A guy in a small Maine town says God spoke to him at a pond. That story becomes the foundation of Greater Grace World Outreach — a network of churches, schools, and missionary operations that spreads to more than seventy countries over the next several decades. Most people outside those walls never hear about it.
Then in late 2025, a 172-page independent investigation lands. And what’s inside is staggering.
Alleged abuse spanning decades. A theology specifically engineered to silence anyone who tried to report it. Leadership that the investigators say must be removed. And a church that published the report on its own website and then did almost nothing about the findings.
Elita Galvin was raised inside Greater Grace from four months old. Born at the original location in southern Maine where Carl Stevens started the whole thing. Her father was abusive. Church leaders knew. Instead of calling authorities or getting the family professional help, they shuffled her parents from pastor to pastor and weaponized scripture to keep the children quiet — honor your father. Love covers a multitude of sins. She didn’t know that wasn’t normal until someone outside the system finally told her. She now hosts the Looking for Grace podcast and has spent years investigating how this organization operated, documenting what the Millstones uncovered, and tracking the church’s response to being exposed.
Our other guest entered Greater Grace as a grown adult. He had his own life, his own mind, his own critical thinking skills — and still got consumed by it. He’s joining us audio-only under the name Oscar because even after twenty years out, the religious trauma from this group is something he navigates every single day. He describes the love bombing that pulled him in, the manufactured language that rewired how he thought, and the slow erosion of his ability to question anything without being treated as spiritually deficient.
Between them, they lay out the full architecture — how Greater Grace captures people, how it holds them, how its own theology became the perfect weapon against anyone who tried to speak up, and what happened when
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