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Greater Grace Report: Leadership Named and Still in Place

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Tony Brueski

News, News Commentary, True Crime

4.2 β€’ 612 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The independent investigation into Greater Grace World Outreach didn't pull punches. It named four leaders who should be removed β€” the senior pastor, the missions director, the youth pastor, and the youth ministry director. It said the organization couldn't meaningfully reform while they remained in authority. It described a culture of authoritarian control, victim silencing, and institutional self-protection spanning decades.

The church published the report on its own website. Then came the reckoning β€” or what should have been one.

What actually happened: a general apology with no specific names attached to specific failures. A roadmap for future transitions with no dates. Some lower-level ordinations pulled. The four named leaders still in place. And when an evangelical financial accountability organization put the church under governance review, Greater Grace resigned rather than complete the process.

For the former members who spent years building the case that made this investigation happen β€” the Millstones, the survivors, the people who risked everything to speak β€” the response confirmed what they already suspected: the same leadership that created the problem isn't going to fix it.

Elita Galvin has been tracking this from before the official investigation existed. Her podcast Looking for Grace has become the running record of Greater Grace's unraveling. Oscar β€” under a pseudonym, still navigating the trauma twenty years after leaving β€” brings the human cost of what happens when an institution you trusted refuses to account for what it did to you.

This episode covers the investigation's key findings, the institutional response, the IBLP and Duggar parallels, the active lawsuits, and what comes next.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Colts, Hidden Killers Investigates.

0:04.0

Here now, Tony Bruske.

0:06.0

For decades, people were harmed inside Greater Grace, and many of them were told that their pain was their own fault.

0:15.0

Forgiveness meant shutting up.

0:18.0

Questioning a leader meant questioning God.

0:20.0

Speaking up meant losing everyone that you'd ever known.

0:24.8

Then a group of former members called the Millstone sat around a campfire and started telling

0:30.0

each other their stories.

0:32.3

That led to a years-long investigation, a major series in the Baltimore banner, and eventually a 172-page

0:40.4

independent report that said the church's top leaders need to go. Elita Galvin started her own

0:46.4

podcast work on Greater Grace in 2023 before any of the official investigations launched.

0:52.0

She now hosts Looking for Grace, the podcast, and continues tracking the story in talking to

0:56.8

survivors.

0:57.4

Oscar is also with us.

0:59.2

As our other guests joining audio only under that pseudonym, he left over 20 years ago.

1:04.9

But when the report came out, he could barely get through it.

1:07.3

A report that is now public.

1:09.4

Lawsuits have been filed.

1:10.6

A former pastor has been

1:11.8

indicted. The church recently quit an evangelical financial accountability organization while under

1:18.2

review. I wonder what that means. And the leaders, the report said, should still be removed.

1:24.2

Still there, allegedly. This is where things seem to stand as of right now.

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