Next time you stop off for a latte at your local coffee chain, you might want to think about where your money’s ending up:
A SECRETIVE ministry with direct links to Gloria Jean’s Coffees and the Hillsong Church has been deceiving troubled young women into signing over months of their lives to a program that offers scant medical or psychiatric care, instead using Bible studies and exorcisms to treat mental illness. (The Age)
According to The Age, ‘Mercy Ministries’ preys on women struggling with mental illness, pocketing their welfare payments and preventing them from accessing medical care.
The whole dodgy operation is funded, it seems, by Gloria Jean’s coffee shops. The GJ website lists the corporation’s values as follows:
At Gloria Jean’s Coffees, our values are simple:
- We demonstrate a commitment to excellence and innovation in everything we do
- Our partnerships are based on integrity and trust
- We believe in people, building and changing lives
- We foster a culture of joy and passion throughout our company.
No mention of brainwashing, medieval exorcisms, stealing people’s welfare payments or withholding medical treatment, but I guess you can’t say everything in your mission statement.
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Hi, Alexandra Deakin, Global Marketing Manager for Gloria Jean’s Coffees. Saw your comments and just wanted to share what we think about all of this. You can get our view from our website, here’s the link: http://www.gloriajeanscoffees.com.au/resource/Mercy_Web_Post.pdf
Thank you for exposing Mercy Ministries for the abuse they are doing to young women. The co owner of Gloria Jeans Peter Irvine is listed on the Mercy Ministries website as being their executive director, so it’s no wonder Gloria Jeans are trying to make Mercy Ministries and all the harm they cause look ok. I have a friend at uni who was at Mercy, and they almost totally destroyed her. They promise girls proper care by professionals like psychologists, but instead they don’t get to see a psychologist, they get put in the care of Bible college students and are denied medical care when they need it. They also advertise in their brochures and when they are fundraising, that they don’t charge the girls to be in their program, and that is why they need MORE money. In actual fact my friend had to pay thousands to be there. What Mercy is doing, taking more money from well meaning people who believe they are not charging the girls, is just dishonest!