After settling the $37-million fraud lawsuit with new board member Garland Murphy, Gospel for Asia now wants donors to regift their settlement funds back to Gospel for Asia. According to an appeal letter sent to me by a former donor, GFA is spending promotional money in an attempt to recapture their losses. Take a look:
This isn’t the first time GFA has attempted to collect these funds from former donors.
Where are the audits?
In the first image above, GFA boasts about their clean annual audits. Prospective donors should know that GFA refuses to release those audits to the public. One of the initial red flags about GFA came from the last publicly available audit. In that audit, GFA said the nearly $20-million to complete their Wills Point, TX headquarters in 2013 came from an anonymous donor. However, now we know that those funds actually came from donor funds given to Believers’ Church in India as a related party transaction. GFA acknowledged this to the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability which was one of the reasons for GFA’s expulsion from that group.
Since that time, GFA has kept their audits in house. Why should we believe them? GFA told the world the 2012-2013 audit was clean and accurate. Trust has to be earned and GFA has not shown any ability to step into the light. They do not answer questions about these audits, their loss of charity registration in India or their practices in Believers’ Church. It long past time for GFA to address these issues for the sake of the mission they claim to uphold.
Wait…what??? Settlement checks already going out? I haven’t received mine…yet.
I think they are still going out. There were thousands of people who responded so I think it will take awhile.
Previously, I wrote to GFA and asked to be removed from their mailing list. They did remove me from their general mailing /pleas for money, but I got this new DVD package with the plea for donating settlement monies. It’s the first I had heard of Francis Chan’s involvement. After watching the interview with he and K.P. I was stunned by the level of deception. K.P. and GFA are the victims. Sick.
Very curious as to how Garland Murphy fits into this? Is he onside with it, or simply outvoted by the remainder of the board? (I guess I am assuming that something as blatant as this appeal would surely require board approval, but given GFA’s past track record that may be a shaky assumption?)
Also wondering … has there been any information on the new board member who was to replace KP’s wife?
Regarding the audits – it is beyond my comprehension how people will continue to support any charitable organization (and I include church’s in this) that is not prepared to make its financial statements and/or audit reports freely available. You used to have to ask for them, and 15/20 years ago I could understand that because there were some costs to actually print copies of the reports but now they can be provided with no cost via the Internet.
As a professional accountant I will be the first to agree that a clean audit report does not necessarily prove that everything is above board, but a reluctance/refusal to make financial statements/audit reports public absolutely should be considered a red flag.
I will look into the board member points…
Wow. Apparently KP and co. think we’re idiots, and are willing to bank their PR strategy on it. That’s some megalomaniac level chutzpah. Or maybe I should say gaslighting.
Now there is a man who does not actually believe in the God of the Bible. At his age he is much closer to death than most people. What good is all that money going to do him sitting in hell? I have witnessed that in most cases there is no such thing as justice in this life. In the age to come there will be perfect justice. Oh, and there will be no money in that next life so those addicted to it here will suffer much grief once it is gone forever.
Now there is a man who does not actually believe in the God of the Bible. At his age he is much closer to death than most people. What good is all that money going to do him sitting in hell? I have witnessed that in most cases there is no such thing as justice in this life. In the age to come there will be perfect justice. Oh, and there will be no money in that next life so those addicted to it here will suffer much grief once it is gone forever.
“Some of the people all of the time.”
These sheeple are soooo gullible.
Except for the Hoodies, that looks sooooo much like a full-honk Tridentine Latin Mass…
I haven’t really followed the posts on GFA because it is outside my area of interest. But this sounds a little like asking a robbery victim if they would please help out the robber by paying his fines. This is obscene.
You have GOT to be kidding. How crass. And no surprise.