The list

For many years MKs have asked Ethnos360 to make a list of credibly accused perpetrators of abuse that harmed children while in the organization. The request was repeatedly denied. In 2020, Ethnos360 changed course and decided to make such a list. Unfortunately, they buried the list on their website in a PDF (page 11), somewhere it is unlikely to be found. Additionally, there are so many published and unpublished exceptions, that it's essentially pointless, while also being demonstrably misleading and, in some instances, outright false.

Ethnos360 enumerates a variety of reasons they leave names out, such as physical abuse, emotional or spiritual abuse, if the perpetrator is deceased, if the perpetrator has been criminally convicted, or if Ethnos360 is only aware of intrafamilial abuse. As you can imagine, these exceptions could exclude countless people and make it easier for them to obscure if they're being truly honest about the numbers they are giving. At the very least, there seems to be an effort to portray the problem as far less serious than it is.

As an example of their dishonesty, in April 2024 Ethnos360 removed a missionary from their training facility in Missouri for what Ethnos360 described as "acts that meet the Ethnos360 definition of child sexual abuse," and his name has not been added to the list nearly a year later. Their own documentation and communication prove they aren't telling the truth about this list. This is just one of many examples.

I have talked with several Ethnos360/NTM MKs and former missionaries, and I have yet to find a single person who doesn't know a perpetrator of abuse left off of this list. It seems clear the 19 names are the tip of the iceberg. So if the list is seemingly intentionally inaccurate, why does it exist? Can Ethnos360 leadership be trusted?

MKs discuss list (1:13:13-1:14:40)

*an update to the list can be found here.