Introducing the United Methodist (Rethink) Church
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The United Methodist Church has started an interesting campaign to get people to…Rethink Church.
The idea is to get people to think about church as a verb instead of a noun—a way to connect with people.
A United Methodist News Service story explained: “The campaign is designed to redefine church as a 365-days-a-year experience where people seeking a church community can become involved at various levels – many of them non-traditional – such as volunteering with groups outside the church building and even through making online connections.”
The denomination has unveiled a new Rethink Church website called 10THOUSANDDOORS.COM (as in, “What if church wasn’t just a building, but thousands of doors?).
“Faith itself is a bridge by which we see God and the work of God present in our world,” says the Rev. Larry Hollon of United Methodist Communications. “God is not contained in the walls of our sacred buildings. God is in the streets, at the well, in the least expected places.”
The whole Rethink Church thing is starting this Saturday (April 25), when United Methodists are being asked to skip lunch and spend the $10 saved on a mosquito net to prevent malaria in Africa.
The United Methodist “Nothing But Nets” campaign is here.
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RETHINK JESUS CHRIST AND RECOVER THE MISUSED CHURCH MONEY
Monday, June 08, 2009
Dear Bishop Jeremiah J. Park:
Current and earlier events need the attention of your office because they will test the meaning of Christian values and of honor among Koreans.
Recently, you advocated, No torture, and with other religious luminaries you have marched to the United Nations to protest against the torture and abuse of suspected terrorists held at U.S. facilities in Guantanamo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. However, why have you not condemn the torture and abuse of the innocent members within your church?
Unwittingly it seems to appear the double standard of morality in the episcopacy as you overlooked the torture agony within a Methodist church.
In any event, the church should not be let alone in a Mafia image under your jurisdiction.
More specifically, Mr. Steve Park, and other church officers, had deliberately and consistently tortured and abused my family for many years while the church remained silent. He and his church underlings used the church’s name and trust fund to malign my family and me in order to rid of us from the church. It was to cover up the looting of the church money.
For instance, for one of the three frivolous lawsuits, Mr. Park falsely accused my son and me that we planned to kill him, his family, his attorney, and other church members in one of his court depositions – all in Church paid perjuries TO TORTURE THE INNOCENTS.
12 A He said watch out, you asshole,
13 Specifically said you asshole, you watch out, if
14 You don’t watch your step; I’m going to kill you.
...
5 A I’m going to kill your whole family
6 Q That’s what Dr. Sone said to you?
7 A Yes.
P. 62; 9-17, 21-23.
9 Q You’re claiming that Dr. Sone
10 threatened to kill you and your whole family?
11 A, Yes.
Sone, who threatened to kill me and other church members.”
P. 90; 10-13. Paragraph 5 of Park’s affidavit.
Page 148; 9-21
10 Chae Sone’s son, walked into my defense
11 lawyer’s office using profanities, like, you know
12 fuck you and these were the words that were
13 relayed to me, you asshole, I’m going to kill you,
14 everybody in sight, kill you and everybody in
15 sight and he chuckled when he called me, he said
16 there’s a little lunatic running around here, he
17 claims to being his son, and that’s how I got this
18 name,
STEVE PARK’S TESTIMONEY IN PROFANITIES
Page 76; 13-16.
His language indicates a corrupt sub-culture of so called Christians today,
a shame. You can see what kind church is ours? Church officer Park’s lies:
13 Q I would like you to tell me exactly
14What you say Chae Sone said to you.
15 A “He said fuck you and asshole on a
16routine basis , that’s basically what he said, day
17In and day out. ..”
Page 78; 11-21
11. Q Do you recall what the first thing he
12. Said to you was?
13. A “Yes. Curses.”
14. Q Tell me exactly. This is?
15 A “F you and F you, you know, asshole, you
16know, you better watch out your step,”
17
Page 86; 12-17
8 A “He said watch out, you asshole,
9 Specifically said you asshole, you watch out, if
10 You don’t watch your step; I’m going to kill you.
11 That’s very specific. I can’t get much more
12 Specific than that.
SONE’S THREAT TO KILL PARK AND HIS FAMILY
p. 65; 3-10
5 Q Did you ever report it to the police?
6 A No I did not.
7 Why is that?
8 A Because I tried to do it peacefully.
9 Q Dr. Sone threatened to kill you. Do you
10Realize that’s a criminal offense?
13 Q Why didn’t you call the police about a threat to you and your family?
23 A “Once again I knew the man. I wanted to resolve it amicably. So I did not want to get either the police or the legal system.”
P. 61; 5-7
5 A “I’m going to kill your whole family.”
6 Q That’s what Dr. Sone said to you?
7. A “Yes.”
P. 62; 9-17, 21-23.
9 Q You’re claiming that Dr. Sone
10 threatened to kill you and your whole family?
11 A “Yes.”
12 Q When did he threaten to do that?
13 A “He did it on several occasions. I do
14 remember several occasions very specifically. I
15 think it was like 1998.
......
21. “MR. POVMAN 1998 and you said
22. there were other times?”
23. “Yes.”
(Mr. Povman lied too)
Furthermore, he substantiated his assertion that more than 10 persons had witnessed our threats to murder. His witnesses included Reverend Wontae Cha, Y. S. Kim, K. D. Shin, Y. H. Lee, Y. J. Kim, D. J. Chun, Paul Choi, Y. J. Kwon, and I. C. Lee. They are all liars and mugging Jesus.
Rev. Cha is a good colleague of yours according to information.
Because of his false allegations, my son and I were on trial at the New York State Supreme Court in Nassau County. He used the church’s funds to finance his lawsuit against us. In his lawsuit, Mr. Park also demanded $4,000,000 in damages, while pushing us into the jail as felons.
His lawsuit had nothing to do with the church and was simply a personal vendetta against us. My only offense against Rev. Cha, Mr. Park and others was to strictly observe my fiduciary duty as the chairman of the Board to protect the church’s Building Fund. Nevertheless, according to the court records, officials from the church hierarchy and Steven Park had deceived the judge as if the case was a church-related during an ex-parte conference.
Now, Bishop Jeremiah J. Park must be responsible to identify the persons who were at the secretive meeting with the judge. He must investigate all and any conspiracy against the church and its members. The bishop’s actions matter much with the prestige of the episcopacy.
The year 2008 is the 87th anniversary of the Korean United Methoidst Church and Institute. Bishop Jeremiah J. Park, Reverend Won Tae Cha, Steven Park, Young So Kim and other such characters one day must come to the church and faithfully explain to the worshippers for the justification of the looting for either personal gain or criminal racketeering against the innocent loyal members. At 88th, no dignitaries showed up, even the bishop. In this church, Jesus was mugged by so called clergies, elders and senseless others since long time ago.
The cowardly leadership owes an explanation to the fellow church members about the mismanagement of church finances: For example, an $180,000 building renovation contract lost for nothing. It only enriched the related parties. Or, another example when the chairman of the board of trustees embezzled $70,000 he is awarded with church money to pay for his legal fees and for part of his embezzlement. Also his faction paid the fines for the sanctions and the contempt of court with the trust fund although they had to pay. Another irony is Methoidst Mission Fund donated $50,000 to the trust as if an incentive to the looting.
RETHINK IF THERE IS JESUS IN UMC!! HE LEFT THHIS CHURCH LONG TIME AGO.
The judge and NYS Attorney General advised to recover the funds from the abusers. But, why anyone in the church leadership has done anything about these malfeasances?
Now, the time has come to your office to clarify the ultimate moral issues.
On July 15, 2007, the church decided to hire a certified public accountant (excluding Korean CPA) to audit the church finances starting from year 2000. The audit is to determine if any fraud has occurred. But, since then, Reverend Chang, the current pastor, who is a friend of yours according to information, has not yet started it.
On December 14, 2008, the Church Council decided Mr. Hyun Jong Kim’s proposal to recover the abused trust fund.
Thus, the church loudly spoken again to Rev. Chul Woo Chang, that is,
“The demand of return of the abused fund
is not anti Church or anti Christ.”
Recently Rev. Chang reinstated some of the purged elders by his mentor Rev. Cha without dignity in his mentor’s way, destructive to Jesus image…
The church must recover the stolen funds from Mr. Park and the embezzlers. Perhaps, the church may file an insurance claim for the stolen funds so that the insurance company can compensate them. But, you, the bishop, must enforce church rules and order to help this church recover financially as well as morally. Otherwise, the church has no standing as a light house to the dark world Now, remember that any decent mind cannot allow our historic church to be built on the foundation of the age-old scandals, but on the rock. Most of all, the church should be liberated from evil capitulation still in power. If Mr. Park and others like him have succeeded to scapegoat the church scandals on an innocent family, then they would have said, Halleluiah!! The church should be maintained as a house of prayer, but a den of robbers. (Matthew 21; 13)
In any even, should not let them build a temple of Judah.
Some wise guys sitting on the top, navigating through the Judas’s conspirators’ roadways, are bragging the ones’ misfortunes in the church. Jesus’ church degenerated into the human garbage dump of the Korean church as the chronic phenomena naturally revealed. Where is our faithful leadership – Jesus is over commercialized for propaganda to bran wash the naive seekers.
RETHINK if Jesus in where mobsters are dancing round with Madoff Champaign.
Without any further delay, you must recognize that the Korean United Methodist Church and Institute has been under the control of the spiritually-dead clergies and criminals who are filled with demons, falsehoods, hatreds, and deception. It does appear to be a moral crisis of the Korean Church, the NY Annual Conference, and, perhaps, the United Methodist denomination.
I am praying for your spiritual victory in good faith and for the renewal of our historic church. The Book of Discipline guarantees open meetings and free speech. Why can’t we have an open debate for the renewal at the church or a public media? The congregation wants your spiritual leadership as the bishop of the NY Annual Conference as well as the top church leader of the Korean immigrant Christian community.
Please let me remind your office that it is my duty and mission to continuously protect the church’s common interests, according to the church’s rules and the Christian teachings. That is my only way to seek justice and to restore our family name as I have learned from the church throughout my life.
Alas! The church is spiritually, morally broken as it is now.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Chae S. Sone and family
Please forward the e-mail petition to:
Reverend Jeremiah J. Park, Bishop
New York Annual Conference
White Plains, New York
e-mail address: Bishop@nyac.com
Reverend Chul Woo Chang
e-mail address: chang.kumci@gmail.com
Forward to our distinctuished spiritual leaders:
Media@RickWarrenNews.com
UMC: newsdesk@umcom.org.
NCC
Grassley, Chuck®
chuck_grassley@grassley.senate.gov
Charles Schumer (D)
senator@schumer.senate.gov
Hillary Clinton (D)
senator@clinton.senate.gov
democraticparty@democrats.org democraticparty@democrats.org Obamainfo@friendsofmccain.com
Let us pray for the Bishop to do His will accordingly. Especially it is a wakeup call for Korean Christian community It is a cyber age.
Posted by: chae s. Sone at August 26, 2008
The corrective majors are long over due or just ignored by the leaders.
From:Revgommer@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 4:22 PM
To: Bishop@nyac.com;chang.kmci@gmail.com. csone@optonline.net
Subject: Building Funds Questions Korean Church
Dear Bishop:
This all sounds as though the leadership of our church has handled a difficult situation in a poor way. Are these matters of injustice in the claims of those who cry out about the fraudulent use of building funds and trust funds of the Korean Church in New York? Real leaders not only do things right… but in the critical points of decision making…do the right thing. What is the right thing in his matter? It is an embarrassment to the whole community of faith.
Chuck Gummer
Former District Superintendent
Former Wyoming Conference Executive
Wyoming Confeence
‘revgommer@aol.com’
Posted by: chae at October 2, 2008——
Original Message——From: Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast [mailto:chocr@ca.rr.com]Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:48 AM
To: Bishop@nyac.com
Cc: chang.kumci@gmail.com; csone@optonline.net
Subject: A petition to Bishop Jeremiah J. Park to recover misused Church money
Dear Brother in Christ Bishop Jeremiah J. Park,
I have received this petition which is addressed to you and only calls for an investigation and justice. If the accusations are true, the situation deserves a resolution. No one should be victimized – especially not by their own church. I don’t know the situation, do not know if any of the accusations are remotely true, but have witnessed similar cases. An impartial investigation could bring interesting unknown facts to your attention.
GOD bless you!
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast
Posted by: chae s. Sone at October 4, 2008
On 12/14/08, at the church meeting, a resolution passed to recover the abused trust fund as proposed by Mr. Hyun Joong Kim, that was long overdue since Assistant Attorney General Nathan Courtney’s order to recover them. But he delayed it up to now in an excuse that it would be costly for the church to recover.
Now the church has spoken loudly again that the demand of return of the abused money to the church is not Anti church or anti Christ’. It is right thing to do for the church officers to recover Gods money from the abusers.
Now his opposition to the return of the abused fund found to be morally wrong as a pastor as the church formally legally, rightfully, demanded to recover them.
Now the audit is imperative. It should be done as soon as possible without further delay as it matters with the image of this historic church.
Dear Someone:
It is not nice Christian way of doing if someone delete certain postings in order to cover the misdeeds of the cronies. Let us pray God to keep our church clean, removing all the dirt. c. sone in Christ.
judahs mobs deleted many of the postings by the same Jesus guy in order to further coverup the scandals. Who can help him?