I think it’s pretty common for PR firms to flood the “airwaves” with puff pieces when a scandal goes down. The more abusive churches do this.

That’s a pretty brilliant idea!

GWInsida:

When?
Do you know who took over the Canada operation?
Any details on why they moved?

I did find a Pat and Rebekah Emerick listed in Carrollton Tx.

Or several mass mailings telling donors how great they are and how much God is using GFA. If the donors get flooded with flyers and mail it’s easier to miss the RICO notification.

“The issue isn’t so much with the fancy garb, it is with the telling one thing to the west, while planning and doing a whole other thing in the east. It seems it was a cover up of sorts, not telling the whole truth.”

I agree. (I do think that the garb is emblematic of the problem, and am saddened that this particular community is not following the example of simplicity being set by the Holy Father.)

Yeah, there is no way out of this one. Trying to keep it from happening would probably result in some people going straight to jail. It would also probably result in GFA’s lawyers deciding they want nothing more to do with the case.
There are things they can try to obstruct while pretending to cooperate, but not this.

The plaintiff’s law firm will make sure it is done. GFA will provide Stanley’s law firm with a donor list and there will be publication of the class action suit. People will be able to opt out but if they don’t they will be in the class. Mr. J, you will soon be on the field.

Flashy outfits indeed! I believe part of the reason why the guys in the recently re-named “Believers Eastern Church” wear all the fancy stuff is the somewhat obsessive interest of the current metropolitan in St. Thomas and the metropolitans birth place in India. It seems there could be a belief in a proxy-transference of super spiritual powers due to the birth place of this leader and the location where St.Thomas landed in India and started churches. Kind of like a nice tradition taken a little too far. You can read more here: https://www.bec.org/history/ (if you really want to) Over the years there has been an undercurrent of all things St.Thomas from this leader, though when he went out to all the western churches to ask for money he would dress american and share with potential donors how the work on the field was simple bible stuff. Behind the scenes it would seem the high-church was being built, under the cover of many reasons told and not told. even the staff in the US had no clue what was going on in India with the whole high-church thing. The issue isn’t so much with the fancy garb, it is with the telling one thing to the west, while planning and doing a whole other thing in the east. It seems it was a cover up of sorts, not telling the whole truth. I could imagine it being hard for a non-staff person to understand this, not being on staff, the office had a precarious culture all its own. This covering-up of sorts would explain why the leadership was always so extremely paranoid about certain images getting out to the public. This would be prior to GFA intentionally going public with things like the Sisters of Compassion, which is an exact copy of the Mother Teresa movement – although certain communications are mentioned to the folks in the west about these sisters NOT taking a lifetime vow, see: Do Sisters of Compassion take a life-long vow to not marry? https://gfaau.org/women/sisters-of-compassion/ There seems to be a slightly different story with some of the sisters in the east … once again – a little cover-up goes a long way. As for the men missionaries on the fields of South Asia, some of these former missionaries of Gospel for Asia India have reported alot of missionaries leaving because of the supreme orthodox rule imposed by the metropolitan, I would imagine alot of western-funded missionaries in say the outskirts of places like Bangladesh, Nepal and other remote locations just want to share the Good News, versus establishing high-church in the middle of nowhere. So much for reaching the most unreached at any cost – the cost of the high church imposed orthodoxy could be costing alot more than just the fancy garb.