Harold Lance's Statement of January 5, 2007
The Initial Statement
On December 20, 2006, Gailon Joy called Harold Lance to, among other things, inform him that Linda was traveling
over the holidays and would not return until January 4, 2007. On the evening of the very day of her
arrival back home, the ASI Executive Committee voted to pull out of the process. At 6:00 am (Pacific Time) the
next day, Harold sent out the following statement alerting everyone to that decision.
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-------- Original Message --------
| From: |
Harold Lance |
| To: |
Deb Young, Ron Christman,
Linda Shelton, Danny Shelton,
G. Arthur Joy, Bob, Gregory Matthews,
Walt Thompson |
| Subject: |
ASI action |
| Date: |
Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:04:54 -0800 |
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Greetings each one:
Last evening the ASI Executive Committee met to review ASIs' involvement in
issues involving 3ABN, Linda and Danny Shelton including our progress in the
process we initiated. ASI, in relevant part, took the following action:
"For approximately three months ASI has deeply considered its' involvement
in issues involving 3ABN in three special Executive Committee meetings
called for that purpose and multiple other contacts. On October 25, 2006 the
ASI Executive Committee took an action authorizing the exploration of the
possibility of its' involvement and asked Harold Lance to lead out in that
process. It now appears that it is not appropriate for ASI to be involved."
Harold Lance
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Hints of More to Come
Yet as Harold Lance's statement of January 24 makes clear, this was not the end
of the matter. On Tuesday, January 9, the ASI Executive Committee voted to authorize Harold Lance
to work on a lengthier statement, one that would violate Harold's own
confidentiality agreement
that he had imposed on all participants.
While that lengthier statement was worked on under extreme secrecy, there were slight hints that
something was afoot:
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-------- Original Message --------
| From: |
Walt Thompson |
| To: |
****** |
| Subject: |
Re: Urgent Message Re: 3-ABN |
| Date: |
Friday, January 12, 2007 3:11 PM |
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Dear ******,
Thank you for your e mail and interest and concern for 3abn.
We agree with your concerns and the need for an impartial and
open investigation. We had thought to have that accomplished
by a committee of ASI. That may or may not happen since the people
posting false allegations on the Internet have continued to bombard
the ASI leadership and thus, in effect, preventing them from
helping us out. We are still in discussion with them and hope
to hear some final word from them promptly. We are presently
attempting to identify a team of people who have credibility
with the church leadership who will come to 3abn and examine
the issues as you have suggested. That is in limbo while waiting
ASI decision. ...
As I have stated before, we have nothing to hide. We have attempted
through the years to do things right and transparently. We have
hidden nothing. We are all human and sometimes act like humans,
but are not guilty of immoral or illegal conduct in any thing
that I am aware of ....
...
Sincerely in Jesus' precious name,
Walt
Walter Thompson MD
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If ASI had pulled out on January 4, what else could they be considering doing on January 12, eight days later?
More specifically, in what further ways had 3ABN asked the ASI Executive Committee to consider "helping us out"?
A Major Discrepancy
3ABN board chairman Walt Thompson wrote above, "We agree with your concerns and the need
for an impartial and open investigation. We had thought to have
that accomplished by a committee of ASI." And yet his reply was in answer to the following communication:
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-------- Original Message --------
| From: |
****** |
| To: |
Walt Thompson |
| Subject: |
Urgent Message Re: 3-ABN |
| Date: |
Friday, January 12, 2007 1:18 PM |
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Walt Thompson, Board Chairman
Three Angel's Broadcasting.
Dear Dr. Thompson,
...
It is because of my own deep commitment to 3-ABN as the single
most vital part of our outreach in proclaiming the three angels'
messages that I feel compelled to write. For some time I have
been deeply disturbed and grieved by allegations of serious problems
at 3-ABN. More recently my concern has intensified to know that
these have become public and are daily spewed all over the world
by the internet.
...
... It is a tragedy to have the
terrible accusations published abroad. But damage done thus far
is miniscule compared with that which appears immanent. It seems
to me that the only way to resolve this problem is to have the
board undertake an impartial and open investigation of the serious
charges so transparent that no one has even apparent grounds
for a charge of white wash or manipulation.
...
May God bless,
...
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If Walt Thompson, Danny Shelton, the 3ABN Board, ASI, and Harold Lance had all decided that ASI
wasn't under any circumstances going to investigate "the allegations of serious problems" and "the
serious charges," why would Walt Thompson have replied to the
above, "We agree with ... the need for an impartial
and open investigation. We had thought to have that accomplished
by a committee of ASI"? It makes no sense.
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