A Wrecked Church!

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Originally Posted by ILG

SE,

Could you please elaborate a bit on what you are saying here? You see, in the situation we were in, there were things that did not look good at all. When we took the church there were no records and a number of things that had been done that we were taught strictly against. We were taught to do everything by the law and by the books.

We took the issue to the district board. They swept everything under the rug which made our situation HORRIBLE. They left us to rot and sort everything out which made things so, so much worse. We were WILLING to listen to them and do what they wanted but they gave us NO direction. We were left to flounder. This confused the whole church and because my husband put everything in order according to law, they accused us of changing everything and even of stealing money. The district did NOTHING, even when my husband showed up with a packet of information that we had worked three hours to compile, he did not even look at it.

For the first time, after reading your post about things being different in that era and how things were done, it occurred to me that MAYBE the district assumed everyone just went with the flow on these things as they tried (or DIDN'T, in this case, try to determine whether there was any wrongdoing.....it was assumed automatically by the board that there was not any wrongdoing based ONLY on the reputation of the previous pastor when we had records to the contrary). This helps me to MAYBE, JUST MAYBE understand a little bit the actions of the board who should have talked to us as we were so willing to listen and heed their direction.

People in the church sued my husband and the church when the previous pastor told them they "had no choice" but to sue us because we were supposedly destroying the church. After dragging us through two lawsuits and destroying our lives, they finally dropped it because they had absolutely no evidence that we had done anything wrong whatsoever.

Take heed anyone who throws accusations of any kind around, it gets scary. Take heed before you say the words lawsuit.

ILG, from what I am reading here, it sounds like the District Board dropped the ball. If they did not even look at the compilation your husband did, then they can (dis)honestly say that they have not seen anything...right?