My Mother Came Under the SPELL

of “Momma Maura”

I want to testify today about what Maura Schmierer did to my mother, Ruthe Waterfield. When I first moved to ACMTC Headquarters, my father, mother and sister came to visit. I spent the day with them, talked with them, went on a wonderful walk with them, and they accepted everything I was saying to them—at least, they voiced no objections to my beliefs and desire to stay at ACMTC, for life. I had found what I had always been looking for as a Christian.

     You know, I remember when my mother was leaving, and something she said was very telling. She looked at me as I stood by her car, and with a longing stare in her eyes, she clearly said (and I remember it like it was yesterday), “It was so good knowing you...I’m so glad that you have been a part of my life”—as if saying, and knowing, that she would never see me again—and being resigned to that fact. She seemed to know that this was it: I had found what I was looking for, and there would be NO TURNING BACK, NO RETURNING, NO GOING BACK TO MY OLD LIFE. I was here to stay.

     Yet somehow, some way, when she went back to her old world, she came under the covering of Maura Schmierer and her RIDICULOUS, BLASPHEMOUS, SELF-CONFLICTING AND TOTALLY ABSURD LIES. My mom changed. She became like all the women who come in contact with Maura—suspicious, angry, accusatory, bitter, and especially revengeful against the Generals.

     My mom (and sister who came with her) was treated really well when she came here, and everyone welcomed her, and the Generals even politely, graciously invited her back anytime. But when she came under “Momma Maura’s” SPELL, and I do believe it is a literal WITCHCRAFT SPELL that comes over people, she somehow forgot all the kindness, all the hospitality, and all the love that was shown to her when she was here. She somehow forgot ALL THAT SHE HAD SEEN WITH HER OWN TWO EYES, and started treating me like I was the one who was deceived, and I was the one who was insane, and nothing I said or did mattered anymore—she would no longer listen to me.

     I was an adult when I came, and I am nearly 11 years down the road now from that time, and yet I’m afraid that I cannot talk to my own mother because she is UNDER THE WITCHCRAFT SPELL OF “MOMMA MAURA,” AND NO MATTER WHAT I SAY, I’M THE “DECEIVED CULT MEMBER” WHO CAN NO LONGER THINK FOR HIMSELF, JUDGE FOR HIMSELF, MAKE CHOICES FOR MY OWN LIFE. I’M “BRAINWASHED.”

     I just pray that my mother genuinely REPENTS—not just so she can re-establish contact with me, or see me, or some other shallow reason like that. I PRAY THAT SHE REALLY SEES THE ERROR OF HER WAYS AND REPENTS FOR BEING DECEIVED BY “MOMMA MAURA”—FOR BELIEVING IN HER LIES, ACCEPTING HER ACCUSATIONS, SIDING WITH THE ENEMIES AND NETWORKING WITH “BITTER BABES” LIKE PAULA GOEBEL, MARTY SHANK, CHRISTINE LOPEZ AND OTHERS WHO ALSO CAME UNDER THE WITCHCRAFT OF MAURA SCHMIERER, THE “MOTHER OF LIES” AND ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN.

     If my mother truly repents, I believe she will see everything in a clearer light, and realize what she threw away—a relationship with God’s people, including her own son who loves Jesus with all his heart.

     Amen.

     —First Sgt. Amos (AKA, Joshua Wentzell)