Questions to Leadership

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Questions Part A

1. As I have demonstrated the “clear and consistent” actions mentioned above in Section One, as a reasonable comparison, can you please state for each of the paid staff of each of the Sectors the OC Church, the answers to the following: 

A) How many hours of professional counseling have you personally completed?

B) How many hours of recovery or support groups have you personally attended?

C) What are the approximate total monetary amounts you have personally spent on counseling or therapy?

2. Please fully explain why BRUCE WILLIAMS refused to attend the second leadership sit down meeting that he himself had requested?

3. The letter of disfellowshipping also asserts that I did not resolve with a brother and am therefore no longer a member. As this now sets a precedent for situations of lack of resolution, how do you plan to implement this policy going forward?

4. In the letter of disfellowshipping, [ELDER 2] signed his name as an Elder. At the time of its writing, I had not spoke with [ELDER 2] for many, many years. Why did [ELDER 2] never talk to me to independently corroborate the facts before consenting to the opinion and signing the letter?

Questions Part B

1. In the text sent by BRUCE WILLIAMS, he claims that I have caused unspecified “damage” to certain people:

A) Please specify exactly what “damage” he is referring to.

B) When did it take place? What were the times, dates, and locations?

C) Which women did he speak with? When did the interviews take place?

2. With regards to church member counseling skills, can you please state, for each of the paid staff of each of the Sectors the OC Church, the

A) educational qualifications, 

B) certifications earned, 

C) training received, and 

D) continuing education units fulfilled, 

that demonstrate the personal training and skills acquired to effectively counsel the members of the church?

3. How many professional counseling referrals has the Orange County leadership issued in the past 5 years? In the past 10 years?

4. Where is the documentation of such referrals being saved?

5. Explain why the elders and evangelists are refusing to communicate with a licensed therapist?

6. Please explain why the church leadership did not take seriously the reports of emotional and spiritual abuse within the church?

7. What actions has the leadership taken since that time to investigate any instances of abusive behavior?

8. Church leadership is asserting that seeing a therapist or having a therapist in attendance at a meeting, is somehow not “DEMONSTRATING TRUST IN LEADERSHIP.” What then will be the consequences for the two other brothers who also saw a therapist?

Questions Part C

1. After I had repeatedly asked for relationship counseling assistance, why was this ignored by church leadership?

2. Why did the leadership JAEHO PARK say he did not want me serving in Kids Kingdom?

3. I have been a member of the church for 28 years - from the age of 19 to 47 - having made lifelong friendships and family relationships, and serving the church in many ways, over decades; so why was I now suddenly considered a threat to the church?.  

4. Why has there never been any “written qualifications for membership” provided to its members? What actions will you take to correct this?

5. Eric Ennis has been a self-taught and supposedly subject-matter expert who has conducted church “purity groups” for many years. He often would receive phone calls from region leaders around Los Angeles for assistance dealing with difficult situations and provide advice. What formal education has he received and professional licenses has he obtained which qualifies him to provide specialized counseling and therapeutic advice to the elders and evangelists in the church?

6. There are many Christian Counseling organisations such as:

● National Christian Counselors Association (www.ncca.org)

● American Association of Christian Counselors (www.aacc.net)

● Southern Baptist Association of Biblical Counselors (www.sbabc.org)

● National Association of Nouthetic Counselors (www.nanc.org)

● Association of Biblical Counselors (www.christiancounseling.com)

Have any of the OC leadership staff maintained membership in any such counseling organizations at any time?

Questions Part D

1. “Ganging Up” on people - this has happened to me and to others in Orange County - what policies will be enacted to stop this from happening in the future? What recourse will be made available to lay members if they encounter this situation again?

2. The Westside Consultation document states there is no ‘method’ to bring complaint against a leader - why has nothing been done by ICOC leadership about this ? what formal program has been implemented?

3. There has been much documented controversy over the institution of a “discipling hierarchy” in the church. What studies have been conducted and published by the ICOC supporting its overall transformative effectiveness as compared to other models?

4. How specifically will the church leadership mitigate gossip and slander? What educational communications, like letters, handouts, brochures, website postings, confidential counseling, etc, will be implemented?

5. What published training classes are given to all bible talk leaders prior to them becoming leaders? How often are bible talk leaders required to take any follow-up training or are their leadership practices reviewed?

6. There have been repeated instances over time of harsh, aggressive discipling techniques in the history of the ICOC and even recently. Promises have been made in the past without formal policy changes. What specific public actions will the church take to prevent such abusive behavior from happening in the future?

7. I was the fourth “disfellowshipping” in the Orange County Region in 2017, and there was another in early 2018, totaling five within a year’s time frame. How many of those disfellowshipped have been successfully rehabilitated and deemed healthy active members today?  What post-action interviews or debriefings have been conducted with these people and how do they feel about the church policies and process?