Support Group Available

We offer an online support group for former and current United Pentecostal and other Apostolic church members. We do not limit the support group to these groups and have members who are from various other church organizations. In addition, we consider family members and friends of current or ex-UPC/apostolic members who are seeking help. Current UPC or apostolic members must be contemplating leaving their organization or be questioning the validity of teachings specific to the UPC/apostolic churches in order to be considered for membership.

Starting in May of 2000, our first support group was hosted on E-groups, which was later converted to Yahoo Groups. In August of 2003, we moved to our domain name and changed formats to a phpBB2 board. In January 2008, we moved to a better vBulletin board system and use that to this day. While it is still on our website, we are not accepting new members in this group as it is very inactive since too many want to be on Facebook and other social media.

Starting in early 2015, we opened a support group on Facebook, which is not as secure since the website is not owned by us. It is still available. You will find it at https://www.facebook.com/groups/813830865371192/. Please be sure to read the description of the group before applying and then answer the questions that Facebook will automatically pose to you. While this group is Christian based, you need not be a Christian to join.

Understand that we do not tolerate anyone who joins for wrongful reasons or who attempts to disrupt the groups or cause distress or harm to any member. We will take whatever action is deemed necessary in order to keep the groups a safe place for our members.

In addition to our online support groups, we have also been able to hold some in-person support group meetings in Texas, Wisconsin, Missouri, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee and Indiana. I have also met members in Windsor, Ontario and in the states of Michigan, Kansas and New Jersey.

In the past we have had special guests in our first group, who only had access to their special forum. Prior guests have been: Tony Ducklow (author of Where Angels Tread), Wes Comer (illustrator of Ruth Rieder's children's books), Don Marler (author of Imprisoned in the Brotherhood), Becca Anderson (author of The Gathering Place), Samantha Nelson (author of Reaching the Hurting), David Henke (author of Spiritual Abuse Recovery), David Wasmundt (author of Neo-Phariseeism and Pendulum Extremes), Mary Alice Chrnalogar (author of Twisted Scriptures), Tish Meeks & Steve Hoover from the "Wife Swap" episode with the Meeks & Hoover (UPC) families and Jim Aabear, from the movie, Paradise Recovered, as a guest.

We also give away books and DVDs to members as we are able. We have given away hundreds of books, Bibles, DVDs and videos to our membership, as well as to some readers of our Facebook page and blog, so if you are not interested in the support group, you may want to watch Facebook and the blog for occasional giveaways.

Koinonia: "the share which one has in anything...fellowship recognized and enjoyed." (Vines).

Page updated December 7, 2021

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