It started with one man and a pond in rural Maine. Carl Stevens said God poured liquid waves of love over him — and that story became the foundation of Greater Grace World Outreach, a network of churches, schools, and missionary operations spanning more than seventy countries.

Most people outside those walls never heard of it. That changed when a 172-page independent investigation dropped in late 2025, exposing a pattern of alleged abuse, institutional silence, and a culture engineered to make sure nobody could speak up without losing everything.

Elita Galvin grew up inside Greater Grace from infancy. She's the host of the Looking for Grace podcast and has spent years documenting how this organization operates. Oscar — a pseudonym he's using for safety — entered as an adult with a fully formed identity and still got pulled under. He left in 2004 and still carries religious trauma from the experience.In this conversation, they break down the mechanics — the love bombing that draws you in, the redefined language that rewires how you think, the exhaustion of nonstop church activity that keeps you too tired to question anything. 

Elita describes a childhood where her father's abuse was known to leaders who responded with more pastors and a scripture-backed order to stay quiet. Oscar describes the slow erosion of his own critical thinking inside a system that framed doubt as spiritual failure.This is Part 1 of our series on Greater Grace World Outreach — and it's the part that explains how everything else became possible.

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