Junior Corps Surviver

Thanks T Bone. I would say that, speaking for myself, Twig and TWI in general was about The Bible. I started in TWI when I was 4 so it was all I new and for the most part I took it very seriously. But a raging hormonal teen is still a raging hormonal teen. At Corps Week/The Rock I rarely went to the big top teachings. I didn’t work. I didn’t do anything but eat, sleep, drink, smoke and fool around with girls. And I certainly wasn’t alone in that. My kids do not know a life with the level of freedom I had in Ohio. It’s completely inappropriate.

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Hi. I spelled my profile name incorrectly. I guess I will have to live with that. I was Junior Corps F9. I just want to shed some light on this topic from a Junior Corps perspective. We called it “Score Week.” We were precocious teenagers who were almost always unsupervised. I can tell you that as a parent I never would allow my teens to congregate in what amounted to our won private neighborhood in tent city. We would set up our tents in the same area every year and have two weeks of unsupervised sex, booze and rock and roll. We were lucky to mostly not be on any drugs outside of the booze. Score Week and The Rock was not about God or The Bible for us. It was a two week long party. When I look back at it I find it unbelievable that this was allowed to happen, let alone at a Christian event. I never saw any gay sex but I will say that this all started in the early 80’s. by the time LCM figured it out or addressed it, it had been going on for well over a decade. Of course I can now see that it was probably an excuse to cover for the real reason: Shrinking membership and shrinking revenue. A few last thoughts. 1. Corps Week often ended with a pizza and beer party. We Junior corps had no problem getting served from adult “bar tenders” aka The Way Corps. We also had access to wine and liquor at HQ. Adults got us drunk. That’s the truth. 2. My self and other Junior Corps had sexual relationships with Way Corps Adults. Usually adults on the younger side but not always. This extended all the way up to the board of trustees. A female friend of mine was sleeping with one of them and it wasn’t LCM. I had several encounters with a 20 year old Way Corps member when I was 14. 3. Adults were having the same party that we were. I remember walking into my mother’s RV and smelling marijuana and seeing several Way Corps adults, nude and sitting with people who were not their spouses. Looked like a wife swap to me. That behavior is fine with me, consenting adults and all. But a tad hypocritical for a “church”. To say that this became a problem in the mid 90’s is laughable.