Potter's Field Ministry Pastor Michael Rozell Allegedly Forced Women to Detail 'Sexual Sins': Ex-Fol

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Potter’s Field Ministry Pastor Michael Rozell Allegedly Forced Women to Detail ‘Sexual Sins’: Ex-Followers

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Source: Daily Beast

Pastor Allegedly Forced Young Women to Detail ‘Sexual Sins,’ Ex-Followers Say

Inside the Montana ministry with a burger chain led by a pottery-spinning pastor, accused of abusing and swindling his flock.

Pilar Melendez
Reporter
Updated 09.03.19 10:33AM ET / Published 09.02.19 5:20AM ET

Dawn Marie Grice said she fled an abusive home in Southern California when she heard about a place that offered her salvation in Montana, Potter’s Field Ministry.

The evangelical Christian ranch on 80 acres in picturesque Whitefish boasted an internship to work and learn alongside the ministry’s co-founders, Michael and Pam Rozell. Grice, who was 20, signed up immediately.

In 2000, after three months of performing administrative tasks for the ministry, she was promoted to being Michael’s personal assistant—a job she held for 11 years that she equated with “being another form of Michael Rozell.”

Soon into her new role though, Michael started to scream over the smallest inconveniences, usually for hours. The alleged abuse would sometimes even take a sexual turn, according to Grice.

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“I’ve heard he also asked several girls if they ever struggled with sexual sin,” she added. “According to Michael, sexual sin was masturbating or watching porn and he apparently would force girls to talk about it in detail for hours.”

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/potters-field-ministry-pastor-michael-rozell-allegedly-forced-women-to-detail-sexual-sins-ex-followers

[dawg day]

1. Was trying to remember where I'd heard of that town Whitefish before--

Ryan Zinke (remember him? Yet another of Trump's cabinet resigned in disgrace) is from there, and a land deal and company in Whitefish was involved.

Sounds like a nice town.

[Act_of_Reparation]

3. Richard Spencer lives there.

Must be some strange eldritch force that attracts assholes to that specific part of the country.

[dawg day]

4. Good grief. Can you imagine how unpleasant it must be?

This beautiful setting, cute little town... and residents like these?

[Act_of_Reparation]

5. Like that island in Wicker Man.

Idyllic, seemingly benign. Next thing you know they're stuffing bees down your throat.

[gibraltar72]

2. Recovering Evangelical here.

Neither shocked nor surprised.