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Don’t you just love a mystery? Is it necessary? The mystery I mean? ________________Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/
Call Scooby Do and the gang.I wonder if David Copperfield could make a church and all that money disappear.Okay, maybe the money.The solution is simple. Someone needs to follow the money trail. An audit perhaps________________
I will put them in the bear cage, I tell you what. So who is gonna answer for this? Or is it gonna be swept under the rug?I’m keepin the bear hungry just in case it’s needed________________
Is the official response Don’t ask. Don’t tell?Just asking the hard question________________
Somebody get the names and city / state of this problem.What would be wrong with telling what happened? For goodness sake – at least let the $40,000 spent be a teaching moment – do a post-mortem on what happened, what went right, what went wrong, what caused the ultimate failure, what cold we have done differently to potentially keep this from failing? Surely there must be lessons that every state planter/state office could learn from, right?Am I the only one that sees this________________
Unless there was something the state did wrong why would you not put the cards on the table. If you don’t talk about it in light it will be talked about with misinformation.
If the state did something wrong – even more reason to let everyone know what happened – so we could learn from it.I guarantee you that Microsoft, Apple, Fidelity, etc…does post mortems on every project – whether they fail – or whether they are a success. In fact, you will learn more by reviewing your failures – at least you should – unless you don’t reflect on the project and honestly seek out what happened.C’mon – if were going to get any good at this – we got to learn from our mistakes – or we should have just let the COG embezzler take another $40,000 from our pockets. At least he temporarily got something out of it. We got nothing.________________
Darrell – agreed. My wording was bad. I was referring to the embezzler who took almost 1 million from HQ a few years ago. I simply meant if we aren’t going to learn something from the $40,000 lost on this plant – it is AS IF we flushed the money down the toilet (much like we did when the Holy Hill Hustler took us for that 1 million________________
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I’m forced to ask.Why not be transparent about the entire thing? Why try to hide it? Is transparency that terrifying? Are they afraid it will lower the amount of monies coming in for home missions.In my opinion, I can respect someone making a mistake, owning it, and taking steps to see it will never happen again.But hiding it like so much dirt under the carpet? That speaks of purposeful cover up. I find nothing worthy of respect in that at all.Just my opinion________________
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Folks, there is no cover up. In the interest of the good of the church planter involved (he and his family have been through enough), I will say, no one has asked me (State Administrative Bishop) about this failed church plant. No one. The plant did not succeed. We have voluntarily communicated the turn of events with donors and with State leaders. Other than that, there is little to share. The church planter worked hard and tried but felt that the situation was not possible. And, by the way, the 40K figure is nonsense. The state invested about $5,000 in this project. Perhaps more money was contributed but not from our budget. Unfortunately, the plant did not succeed. There are no hard feelings and no one is to blame. The plan is to continue the efforts to plant new churches in Moline and across the State.For those who are so concerned about the fate of this church plant, perhaps the Lord is calling you to invest in a new church. If so, contact me at [email protected] on my cell at 561 267-2967. I do not frequent this site so please ask question to me directly.