The PCC Today KPs, Speak Up! TH is Ready for You
For all Christians sitting on the fence while the Church is being raped, and especially for those in the Church Committees, who have the duty and the power to act in its defence, but choose to look the other way, Paul has some chilling words in Romans 17:15
Truth House never expected what it is doing for the Church to go unchallenged. Such an expectation would have been naïve. Those who have hijacked the Church cannot afford to lose all their illicit gains without a fight. So, Truth House has been waiting for the Key Players of the hold-up to put their strongest foot forward in their defence. We expected them to stand up and refute the revelations we have made about their misdeeds.
All they have done so far is whimper about us fighting them on Social Media. Meanwhile, everybody knows that, beyond the social media, we have challenged them in the mainstream media – on radio, on television and in print. We are still waiting for any of the real players among them to confront us one-on-one on any public platform, so that the public can judge who the enemy of the Church is. But they have kept their mouths in their armpits, never going beyond calling us names from the pulpits. Well, that is understandable. They know that facing us head-on
in public would be suicidal for them. They don’t want to allow us to unleash a strong breeze that would make the world see the chicken’s naked backside.
The only aspect of good manners these people seem to have learnt is that you don’t talk with food in your mouth. So, the big culprits of the great racket seal their mouths, no matter how much you nudge them, hoping Truth House will get tired and leave them alone to continue enjoying their loot.
In the meantime, it is some of their apprentice scammers who keep yelping like puppies against TH. These ones are being used like cannon fodder – to provoke Truth House into wasting its firepower on them, while the big crooks are at the table eating.
But they should know that Truth House is not so unfocused as to waste its time and energy swatting flies and mosquitoes, while elephants and buffaloes are plundering the farm.
Talking about puppies yelping, many of you may have listened to a recent audio on the social media – a phone conversation in which a certain Ndang, (an apology for a pastor), viciously berated one of our brothers, Simon of Ntaghem, for belonging to Truth House which he described as agents of darkness and division. You could tell this fellow was anything but a pastor, judging from his utterances on the phone to somebody he claims to have been his Christian.
To him and his like, let’s just say that the real business we of TH have on our hands is so serious that we can’t stop to throw stones at every stray puppy that yelps at us as we pass. Good enough, Brother, Simon, adequately and very politely put that phoney pastor in his place in that phone conversation. We know his record in Ntakekah and Manda, and hope he will mend in Bafang. TH has its eyes on him and his likes who believe that a black cassock and white clerical collar are cover enough for scammers and impostors. Presbyterian Christians are becoming too woke for the comfort of such pastors. If you are one of them, it is time to either repent and seek
God’s face to put you on the path of real ministry, or else, just go out and look for a scamming job elsewhere.
TH Dividing the Church?
And that is where our Ndang friend may have been right in saying Truth House
was dividing the Church. But it is not division like the one we have lived in the last ten years – not division between regions and tribes; not between the so-called winning team and the rest; not between Key Players and the nobodies; not between those who are unconditionally loyal to the so- called grand master and those who dare to express opinions contrary to his edicts.
That, unfortunately, is the kind of division which is now glaringly on display in the Miki PCC – or should we say in Fonki’s third reign. We had seen the tension in the air when, as Moderator and Synod Clerk, Fonki and Babila had to concelebrate Rev. Mokoko’s wife’s funeral in Buea. Fortunately, the Very Rev. Nyansako ni Nku was present and stepped in to serve them communion, thus averting a scandal and a sacrilege. And many informed Christians heaved a sigh of relief when it was announced that communion was limited only to the immediate family. Fancy that!
Christians are happy not to receive the Lord’s Supper because the two heads of the Church are at daggers drawn!
At recent events in Bonamoussadi and Bonaberi, the bitter division was again on display. In one, Christians watched in shock as a pastor openly rejected an offer of a handshake from another. In another, did everybody see senior pastors walk away from the Lord’s Table when their colleagues of the KP clique were officiating? Is it a lie that many of the long victimized pastors and their KP oppressors can no longer shake one another’s hands, hold a conversation or just look one another in the eye?
And no one can pretend that this division is the doing of Truth House. If Truth House is bringing any division, it is
• Between bona fide Presbyterians who want to see their Church values restored, and those who are ganging up to privatize and exploit the Church;
• Between those whose only Lord and Master is Jesus Christ, and those who worship a tin-god in the person of a scammer they call their grand master.
But there is also the unintended but likely division between those who decide to stand up and fight against the evil they see in the Church, and those who prefer to fold their arms and watch the evil thrive, either because of some position they hope to get or some amenity they fear losing.
For all Christians sitting on the fence while the Church is being raped, and especially for those in the Church Committees, who have the duty and the power to act in its defence, but choose to look the other way, Paul has some chilling words in Romans 17:15:
“He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord”.
And Ezekiel adds a dire warning:
“When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn them … I will hold you accountable for their blood.” Ezekiel 3:18
Tourism or Evangelism?
The Moderator has just ended what he calls a pastoral visit to the United States during which he is reported to have inaugurated a congregation in Boston, and celebrated ten years of the PCC’s existence in Beltsville. The information we have is
that:
• The community is without its place of worship despite spending thousands of dollars on rent every year. So what was the Moderator inaugurating? A prayer cell or a congregation?
• that many members have left the assembly because of the leadership’s alleged misappropriation of funds;
• that a plot bought for a church building has been neglected to facilitate financial mismanagement;
• that the Moderator left the USA without giving the runaway members a chance to tell their side of the story. So, borrowing from his predecessor’s playbook, Moderator Miki chose to simply decree that they go back to whatever they ran away from. That attitude seems very much in consonance with his refusal to meet with Truth House. It seems to confirm fears that, like his predecessor, he prefers autocratic rule to governance based on dialogue.
By the way, the congregations in the entire diaspora put together may not number up to a thousand. That the Moderator visited them this early in his mandate is a laudable exhibition of pastoral care. But does the fact of pointing out wrongs in the Church disqualify 2000 members of Truth House from getting even two hours of their Moderator’s attention?
In one of his speeches, the Rt. Rev. Miki indicated that he went to the US to rest. Is foreign travel for rest affordable for the head of a Church that owes millions in salary arrears to teachers and other workers, and whose average pastor is paid a meagre 100,000 CFA or so a month?
Between his election and effective takeover as Moderator, Rev. Miki travelled the US, Dubai and Europe under the wing of his predecessor, who now appears to be his confirmed mentor. We hear he will be off to Copenhagen by August 3. So it seems that he is perpetuating the status quo – a globetrotting leadership with an opulent lifestyle in stark contrast with the living standards of the grassroots, whose sweat funds the Church.
No sooner had the Moderator returned from his American trip than he was seen visiting a construction site in Ntamulung for the second time in less than six months, and hailing progress on what he described as a project of faith. Such projects are a commendable sign of the material growth of the Church. But how much attention is being paid to its spiritual growth? Is the Moderator insensitive to the fact that the faith in the Church is dwindling while we multiply material projects of faith? Does he know the oppressive circumstances surrounding the raising of funds for these projects of faith? Has he seen the scandalous pictures we have all seen, of child labour being used in the decking of the Ntamulung construction, which is supposed to have been given to a contractor?
So, finally, will the growth of the PCC in Miki’s remaining four and a half years be measured in projects of concrete, metal and glass, rather than in the nourishing of the fruits of the spirit? That’s exactly what we saw in Fonki’s ten years? Projects like those took centre stage because they opened avenues for kickbacks and theft through overbilling. Does the Church not deserve a break with that kind of management? And you who just finished reading this, it’s time to choose between being an actor or a spectator.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” Edmund Burke
The PCC Today: KPs, Speak Up! TH is Ready for You
