Rapid Relief Team
Compassion or Exploitation?
What is the impact of the Rapid Relief Team? A charity that has been accused by ex-members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church as a 'brand washing' for the controversial practices of the 'Church'. Brethren Exposed digs deep to explore the charity known as the Rapid Relief Team.
Get A Life
In February 2026, multiple media outlets reported on an unusual court case. The case involves the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church and their connected charity, the Rapid Relief Team, taking an ex-brethren member to court for copyright infringement. The Canadian ex-member, Cheryl Bawtenheimer, was being pursued through the Northern District of California Court in the US, by the Australian based, Rapid Relief Team (RRT) Ltd.
Bawtenheimer is the host of a podcast called Get a Life, Ex-Cult conversations. The podcast has done over 160 episodes and is filled with guests, including ex-members of the brethren, along with experts in Cults, and employees of brethren related businesses and schools. The podcast has featured harrowing stories of alleged sexual abuse experienced by ex-members when they were inside the brethren, including her own, alleged abuse that Bawtenheimer experienced as a child.
We believe the alleged copyright infringement is based on a series of short podcasts made by ex-members, where they talked through the emotional damage they experienced, when seeing, what they classed as hypocritical posts to social media made by the Rapid Relief Team. In these podcasts an image of the RRT mascot 'Cookie the Kookaburra' was shown on the screen for a few seconds, thus enabling viewers to identify the Rapid Relief Team (RRT).
At Brethren Exposed, we have always taken an interest in the Rapid Relief Team, so we decided to investigate further into the claims of 'Church' Brand Washing, what we discovered is alarming.
Bawtenheimer is the host of a podcast called Get a Life, Ex-Cult conversations. The podcast has done over 160 episodes and is filled with guests, including ex-members of the brethren, along with experts in Cults, and employees of brethren related businesses and schools. The podcast has featured harrowing stories of alleged sexual abuse experienced by ex-members when they were inside the brethren, including her own, alleged abuse that Bawtenheimer experienced as a child.
We believe the alleged copyright infringement is based on a series of short podcasts made by ex-members, where they talked through the emotional damage they experienced, when seeing, what they classed as hypocritical posts to social media made by the Rapid Relief Team. In these podcasts an image of the RRT mascot 'Cookie the Kookaburra' was shown on the screen for a few seconds, thus enabling viewers to identify the Rapid Relief Team (RRT).
At Brethren Exposed, we have always taken an interest in the Rapid Relief Team, so we decided to investigate further into the claims of 'Church' Brand Washing, what we discovered is alarming.
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