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PROFILE IN COURAGE - BJ CHRISTIANSEN sets up Dun Loring
« on: March 04, 2011, 12:53:14 AM »

Does anyone recall the courageous efforts of BJ Christiansen to bring reform and justice to the perpetrators at 3ABN?

Did he inadvertently set up 3ABN, its officers and directors, for direct culpability and legal liability for the victims of Dun Loring?

And just how much will this really cost 3ABN, its officers and directors (and those pesky little stockholders in the pew) for their failure to bring accountability and for at least partially funding and enabling the Dun Loring Pedophile scanda?l.

Does the Adventist Risk Managment have liability for the past and present church managers and other pastors that have served on the 3ABN board? And just how much will those legal expenses cost the church? Can 3ABN re-imburse those costs? And will ARM allow Simpson to represent their interests in any negotiations? And if so, doesn't Simpson, the master of ethics, have a conflict of interest that would preclude his representation of the Denominational Church while representing the Non-Denominational broadcaster?

These and other issues require vetting and full disclosure as we face what may well be the first major scandal Neil Wilson Jr administration must deal with as the "Face of Adventism" and the darling of conservative SDA's faces horrendous public allegations, most surely to become national news.

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Re: PROFILE IN COURAGE - BJ CHRISTIANSEN sets up Dun Loring
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2011, 02:27:22 AM »

Did Ken Denslow bring the B J Christiansen documents with him to Silver Springs?
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Re: PROFILE IN COURAGE - BJ CHRISTIANSEN sets up Dun Loring
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2011, 03:53:31 AM »

Certain brains might burst if I tell them that I have also lived in Silver Springs! That was back in 1957-8. I never met Ted Wilson on the steps of the General Conference back then. An obvious reason why I did not notice him then is that he was only 7-8 years old at that time. However, I often met Jan Pausen and talked to him at that time. Seems like he was already then on the payroll of the General Conference serving in some capacity like a night watchman while studying during the day.

Dun Loring was not far away from there, but who would know what would happen there many years later?
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Re: PROFILE IN COURAGE - BJ CHRISTIANSEN sets up Dun Loring
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2011, 12:15:44 PM »

Did Ken Denslow bring the B J Christiansen documents with him to Silver Springs?

What were the B J Christiansen documents, Johann?
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Re: PROFILE IN COURAGE - BJ CHRISTIANSEN sets up Dun Loring
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2011, 02:48:07 PM »

Did Ken Denslow bring the B J Christiansen documents with him to Silver Springs?

What were the B J Christiansen documents, Johann?

I have made a number of attempts to find these documents. Someone indicated they might be in a file at the Illinois Conference office, but not made available - or were they destroyed?
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Re: PROFILE IN COURAGE - BJ CHRISTIANSEN sets up Dun Loring
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2011, 03:10:13 PM »

I carried the spelling from this headline, but his name has also been spelled Christensen. 

See Tommy Shelton Retires from 3ABN, Virginia Church Addresses Sexual ...
In late 1992, Elder Bj Christensen, then president of the Illinois Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, approached two members of Danny's family, ...
www.save-3abn.com/news-releases-atoday-tommy-shelton-retires-02-12-07.htm

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Re: PROFILE IN COURAGE - BJ CHRISTIANSEN sets up Dun Loring
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2011, 06:09:31 PM »

Since December, 2007, we have updated information that would directly tie Danny Lee Shelton's actions and the Dun Loring Church of God to 3ABN.

If the information is proven accurate, then 3ABN is far more Echeumenical than we had understood and would support their assertion they are a Non-Denominational televangelist broadcaster!!! The allegation clearly puts together pieces that were not clear in 2007 and explains why Brad Walker moved from producer director at 3ABN to being the Producer Director for cable programming at Dun Loring Church of God.

And the information from on the ground in Dun Loring alleges that Tommy and Brad were subsidized by 3ABN for quite some time upon arrival in Dun Loring. According to our sources, the subsidy came from 3ABN and DLS spoke at Dun Loring on three seperate occasions. Wonder if he gave the Three Angels Messages? Or did he preach the counterfeit?? Anyone have recordings of those meetings???

Your donations at work!!! Maybe they thought they would become a convert like all those pastors that converted entire congregations during the Ten Commandments Twice Removed campaign...remember all of those miraculous changes we heard about on 3ABN? By the way, did anyone ever see all these conversion pastors and their congregations march across the stage at camp meeting, or ever see them interviewed on the live by Danny Lee Shelton or Shelley Quinn? Hum-m-m!!

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Re: PROFILE IN COURAGE - BJ CHRISTIANSEN sets up Dun Loring
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2011, 11:21:06 AM »


**ELDER BJ CHRISTENSEN SETS UP THE DUNN LORING FIASCO**

Yes, it is true, the victims of the current crisis owe their entire
opportunity to the courage of none the less than an Illinois
Conference President (Elder Bj Christensen) and the Mundalls . . .
that is correct, none the less than Mr. and Mrs. Derrell and Melody
Shelton Mundall.

One could argue that this triumvirate set up, unwittingly, the entire
Tommy Ray Shelton & 3ABN legacy in Dunn Loring, Virginia, a second
primary malignant site for a host of new pedophilic victims (the first
sites being Thompsonville and West Frankfort, Illinois).

The Seventh-day Adventist Church's first critical look at the Shelton
Boys and 3ABN came shortly after their mid-1980's trip to the Big Sky
ASI meeting and the first serious support of ASI members to the
Sheltons and 3ABN (there were still four CO-FOUNDERS then). The GC
asked for and received a report from the ASI President at the time
which was less than flattering as it recited a history more akin to
the Donald of Trump fame with collapsed business deals and bankruptcy,
not to mention a few rumors of very salacious scandals while Danny Lee
Shelton was in exile in Michigan.

The then President of the General Conference, Neil Wilson, Sr., and
the President of the North American Division both received the reports
which are in the archives. As early as this there were supportive
political types that convinced both men not to move against the
broadcaster, despite serious concerns regarding both the viability of
the project and the ability and reliability of the FOUNDERS.

About the same time, as the broadcaster was in its infancy, literally,
the Tommy Ray Shelton scandal broke over the West Frankfort Ezra
Church of God church and church school with the complaints of multiple
young victims of pedophilia (actually the second such scandal within
this church) at the hands of Pastor Tommy Ray Shelton. Reports from
many a witness clearly recall Danny Lee Shelton's intervention with
the local sheriff's office, and the sheriff was known to have been a
carousing buddy of Danny Lee Shelton.

Tommy once again was unemployed and Danny Lee Shelton brought Tommy on
full time as a part of the management team. There are several reports
of Tommy utilizing his position to develop a harem of young men at
3ABN.

There were also many rumors of Danny Lee Shelton's secret trysts with
a number of staffers and others in the community as well as reports of
3ABN assets diverted to his personal inurement. Melody became aware of
her dad's utilization of her legacy and became angry enough to move
out of the house and into a prefab home on the campus. At least one
purportedly admired young lady is known to have roomed with Melody
during this period. Eventually Melody met the young Mundall boy and
was swept off her feet and they became a pair.

A number of events, including very specific revelations of charges of
Tommy Ray Shelton's sexual harassment of staffers, and specific
charges against Danny Lee Shelton of financial mismanagement and his
enabling of Tommy Ray Shelton, amongst other allegations regarding
real property deals and philandering, began to surface.

The Mundall Family left the campus and moved into northern Illinois
and found jobs. Bj Christensen was aware of at least some of the
issues at 3ABN and began an investigation as an ex officio member of
the 3ABN Board. During this period he managed to meet with the
Mundalls and took a statement from Derrell and Melody Mundall running
some seven handwritten pages, each signed by the interviewees. Armed
with this information, Bj Christensen began what is best described as
a crusade to clean up 3ABN. There was a board meeting and the best
summary is that Tommy Ray Shelton was thrown out "on the bus" while
Danny Lee Shelton managed to talk his way through this first serious
attempt at a coup. Bj Christensen's report made it to the NAD and GC
and would later play a role at an ASI Convention by Wilson's successor
who was promptly accused of "laying an egg" by a politically powerful
adversary, Garwin McNeilus.

In the interim, Bj Christensen was lifted out of Illinois and moved to
California. The seven-page statement was not in his personal papers
after his passing but is known to be in the NAD and GC Archives. The
Illinois Conference has denied that the original document was in their
archives.

The Mundalls eventually moved back to Thompsonville, made up with dad
Shelton, but did not live happily ever after.

Tommy Ray Shelton and his bus/camper van, gifted by 3ABN, would
secretly receive 1099 income to support his unauthorized role of
marketing cable distributors to take the 3ABN broadcasts, literally on
the road. That road tripping led to northern Virginia and Washington,
DC and the Dunn Loring opportunity. While visiting Dunn Loring, his
broadcasting experience was seen as useful to the development of a
local broadcast of religious broadcasting and, according to multiple
sources, he continued to receive 1099 income from 3ABN for nearly two
and one half years.

Turns out to produce a program for transmission for the Community
Church of God, Dunn Loring, Tommy needed broadcasting, videotaping,
production and editing equipment. Sources have told us this was
donated to the Dunn Loring Church of God and set up in the basement,
which became the production set. However, Tommy also needed a
producer/director and editor, and a 3ABN producer/director, the
son-in-law of Tommy Ray Shelton, none the less than Brad Walker, was
transferred to Dunn Loring (the Walker family was members of the Ezra
Church of God in West Frankfort). However, sources on the ground in
Virginia tell this reporter that Brad Walker stayed on the 3ABN
Payroll until he and Pastor Tommy Ray Shelton began full-time staff
positions as guests of the Community Church of God in Dunn Loring.

Yes, purportedly your contributions to 3ABN, the Non-Denominational
Broadcaster, supported the production of programming on the greater
Washington, DC and northern Virginia cable access for the Community
Church of God, video production done by admitted pedophile, Tommy Ray
Shelton, and his 3ABN-trained and supported son-in-law, Brad Walker.
The same Brad Walker that years later reportedly would conspire with
Danny Lee Shelton to suppress testimony against Tommy Ray Shelton and
subjourn perjury. The same Brad Walker that was part of the
intervention team in 2000 that would face down Tommy Ray Shelton
following the discovery that Tommy had victimized his own adopted son.
And the same Brad Walker that would host the visits of his little
brother to their home in Dunn Loring (downstairs from Pastor Tommy Ray
Shelton) that would lead to further allegations of pedophilia.

The rest is history we will regurgitate ad nauseum as we report on the
coming trial of Tommy Ray Shelton for crimes against the peace and
dignity of the State of Virginia, not to mention the Law of God so
proudly hailed by Danny Lee Shelton in Ten Commandments Twice Removed.


One point is critical here: The Triumvirate of Courage led by Bj
Christensen with the assistance of the Mundalls clearly set up the
sequence of events that led both Tommy Ray Shelton and Brad Walker to
Dunn Loring, who were reportedly subsidized and supported by 3ABN as
they set up the cable ministry for the Church of God in Dunn Loring,
which in fact does support 3ABN's claim in 3ABN v. Joy
<http://save-3abn/3abn-and-danny-v-joy-and-pickle-complaint.htm>
 that they are NON-DENOMINATIONAL, sort of?? Or is it an undisclosed
ecumenical effort to "counteract the counterfeit"?

One is compelled to ask, did the directors know? Should they have
known? Did the officers, especially the General Manager and the
Treasurer know? And why were the "stock-holders in the pews" not
aware? Why was it not disclosed? Is 3ABN really focused on
"counteracting the counterfeit," or is it really NON-Denominational
and in fact a virulent and insidious part and parcel of the
counterfeit?

And, should the North American Division, the primary sponsor of Hope
Channel, consider bailing out 3ABN by at least purchasing the assets
and turning the "Face of Adventism" into an "Adventist Face" before
this case blows wide open serious misconceptions and harsh realities
that will inevitably tie the Seventh-day Adventist world church to
this monstrous scandal?

One thing is certain, that Dunn Loring became the stage for the Drama
that would result in the current complainants, soon to become
plaintiffs, to become pedophile victims, with a number of others, that
as of yet have not perpetuated their claims.

We all owe thanks to Bj Christensen for his courage, albeit
insufficient, to have reined in Danny Lee Shelton, which ultimately
served as the platform for even more egregious homosexual and
pedophilic assaults on yet another unsuspecting population, that this
time would even involve his own adopted son and would be his
Waterloo!!! Unfortunately, even Napoleon would end up only exiled.

Three cheers for Bj Christensen!!!

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Re: PROFILE IN COURAGE - BJ CHRISTIANSEN sets up Dun Loring
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2011, 08:18:13 PM »

So that was the BJ Christensen documents referred to earlier?
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Re: PROFILE IN COURAGE - BJ CHRISTIANSEN sets up Dun Loring
« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2011, 08:35:41 PM »

A little hate mail to liven things up, and from a recognized Certified Fund Raising Executive:

Who are you and why are you on this crusade to destroy 3ABN?  Since 3ABN is not owned or operated by the SDA church, what business is it of yours?  Sounds like a bitter loser to me.

 Edwin M. Shafer, FAHP, CFRE

Well, how do you like that...a little hate mail and from a Certified Fund Raising Executive, non-the less, asking "what business is it of yours?"

I must assume one with your credentials must understand that 501-c3's are really a very public trust and are in the public domain. And televangelists are largely a hypocritical lot...but then, if you are inclined to get others, or contribute yourself, to an evangelical organization that has covered pedophilia, that is your privilege...and I reserve the right to publish.

As to my "crusade", well, let's just say that I have not accomplished my goals yet and tend to be VERY PERSISTENT in my pursuit of justice. You chase donations... and I will chase justice.

By the way, I did not find you on our mailing list, but you know how e-mails circle the globe these days. On the other hand, everything on the net is public domain and you can't take it back...so thanks for your e-mail - excellent sample for our site.

By the way, 3ABN needs lots of help with fundraising assistance, but you may want to clean up the executive suite first.

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Re: PROFILE IN COURAGE - BJ CHRISTIANSEN sets up Dun Loring
« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2011, 08:47:06 PM »

A little hate mail...Edwin M. Shafer, FAHP, CFRE...

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...Since 3ABN is not owned or operated by the SDA church, what business is it of yours?... 

Then is the SDA church, although it does not own or operate 3ABN, helping at all with the settlement for Tomy Sheltons victims, as has been previously suggested?

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« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2011, 09:02:25 PM »

And, should the North American Division, the primary sponsor of Hope
Channel, consider bailing out 3ABN by at least purchasing the assetsand turning the "Face of Adventism" into an "Adventist Face" before
this case blows wide open serious misconceptions and harsh realities
that will inevitably tie the Seventh-day Adventist world church to
this monstrous scandal?

Purchasing the assets might be helpful...
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« Reply #12 on: March 07, 2011, 09:03:16 PM »

Does the church have to insure employees for directors and officers legal liability for failure to oversee serious error???(see In Re:Boston Regional Medical Center)
 Does the church encourage employees to "pack the board" to keep a finger on the pulse of this "Face of Adventism"?
And does the church have significant interest in avoiding a public excoriation for the sins of the "FACE of Adventism"?
If they are smart they will open a line of communication with Manly and Anderson and negotiate real hard to work out a structured settlement before this thing hits the Chicago Tribune. The church should be playing a pivotal role that includes a plan to finally bring this pest-hole of SDA televangelism into the folds of the NAD ASAP.

They can pay now or pay later...after the headlines...and the price goes up CONSIDERABLY!!!

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A little hate mail...Edwin M. Shafer, FAHP, CFRE...

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...Since 3ABN is not owned or operated by the SDA church, what business is it of yours?...  

Then is the SDA church, although it does not own or operate 3ABN, helping at all with the settlement for Tommy Sheltons victims, as has been previously suggested?


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Re: PROFILE IN COURAGE - BJ CHRISTIANSEN sets up Dun Loring
« Reply #13 on: March 07, 2011, 09:09:21 PM »

If they are smart they will open a line of communication with Manly and Anderson and negotiate real hard to work out a structured settlement before this thing hits the Chicago Tribune.

What about other victims of Tommy Shelton?

Will there be any more to follow?
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« Reply #14 on: March 07, 2011, 09:11:26 PM »

Time will tell
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