From the Lutheran Church in Great Britain:
Congrats to London Chinese Lutheran Church (LCLC) for completing the incorporation with Companies House and registration with the Charity Commission - a step forward for better governance and stewardship. LCLC is a member congregation of LCiGB and is host of this year's Synod in April. Well done to the church leaders! ♡
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Of course the LCiGB is excited because pleasing government and paperwork is the most important priorities of the LCiGB.
Too bad it's not the Gospel, God, Christ, or anything else.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
How to Lead a Christian Organisation
By Dean TB
1. When taking office immediately begin to explain how the former leaders were incompetent and put the organisation in jeopardy of severe fines from the Charity Commission, HMRC, Companies House and "Health and Safety". None if these allegations have to be true or valid.
2. Immediately offer your "expertise" and ability to bring the organisation into compliance.
3. Make sure you are in control of "administrative" matters.
4. Ensure your spouse is in control of the finances.
5. Ensure that only people you know and control are hired or consulted regarding any financial, legal, and administrative advice.
6. Make sure that the "External Auditor" is in your control and that you are able to review any reports before anyone else
7. When you are asked questions always use technical jargon, insert references to important people and places you claim to have been involved in, make your work and your spouse's work sound more important and critical than it really was. Always answer with condescension and and attitude that "anyone who is professional knows that" as to make the members feel dumb and incompetent so they stop asking questions.
8. In smaller groups mock former leaders and other members to keep the attention away from your own plan to control ever step of the process.
9. Constantly badger others by email and point out any and all spelling, grammar, punctuation and formatting issues to wear them down so they will give in and let you write it.
10. Offer to "help" by writing letters and emails for others. Be sure not to sign them so you are not legally responsible and it makes someone else look mean or demanding.
11. Attempt to play other members against one another. Always create conflict between others so you can offer advise to both sides and manipulate the outcome.
12. Occasional make short comments to plant the idea that others are incompetent or not educated or is too "English" or "Latvian" or "African" so that the opinion is dismissed.
13. Encourage people "on you side" to serve in voting positions if they can help you. Feel free to use people who you think are idiots, but will support your position.
14. Make the nominations process for serving as a Trustee very complicated with multiple deadlines, forms and requirements. Never remind the members of these rules or deadlines so no one but your hand chosen trustees will serve.
15. Create all the documents, rules and regulations. Registered those documents with the appropriate agencies well before the members even are aware that a change is coming. Create a false urgency so that members will vote even if they have questions or concerns because "we will be heavily penalised" if we don't pass this immediately.
16. The second the vote passes, the new structure is in motion allowing no time for second thoughts or changes.
17. Make sure that the new rules and regulations make it impossible to change anything without a vote of the Trustees you now control, the ones you hand picked and the ones who believe you and your wife are experts.
18. Have "Executive Meetings" which are not provided for in the rules and regulations. Have the "Executive Meeting" make important decisions because you control half the vote (you and your spouse). You only need convince one person to get your way.
19. Extravagantly spend money on legal fees to stop anyone from questioning you in the future.
20. Attack anyone who questions you with every means possible. Stop at nothing. Force members to do morally questionable actions to dispose of your "enemy". Consider damaging their reputation, causing harm to families, calling the police with false charges, calling other agencies to besmirch their credibility, refuse any and all attempts at dialogue or conversation. YOUR AIM IS COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE CHURCH NOT LIVING LIKE A CHRISTIAN OR PRACTICING CHRISTIAN LIVING.
21. Cover your tracks. Make sure no one gets the emails and letters you have written. Never let anyone record your meetings. Someone might publish those letters, emails and recording on the Internet. Then what would happen?
1. When taking office immediately begin to explain how the former leaders were incompetent and put the organisation in jeopardy of severe fines from the Charity Commission, HMRC, Companies House and "Health and Safety". None if these allegations have to be true or valid.
2. Immediately offer your "expertise" and ability to bring the organisation into compliance.
3. Make sure you are in control of "administrative" matters.
4. Ensure your spouse is in control of the finances.
5. Ensure that only people you know and control are hired or consulted regarding any financial, legal, and administrative advice.
6. Make sure that the "External Auditor" is in your control and that you are able to review any reports before anyone else
7. When you are asked questions always use technical jargon, insert references to important people and places you claim to have been involved in, make your work and your spouse's work sound more important and critical than it really was. Always answer with condescension and and attitude that "anyone who is professional knows that" as to make the members feel dumb and incompetent so they stop asking questions.
8. In smaller groups mock former leaders and other members to keep the attention away from your own plan to control ever step of the process.
9. Constantly badger others by email and point out any and all spelling, grammar, punctuation and formatting issues to wear them down so they will give in and let you write it.
10. Offer to "help" by writing letters and emails for others. Be sure not to sign them so you are not legally responsible and it makes someone else look mean or demanding.
11. Attempt to play other members against one another. Always create conflict between others so you can offer advise to both sides and manipulate the outcome.
12. Occasional make short comments to plant the idea that others are incompetent or not educated or is too "English" or "Latvian" or "African" so that the opinion is dismissed.
13. Encourage people "on you side" to serve in voting positions if they can help you. Feel free to use people who you think are idiots, but will support your position.
14. Make the nominations process for serving as a Trustee very complicated with multiple deadlines, forms and requirements. Never remind the members of these rules or deadlines so no one but your hand chosen trustees will serve.
15. Create all the documents, rules and regulations. Registered those documents with the appropriate agencies well before the members even are aware that a change is coming. Create a false urgency so that members will vote even if they have questions or concerns because "we will be heavily penalised" if we don't pass this immediately.
16. The second the vote passes, the new structure is in motion allowing no time for second thoughts or changes.
17. Make sure that the new rules and regulations make it impossible to change anything without a vote of the Trustees you now control, the ones you hand picked and the ones who believe you and your wife are experts.
18. Have "Executive Meetings" which are not provided for in the rules and regulations. Have the "Executive Meeting" make important decisions because you control half the vote (you and your spouse). You only need convince one person to get your way.
19. Extravagantly spend money on legal fees to stop anyone from questioning you in the future.
20. Attack anyone who questions you with every means possible. Stop at nothing. Force members to do morally questionable actions to dispose of your "enemy". Consider damaging their reputation, causing harm to families, calling the police with false charges, calling other agencies to besmirch their credibility, refuse any and all attempts at dialogue or conversation. YOUR AIM IS COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE CHURCH NOT LIVING LIKE A CHRISTIAN OR PRACTICING CHRISTIAN LIVING.
21. Cover your tracks. Make sure no one gets the emails and letters you have written. Never let anyone record your meetings. Someone might publish those letters, emails and recording on the Internet. Then what would happen?
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
The Best Use of Time and Resources?
From the Lutheran Church in Great Britain Trustees Report for 2011:
Unexpected legal fees were incurred to safeguard the organisation during a disciplinary case amounting to approximately £27K and this resulted in a deficit this year. Trustees took steps to replenish these funds by appealing to donors and a grant has now been received (on 31st January 2012) which replenished the funds in full.
Unexpected legal fees were incurred to safeguard the organisation during a disciplinary case amounting to approximately £27K and this resulted in a deficit this year. Trustees took steps to replenish these funds by appealing to donors and a grant has now been received (on 31st January 2012) which replenished the funds in full.
Dear Interim Bishop
Dear Interim Bishop,
Please be careful. Two of the Trustees of the LCiGB have been waging a campaign to take over the LCiGB. They show no mercy and have no hesitation crushing anyone who challenges them. They are crafty. They always convince people that they are the experts and know everything about finance, employment law, charity law and how to properly run an organisation. They insisted that the previous could not chose her assistant on her own but chaired the search committee. They made sure that the previous Bishop sign all the papers to attack pastors and congregations. They carefully craft letters so that they are "writing on behalf of" the chair or Bishop. They never take responsibility for their actions and plans, they get other people to do the deeds so they can't be held liable or legally responsible.
Bishop J did their bidding despite the damage it did to her reputation, to her family, to her friends, and to the church.
If you want to make them angry, just point out that the Charity Commission advises that husbands and wives should NOT be Trustees on the same board. That is the one rule from the Charity Commission they will even deny exists. Why? They control the money and the Rules and Regulations - that's complete power and control.
They even control who audits the books. Who knows if those audits are true? What have they hidden? What money has not been sent to the people it was intended for? We will never know as long as they have all the power.
For the sake of the people in your care, remove them from power before it is too late.
By the way, one of them loves to do a mocking impression of you.
Please be careful. Two of the Trustees of the LCiGB have been waging a campaign to take over the LCiGB. They show no mercy and have no hesitation crushing anyone who challenges them. They are crafty. They always convince people that they are the experts and know everything about finance, employment law, charity law and how to properly run an organisation. They insisted that the previous could not chose her assistant on her own but chaired the search committee. They made sure that the previous Bishop sign all the papers to attack pastors and congregations. They carefully craft letters so that they are "writing on behalf of" the chair or Bishop. They never take responsibility for their actions and plans, they get other people to do the deeds so they can't be held liable or legally responsible.
Bishop J did their bidding despite the damage it did to her reputation, to her family, to her friends, and to the church.
If you want to make them angry, just point out that the Charity Commission advises that husbands and wives should NOT be Trustees on the same board. That is the one rule from the Charity Commission they will even deny exists. Why? They control the money and the Rules and Regulations - that's complete power and control.
They even control who audits the books. Who knows if those audits are true? What have they hidden? What money has not been sent to the people it was intended for? We will never know as long as they have all the power.
For the sake of the people in your care, remove them from power before it is too late.
By the way, one of them loves to do a mocking impression of you.
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