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 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!!!
G. Arthur Joy
AUReporter
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