My name is Liu Lan (a pseudonym), female, born in 1959. I am a peasant in Daiwan Town, Linqing, Shandong Province. My husband and I made a living by farming. During the slack season, my husband and son would go out to work to earn extra money. After our son got married, all I expected was to become a grandma as soon as possible. The whole family worked hard to improve our financial conditions. However, while we were striving for a bright future, “Almighty God” invaded my home and shattered our dreams.

At the beginning of 2005, my younger sister suffered from cancer and didn’t get any better after seeking medical help at many hospitals. Later, we were introduced to a man who claimed himself to be a “miraculous doctor”. According to this “doctor”, only “Almighty God” could cure my younger sister without taking medicine or injection. But the healing process was determined by the degree of our loyalty to “Almighty God”, the more money (they called it “the worldly things” or “external possession”) we offered, the sooner my younger sister would be cured.

To save my sister, I obeyed the will of “Almighty God” and donated all family savings worth of more than 20,000 Yuan to it. Additionally, I wrote a “letter of guarantee” and signed on it, swearing not mention the donation to anyone else or the curse would kill my whole family.

In this way, my younger sister and I started to believe in “Almighty God” and soon became obsessed with it. Later, I stopped cultivating our field or caring for any housework, no matter big or small. At the same time, I went around the town to preach the “doomsday” story, declaring that only those who believed in “Almighty God” could survive the calamities, both themselves and their families, because they were all blessed by “God”. Of course, it was just a trick to draw villagers into joining the cult. I also handed out propaganda materials about “Almighty God” such as the book The Lightning from the East and DVDs to followers, and brainwashed them by asking them to learn those materials repeatedly, so that they could be totally mind-controlled by the cult. Instigated by “Almighty God” organization, I kept collecting the “worldly things” that people had offered, ranging from one or two thousand Yuan to even more.

Since May 2005, I had been away from home all year round, and spent all family savings worth of tens of thousands of Yuan the whole family had earned through hard work. Relatives saw the situation clearly, gradually cut me out of their life, scolding me as “a complete nut”. My husband and son asked me to have a normal life and stop running away from home again, but I just didn’t listen. Obsessed with “Almighty God”, I retorted: “God says the world is about to be destroyed soon. To survive the doomsday, everyone needs to save others by preaching the gospel. You lot stop interfering with me and my work, I’m actually saving you!”

In the summer of 2006, my husband was finally had enough of me and overwhelmed by the heavy burden of life. So, he filed for a divorce. After divorced, I was still obsessed with “Almighty God” and “preached” everywhere. A relative of mine couldn’t stand my behavior and warned me, “You’d better stop believing in the cult. It cost you your marriage. What good is there for you to have a broken family?” Seeing that I wasn’t budged on my obsession, they reported me to the government in hopes of saving both me and my family.

In October 2006, with the help of the government and anti-cult volunteers, I began to reflect on what I had done before. Deprogramming experts systematically explained scientific knowledge to me and analyzed the evil nature of the “Almighty God” cult. In the face of science and facts, I finally began to come to my sense and realize what great physical and psychological harms I had brought to my own family and many other innocent families.

Sadly, my younger sister died at the end of 2006 for lack of effective medical treatment. The death of my younger sister made me fully realized how stupid I had been. Had she received medical treatment earlier in a major hospital, perhaps she would still be alive by now. The hateful “Almighty God” not only killed my younger sister, it also totally ruined my family.