CEF/DIL: The 2018 ABC District Convention Workbook

Reading through the 2018 ABC District convention workbook, I see that 3.5 years, millions of dollars of professional services fees, multiple court proceedings, and an ASC action which conclusively point to a different conclusion, the ABC District is still peddling the "funding shortfall" story. From the President's Report: Faced with a funding shortfall, the Alberta-British Columbia...

Sola Gratia Casts a Critical Eye at ABC District and the ASC Allegations

Andreas @ Sola Gratia's been tracking the ABC affair for quite some time - spending untold hours talking to people, writing articles about what he's learned, and doing his best to inform the church what's going on. In his latest article Andreas recounts the nuts and bolts of the ASC allegations that the District BOD...

CEF/DIL: Confession is Good for the Soul

Every Sunday when a Lutheran takes communion the penitent may say something like this "I, a poor miserable sinner, do hereby confess that...." and the rattle off a list of all the various offences they've purportedly committed since the last time they took communion. I'm thinking that maybe that's the most Christian way out for...

CEF/DIL: Reviewing the District’s Letter with a Critical Eye / Part 3: Conclusion

This article is reviewing a letter by District President Schaeffer to the members of the ABC District. Part 1 covered the introduction and the three major points of the letter, Part 2 covered the closing part of the letter, and this article will have some closing thoughts. Another small fact this letter leaves out is that the District President and...

CEF/DIL: Reviewing the District’s Letter with a Critical Eye / Part 2

This article is reviewing a letter by District President Schaeffer to the members of the ABC District. Part 1 covered the introduction and the three major points of the letter, this article will address the closing paragraphs, and the concluding article will have some closing thoughts. In a complex financial situation as that faced by...

CEF/DIL: Reviewing the District’s Letter with a Critical Eye / Part 1

When legal proceedings take place there's a number of players involved in the room - the judge or panel, counsel for the respondents (the people charged with an offence), the prosecution, and the ever-present court reporter that transcribes everything that happens into a permanent record. For the ASC hearing  that took place on Aug 13,...

CEF/DIL: A Letter from the President to the Members of ABC District

The following letter was written by ABC District President Schaeffer to the members of the ABC District. The timeline of events referenced in this letter is as follows: June 27, 2018 - the ASC publishes a notice of hearing August 13, 2018 - the hearing is held to establish that service had been properly done and...

LCC 2.0: The First Order of Business

"Way back when" was a cartoon called "Mr Peabody and Sherman." In this cartoon a genius dog "Peabody" adopts an orphan human "Sherman", then builds a Way Back Machine so they can witness historical events as they happened. While I do not have a Way-Back machine, I do have historical records of what's happened over the...

CEF/DIL: ASC Hearing Schedule

We've all heard "fish stories" - tall tales where the teller must be exaggerating about the size of the fish they caught, how much they won the race by, how much money they made (and lost), and the like. The following may look like a fish tale. It is the cold, hard, truth. After some...