Vision of Hope Resident Lawsuit

https://www.rams.land/s/2025530-Amended-Complaint-and-Demand-for-Jury-Trial.pdf

Seeking STatements

If you are one of the women who was a Resident at Vision of Hope within the last 10 years (2015 through 2025), you are invited to reach out via email to share your story in support of the currently pending legal action.

Your story may be helpful to this effort by confirming the facts that the lead plaintiffs have alleged. You can find those facts in the Amended Complaint in the lawsuit (see link above).

In particular, if you want to lend your voice to confirm some parts or all of the allegations, these statements may be useful to confirming for the Court that the forced labor did not just affect Hosanna and Faith, but uniformly affected Residents at Vision of Hope.

Some of those allegations include that:

• Vision of Hope required Residents to perform labor for which the Residents were not paid;

• that Residents’ labor was obtained by force under the threat of psychological harm;

• that Residents’ labor was obtained by force under the threat of reputational harm;

• that the labor that Vision of Hope required from Residents was more than just household chores around the Vision of Hope house;

• the labor that Vision of Hope required from Residents included cleaning and maintaining the church facilities;

• the labor that Vision of Hope required from Residents included unpaid labor at the Northend Community Center;

• the labor that Vision of Hope required from Residents included unpaid labor at the Senior Living Community;

• the labor that Vision of Hope required from Residents included unpaid landscaping and lawn care for Faith Church branches;

• the labor that Vision of Hope required from Residents included unpaid labor at the Reclaimed Hope retail store;

• that Residents received only about an hour a week of “biblical counseling;”

• that Residents who did not wish to participate in the forced, unpaid labor risked being declared “in rebellion;”

• that Residents who did not wish to participate in the forced, unpaid labor risked being assigned a “consequence;”

• that “consequences” could include shunning, the silent treatment, extra bible homework, withdrawal of “privileges,” or loss of free time;

• that Residents often felt afraid or unable to leave the Vision of Hope program because of the threats of psychological harm;

• that Residents often felt afraid or unable to leave the Vision of Hope program because of the threats of reputational harm;

• that Vision of Hope used food restrictions and food control to subject Residents to fear of serious physical harm or, in some cases, actual physical harm.

If you’d like to make a statement…

Please send an email to jason@rams.land with the subject line “Vision of Hope Supporting Statement” and indicate which statements you have personally experienced. It’s helpful if you can copy and paste the statements which apply to you, but not required. You should feel free to write in your own words alongside these listed statements, or in the place of them.

Ramsland Law will then likely prepare a “Declaration” for you to review, approve, and sign, allowing you to lend your voice in support of the claims in the lawsuit.