Bride Ministries Responds to Sheena Lewis: The Full Record

Some things should never have to be said in public. The conversation between Sheena Lewis and Bride Ministries was meant to stay private. The matter was meant to end with her resignation in February 2026. It did not end there.

Sheena Lewis, a former interim worship director at Bride Ministries who served from late 2022 through February 2026, has since chosen to take her version of events to social media. From information that Bride Ministries has learned, it is the understanding of Bride Ministries that she has also chosen to cooperate with a documentary effort being developed in the United Kingdom by Twenty Twenty, a Wall to Wall and Warner Bros. International Television production company based in Bristol. It is the understanding of Bride Ministries that the documentary is currently in development, and that its team is actively trying to recruit former staff, former contractors, and former clients of Bride Ministries and its founder Daniel Duval to build what the producer herself described, in writing, as a "case." Twenty Twenty has never contacted Bride Ministries directly.

This page is the full record from Bride Ministries. It contains a complete timeline of interactions between Bride Ministries and Sheena Lewis. It contains direct quotes from text exchanges between Sheena Lewis and the leadership of Bride Ministries across more than three years. It contains Sheena Lewis's resignation email. It contains the letter that, from information Bride Ministries has obtained, Twenty Twenty sent to Sheena Lewis. It addresses her compensation terms. It addresses each of the public claims Sheena has made on social media.

This is a summary of the full record:

• Sheena Lewis served as interim worship director at Bride Ministries from late 2022 to early February 2026. Sheena Lewis's responsibilities consisted of Sunday services, monthly worship nights, and one or two additional events per month as needed, alongside her own counseling practice (theanchoredchristian.com). The documented relationship between Bride Ministries and Sheena Lewis was warm throughout.
• In early February 2026, an unrelated worship-team contractor reached out to Daniel Duval to report that during a recent ministry conference Sheena had communicated negative things about him, his wife Christian, and the ministry to others.
• A private call was scheduled with Sheena. Daniel notified Sheena in advance that Codi Bouknight, the Bride Ministries campus director, and Christian Duval, Daniel's wife, would join as witnesses. Sheena's husband Morris was invited and chose not to attend.
• It is the understanding of Bride Ministries that, in that conversation, Sheena admitted she had been speaking negatively about the Duvals and the ministry to contractors and church members, and stated that she had been wrong.
• Three days later, on Sunday February 8, 2026, Sheena emailed her resignation effective immediately. The resignation email was professional and civil, and contained no accusation of wrongdoing. Bride Ministries' statements about Sheena's resignation were only positive.
• It is the understanding of Bride Ministries that, in March 2026, a UK documentary producer named Cher Adamson (Development Executive at Twenty Twenty) sent Sheena a solicitation letter that asked her to forward it to other potential sources and to keep the producer's identity confidential. Sheena did forward it. One of the recipients of the forwarded email gave it to Daniel.
• Beginning in May 2026, Sheena began publishing video statements on her public Facebook account.
• Bride Ministries' executive board determined that public transparency was now necessary.

The rest of the page is the documentation.

Sheena Abigail Lewis Musembi, who signs publicly as Sheena Lewis LPC-Associate, began serving as a worship leader for Bride Ministries Church in late September 2022. She lived approximately an hour from the church campus in Katy, Texas. She maintained a separate counseling practice (theanchoredchristian.com) and signs her professional emails with Hebrews 6:19, "This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil."

Sheena Eyeka Abigail Lewis. Photo from her public Facebook profile.

Within months of being brought on, Sheena was promoted from worship leader to interim worship director. She held that role for the remainder of her relationship with Bride Ministries. Her responsibilities consisted of Sunday services, monthly worship nights, and one or two additional events per month as needed, while she continued to operate her counseling practice independently of Bride Ministries.

The records of communication between Sheena and the Duvals during her time at Bride Ministries span hundreds of pages of text messages, dozens of emails, and consistent in-person contact at services, intensives, advances, and conferences. Redacted screenshots from those exchanges are reproduced throughout this page so that any reader can review them directly.

What that record shows is not a story of mistreatment. It is a story of a consistently warm working relationship that, in the final months, became privately strained over three specific theological points (more on those below) and ended after a single accountability conversation.

Some of what the record contains:

The Thanksgiving text, November 24, 2022. Sheena writes to the Duvals: "I'm so THANKFUL today for each of you; who you are and what you carry has directly impacted my family in outstanding and miraculous ways. All my love to you today!"

The Thanksgiving text, November 23, 2023, one year later. Sheena writes again: "Hey FAM! My Tribe and I are so so so grateful for each one of you! You have truly been a gift to us this year and we love you so much!"

The Christmas text, December 25, 2024. Sheena writes: "MERRY CHRISTMAS, YOU GUYS!!! We love and appreciate you both so much! Big hugs to [the kids]." Christian Duval reacts with a heart.

The birthday text to Christian, January 9, 2023. Sheena writes to Daniel's wife directly: "HAPPY ACTUAL BIRTHDAY!!! So thankful for your life and gifts and heart!! Thank you for including me yesterday. I really needed the adult connection and the laughs!!"

The car repair exchange, October 6-9, 2023. Sheena texts that her car's transmission has failed and the repair will cost more than she had on hand. Daniel responds with concern. Three days later, Sheena writes that she has raised part of the amount. Daniel replies, "Ok, I will add the difference to your pay. It will come through Wednesday." Sheena replies: "Can't thank you enough! Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

The lodging offer, August 21, 2025. Sheena texts that she needs a place to crash near the church the following night. Daniel replies that the apartment above the worship space is taken because a friend named Todd is in town, then writes: "Worst case scenario we will give you our spare bedroom. It's very cozy and has its own bathroom." A moment later: "Just plan to hang out here. We got you."

Her daughter, September 22, 2025. Sheena offers her 22-year-old daughter to help work the kids' ministry: "My 22-year-old worked in the children's ministry of the house of prayer since she was 14 and is really good with kiddos. If you ever get in a pinch just holler and I'll bring her along with me to help with the kids."

The wedding. In the summer of 2024, Daniel personally provided premarital counseling to Sheena and her then-fiancé Morris, free of charge. On August 3, 2024, Daniel officiated their wedding, also free of charge. Sheena's text schedule from May 15, 2024 includes a note about her wedding date in the schedule planning ("August 4. The day after the wedding. George said he is free to come and lead if that's ok").

A teaching reaction, May 18, 2024. Following one of Daniel's services, Sheena texts: "Morris and I are DEEPLY challenged by this! Especially convicted about what he said concerning Worship and prayer in the American church."

Her birthday, June 8, 2025. The Duvals send birthday cakes to Sheena. She replies: "Thank you so much for the beautiful birthday cakes!!! They're delicious! Love you guys!" Codi Bouknight, the campus director, replies: "You are the best! You deserve that and more!" Daniel writes: "Awe.. happy birthday Sheena! We love you."

Her 50th birthday lunch, May 31, 2025. The week before those birthday cakes, Sheena posted photos from her 50th birthday celebration lunch on her public Instagram account. Christian Duval is among the women at the table celebrating with her. As of this page's latest update, the post remains public on Sheena's Instagram.

From Sheena's public Instagram account, May 31, 2025.

There are hundreds more exchanges of this character across the three-and-a-half year relationship. They are not cherry-picked. They are the ordinary tone of the relationship across years, not a single moment.

Sheena was paid consistent with her contractual terms throughout the working relationship, including a day rate formalized in writing in May 2024. In addition to her contracted compensation, she received gifts on top of pay, including a car repair supplement, complimentary attendance for her and Morris at the Bride Ministries marriage intensive in 2025, free premarital counseling, and a free wedding officiation. There were also birthday gifts, Christmas exchanges, and standing offers of lodging.

There is no record of Sheena being underpaid, paid late, asked to work without compensation, or shorted on any agreement. There is no record of her ever raising a financial complaint during the working relationship.

The working relationship was not perfectly aligned in every area. It is the understanding of Bride Ministries that there were three theological points where Daniel and Sheena did not see things the same way:

1. Pre-Adamic ages. Daniel teaches that the spirit of a human being can carry memory from before this lifetime, including from spiritual realities prior to the world as we know it. Sheena did not agree with this teaching.
2. The structure of church authority. Daniel teaches and operates under a senior-pastor model, which is the governance structure of most evangelical churches in the United States. It is the understanding of Bride Ministries that Sheena communicated to others that she did not believe the church should be run by one man or one solitary authority; she did not, in any conversation with Bride Ministries leadership, articulate an alternative governance structure she would have preferred.
3. Tithing to the local church. Daniel and Christian Duval personally give a significant percentage of their income away every year and have given away hundreds of thousands of dollars across their marriage. Bride Ministries does not require tithing from members or contractors. It does expect tithing from local-church leaders. It is the understanding of Bride Ministries that Sheena disagreed with tithing to Bride Ministries specifically and stated she wanted to give in other areas instead.

Daniel was aware of these disagreements. He spoke with Sheena about them more than once, directly. He repeatedly affirmed to her that none of these three points were salvation issues. He repeatedly affirmed that disagreement on these points was not a basis for separation. He repeatedly told her that as long as there was grace for her to continue serving, she was welcome to continue, and that if at any point she felt her own convictions had diverged from the ministry to a degree where she could no longer serve in good conscience, she was free to leave and would be released honorably and with a blessing from the leadership.

That standing invitation remained throughout Sheena's relationship with Bride Ministries.

It is the belief of Bride Ministries that an interim worship director, like any local-church leader, has only two options when she finds her convictions out of step with the senior pastor's. The first option is to keep serving under the leadership in good faith, even on points of personal disagreement. The second option is to leave and find a church where her convictions match. Both options are honorable. Sheena was offered both, repeatedly, in writing and in person.

Bride Ministries does not agree with an individual in a leadership role inside a local church keeping the position while privately speaking against the leadership to contractors, staff, and church members.

In early February 2026, an unrelated worship-team contractor reached out to Daniel. This person had served briefly with the worship team and had recently and politely resigned without disclosing her reasons. After her departure, she felt compelled to be transparent. Out of respect for this contractor's privacy, Bride Ministries refers to her on this page simply as "the contractor." She has confirmed her account, and the texts she sent to Daniel are on file as part of the evidentiary record.

On the evening of February 4, 2026, at 9:12 PM, the contractor texted Daniel her specific concerns, written without prompting. The text reads, in part:

Daniel replied: "Thank you, [name redacted]." The contractor replied: "You're welcome. Sorry for the late response. I was in class when you messaged me. Have a good night pastor Dan."

This is the source of the concern that triggered the events of the next 36 hours. It is also corroboration, from an independent witness who was not a party to any disagreement, of the specific behavior Sheena later admitted to in conversation.

Within thirty minutes of receiving the contractor's text, Daniel reached out to Sheena privately.

At 9:42 PM on February 4, 2026, Daniel texted Sheena: "Hey Sheena, I have had some very concerning things brought to my attention regarding you and your conversation about us. If it's true, it is going to be an impasse. I'd like to speak tomorrow evening if possible."

Sheena replied at 9:46 PM: "Um, ok…I'm off at 7."

Daniel proposed 8 PM. Sheena, at 9:59 PM, wrote: "Can we talk right now? This is very concerning to me…"

Daniel, at 10:04 PM, replied: "Let's wait till tomorrow. It's very late."

The following morning, February 5, Sheena confirmed: "I'll be available at 8."

That afternoon at 4:31 PM, Daniel followed up with this text, which is also part of the evidentiary record:

Codi Bouknight is the campus director for Bride Ministries Church. Christian Duval is Daniel's wife and an executive in the ministry. Both joined the call as witnesses, given the seriousness of the concerns the contractor had brought forward. Sheena's husband Morris was also invited to attend, by Daniel directly. He chose not to.

The call took place that evening over Microsoft Teams. Daniel asked Sheena directly whether she had been communicating negatively about him, his wife, and the ministry to contractors and church members. It is the understanding of Bride Ministries that Sheena confirmed she had, and stated that she had been wrong to do so and was sorry.

The following morning, February 6, 2026 at 8:19 AM, Daniel sent this text:

Sheena reacted to that text with a thumbs-up emoji.

There was no firing. There was no demotion. There was no public announcement. There was no penalty imposed. Bride Ministries' leadership intended to have a follow-up conversation the following week about the path forward.

That conversation never happened.

On Sunday February 8, 2026, Sheena attended the morning service and led worship as scheduled. At 3:08 PM that same Sunday, she emailed her resignation. The full text of that email, sent to Daniel Duval and Christian Duval, with the subject line "Meeting tonight…" reads:

The attachments were three working spreadsheets: the worship team directory, the August 2025 worship team schedule, and the Bride Ministries songbook.

Several things about that email matter.

The salutation is "Hey guys." It is warm. It is the same tone she had used in years of texts.

There is no accusation. The email does not say she was abused. It does not say she was controlled. It does not say the church operates as a cult. It does not say she was mishandled financially. It does not say she was bullied. It does not say anything about the substance of the issues that had been raised in the Tuesday meeting. In fact, she explicitly says she does not wish to revisit them.

She offers a transition handoff and attaches operational files. That is the behavior of a contractor exiting on professional terms. It is not the behavior of someone escaping harm.

The following Sunday, Daniel announced from the platform that Sheena had transitioned out of the interim worship director role. He gave no details about the circumstances. He did not name what had happened in the Tuesday meeting. He did not name the contractor who had come forward. He blessed the transition and welcomed the new interim worship director who started that week. Bride Ministries' statements about Sheena's resignation were only positive. As Daniel put it the morning of that following service: "One man plants, another waters, but it is the Lord who gives the increase."

That should have been the end of the story.

In mid-March 2026, an individual outside the inner circle of Bride Ministries leadership received an email that had been forwarded to her by Sheena Lewis. That individual recognized that something serious was developing and forwarded the email to Daniel.

The forwarded email was dated March 19, 2026, 1:10:40 PM Central, sent by Cher Adamson, Development Executive at Twenty Twenty, a Wall to Wall and Warner Bros. International Television Production company based at Level 2, 2 College Square, Bristol BS1 5UE in the United Kingdom. The subject line was "Thank you." It was sent directly to Sheena's personal Gmail account.

The body of the email (which Sheena was instructed to forward to others) is reproduced here verbatim:

The four screenshots of the email as Sheena forwarded it are reproduced below:

Several things in this email warrant attention.

First, the producer cited a previous conversation. By the time the March 19 email was sent, it is the understanding of Bride Ministries that Cher Adamson and Sheena Lewis had already spoken at least once. The email is described in its subject line as "Thank you" for that prior conversation.

Second, the producer's stated goal was to "build a clearer case." The framing presupposes a conclusion. The investigation is not designed to find out whether wrongdoing occurred. Bride Ministries believes it is designed to make a case that wrongdoing occurred.

Third, the producer cited Netflix's Love Con Revenge as a credential, a show that, in Cher Adamson's own words, "led to criminal convictions." Bride Ministries believes the producer is signaling, to a potential source, that the goal includes criminal exposure if it can be reached.

Fourth, the producer stated an intent to "enlist experts, such as legal specialists, private investigators and former law enforcement where appropriate."

Fifth, the producer asked Sheena to forward the letter to others while keeping the producer's own identity confidential. It is the understanding of Bride Ministries that Sheena did the forwarding. That is the only reason this email exists in the hands of Bride Ministries.

Sixth, the producer requested confidentiality on a stated reason: it "could hamper our investigation should it become widely known of at this time." Bride Ministries believes an investigation worth being investigated does not collapse when the subject of the investigation finds out it is happening. Bride Ministries believes confidentiality of this kind is a tool used to gather statements before the subject can offer context.

Bride Ministries is not opposed to investigation. Bride Ministries is opposed to slander journalism that begins from the conclusion and works backward.

Beginning in approximately May 2026, Sheena began publishing video accusations on her personal Facebook account. Bride Ministries has reviewed and transcribed seven of those videos to date. The pattern is that each video makes a specific claim, often framed as a question or a moral self-defense, and invites the viewer to interpret the silence of Bride Ministries as concealment.

Bride Ministries is no longer silent. Each claim is now addressed against the documented record.

This statement, while perhaps true on its surface, is Bride Ministries believes incomplete. It is the understanding of Bride Ministries that Cher Adamson did contact Sheena first. However, Bride Ministries believes that since that contact Sheena has made incorrect statements.

It is the understanding of Bride Ministries that Sheena, after interacting with Twenty Twenty, chose to engage with the documentary producer, chose to participate in a recorded conversation, and chose to forward Cher Adamson's solicitation email to other people, including at least one person who immediately gave it to Daniel. The act of forwarding a recruitment letter to additional potential sources is not the behavior of someone who happened to be contacted.

It is the understanding of Bride Ministries that this claim is contradicted by Sheena's own admission in the February 5, 2026 meeting attended by Daniel Duval, Christian Duval, and Codi Bouknight. Sheena was asked directly whether she had been communicating negatively about the Duvals and Bride Ministries to contractors and church members. It is the understanding of Bride Ministries that she confirmed that she had, and stated that she was wrong.

The claim is further contradicted by the independent text from the worship-team contractor on February 4, 2026, which detailed four specific examples of Sheena's communications about the ministry, including statements about Christian Duval's leadership.

The biblical definition of slander Sheena cited in her own video is "falsely testifying, falsifying information about someone else in order to cause them harm." Bride Ministries does not need to argue that all of her statements were false in order to establish that her behavior crossed a line. Bride Ministries believes the behavior that crossed the line was Sheena going behind leadership's back to say negative things about the senior pastor, his wife, and the ministry to contractors and church members in a leadership role she held in the ministry, after repeated invitations from the senior pastor to leave honorably if her convictions had genuinely shifted.

This claim is false. There has been no threat of litigation, spiritually languaged or otherwise, sent to Sheena Lewis by Daniel Duval, Christian Duval, Bride Ministries Church, or the Bride Ministries Coaching Company. Further, and most importantly, Bride Ministries has not instituted any litigation against Sheena, nor had any intention to do so.

The only direct text Daniel has sent to Sheena since her February 2026 resignation was on April 24, 2026, after the two of them crossed paths at the funeral of a mutual acquaintance. The full text reads:

The phrase "fasting and prayerfully seeking our next steps" is a pastoral statement about discernment. It is not a threat of litigation. It is the standard Christian response to a moral conflict that has not yet resolved. To characterize that text as a threat of litigation, "spiritually languaged" or otherwise, is to misrepresent a pastoral attempt at clarity.

This claim is false. No such language was used in the February 5 meeting. The framing is a fabrication added after the fact. The February 5 conversation was a direct accountability conversation about specific spoken statements to specific named contractors and church members. It was not a deliverance session. It did not name spirits.

This argument fails on the most basic point: position. Paul wrote his named corrections as a recognized apostle who was inside the body of Christ, writing to the body of Christ, for the protection of the body of Christ. He named names from within the household he had a covenant responsibility to defend. The audience of his correction was the church. The purpose of his correction was the spiritual welfare of believers who were being misled.

Sheena Lewis is not in any of those positions.

Sheena resigned from Bride Ministries on February 8, 2026. She chose to leave. She walked away from the church she now claims biblical authority to correct. Once a person voluntarily exits the local body, that person no longer occupies the chair from which Paul wrote. Paul stayed and fought for the church. Sheena did the opposite. She left, and then turned around to attack from the outside.

The audience also disqualifies the comparison. Paul wrote to believers, for believers, to keep believers safe. Sheena's public statements are not addressed to the Bride Ministries body for the body's protection. They are addressed to Facebook, and they are being actively coordinated with Twenty Twenty (Wall to Wall / Warner Bros. International Television Production) for use in a documentary that the producer herself described in writing as an effort to "build a clearer case" against Daniel Duval and Bride Ministries. The audience she is feeding is a UK television production company. The purpose her statements serve is on-screen drama.

That is not pastoral correction. It is publicity. It is content. It is material for a media production company that has stated in writing that it is looking for "criminal" exposure on the level of Netflix's Love Con Revenge (Cher Adamson's own words about the show she cited as her credential when she pitched Sheena). The recent uptick in Sheena's public posting is not the cry of a person trying to protect a congregation from harm. It is the work of a former contractor drumming up drama at the exact moment a London production company is asking her for material.

The biblical mandate Sheena is invoking belongs to a person inside the body, addressing the body, for the body's safety. She is outside the body, addressing the public, for a media production. Naming Paul does not transfer Paul's standing.

For its part, Bride Ministries handled the matter privately. Daniel reached out to Sheena directly when concerns first arose, with the intention of discussing the matter behind closed doors. Given the seriousness of the concerns the contractor had brought forward, Codi Bouknight and Christian Duval joined the conversation as witnesses. At no point did Daniel take the matter to the church publicly. He did not make a statement about Sheena from the platform. He honored her transition without naming the circumstances.

Sheena, by contrast, has taken the matter directly to social media. The order of operations matters.

Bride Ministries' position on this is unambiguous: she is invited to do so.

Text exchanges between Sheena Lewis and Bride Ministries leadership from late 2022 through early 2026 are reproduced on this page as screenshots. Any reader can review the actual tone, the actual content, and the actual character of the relationship across more than three years.

If Sheena would like to publish her own selected portions, Bride Ministries welcomes that. The receipts she has are the same receipts Bride Ministries has. The record speaks for itself.

There are people who will read this page and want to know why Bride Ministries chose to respond publicly at all. The traditional Christian instinct is to remain silent under accusation and let God vindicate.

Bride Ministries shares that instinct. The decision to break silence was not made unilaterally. It was made by the Bride Ministries Executive Board in full session and with full agreement.

Three considerations made the public response necessary.

First, the involvement of Twenty Twenty / Wall to Wall / Warner Bros. International Television Production raises the stakes beyond a private dispute. A production company of that scale, working with the showrunner of the Leah Remini Scientology series, developing content for a global streaming platform, is a category of public exposure where silence becomes its own statement. The investigation, as Cher Adamson described it in writing, was designed to "build a clearer case" rather than to gather facts neutrally. Allowing that case to be built only from voices who left the ministry on poor terms, without context from the ministry itself, would not serve the truth.

Second, Bride Ministries serves a population that is uniquely vulnerable to the framing being constructed. Many of the people who find this ministry have survived satanic ritual abuse, dissociative identity disorder, mind control, or government-sponsored trauma. They have come to Bride Ministries because the more familiar Christian and clinical settings could not hold the weight of their story. A public campaign that frames Bride Ministries as a cult does not just harm the leadership. It harms the survivors who are trying to find a place where they can be helped. Those survivors deserve to know what is actually true about the ministry they are considering.

Third, the producers themselves stated that confidentiality of their effort was important "as it could hamper our investigation should it become widely known of at this time." Bride Ministries does not believe that an honest investigation collapses when the subject is made aware of it. Bride Ministries believes that an honest investigation welcomes context. By bringing the documentary's existence and method into the public record, Bride Ministries is offering the producers exactly what they say they want: the chance to consider perspectives from multiple sides before building their case.

This page is therefore not retaliation. It is participation. It is the perspective of Bride Ministries entered into a record that, until now, was being assembled in private by people who explicitly asked their sources not to tell us.

This page is not an accusation of Sheena Lewis as a person. It is a documented response to specific public claims that she has chosen to publish.

Bride Ministries is not arguing that Sheena was a bad worship director. She was capable, often gifted, and personally invested in the team. The fruit of her labor in worship at services and at conferences is well documented and was honored at the time.

Bride Ministries is not arguing that Sheena cannot disagree with the leadership. She disagreed. That was permitted, and her right to disagree was protected explicitly in conversation by Daniel more than once.

Bride Ministries is not arguing that Sheena cannot leave. She was repeatedly invited to leave honorably if she could no longer serve in good conscience. The transition would have been blessed.

It is the understanding of Bride Ministries that, while still serving as interim worship director and while in active receipt of compensation from the ministry, Sheena communicated negative things about the senior pastor, his wife, and the ministry to contractors and church members. That behavior was confirmed by an independent witness. It is the understanding of Bride Ministries that Sheena admitted to it herself in a private conversation. And it has now been recast publicly, after the fact and in an apparent effort to create content for Twenty Twenty, as a different story, one in which she is the wronged party and the ministry is the aggressor.

That is the recast that the public record on this page is meant to address.

There is a phrase that has become a kind of refrain in Sheena's recent videos: she demands "receipts" for the slander charge Bride Ministries has stated against her. The implication is that without screenshots of slander, the charge is empty.

Bride Ministries has the receipts. They are reproduced throughout this page, in the screenshots, in the videos, and verbatim in the sections above. The receipts include:

• The independent witness's text on February 4, 2026 with four named specific concerns
• The pastoral text from Daniel that same evening seeking a conversation
• The text from Daniel the next afternoon adding Codi Bouknight and Christian Duval as witnesses
• The morning-after text from Daniel thanking her for a productive conversation and proposing a follow-up
• The thumbs-up emoji reaction from Sheena to that follow-up text
• The resignation email itself, professional and warm in tone, with no mention of any accusation
• The forwarded Cher Adamson solicitation email from a recipient of Sheena's recruitment effort
• Three full years of text exchanges with leadership characterized by gratitude, warmth, hugs, hearts, and thanks

The receipts are not hidden. The receipts are now, as of this publication, the most accessible part of this entire situation.

Bride Ministries' position is that the relationship with Sheena Lewis was honorable, generous, and pastorally invested for three and a half years. Bride Ministries' position is that when a disagreement arises, it should be conducted privately. Bride Ministries' position is that Sheena's choice to resign was hers, was professional in execution, and was honored at the time. Bride Ministries' statements about Sheena's resignation were only positive.

It is Bride Ministries' understanding that Sheena's subsequent decision to cooperate with a UK documentary effort, to recruit other individuals into that effort, and to publish video statements on social media has changed what is reasonable for the ministry to keep private.

Bride Ministries continues to wish Sheena well. The ministry continues to hope she experiences a restoration of perspective. The door to private reconciliation remains open from the side of the ministry. It always has.

This page exists because the door to private resolution was closed by Sheena.

It is Bride Ministries' understanding that the Twenty Twenty / Wall to Wall production effort remains in development. Bride Ministries does not know what will be produced, how it will be framed, or what platform will carry it. If and when the project releases, Bride Ministries will respond at that time with the same posture as this page: transparency, documentation, and pastoral honesty.

Other former associates of Bride Ministries who have made or who may make public statements will be addressed individually as the record warrants. Alex and Elizabeth Valero are the subject of a separate ministry statement that will be made available in a forthcoming response.

If you are a former contractor, former coach, former student, or former church parishioner who has been approached by Cher Adamson or anyone representing Twenty Twenty, Wall to Wall, or Warner Bros. Discovery in connection with this effort, Bride Ministries asks you to do three things.

First, know that you have no obligation to keep the producer's identity confidential, regardless of how the request was framed in the email you received. The terms of confidentiality were broken at the source. You are free to share the contact and the request with anyone you wish.

Second, if you have direct experience of mistreatment, malfeasance, or wrongdoing inside Bride Ministries that has not been addressed through the appropriate internal channels, Bride Ministries' executive board would like to know directly. Please send a written account to leadership at the contacts listed on bridemovement.com. Honest concerns deserve an honest hearing inside the ministry before they become material for a documentary.

Third, if you would like to provide context to balance the record Cher Adamson is building, Bride Ministries supports your right to do so. The same way Sheena Lewis has the right to share her perspective, every other person who has served alongside the ministry has the right to share theirs.

The materials referenced in this page are reproduced throughout it, in the screenshots and videos above. They are the receipts.

A reader who has come this far has done more research than most viewers of a documentary will do. Bride Ministries is grateful for the time spent. The ministry is also confident that the documented record speaks for itself.

Anyone can say anything. Only the truth can be proven.

The truth, in this case, is in the texts. It is in the resignation email. It is in the 1099s. It is in the timeline. It is in the testimony of an independent witness. It is in the producer's own solicitation letter, which Sheena herself forwarded to others.

The truth is also that Bride Ministries continues to do the work it has been doing for thirteen years. That work is helping survivors of trauma find inner healing in Jesus Christ. Nothing in this present matter changes that work. Nothing in any documentary will change that work. The ministry continues, the doors of the church campus in Katy remain open, the prayer library remains free, the institute continues to train coaches, and the Bride Tribe continues to grow across more than seventy countries.

If you have come to this page because something you read or watched made you wonder, and you are a person who is hurting and who needed Bride Ministries to be real, please know this. Bride Ministries is real. The pain people bring here is real, and so is what Jesus does about it.

If this is your first encounter with the ministry, the free BMI Healing Assessment takes about two minutes and points you to the right next step. The ministry is what it has always been, and the help is available, even on a day when a former contractor's video shows up in your feed.