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Originally Posted by HERn
That dear couple left the GLA churches and joined with the LSM denomination in Fairborne. In my opinion I think the GLA churches were more healthy than the LSM-denomination churches.
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I knew the brother RR that started the LC in Fairborn. We were in Columbus together since 1977, as was Phil Comfort and many others. After Comfort was badly abused and publicly shamed by TC in 1981-82 while staying in Cleveland, he returned to Columbus and stepped down from the eldership and no longer ministered in the meetings. The rest of us attempted to proceed doing the best we could, though relations with TC were strained. Brother RR and the other Columbus leaders heard what happened to PC in detail, and all of them were quite disgusted with TC's behavior.
Then in 1985 TC launched into another public shaming campaign, this time with RR. TC, in an orchestrated group ministry rotation among the LC's, arranged for RR to speak in Cleveland after the Lord's Table meeting. TC slips into the back row just in time for RR to share, and promptly ridiculed him openly, with the goal to destroy RR's reputation in the region. RR remained in the Columbus area for awhile, and then eventually ended up in Fairborn (a Dayton, OH suburb) with a few others, to start a new LC. While WL was alive, TC frantically tried to prevent Fairborn from becoming a legitimate LC, recognized by LSM, and permitted by them to receive the Life Study Standing Order and attend their trainings. After WL passed, the BB's used Fairborn and a few other "rebel" LC's in the area to create inroads of support to undermine TC's authority in the region.
During the GLA Quarantines (circa 2006) I said repeatedly that many more regional leaders would have supported TC, except for the way he treated them. After working together with Cleveland for decades, Chicago joined LSM because their leader (Bill Barker) got publicly shamed by TC over a local matter involving the Spanish language work. Here's a full time senior worker in his 60's, leading a region of LC's (in IL, WI, IN, MN) getting majorly chastised over a minor matter in front of many younger brothers. This is how TC created enemies out of beloved brothers. This is how WL trained TC to rule the LC's.