A Florida woman is suing Go To Nations, the missionary organization that used to employ her and a man who has pleaded guilty to video voyeurism. Rose H. Hohman alleges leaders ignored repeated warnings about Joel Joaquin Vergara and failed to properly secure a restroom door.

Hohman filed the complaint Sept. 15 in Duval County Circuit Court. The lawsuit names Vergara and Calvary International Inc., which does business as Go To Nations.

Hohman is seeking more than $50,000 in damages and asks for a jury trial. She accuses Vergara and the organization of “extreme and outrageous conduct” causing severe emotional distress.

Go To Nations “exists to initiate and accelerate missions ministry on a global scale until every tribe, every tongue, and every nation has heard the Good News of Jesus Christ,” according to its website.

The organization, founded in 1981, does not file a Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service, as many charitable organizations do. But financial data it supplied to the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability shows revenues of just under $5.2 million in 2024, with expenditures of $5 million.

Hohman joined the Jacksonville-based ministry in September 2023 at age 19 as a “mobilization assistant,” according to the complaint. Her duties included contacting donors, helping with corporate events and digitizing records from mission trips.

Vergara joined Go To Nations in 2005 after working in youth ministry, the complaint states. The ministry identified him as a junior network administrator, and he was also responsible for its security cameras.

Hohman alleges Vergara began visiting her office one to three times daily, sometimes staying more than an hour. She also noticed him passing by her office seven to 11 times a day en route to the restroom trips.

At least twice, the lawsuit alleges, Vergara hugged Hohman from behind while she worked alone. She also became concerned he was monitoring her Instagram activity.

At a January 2024 employee induction event, Vergara photographed Hohman while she leaned over a desk to sign a covenant, the complaint says. The photograph, which was essentially “down her blouse,” showed her bra and cleavage.

Hohman told several employees that the photograph, which she viewed in a group email, made her uncomfortable and that she did not want it posted online, according to the complaint. Go To Nations posted it anyway, Hohman claims.

The complaint says Hohman told eight fellow employees, including her boss, about Vergara’s unwanted attention and physical contact. The lawsuit alleges ministry leadership apparently took no action against him.

On Sept. 3, 2024, Hohman entered a single-occupancy women’s restroom at the ministry’s headquarters and locked the door, the lawsuit says. She then saw an older, single-lens iPhone poking through a gap beneath the door.

After Hohman called out, “Hello?” the phone was pulled away, according to the complaint. Hohman opened the door but found the hallway empty.

Hohman reported the incident to ministry leaders. Cheryl Bessinger, an executive vice president, and Nancy Lovelace, an executive director, investigated, according to the lawsuit. They looked at Vergara’s ministry-issued iPhone 7 and found video showing someone in red athletic shoes walking toward the women’s restroom, the lawsuit says. And Hohman sitting on the toilet.

A sheriff’s detective found the ministry’s surveillance footage was missing or deleted, and memory cards had been removed from its indoor cameras.

The complaint quotes Tim Lovelace, ministry IT director, as saying the memory of the camera in the foyer had been “wiped completely clean.” He said he and Vergara were the only people with access to erase security footage.

According to the lawsuit, investigators recovered four more voyeuristic videos. All of them were on devices that Vergara used. The videos, dating from November 2023 through July 2024, showed Hohman using a private bathroom on four occasions.

Vergara was arrested in March 2025 and pleaded guilty Sept. 20, 2025, to two felony video-voyeurism counts, according to the lawsuit.

Hohman alleges Go To Nations acted recklessly or with gross negligence by failing to reprimand, counsel, closely supervise, reassign or terminate Vergara after employees learned about his conduct.

She also faults the ministry for allowing a 3- to 4-inch gap beneath the women’s restroom door. The complaint characterizes the gap as an “obvious and foreseeable privacy/security hazard.”

Hohman alleges she has suffered severe emotional distress, pain, mental anguish and loss of capacity to enjoy life as a result of Vergara’s actions. The lawsuit says those losses are continuing or permanent.

An employee at Go To Nations headquarters told Roys Report (RR) no executives were available to speak. “We’re in transition and have limited staff in the office,” the employee said.