Church of the Harvest: “WWJD? Probably Pay His Employees.”
Was I In A Cult?13 Okt 2025

Church of the Harvest: “WWJD? Probably Pay His Employees.”

Nine years. One strip-mall church. A duffel bag full of cash, a freezing pool full of goldfish, and a pastor who convinced everyone he had a direct line to God.


This week, Alisha takes us inside Church of the Harvest — a charismatic California congregation that promised purpose, purity, and a path to the pulpit… but delivered something far darker.


Hazing disguised as holiness, unpaid labor disguised as “discipleship,” and extreme control disguised as dating.


Because when your pastor asks you to “volunteer” full-time, pay tuition to do it, and maybe jump into a swamp at 3 a.m. to save metaphorical fish — you might just be in a cult.


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