April 15, 2003 – Bob Gempel sends a confidential memo to disciples of the International Churches of Christ “In my discussions with church leaders in recent weeks, I’ve learned that from a financial perspective, the corporate operation of HOPEworldwide is a mystery. They tell me that they have no idea how their money is being
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Various documents from the Orlando Church of Christ 2004 – Articles of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of the Central Florida Church, Inc. Spring 2003 Orlando Apology Letter 1998 – Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Central Florida Church, Inc.

Various documents from the Boston Church of Christ 1979 – The Lexington Church of Christ invites Kip McKean to become it’s pulpit and campus minister. 1981 – Church is renamed the Boston Church of Christ.  As the Boston Church begins sending out church plantings and reconstructions it becomes known as the Boston Movement. 1992 –
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“To ensure an open line of communication in the future, we wish to hold regular open meetings, so the elders and evangelist can be open to anything you would like to express. the British Commonwealth World Sector (“BCS”) and additional financial information will be posted on these sites. The Washington DC Church of Christ website
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“Not protecting the churches in San Diego and the Southwest. These churches have been incredibly sacrificial. We have sent hundreds of people as well as millions of dollars to support missions and ministries around the world. However, our churches have been hurt so that others could be built up. We have lacked people and funds
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“…the decision-making of The Nashville Church would be made in Nashville by the local church leadership and not by another church or “discipler” in another city. ” Nashville Church Apology Letter — Spring 2003 “There will be no more hierarchical control coming from another church toward us or from us toward another church. We do
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“Appearances and real issues of greed have now caused thousands to stumble and question our spirituality.” Henry Kriete Letter — Spring 2003

“The CSA Leadership has failed to communicate adequately with the churches in our group especially about the finances and administration of special contributions. ” CSA Leadership Letter — Spring 2003 “Their failure to provide an effective communication channel caused many disciples to feel excluded and disconnected from the administration and finances of the CSA World
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“We have no money to give to ICOC corporate and it will have to close down.” Steve Johnson Apology — Spring 2003 As of May 2005, International Churches of Christ, Inc. and International Churches of Christ Mission Society, Inc. are still active California corporations.

“Administrators have admitted to deceit in the name of compliance, and to ‘smoke and mirrors’ with the finances.” Henry Kriete Letter — Spring 2003

“On October 29th of 2002, as a result of requests by the elders, evangelists, and board of directors for greater accountability from the Central and South American World Sector Headquarters in California as to where special missions contribution money collected here in South Florida was being spent, it came to light that two of our
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“Another recent decision of the Board in regards to meeting local needs of our members is that the Church’s poor contribution will first be used for local benevolence prior to meeting any outside charitable organization support request. Currently, we are unaware of local benevolence requests from our membership that have gone unmet. However, we have
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“…to reconstitute the Board of Directors of the Boston Church of Christ, so that here will be more non-staff people serving on the board than staff members.” Boston Apology Letter – March 16, 2003

“…‘Official Kingdom’ issues include an enforced Special Contribution every year, ” Henry Kriete Letter — Spring 2003

“In addition to this, members were pressured to volunteer and raise additional funds for HOPE Worldwide.” Orlando Apology Letter — Spring 2003

“Some policy changes related to our expense reimbursement for ministry staff have already been approved…” Boston Apology Letter – March 16, 2003 Note that there was no disclosure of those changes or of the previous policies that were in need of changing. “And truthfully, have these retreat expenses and the like been made public? In detail?
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“Overall, we recognize a need to have a salary structure that will be commended by the congregation.” Boston Apology Letter – March 16, 2003 Translation: Our congregation does NOT commend the current structure.

“We apologize for having a financial process that has not been more open to non-staff evaluation and review… ” Boston Apology Letter – March 16, 2003

“Also in regard to finances we want to apologize to you for the fact that money was not always spent wisely.” Boston Apology Letter – March 16, 2003

“Additionally, we recognize that there needs to be a careful review of staff compensation.” Boston Apology Letter – March 16, 2003 The only possible reason for reviewing such is that the levels of compensation are objectionably high or low. In this case, the public complaints were that they were too high. This reflects a direct infraction
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“Funds from mission contributions collected in the U.S. will be used exclusively for mission work and for administrative and ministry support of such work, and the combined costs of administrative and ministry support will be reduced to 20% or less of the total amount collected.” CSA Leadership Letter — Spring 2003

“In past years, the Board also provided information as to where the Special Mission Contribution was going to be used. For example in 2002, for the special missions contribution 16 multiples or 80% of the goal went to BCS, 2 multiples or 10% of the goal went to ACR, 2 multiples or 10% of the
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“At times, we allowed the financial culture of the late ’90s to influence our decisions more than biblical principles, and for this we are very sorry” Boston Apology  Letter – March 16, 2003

ICOCinvestigation.com has found many of the apology letters that were written by ICOC leaders after the famous “Henry Kriete Letter” of 2003.  Among the important things revealed are the numerous statements from the churches that they would

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