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[Gailon Arthur Joy]

It occurred to me as I explored BSDA Forums looking for AT Jewels (yes, I log every one for the intelligence and discovery value) that it has now been a full twelve months since Linda Shelton stepped forward and voided confidentiality to demand that 3ABN show the world the evidence against her. And do you recall that Dr. Thompson and AT have repeatedly stated it was an objective of the Lawsuite to bring out all the truth???

 WELL, GENTLEMEN, WHERE IS IT???   

Why have you not even produced pursuant to our request for production???

Why do you dog the truth and rely upon the simple ascertion that "they are all lies"!!!

So what is the Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; Where is the evidence to support the IRREFUTABLE TRUTH for our time???

LONG PAST TIME TO PUT THE EVIDENCE WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS; Afraid it would sour your pretty smiles, seer your conscience and bring you to humiliation???

I would be if I had DLS's hand right now!!! I wouldn't want Gilley's either....but who am I and what do I know....just enough to give them nightmares!!!! And the filing system just keeps filling!!!

When will they ever learn???

Gailon Arthur Joy
AUReporter


From Linda's website:

February, 2007

My warmest greetings,

A couple approached me, with tears in their eyes, and said, "We have just missed you and we wanted to see you to make sure you were okay." As I saw the pain in their eyes, over the events that have transpired in my life in the last few years, it was as if my heart was pierced again. "We are just so happy to see you smiling, in church and still serving God." Our meeting took place a few months ago at the Bible Chapel Seventh-day Adventist Church, where I am a member. I enjoyed my visit with this caring Christian couple and the compassion and love they showed toward me.

Some people act surprised that I am still a member of the SDA church. But why? God is still the same awesome God that He always has been, the incredible Bible truths embraced by the Seventh-day Adventists are still just as true today as they ever were and although a "thousand shall fall on my right and a thousand fall on my left" nothing will ever change these facts. We must hold firm to our faith during troubled times!

Many have written to me over the past many months asking me to update my website. This I have prayerfully considered for quite some time, nearly a year. Quite frankly, I just have not known what to say. I feel that this scandal has made a large, festering open wound in my Church. Perhaps the truth revealed will ultimately bring the healing that everyone needs. Then we can grieve together and move on. I am certain, in essence, I have died a thousand deaths over the events of the last couple of years. But, with the Lords blessing, I will try to address issues which have been brought to my attention in the kindest manner possible.

For the first time in nearly three years I will not simply deny the accusations, but will directly address certain issues. I do not take pleasure in speaking of these things. I think I have always been the one who would rather receive hurt, than be the one to inflict hurt upon others. But during the course of this last year I learned some valuable lessons through Dr. Mable Dunbar of Pollys Place Network, she has been an incredible support and help to me. Mable is a woman who truly loves the Lord and is not afraid to stand up for what she believes is right, even if a whole army would stand against her.

Pollys Place Network is a ministry which empowers abused lives and aids them through their difficult circumstances. It is a marvelous organization and so needed for this age when Satan has focused his wrath upon breaking up the security and circle of love God intended for our families. I videotaped some interviews, for Pollys Place, at the SDA Conference office in Spokane, Washington with several individuals who had been through incredibly painful situations. Each of them, in essence, had the same healing story. It was when they were able to come forward and expressed the truth about what happened to them, that their healing came. Inspired by these individuals, now I can accept and believe it is Gods job to protect the ministry I have loved and co-founded, and its my right and my healing to tell the truth about what has occurred.

I am co-authoring a book and its purpose is to share the silver lining of the amazing lessons the Lord has taught me through this crisis. I feel the Lord has lifted a veil and allowed me to see the world that He sees, a world far different than we see. I see that the darts of false allegations that Satan has thrown toward me and my ministry were not directed solely for my downfall, but the aim was much wider. Although I was the apparent target, Satan was attempting to destroy the ministry I loved and co-founded and cripple the witness of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. My perspective has been forever changed through my experiences and my book will give me the opportunity to share these lessons more fully with all of you. (I will keep you posted as to the release date of this book.)

John Knox once said, "Kings (or leaders) have not an absolute power to do in their government what pleases them, but their power is limited by Gods Word; so that if they strike where God has not commanded, they are but murderers; and if they spare where God has commanded to strike, they and their thrones are criminal and guilty of the wickedness which abounds upon the face of the earth, for lack of punishment." John knew his Bible. It is a Biblical principle that if we see a wrong and only look the other way or feebly say, "I will let the Lord deal with that one," then that wickedness is applied to our slate, plain and simple.

The most devastating blow a televangelist can get is the false accusation of adultery. Although I have already made this statement on my website I want to address those of you who have loved and valued my Christianity, integrity and my ministry for the 19 years that I was at 3ABN. I want to clearly emphasize that I was 100% faithful to my husband. I loved, trusted and believed in him to a fault. Imagine my shock when I realized that the false allegations in the form of libel, slander and defamation directed my way were initiated by two of the closest people to me on planet earth; one was my beloved partner and the other was my closet lady friend. I loved them both and trusted them both to the point that their close communication did not bother me in the least. I know that sounds naive, but I did not believe that Dan would do anything that would harm the ministry we had built together.

In 2004 there was a tremendous outcry at my departure. There was suspicion over how swiftly I was fired from my position and divorced. There was suspicion over the fact that I never had the opportunity to talk to the Board and defend myself. There was suspicion over the fact that every trace of my presence was completely cleared out of the campus of 3ABN, even before my termination, as well as the website, television and radio broadcasts. I was made a sacrificial lamb in a scheme calculated to remove me from both my home and my ministry through an orchestrated campaign of malicious lies circulated around the globe. No words can begin to describe the absolute agony this has brought to my life, but there are other victims as well, and may God bless and spare the young lives and tender souls who have also felt the stinging thrust of this sword of scandal.

It has completely broken my heart to see the emails and letters which have come from the Chairman of the Board, Dan and others at 3ABN, to hear of the television and radio programs where erroneous references have been made to the situation, to watch the ministry that I helped build with much devotion used to destroy me and also to hear of the reports of what is being said on the SDA chat sites about me today by those bent on my destruction...nearly three years later.

It was the false accusation of adultery which caused the loss of my marriage, my reputation, my employment, and everything else. I challenge the 3ABN Board to produce the "irrefutable evidence" which caused a co-founder, a life-time Board member, Vice-President and Secretary of the Board to be removed in that May, 2004 meeting! I am asking, no demanding, that the information is made public, at my request! Cast aside these pretended desires to "spare me"! The world is waiting with baited breath!
The stakes are high. I, as well as others, have personally experienced electronic surveillance, email theft, interception of cell phone calls, post divorce entry into my private residence to the point where charges were filed with the police. It is not easy to live your life when you feel that you can never know for sure if you are being followed, watched or recorded...even now. I have had invitations to do ministry thwarted because of continued allegations by those, who, like wolves in sheeps clothing, attempted to stop my ministry.

I want to make this absolutely clear: I left my home because I was not safe, I was not welcome. I was witnessing the murder of my reputation and ministry day by day. I stayed as long as I felt I could. I hoped, believed and prayed that things would change but they only got worse. The statements made that I left my husband for another man are absolutely and totally false. Any thinking person would realize that I had everything a Christian woman could have wanted in this life: a husband I loved and the opportunity to minister to millions of people about the tremendous love of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, though the ministry that we spent so many years building together. Although two of the people who I loved best have called me "Gomer", yet a more accurate term would be "Hosea", which I would only discover later. But I prefer simply, Linda, "SAVED by the Blood of the Lamb!"

I do not visit the chat sites. This has been a mega-trial for me and my way of coping has been to try and focus on other things. I realize that the individuals which make up our Church need healing from this disaster too. And perhaps the chat sites have served to help people give expression to their frustrations and hurts in this situation. I am grateful to each of you who have prayed and interceded for me. It has meant so much during my dark days. You’ll never know just how much!

Now my kids are grown and I am alone...but not really alone, although I have not husband. Now I belong to everyone and everyone belongs to me! And I still sing, "Thank you for being my family, thank you for being my friends: May God bless and keep you in all that you may do until we meet again!"

It is my goal to just make your journey and mine a little lighter and brighter. I have faith that the Lord still has a work for me to do, a new ministry. I am ready and available for church services, week of prayer, concerts, etc. as the Lord opens the doors. I do not know what my future holds, but God does and that’s enough for me.

Just in closing I want to make an appeal to you to get out your binoculars, dust them off, bring them into focus and then search... Love your neighbor enough to be a Good Samaritan. When he is broken and bleeding in the middle of the road, focus your binoculars with the love of Christ, but don't stop there, reach out and meet his need in his time of crisis. Christianity is not something that "just happens". True Christianity occurs when a decided action is taken...when we search, when we fill a need, when we mend a broken heart and when we are just "there" for hurting people. There is a lot of them. But there are too few Christians who focus their binoculars with love.

Thank you for being my family! Stay close to the Shepherd!

Blessings to you and yours

Linda Shelton

[Johann]

Isaiah 59:4
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

[Johann]

This letter has just been re-posted at BSDA. What do you think of the demands on Linda expressed hear at a point when she was not permitted to consult with any of her own friends?

-------- Original Message --------
From: Walt Thompson
To: [Alyssa]
Subject: Letter for Linda
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 21:43:07 -0500

Dear Linda,

This is a copy of the letter that has been sent by FEDEX to you. While you may not understand now, someday you will realize that we are truly desirous of returning you to your home and ministry because we care about you. I plan to go to 3ABN tomorrow and will be available to talk with you if you have questions needing clarification.

Walt

May, 4, 2004

Walter Thompson MD
Chairman of 3ABN Board of Directors
******

Linda Shelton
Three Angel's Broadcasting Network
PO Box 220
West Frankfort, IL 62896

Dear Linda,

A committee representing the 3ABN board of directors has been selected and has met for the purpose of evaluating the present problem at 3ABN relating to your relationship to Danny and to the ministry of 3ABN - and seeking a resolution acceptable to all parties involved. This letter is intended to represent the will of the board.

Let me begin by expressing our gratitude to you for the part you have played at 3ABN for the past nearly twenty years. You have been an important part of the ministry from the beginning – a fact appreciated by us all. Accordingly, this letter is not written with the intent to destroy your home or your part in the ministry, but rather to rehabilitate and restore.

In accordance with this intent, we are offering the following proposal to you. We believe it has the potential of accomplishing the desired objectives, i.e., to save both your home and a place for you in this ministry. It would do so without making the details of this matter known to the full board or others.

Nor is this letter expressing an opinion regarding the nature of your relationship with Dr. Abrahamson. Whether or not this relationship has been immoral or not is not the issue of this document. The facts are that the relationship and your refusal to discontinue it in spite of repeated requests by Danny and our requests, has damaged both your family and 3ABN – a reality we must deal with in wisdom, love and compassion – but deal with, we must.

We are offering you a 30 day leave of absence with pay and full benefits - to begin at the time of receipt of this letter. During this time the following conditions must be met.

You will be relieved of all duties at 3ABN and will not appear at 3ABN other than to obtain items from your immediate office upon personal request from me. You will arrange to leave Southern Illinois at 3ABN expense for the duration. Both you and 3ABN need time to cool off.

You will agree in writing to cease all communication with Dr. Abrahamson, whether direct or indirect, whether by e-mail, telephone, letter or any other, or through Johann or any other third party. We are designating a period of 30 days, but with the intent this must be a life-long decision.

During this time you will not discuss the issues related to your relationship with 3ABN with anyone other than your immediate family, your professional counselors or representatives or members of the board of directors.

Since this time is recommended as a time for reflection and serious rehabilitation we are requesting that you arrange to receive professional help relating to the issues at hand. We are recommending Ron and Nancy Rocky to you. They have agreed to open their home to you and to give you personal help in dealing with the issues at the center of the present problems. It will be private and protected from the public eye such that neither your image nor reputation ought be damaged. Should you choose different professional help, it must be acceptable to this committee.

At the end of 30 days we will reassess the situation and make further recommendations as indicated.

The issues in this proposal are not negotiable. Should they be unacceptable to you – we hope sincerely they will be acceptable – we will proceed promptly with further investigation of the facts regarding the matter at hand. In that case we will need a list of witnesses you would like us to hear. We will offer Danny the same opportunity. Once we have had opportunity to hear the evidence, we will be in a better position to make recommendations to the full board based upon that evidence. Based on the facts we already know, however, we think pursuing such a course would make any future role for you at 3ABN unlikely.

That is why, Linda, we are pleading with you to accept this proposal for healing and restoration. This is God's ministry. He has chosen you to be a part of it. We want you to continue to be a part of it. But in order for that to happen really important things must change.

Sincerely,

Walter Thompson MD
Chairman of the Board of Directors, 3ABN
Committee members include Nicholas P. Miller, Bill Hulsey and Kay Kuzma (by invitation)

Your signature here will confirm your agreement with this proposal. Please sign and return copy within 24 hours of receipt of this letter.

Linda Shelton __________________________________________________________.

[judibug61]

I still think that letter is just as perposterious today as it was when it was first written, and it is totally understandable why Linda would have nothing to do with signing that........Prayers and prosperity, Linda, as God blesses your ministry.......

[Gailon Arthur Joy]

The implications to Linda's Due Process of this document are far reaching:
1)Conveniently took her out of reach of the small committee that was preparing a report for the entire board at the end of the month;
2)Put her out of town during the board meeting;
3) Denied her access to her own  counsellors or an attorney;
4)Was an absolute ultimatum and resulted in her early termination and isolation to the degree she would never be able to have any due process, at 3ABN or in the SDA Church;
5)Came with an agreement she would be required to sign within 24 hours and was terminated on May 7, 2004.

The board of astute Seventh-day Adventist Businessmen would affirm the decision without due process on May 30 and Danny would divorce her in June. All this in the space of just 90 days...
gives new meaning to the concept that final events will be rapid ones!!!

And this is the best "due process" you can get for 20 years of service, being a lifetime member, an officer and the secretary to the 3ABN Board of Directors. And they have yet to produce document one to justify this outrageous conduct

The president, on the other hand, oversees actions that result in an IRS investigation and he gets to resign and stay on as a consultant, negotiate a long-term contract, gets a peice of land, time to build a new house, sell the old house and pretend nothing really happened. Oh, yes, and get 3ABN or its donors to pay for the lawsuite!!! Yes, due process at 3ABN is just a bit tainted!!!

Gailon Arthur Joy

[Ozzie]

This letter has just been re-posted at BSDA. What do you think of the demands on Linda expressed hear at a point when she was not permitted to consult with any of her own friends?

-------- Original Message --------
From: Walt Thompson
To: [Alyssa]
Subject: Letter for Linda
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 21:43:07 -0500

Linda Shelton
Three Angel's Broadcasting Network
PO Box 220
West Frankfort, IL 62896

Dear Linda,

A committee representing the 3ABN board of directors has been selected and has met for the purpose of evaluating the present problem at 3ABN relating to your relationship to Danny and to the ministry of 3ABN - and seeking a resolution acceptable to all parties involved. This letter is intended to represent the will of the board.

Let me begin by expressing our gratitude to you for the part you have played at 3ABN for the past nearly twenty years. You have been an important part of the ministry from the beginning – a fact appreciated by us all. Accordingly, this letter is not written with the intent to destroy your home or your part in the ministry, but rather to rehabilitate and restore.

In accordance with this intent, we are offering the following proposal to you. We believe it has the potential of accomplishing the desired objectives, i.e., to save both your home and a place for you in this ministry. It would do so without making the details of this matter known to the full board or others.

Nor is this letter expressing an opinion regarding the nature of your relationship with Dr. Abrahamson. Whether or not this relationship has been immoral or not is not the issue of this document. The facts are that the relationship and your refusal to discontinue it in spite of repeated requests by Danny and our requests, has damaged both your family and 3ABN – a reality we must deal with in wisdom, love and compassion – but deal with, we must.

We are offering you a 30 day leave of absence with pay and full benefits - to begin at the time of receipt of this letter. During this time the following conditions must be met.

You will be relieved of all duties at 3ABN and will not appear at 3ABN other than to obtain items from your immediate office upon personal request from me. You will arrange to leave Southern Illinois at 3ABN expense for the duration. Both you and 3ABN need time to cool off.

You will agree in writing to cease all communication with Dr. Abrahamson, whether direct or indirect, whether by e-mail, telephone, letter or any other, or through Johann or any other third party. We are designating a period of 30 days, but with the intent this must be a lifelong decision.

During this time you will not discuss the issues related to your relationship with 3ABN with anyone other than your immediate family, your professional counselors or representatives or members of the board of directors.

Since this time is recommended as a time for reflection and serious rehabilitation we are requesting that you arrange to receive professional help relating to the issues at hand. We are recommending Ron and Nancy Rocky to you. They have agreed to open their home to you and to give you personal help in dealing with the issues at the center of the present problems. It will be private and protected from the public eye such that neither your image nor reputation ought be damaged. Should you choose different professional help, it must be acceptable to this committee.

At the end of 30 days we will reassess the situation and make further recommendations as indicated.

The issues in this proposal are not negotiable. Should they be unacceptable to you – we hope sincerely they will be acceptable – we will proceed promptly with further investigation of the facts regarding the matter at hand. In that case we will need a list of witnesses you would like us to hear. We will offer Danny the same opportunity. Once we have had opportunity to hear the evidence, we will be in a better position to make recommendations to the full board based upon that evidence. Based on the facts we already know, however, we think pursuing such a course would make any future role for you at 3ABN unlikely.

That is why, Linda, we are pleading with you to accept this proposal for healing and restoration. This is God's ministry. He has chosen you to be a part of it. We want you to continue to be a part of it. But in order for that to happen really important things must change.

Sincerely,

Walter Thompson MD
Chairman of the Board of Directors, 3ABN
Committee members include Nicholas P. Miller, Bill Hulsey and Kay Kuzma (by invitation)

Your signature here will confirm your agreement with this proposal. Please sign and return copy within 24 hours of receipt of this letter.

Linda Shelton __________________________________________________________.

When I first read this over at BSDA, I felt nauseated and at the same time, terribly angry. How dare WT write a letter like that, giving Linda virtually no choice whatsoever. "Do as we say or else" was the tone of the letter. Sounds like WT would make a good DICTATOR. Intimidation seems to be something that WT, DS and cronies are really good at, and then he has the hide to sign off "Sincerely". Yes. "Sincerely dedicated to tossing Linda into the 'used goods store', with absolutely no respect for her as a person", is the way I read it.

"Rehabilitate and restore", says WT. What a load of hogwash. That letter shows there was never intent to restore Linda. WT says there was no room for negotiation. Linda MUST agree to all that was written in that. What did Linda have to 'rehabilitate and restore'? Obviously, it meant that Linda must no longer 'think' for herself and she must kowtow to the Board, which was obviously biased towards DS.

This letter in itself, was so abusive, but then... many so-called 'good' SDA's appear to think that it's quite OK to destroy a woman's life like that and think that she should take it all, without saying a word in her own defence! It's a wonder that there isn't a reference in there somewhere warning Linda that she is to be beholden to her husband and no matter what he says, that's exactly what she MUST do! They might not have said that in regards to her relationship with her husband, but they certainly said that Linda MUST do what 'the Board' had decided.

That's the way I see it anyway. I'd better get off my soapbox before I burst an aneurysm.

[Artiste]

I quite agree with everything you said, Ozzie.

That letter is UNBELIEVABLE!!

[Artiste]

I would also say that it is MISOGYNISTIC and shows prejudice and discrimination towards women!

[Fran]

To me, this letter was sent to force Linda out of IL for 30 days!  Period!

Danny and 3ABN needed time to pull a few legal maneuvers without her around ...

It was not really a time for her to cool off.  Linda was in the way.  They needed her out of the way.  Why?  The answer to that question should point to the early prepositioning of the plans to get rid of Linda.

This would also put her out of IL and thus she could not attend the board meeting to defend herself!  Remember it said she had to be OUT of IL?  How could she defend herself if she is not allowed in IL, much less at 3ABN?

This letter has the most unGodly wording I have ever seen.  Soak it "all in the name of God," and all is OK.  Get Rid of her; "all in the name of the Lord!"

[Ozzie]

To me, this letter was sent to force Linda out of IL for 30 days!  Period!

Danny and 3ABN needed time to pull a few legal maneuvers without her around ...

It was not really a time for her to cool off.  Linda was in the way.  They needed her out of the way.  Why?  The answer to that question should point to the early prepositioning of the plans to get rid of Linda.

This would also put her out of IL and thus she could not attend the board meeting to defend herself!  Remember it said she had to be OUT of IL?  How could she defend herself if she is not allowed in IL, much less at 3ABN?

This letter has the most unGodly wording I have ever seen.  Soak it "all in the name of God," and all is OK.  Get Rid of her; "all in the name of the Lord!"

That's exactly what it was about Fran. Each time I even think about that letter, I become so ANGRY again, to think that he had the audacity to expect Linda to sign it. Tells you a lot about his personality IMO.

[Johann]

We are not to speak evil of others, but they make it so difficult for me to think of them as levelheaded, sincere Christian. May God help us find a solution.

[Gailon Arthur Joy]

We are not to speak evil of others, but they make it so difficult for me to think of them as levelheaded, sincere Christian. May God help us find a solution.

This all assumes that Walt actually drafted the document...remember, that Mr Miller was implementing the will of the President who frequently used the Chairman as the point man in those days. Anyone want to ask Miller who the Author was???
ANd where the inspiration came from???

Gailon Arthur Joy

[Johann]

And still no irrefutable evidence!

The implications to Linda's Due Process of this document are far reaching:
1)Conveniently took her out of reach of the small committee that was preparing a report for the entire board at the end of the month;
2)Put her out of town during the board meeting;
3) Denied her access to her own  counsellors or an attorney;
4)Was an absolute ultimatum and resulted in her early termination and isolation to the degree she would never be able to have any due process, at 3ABN or in the SDA Church;
5)Came with an agreement she would be required to sign within 24 hours and was terminated on May 7, 2004.

The board of astute Seventh-day Adventist Businessmen would affirm the decision without due process on May 30 and Danny would divorce her in June. All this in the space of just 90 days...
gives new meaning to the concept that final events will be rapid ones!!!

And this is the best "due process" you can get for 20 years of service, being a lifetime member, an officer and the secretary to the 3ABN Board of Directors. And they have yet to produce document one to justify this outrageous conduct

The president, on the other hand, oversees actions that result in an IRS investigation and he gets to resign and stay on as a consultant, negotiate a long-term contract, gets a peice of land, time to build a new house, sell the old house and pretend nothing really happened. Oh, yes, and get 3ABN or its donors to pay for the lawsuite!!! Yes, due process at 3ABN is just a bit tainted!!!

Gailon Arthur Joy