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  • Amanda’s Story / YWAM / NIKO

    October 15, 2026 · 1 hr 58 min

    In this episode, we continue our Youth With A Mission (YWAM) series with Amanda. At 18, a back injury ended her basketball dreams, so she joined a YWAM program hoping to grow her faith. Instead, she found strict rules, constant control…

  • Sarah's Story / YWAM / Pt. 2

    October 6, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    Sarah's story continues. She returns to a Youth With A Mission (YWAM) base in the States, where a car accident leaves her hurt and exhausted. Instead of rest, she faces pressure to keep working and leading. In this episode, she describes a…

  • Sarah's Story / YWAM / Pt. 1

    October 5, 2026 · 57 min

    Sarah joined Youth With A Mission (YWAM) at 22 and did her training school in Samoa. In this episode, she shares what happened on outreach in the Solomon Islands, where a fellow student assaulted her. When she told leaders, they blamed…

  • Jamie's Story / YWAM / Canada

    September 25, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

    Jamie joins Youth With A Mission (YWAM) at 17 and stays 25 years, from 1994 to 2020. Jamie describes how YWAM's Founders Circle holds authority without accountability. After the Pulse nightclub shooting, Jamie, speaks out publicly as an…

  • Skyla's Story / YWAM Kona, HI

    September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min

    Skyla shares her story of serving on a team called End Bible Poverty Now at Youth With A Mission's (YWAM) Kona campus in Hawaii, where she pushed leadership to support outreach to deaf communities. When she raised the issue, she was…

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  • Shelby's Story / YWAM / Switzerland / Pt. 2

    September 11, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min

    Shelby returns to finish her story of leaving Youth With A Mission (YWAM) after almost 20 years. Two friends she trusted rise to lead her base, and when she raises concerns about how they treat people, she is accused of attacking them. She…

  • Shelby's Story / YWAM / Switzerland / Pt. 1

    September 10, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min

    Shelby joins us to share her story of almost 20 years with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), a Christian missions group with bases in nearly every country. She signs up at 24 to earn a counseling degree, hoping to help missionaries get better…

  • Intro To Stories From YWAM: Loren Cunningham And The Seven Mountain Mandate (Updated)

    September 8, 2026 · 38 min

    In this episode, Jay and Johnna introduce a new series featuring first hand stories from Youth With A Mission (YWAM). Before the storytellers share what happened to them, we take a step back and look at the roots. We cover who Loren…

  • ATBS "American Dominion: The Rise and Radicalization of a New Christendom" w/ Keri Ladner

    August 19, 2026 · 51 min

    Keri Ladner is the author of American Dominion: The Rise and Radicalization of a New Christendom. Her book traces the roots of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and Dominion theology in the United States. She began her research while…

  • Bel's Story / Sydney Anglican Diocese

    July 22, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

    Bel joins us from Australia to share her story of growing up in a church in the Sydney Anglican Diocese. When she was six, she nearly died in an accident at church. Soon after, her family moved to a new church led by a man we call Rev T…

  • Jane's Story / Chi Alpha / Assemblies of God

    July 1, 2026 · 58 min

    In this episode, our storyteller Jane shares her years inside Chi Alpha, the college campus ministry of the Assemblies of God (AG). What began as a warm, welcoming community slowly turned into something else. Jane describes the pressure to…

  • Michelle’s Story / IN

    May 8, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

    Michelle shares her story of serving on staff at a church in Indiana, where subtle control, blurred pastoral authority, financial pressure, and spiritual manipulation slowly became clear over time. Her story names the confusion of being…

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About the show

The Bodies Behind the Bus is a podcast centering on the voices of spiritual abuse survivors. We began with stories out of the Acts 29 network and have branched into many organizations since our launch. We are the discarded few. We have been abused, gaslit, ignored, slandered, deceived, intentionally hurt, and betrayed. Our stories were manipulated and our voices were stolen. We were left alone with all the confusion, grief, hurt, and pain but today we begin to reclaim our stories and find our voices once again because we matter, and being a body behind the bus is not the gospel.