Supportive Comments from Colleagues: Into Integrity

 Into Integrity FAST
Supportive Comments from Colleagues

Part One (6-26 June 2019) and Part Two (6-26 December 2019)

Unsolicited comments, shared with permission

The purpose of the Into Integrity FAST is to call attention to--and confront--the lack of disclosures by specific organizations/leaders/people affected by the international Nordic Capital Investment KB fraud (NCI) as well as the related, wrongful dismissals directed at Kelly and Michele. Join with us in FAsting for genuine contrition and STriking for resolute action within the Church Mission Community (CMC).

Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness. Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the exploitation of people.

Part  One (6-26 June 2019): Supportive Comments

--Thank you for all the podcasts. Thank you for your courage in standing for the truth….May God bless and honour you…The authoritarian style of leadership seems to be a serious problem in many Christian organizations and churches. When problems are covered over and no questions allowed, accountability rests with other leaders who may be complicit in the problem. Boards seem to lack the courage to do what is right. No wonder trust in leadership is so eroded and gifted staff walk away. My condolences to you both. May God grant you special grace.

--Well done in this fast. May the Lord help and strengthen you.

--Thank you for all the podcasts. Thank you for your courage in standing for the truth. The verse you quote yesterday - Zechariah 8:16,19 - is so appropriate. “These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord… “Therefore love truth and peace.” May God bless and honour your commitment to stand and may He answer our prayers. And now may you be blessed and protected in recovery. Many blessings and much love to you.

--Praying for you, Kelly and Michele as you undergo this fast and hunger strike. Praying that the Lord will be moved to use it powerfully. Praying for peace and for a greater perception of the LORD and His ways.

--We have accompanied you in this situation and really pray that the Lord will bring healing and restoration.

--I’m thinking and continuing to pray with you in your fast and your call to action.  I wanted to share something the Lord has put on my heart, I wrote it today…There are times when we need to take a stand.  It may not be pleasant.  It may even get nasty.  You may be a recipient of malice or labeled a trouble maker.  Yet with humility and prayerful action your stand will mean more in the end. The reward to faithfulness is more work, more influence, and greater faith in the Holy One, Matthew 25: 14-30.  I hope this is an encouragement to you.

--Thanks for what you are doing in standing for integrity….Thank you for your tenacity on behalf of righteousness. Praying the Lord encourages and strengthens you during this time

--Courage on your path - this is a brave undertaking for a noble cause. Love and light,

--I believe that this is making a significant difference in attention to the matter of moral integrity over moral bankruptcy.  I believe this approach is making deeper inroads than before, both from your end of fasting/striking and the truth that I have not missed a single podcast.  I marinade in them.  You are not just speaking to the choir but tympanically resonating and drawing out precisely what my soul yearns most for.  It is in direct harmony with yours, my friend.  Keep this up.  May the Lord rejoice in speaking your name among the saints that have gone before us.

--Thanks for what you are doing in standing for integrity. It feels, as you send the updates, that a breakthrough is coming. Thank you for your tenacity on behalf of righteousness. Praying the Lord encourages and strengthens you during this time. That you see with your eyes the correction of injustice. Bless you both.

Part Two (6-26 December 2019): Supportive Comments

--I just want to let you know that I fasted and prayed on the topic of into integrity today. You raised an important issue in our life and ministry. I checked my own issue and other people’s issues in our [national] context as I prayed throughout the day. Thank you for bringing out the issue based on your past experience. I understand your experience was bitter, but that caused you to think deep and wide about the issue. I hope and pray that God will encourage you all the more shining His healing rays on your life and ministry (Malachi 4:2). Amen. May God continue to bless you and yours!

--Thank you for this update! I read through your transcript of the podcast and appreciate your deep and specific prayer tremendously. I will be joining in prayer from my home. Let's take full advantage of the digital world that allows us to connect and support each other, even if from afar! Grace and peace,

--Truly remedial, redemptive, relational podcast series. Each one of them caused me deep reflections for which I'm exceptionally grateful to listen to.You are both in my thoughts and continued prayers. Wanting that the joy of the Lord shine brightly in every direction that you look….My love and prayers continue in the duration of this fast and cry out to God for justice and a clear path for all Christians to greater freedom and victory for you, the others that lost so much, and those that succumbed to it all….Have a very merry celebratory time of our Lord's birth with joyful entry into this new year.Peace and Grace in this eleventh-hour, my friends.

--Thanks, Fasting periodically to stand with you....

--Praise God for you both as you stand for integrity in the Christian world. I have lived upholding this value in life and ministry. God Bless. Praying. 

--I pray that God gives you grace and strength and you continue to speak boldly on the issues facing the local and global church, and the wider community of humanity of which we are all apart. While I don’t always have time to immediately read your emails, blog posts and notices, I always keep them and come back to them later. It is an encouragement to me to be reminded of the larger issues which face us. Thank you for your steadfastness and faithfulness.  ad majorem Dei gloriam

--Thank you so much for your podcasts and for pursuing fraud in missions organizations. I think you are doing a wonderful work by not letting go of this!  Thank you.

--Thank you very much for your perseverance. May the Lord move the people in YWAM etc. to action and make us all walk in integrity. With warm greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

--People prayed for you in community group tonight. Love you so much and so proud of all you are doing and standing for. We talked about persecution and during prayer time at the end I brought this up as a different facet of persecution that is maybe not often thought about or even considered din these terms, but experienced in the first world and with the enemy attacking from within.  More people will be praying through this week. 

--I am standing with Kelly O’Donnell and Michele O’Donnell. Through fasting and praying to confront and resist the spiritual forces that lead to corruption and abuses that get covered up, particularly in Church and Mission Communities, and specifically the lack of accountability and cover up that occurred by YWAM in the Nordic Capital Investment KB Fraud. As Christ followers we must stand for integrity and truth being brought out of dark corners- walls not just whitewashed, cups not only clean on the outside. It takes incredible courage and trust in God to expose fraud, abuse, corruption, injustice and unrighteousness into the light and I stand with Kelly and Michele in their perseverance through years of integrity and love, calling out the truth and peacefully calling for real reconciliation which must begin with an acknowledgment of these unjust actions and abuses.

Continue in courage and faith and peace, to address and call these sins into the light so that God can fully heal our community. We love you and appreciate your deep commitment to confronting injustice and sin/ evil - and living with integrity with a heart to see relationships healed, restored and reconciled. I'll be committing to doing a part of the water fast with you.

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 “These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord…Therefore love truth and peace.” Zechariah 8:16,19