Recommendations panel

Two New Tribes Mission/Ethnos360 missionary kids, siblings, discussed their experience as MKs, available on YouTube. One of the MKs describes being harmed as an MK, his involvement in an Ethnos360 investigation, and his experience as a participant on panels Ethnos360 put together to view the investigation outcomes and make recommendations for how Ethnos360 should respond. Please listen to the interview in its entirety to learn how the organization failed over and over again and betrayed the trust of MKs and those taking their time to help.

One of the things that stood out to me was his description of the recommendations panel (also discussed by another MK here). He describes how the panel reviewed the report and returned with recommendations (37:00), including that leadership in Sanford and the mission leadership in the country under investigation were culpable. He explains that when Ethnos360 released the panel's recommendations, they released a completely different set of recommendations that did not reflect the recommendations the panel painstakingly submitted (39:00). He further shares how the recommendations Ethnos360 represented as coming from the panel weren't only altered to the point they were unrecognizable, but they were sanitized and wholly inadequate. He describes being on two recommendation panels and having this happen on both occasions (40:45). Ultimately, many blamed the panel for insufficient recommendations when it was the leadership all along. He characterizes this experience as a betrayal and says he felt tremendously victimized by leadership misrepresenting the panel's words (41:25).

He further discusses feelings of betrayal when, after participating in the Bolivia investigation and on two recommendation panels, he learned that IHART isn't independent. He describes being led to believe it was independent all of that time, only to find out IHART is a process owned by Ethnos360 and that Ethnos360 was able to fire Pat Hendrix (40:10), which clearly shows a lack of independence.

He concludes that Ethnos360 leadership, including those who are still in leadership to this day, is culpable for silencing and enabling abuse (44:30) and has disqualified themselves by being unwilling to name abuse/abusers and take responsibility (45:00).