ONE NIGHT! ONE SHOW! Jay Cameron's - The Church Mafia 2009 Edition
Date(s): Sat, May 16, 2009
Times(s): 7:00pm (Doors Open at 6:00pm) Price: $20.00 in advance $25.00 day of show
Location:
The Life Center 5610 Linda Lane Camp Springs, MD 20748
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Oxon Hill, MD 20745
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From: K. Taylor I was blessed to attend 'The Church Mafia'. You have done an awesome job! Thank you for sharing this and encouraging so many who too have thought they were alone and crazy when experiencing this type of spiritual abuse. Keep doing what you are doing!!!
From: A. Kidd Church mafia was definitely hit. Thank you for allowing God to minister to you to those testimonies to be a blessing unto someone else's life. Can't wait for the next production. God Bless you!
| From: L. D. | I just came home from seeing Church Mafia. It was absolutely outstanding. I cried a lot tonight. It touch my heart and my life because I have seen church and leadership abuse and control all my life and my family members and I have experienced several of those demonstrations shown in the play. I was often told I was being rebellious by not agreeing with leaders who often acted ungodly. For years, and years I cried a lot for myself and many other family members I saw going through almost everything you shared in your play. I always ask God about authority figures, why are some where they are, and do the things they do. I seem to have run into much crooked so called christian authority all my life. Thank you so much, thank you for letting God use you. This is phenomenal and it will bring an uproar, but a good one to rattle things, because there are too, too many people who are hurting and severely wounded from the church. I am going to cry a little bit more. This play confirmed everything I always deeply felt in my spirit that we have a relationship with Jesus Christ and he is our leader and not man. My pain led me to backslide and half serve God for many years in and out of churches, searching for something different, only to find the same thing over and over again. Though I live in AA County, I do have a car and have been seeking where to go. I will be visiting your church again because I believe the truth and the light of Gods word in great illumination is there and I need to be totally healed and delivered from many years of pain. I was too embarrassed to stand up tonight. I just kept my head down. But, when I got to my car, boy did I cry. I go to church now and then, when I feel like it and I have been like that for the last 10 years. I often wondered about people who are truly anointed and have been greatly wounded and have left the church forever. We have many many true souls to reach that have great gifts and talents and that love the Lord but because of church abuse and disenchantment with the church development, people are wounded by the wayside. Please pray for me, I do need it. The icing on the cake was the stuffed person who was drained to nothing and I have felt like that for a long time. Thanks so much again and may God truly bless you above and beyond what you can ask or ever think. This play needs to go around the entire USA and the world. With Godly Love. Thank you again, ever so much.
| From: G. L. On Dec 1 I attended the stage play and it really confirmed alot of my feelings. I am like L.D. message that was posted. I could not help the tears from falling from my eyes that night. From how I treat my husband I don't have time I have a meeting at the church. Don't even mention sex, I am tired I have lost the desire because I am so busy. God always deal with me about family but because its not important in the church I feel bad. Whenever we want to go on vacation we feel so bad because couples are not important, they do go on vacation. I am so thankful for this play. I see myself and how I have allowed man to control me and be afraid to do what God is telling me. Alot of times God tells me to speak up because what I am seeing is not him but because everyone agree I am afraid. Even now I am still struggling because I know I am going to be talked about and cast to the side and made to look like I am not with the vision. Thanks so much for this play. From: A. Morgan I just saw your play, The Church Mafia, WOW!! Where was this play 4 or 10 years ago when I was going through mind manipulation. Taking the pastors word as God's and not considering my husband's feelings. Going to church 3 days a week and let us not consider the revivals the church had. At revivals they wanted you there every night and also expected you to give everynight. My dear husband..how he must have felt back then. Thank God I held on to my relationship with the Him. I thank God for you Mr. Cameron. I truly wish I had this information earlier in my life..... Keep on letting Abba Father work through you.:) |
Exclusive Video Interview with Jay Cameron about
"The Church Mafia"
Watch, Listen and Learn
Hear from the writer and director of The Church Mafia in his own words about this controversial stage play. |
The Church Mafia stage play opened in 2007 to rave reviews. It's back in 2009 with a few surprises!
Amidst a frightening trend of countless recent church scandals and widespread public disillusionment about religion and the church, Jay Cameron's courageous new stage play "Church Mafia" is based on a true story and exposes the schemes many churches and cults use to abuse and control their members. This problem is not rare but rampant in society and is marked by a manipulative, deceptive mindset from which no denomination, race or geographic region is immune.
Most people don't naturally think of the terms "Church" and "Mafia" as related ones but Jay Cameron does and he thinks everyone else should also. Although the phrase evokes mental images of organized crime figures dressed in clergy robes, meeting secretly with their entourages standing guard after Sunday worship services, he's not talking about fiction. He used to be a central figure in a group he now can only describe as a "church mafia".
Whenever someone hears the play's title for the first time, their eyebrows rise. Curiosity about the underlying concept sparks energetic conversations.
Some of the compelling questions he has asked himself in preparation for this play are: "What makes people join an organization that controls and manipulates its members? And why do they stay?" Most people think that the church is the one place they can go for refuge from the corruption, abuse and pain elsewhere in their lives. Believing the best, they can embrace a good first impression of a church with secret dealings that would impress any notorious mob boss. Like an initial experience with an illegal drug, the organization successfully meets the needs of a new member, initially making them feel good and building a loyal relationship. The benefits of the relationship diminish gradually as the member returns seeking another experience as satisfying as the first one.
Jay purports that religious leaders involved in church mafias operate in ways noticeably reminiscent of Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Saddam Hussein. Extreme examples include Warren Jeffs, David Koresh and Jim Jones. Murder may not be a part of their MO (modus operendus), but spiritual death is a frequent consequence. They use subtle tactics to manipulate trusting followers into doing things such as giving up their life savings, ending viable marriages or neglecting their households and families to serve. They tell them their sacrifice is a service to God. Anyone who disagrees or refuses to submit to the manipulation is targeted for public emotional or verbal abuse (often dealt from the pulpit), rejection, restricted access to resources or loss of position and respect in the church. These consequences can lead to violence, substance abuse, psychological dysfunction and suicide. No matter how the outcome unfolds, lives are destroyed.
Jay Cameron is currently the Senior Pastor of The Life Center located In Camp Springs, MD. His three previous stage plays are entitled S.E.X.POSE',Satan's Expose' and Love, 'Lationships and Drama. The working title of his fifth play is "FAME." Mr. Cameron intends for this production to shed light on the problem so that people can deal with their own church mafia experiences.
Purchase Your Tickets Today!
Tickets Also Available At Jesus Bookstore In Camp Springs, MD 301.735.1100 (across from Andrews Air Force Base)
Pursell's Bookstore 6177 Livingston Road Oxon Hill Plaza
Oxon Hill, MD 20745
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