LCC 2022 Convention: Commission on Adjudication Hasn’t Met Since 2017 Convention

Reading the convention workbook has turned up some interesting tidbits - but I never anticipated finding this report. "Due to an oversight as a result of the restructuring of our Synod at the last convention, current provisions in the 2017 Handbook for the number of memebers on the Commission on Adjudication do not meet the...

CEF/DIL Updates – Oct 27, 2021 Corrections

Ok, I must've been asleep at the wheel to make the mistakes I made on the original post, so here's a mea-culpa post. Correction #1: As it turns out, there are two "Ruf"s involved in the CEF/DIL mess and I got them confused. Harry Ruf was ABC District President when the life lease village was...

GRACE: Toxic Church Cultures

GRACE stands for "Godly Response to Abuse In Christian Environments" and they recently posted an informative video chat between two people discussing how toxic cultures evolve, where they can develop, what happens when someone tries to raise an issue of improper behavior with church leadership. You can watch the video here: https://www.facebook.com/netgraceorg/videos/1000687407080307

LCC’s Special Convention: Time’s Up (To Get Church Delegates in Place)

Here's a summary of where things are with Synod's planned October special convention. Synod plans to hold a virtual convention on Saturday, October 17, 2020 in order to amend the Statutory Bylaws so the Board can move the regular convention in exigent circumstances. This is a laudable goal which should be supported in a manner in...

LCC Wants to Hold A Special Convention: Synod Responds

Well that was fast. The original series of posts just finished today when I received an update: "LCC releases additional documents pertaining to 2020 Special Convention". This publication has links to Special Convention – Overture 1.01, Special Convention – CCMS Rulings, Special Convention – Bulletin #1 I'll discuss each in turn below. Overture 1.01 "Bulletin...

CEF Representative Action: Higgerty Law Update – Dec 9, 2019

Now that the CCAA process is almost done, the folks at Higgerty Law have been moving the CEF Representative Action case forward, and they recently published the following update to their CEF page. December 9, 2019 A third case management meeting occurred on December 5, 2019 at our initiation wherein most notably the Scheduling Order...

LCC’s Six-Month Financial Situation

LCC recently posted a six-month report of their financial situation along with a bulletin insert which details Synod's work together with the six-month financial report. The following table has Synod's financial numbers for the first six months along with some questions that came to me as I was writing this up. Be warned, it's not...

ABC District BOD Letter to Members Regarding the ASC Settlement

I've just received a copy of a letter the post-restructured ABC District BOD sent to the membership about the LCC - ASC Settlement. The original copy of the letter is here and my backup copy is here. The copy I have is a graphical image so I typed the letter contents in this blog post by hand -...

Whoever Causes One of These Little Ones Who Believe in Me to Sin….

“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. “Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary...

Sage Properties Divestiture Update

"Sage Properties" is the company that was formed during the ABC District District CCAA process wherein the District's businesses and assets were folded into one corporation with a mandate to clean everything up, sell off the assets, and return as much funds as possible to the CEF depositors. Long story short, there's reason to hope...