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DR.LOREN DUE PHD. PENTECOSTAL ELDER , Speaks out about incest in the church in his New Book " Shhhh, Don't Tell"


My name is Loren Due and I am a survivor/over comer of childhood sexual abuse, incest, rape and molestation. I was 4 or 5 years-old when I was raped by my teenage brother and/or my father and molested by my older sister and father.

My father was an ordained Pentecostal Elder. You may ask where my mother was; she worked 2 and sometimes 3 jobs to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads. My father worked odd jobs; mostly as a janitor. Other times he was off running revivals and stuff for the church.

When I was 36 and my son was 12 I sat him down and shared with him the facts of life as the Holy Spirit instructed me to teach him and not touch him as I had been touched. The Lord blessed me with a 12 year-old daughter when I married my wife and I was 44.

Through all this transition the Lord made it clear that I was not to touch my children; which includes my grandson and granddaughter. In my brother’s family (the pastor) his oldest daughter and youngest son had sex when they were kids and some years later it is reported the patterned continued with some of my brother’s grand kids (this is unconfirmed by me).

The Lord has brought healing and deliverance in my life by blessing me to forgive and love my dad who is deceased, my brother who is a pastor and my sister who is almost 20 years older than I. In 2006, 60 years after I was born I got a breakthrough that Jesus loves me and that I can love him, my wife and others – I am learning to really love.

My mission is to spread the good news about Jesus and expose and confront anything that holds individuals and families back from truly loving the Lord and one another.