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<p>Nine years. One strip-mall church. A duffel bag full of cash, a freezing pool full of goldfish, and a pastor who convinced everyone he had a direct line to God.</p><p><br></p><p>This week, Alisha takes us inside Church of the Harvest — a charismatic California congregation that promised purpose, purity, and a path to the pulpit… but delivered something far darker.</p><p><br></p><p>Hazing disguised as holiness, unpaid labor disguised as “discipleship,” and extreme control disguised as dating. </p><p><br></p><p>Because when your pastor asks you to “volunteer” full-time, pay tuition to do it, and maybe jump into a swamp at 3 a.m. to save metaphorical fish — you might just be in a cult.</p><p><br></p><p>______________________</p><p><br></p><p>FOLLOW US</p><p>For more cult content, behind-the-scenes chaos, and occasional sermons from our strip-mall pulpit:</p><p>→ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/wasiinacult" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@wasiinacult</a>&nb...