were a bit odd, but I made note of them and began spotting their literature. They were very secretive, but I did run into a gentleman who told me of even stranger goings on at this organization in Thailand. He said that one home that he had been to, there was a board, and on it was listed which staff members the children must spend the night with on a rotational basis.
Since I was very familiar with these same things going on at the other christian and ngo boarding schools, it was not surprising or out of the ordinary for that time.
But YWAM was a different org on the surface, I mean they didn't claim publically that I had noted, any connection to The Family.
But YWAM was a worse sort of scum because they brainwashed western kids to be their slaves and make mission trips with money to YWAM projects in Thailand, where they would dump their money, be there for two weeks and leave, making the bloated mission fatter.
Rose Martinez of YWAM's Christian Happy Home north of Chiangrai was the first YWAM org, had lots of non orphan girls in her care, who she claimed as orphans on the mission's calender.
Then there was Mercy House in Mae Chan, also YWAM, the Kao Dee tent church up from Thatong, and a new Chrisitian Happy Home up at Chiang Saen. I will get into that one in a moment.
But first I'd like to mention the main YWAM mission in Chiangrai, Vern McCauley's Eden House Children's Home. (See Youtube video.) This is a place where he specializes in taking away adolescent Akha girls to save their virginity. You can see an interview with this slug in the movie "Prisoners of a White God" on Google Videos. He is interviewed about one of the girls who had been raped by a missionary and he states "we don't want to talk about that because people would think bad about missionaries". No shit buddy.
YWAM has their base in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. I have been there, and seen first hand the incredible brainwashing that they put on these kids, and then they send them everywhere. Shock troops, brownshirts.
But there is also a YWAM in Salem, Oregon where similar things go on, and the kids all come down to the Governor's Cup in Salem and do their groupy thing. We asked YWAM Salem about supporting Vern's Eden House, but they denied they had any connection, except we ran into all their kids getting ready to board the landing crafts for Thailand, drinking coffee down at the Gov's Cup.
Back at Thailand, Rose Marinez was involved with the opening of the Chiang Saen Children's Residential School, orphanage so called. For those of you who haven't been there, Chiang Saen is one of the five Elephant cities of the old Lana Thai dynasty, an old brick wall town, with a moat, along the Mekong, across from Myanmar and Laos. Also a major point of drug entry. Course you have to ask the aging Bill Young of the Young missionary dynast about that, also CIA, who flew all the opium out of Luang Namtha during the CIA opium heroin heyday in Laos.
Well, if you travel from Maesai, on the north border, along the border and Maesai river going east you get soon enough to Chiang Saen. But before you get there you will come to what was the Baan Boran, a fancy five star hotel on the Maesai River, nestled in the palms and thick jungle, just over the hill from the parking lot, where you can't see its fancy wood work. But drop in for a beer, that is what I did, leaving my motorcycle in the lot.
An englishman brought me a beer, introduced himself as the Resort manager and sat down. The place was having a slow morning so he had time to talk.
I told him about YWAM opening up a new home there in Chiang Saen. He knew of it well. He said some family donated a lot for it in memorial funds in their daughter's name, who had died.
YWAM or friends of YWAM put him up in the Resort with his family. They stayed ten days. When they went to leave, the bill came to over $7,000.
People with YWAM came in, whipped out Platinum cards and paid for it without a comment.
He also mentioned the whole thing seemed odd. He talked that the Brit Embassy came up and wanted to know why all the US Embassy staff were always coming and staying at the Resort and why the mil haircut guys could always be found hanging around down at the pier in Chiang Saen. They'd like him to report to them every time an American came up from the Embassy, how long they stayed, what they did, etc, he declined.
Do a search on Akha.org for YWAM documents, commentary.
These people are running a fundamentalist military. They also just got the military base at Flat Head Lake, Montana and moved their west coast ops up there.
Our first priority is that we are opposed to anyone who removes Akha children from their villages for ANY reason, and this YWAM Vern McCauley is one freaky dude in Chiangrai Thailand.
Other missions in the area were from denver and had connections to YWAM there. Some may recall Ted Haggard's YWAM at New Life and Matthew Murray who killed four people.
None of these groups that take away Akha children in Thailand can survive without the money from donors who buy the endangered or orphan story.
The children, with the emphasis on taking Akha girls, are taken from their patents without INFORMED consent. Basically, the children are trafficked by the missions and later left to their own devices when too old for the mission.