Thread by @Truth_Seeker_0

Highlights from CCC's "independent review": a thread. #justiceforsankey download.communitychapel.com/resources/CCC_…

"The scope of this review focused on providing Christ Community Chapel (CCC) with information to help CCC assess its response to allegations of abuse at SANKEY SAMARITAN ORPHANAGE in Lucena, Philippines, where WORLD HARVEST MINISTRIES founder TOM
RANDALL was arrested..."

"Per CCC Finance Director REDACTED, CCC thereafter acted as the fiscal agent for WORLD
HARVEST. REDACTED advised that all WORLD HARVEST assets, including cash and
investments, received by CCC related to WORLD HARVEST totaled close to $3 million."

"Indeed, the allegations should have been addressed through the social worker. The social worker should have reported to DSWD more than a year earlier when she became aware of them if KAW’s statement about the first social worker’s knowledge in 2012 is accurate."

Karen Randall: “One of the most troubling [things about the incident at Sankey] is the chance of DSWD filing a legal report that could result in a
wider investigation. We would have preferred to handle things on our own but the government is
now involved.”

"That no earlier notice was provided to DSWD is evidenced by a legal filing on behalf of
SANKEY in which SANKEY’s own attorney asserted that the first notification DSWD received
of abuse at SANKEY was in fact from SANKEY itself via letter dated December 13, 2013."

Tom Randall: “I arrived in the Philippines on 11 December 2013. I wasted no time in conducting an
investigation regarding the alleged sexual assault on Redacted and redacted. I practically
interviewed all the girls in Sankey (except redacted who was mentally disabled)."

"The manner of investigation described by RANDALL reversed the typical role of victim and subject, with the
subject being believed on the spot, while the victim was interrogated for lying."

"Interviewing a potential victim in the presence of the
accused perpetrator should never occur and can only be expected to result in allegations being recanted regardless of their veracity."

DSWD reported that...wards disclosed incidents involving victimization of eight residents or former wards of SANKEY. Incidents disclosed included forcible kissing, fondling and fellatio. In addition, one of the girls disclosed being asked to massage TOTO for pay on the weekends.

"The [DSWD] committee’s fact-finding team visited SANKEY on March 4, 2014, to interview SANKEY
staff, but per DSWD, SANKEY’s legal counsel objected."

"The letter [from DSWD to Tom Randall on Mar 28, 2014] included a new allegation that was discovered through a visit to the local police station, undertaken as an alternative means to collect information after SANKEY refused to comply with interview requests."

"CCC leaders advised of conversations and interactions with members and attendees that felt
hostile as accusations of lies and coverup were received." (compare to justiceforsankey.com/documents/ccc-…)

"REDACTED advised reviewer that, after an update from CCC leadership in early 2019, he
realized PERFECTO LUCHAVEZ, to whom funds were being wired at RANDALL’s request,
was the same person as the accused perpetrator TOTO."

"REDACTED advised that he alerted
senior CCC leadership who immediately instructed that transfers to LUCHAVEZ cease."

"In addition, CCC transferred funds to attorneys in the Philippines to pay legal expenses for
RANDALL, LUCHAVEZ and LUCHAVEZ. CCC also transferred funds to pay the bond for
both of the LUCHAVEZES."

"...CCC understood Michigan law, where WORLD HARVEST was incorporated, to require payment for employees’ legal defense. She advised that in the confusion of the unexpected arrests, CCC only later recognized that RANDALL and the LUCHAVEZES were employed by separate entities."

"Per DINARDO, she contacted the purported author of an email RANDALL had provided to
support a narrative he had been telling. The purported author denied writing the email."

"Upon being questioned by DINARDO about the veracity of his statements, RANDALL acknowledged
he had written the statement, justifying that it was the codification of statements made to him verbally"

“On June 3, 2019 the Elders of Christ Community Chapel requested the resignation of Tom
Randall as a result of a clear violation of pastoral ethics. Tom Randall consequently tendered his
resignation as a member of the pastoral staff of Christ Community Chapel...”

"RANDALL represented as so genuine that reviewer temporarily believed RANDALL represented church leadership the first time he communicated to reviewer that she should not spend any more time on this matter."

"That conduct, which resulted in this report being hindered and delayed, reflects the obstruction of which RANDALL was originally accused.
As he admitted to DINARDO, RANDALL falsified information in the course of the review. That too is reflective of his original charges."

"For too long, church leadership’s belief in RANDALL was almost blind, save for the fruit they
saw when they accompanied him on ministry and missions opportunities."

"As a result, RANDALL’s spending and directives went essentially unchecked. Because he brought a reputation and significant assets to CCC, he essentially spent funds freely."

"What has been different at CCC than in other places is that it did not take a mass-media expose to prompt self-scrutiny by the church. A small minority of voices persisting in asking questions..."

"...and church leadership whose allegiance to Christ, the One who is Truth, was higher than their
allegiance to their own reputations, resulted in the church taking a closer look."

"And when this reviewer relayed that it looked like the Truth was different than the narrative originally told,
COFFEY said to “keep going.” DINARDO said to pursue Truth wherever it led. Elders said “thank you” in the face of bad news."

"Leader after leader showed transparency, exhibited humility and told this reviewer to have courage in speaking hard things to them."

High praise indeed.

Interesting that the report completely omits the women who were mistreated by Joe Coffey and Jim Colledge when they brought concerns about Sankey to CCC. It omits the evidence that Joe Coffey was not simply unaware of the truth.

And completely omits CCC's lack of response to the abuse allegations against Tom Randall himself. Almost everything in the review was already published on watch blogs or justiceforsankey.com. Independent & unbiased?

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