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Yes there are many complex spiritual problems in our days' What do you think about these leaders who are maintaining the mess. Unthinkable thinking.
I have noticed so many clergies commented on the formation of Upstate New York Conference. For may years, Our family tried to get some attention from the clergy members to our experiences in the Korean United Methodist Church and Institute, New York City. We dud did not get much responses, although there were some meaningful ones. During 2006 Annual Conference I demonstrated on the Hempstead Turnpike to express our help from the bishop and others. But we had no response. Of course, we are not white enough. But my understanding is that UMC seems to be more politically oriented than religiosity as I noticed many comments on the formation of the new conference.

I have attached a message that could be a good topic of summons, which vividly reveals how sick is one of your member churches - reflection of a moral insensitivity. You leaders should find out 1) Who are the leaders of these wayward clergies? 2) Who is handling the communications in the UMC communications and at the Annual Conference level - Messages do not appear to get any attention from the high level? 3) Establish a problem solving system. 4) Find why the church paid in support of Steve H. Park's false murder charges against me and my son and the murder trial at NYS Supreme Court, Mineola? 5) Who met with Judge F. Danna Winslow to confirm the murder charge was related with the church affairs at an ex parte conference in violation of law and church rules? 6) Find out Rev. Won Tae Cha's direct, active involvement in all the legal cases. 7) Find out Rev. Chul Woo Chang's relation with Rev. Cha as he blocks the audit of the abused church trust funds. 8) Why the bishop, superintendent, and other clergies do not tell who were at the ex parte conference?

We suffered enough from the church. But the problem is the church's including some leaders - eventually all the clergies read the horror story if kept quiet:

This is a stinging Gospel message to all Christians, we believe. If you apply a secular standard, UMC could impeach some of the involved. I have written this note in honor of our Jesus Christ and the Korean cultural heritage.
Thank you very much. God bless you.----------












Korean United Methodist Church and Institute
633 West 115th Street, New York

RE: THE JESUS ISSUES TO BE RAISED
FOR THE MEMBERSHIP TRAINING

Dear Chairmen and the church officers:

Greetings in honor of our Jesus Christ!!

I pray that the staff training session would be successful for a spiritual renewal of our church.

In this occasion, please let me present to you some of the customary issues to be considered by the church leaders at this special training session.

Especially, the chairmen and other church leaders should consider this presentation in order for the church to prevent the repetition of disgraceful barbaric events occurred in the past.

Our civility in the church management must be upgraded in honor of our Christian values from the present status of moral distress- positive realization of self-respect.

The United Methodist Church established the Wesley parliamentary tradition in the United States. However, according to our experience, the church often falls into one party system from a parliamentary one.

In order to improve, it is desirable for the church conference to include the following items of the conventional proceedings to the future meeting;


IMPROVEMENT FOR AGENDA

Rule Books: The clerk should carry Book of Discipline and Robert’s rules of order (Parliamentary rules) for the church meetings so that he could refer to them whenever needs a new information on rules during the meeting for the orderly proceedings.

Minutes; According to the rules, any mistaken or missing records on the past minutes could be corrected or revised without time limit. Our church minutes often were doctored to misrepresent Jesus facts, ignoring “A fact is the truth.”

The minutes in the past often published on Sam Mul, a church periodical. The formats were in conformation of the rules, representing the factual proceedings at each meeting. But recent years, the format of the minutes apparently lost its civility, reflecting the poor perception of the church leadership.

It is advisable that the minutes well dressed accordingly, bound and stored in the church library as the historical records as others do. Any member could refer to the minutes whenever needed for church business or for one’s own interest.

All church documents traditionally required to be preserved permanently, although the New York State document retention law for the church as an in cooperated body requires them to be preserved at least six year.

Communications: In the beginning of each meeting, the clerk tries to present if any letters and communications that the church received since the previous meeting. Thus, the conference could learn the new issues to be consider at the meeting.

Unfinished business: Bring up any unfinished business at the previous meeting (unfinished agenda) for further proceedings for a proper resolution of the particular issue at the current session.

Church meetings are always open and any member can participate in it except dealing with specific privacy matters.

Point of order; it should be honored without hindrance
if it is related with the rules. It should not be denied arbitrarily which wouldn’t dignify the church’s image but a factional indulgence as usually done in this church. A fair revision is needed accordingly.


THE CHURCH LEADER’S JESUS-OUT PROCESS
DESTRUCTION OF THE CHURCH PEACE

There seems to be many new faces among the officers who need to learn the complicated recent history of the church that would assist them to improve the conditions faithfully.

Since Rev. Won Tae Cha’s appointment, all of the church meetings held improperly to date in violation of the church rules, parliamentary rules and even moral principles. It is the genesis of the spiritual downfall that was a Jesus out of the church process.

1) Assault against me in public by Rev. Cha, Young So Kim and his underlings with the false accusation of embezzlement, (7/3/96). 2) Defamation and slander in public by Dr. Kyung Hee Shin with the obnoxious obscenities. Her intonation of obscenities in American sentiment sounded like, “Dam you!! Who are you? Dam you!! What are you? Dam you son of ... What are you?” etc. 3) Purge of elders by the rapid deployment of mobs with ELM assistance. 4) The group assaults against the choir conductor in the church with accusations that he did not support the pastor’s policy. Even he visited the conductor’s residence and threatened him questioning, “Who is behind you?” – like a terror in the church. It was well known event, Dr. Choi’s wife openly cried at the scene when she saw the horrible attack the innocent choir conductor, according to information. Thus, the fine choir destroyed.

It significant to note that their dedicated services were really a good contrast to today’s paid choirs.

His agents obstructed our favorable building deal with Columbia and stuck to its place as it is now 25 ft wide. It was a prelude for the looting.

All of the malice could not have been occurred without premeditation. The assaulters should have been arrested according to the law at the time.

Please check if any of the champions are live and well among the church officers in today’s training session, they should be a good spiritual cure for all of you for the occasion. If they are courageous enough they should be able to tell the true story.

During this turmoil, many good members left the church in anger and disgrace.
Some recruiters added to the small congregation from the status seekers.

CHURCH FINANCED BRUTAL LITIGATION
BISHOP’S INTERVENTION

As of June, 2000, Bishop Lyght removed him from the
position to end his damaging drama to the Church in violation of the Christian principles.

However, he had left a strong network behind him who had the control of the church trust funds. They initiated three lawsuits against us to scapegoat in retaliation with the full financial support of the church, in other words, the church united with them for the litigation which was to cover up the looting of the church money and to justify the unholy horror drama.

The church did not retain the attorney but Young So Kim and Steve Park, according to the attorney’s court testimony.

Practically we were under the torture by the so called the Korean United Methodist Church and Institute and its members.

Among the cases, Rev. Cha and five members
sued us for $4,000,000 damages. According to information, they were going to use this money for the church building.

Their attorney was under the heavy interrogation on
the witness stand for more than two hours during the sanctions hearings. Often the judge reminded him his perjured testimonies –many falsehoods disclosed by them. Eventually they were punished for the frivolous lawsuit and contempt of the court. Sadly the church paid for their legal fees, sanctions and fines with the stolen church money without any authority although the church had nothing to do with the lawsuit. Just they got a free lunch again because of their illicit affiliation with the money laundry machine in the trustees.

Some of the power hungry church officers apparently have collaborated with them as the running dogs, scavingering through the
gavages dump to pick up any tasty piece to sooth their appetite and to aid this conspiracy. These characters are still in power for the church function, tactically navigating through all the way of scandalous journey through the years.

In another case, Steve Park sued me and my son for
$4,000,000 damages. He charged us, among other things, that we were going to kill Mr. Steve Park, his lawyer, his family and other church members. They successfully placed us on the trial at a full jury, in a Korean Christian cruelty, at the New York State Supreme Court, Nassau County.

Not to mention the false affidavits by Taliban like
Crooked deponents who tried destroy us in the name of Korean Christ. I do not believe there is any other Christ like that.

It is a good chance not to miss to mention the activist Mr. Jung Kul Kim who was one of the initiators of the litigation with his supporting fake affidavits. He was so active for restoration of the trashed elders. One occasion I tried to express for a better quality elders at his meeting. Mrs. Rhim stopped my free speech on the podium. I noticed she was following the hand signal by Mrs. Chul Woo Chang, suggesting to stop my speech. Her hand signal must have been timely pre-arranged one not without the consent by the pastor and other church planners, Mr. P.K. Kim was with her. Other young men were in motion at the moment. What a bankrupt church leadership is this? Aren’t they a mob who was hungry for the trashed eldership? Don’t you think so?

Mr. Kim could tell to the session his side of the story.

Rev. Won Tae Cha, Young So Kim, Duck Joo Chun,
Un Bong Yoo and others used come to court in saintly
support of the trials.

Again it was nothing but a Taliban like terror show
by the Wayward Korean church mobs which was nothing but like vicious stupidity of Korean Christians as if they were true believers of God. Among them there were a fake Columbia Univ. MBA and a fake physician in action – pathological reflection of the faith quality of poor characters in the Korean church who needed Lord’s rescue mission.

EX PARTE CONFEENCE
AND SAINTLY SILENCE

During the murder trial, Honorable Judge F. Dana Winslow on the bench suggested that the church officers from the episcopacy or the annual conference intervened as if the murder charges were related with the church affairs, which was absolutely false, The judge seemed to have been deceived by some one from the bishop’s office as such. In other words, the church supported Park’s murder charge against us was true. Again the church scandalously paid his legal fees too. Remember that money was donated to God, not for Steve Park to sue the innocent family as the mass murders.

Can you imagine how the church officers
use the donated money to cruelly torture the innocent family in the name of Christ and in the name of the Korean United Methodist Church and Institute?

You may ask your children to qualify the question. Do you think Christ is that kind of dummy? Can you say Amen for their actions? Don’t you think they are morally or mentally sick?

If you have any sense to be a Korean tribe, reexamine the moral
quality of your ethnic heritage if it has any moral value to justify the church financed murder charges against the innocent parties.

Fore more than two years, we are trying to learn who so
informed the judge from the bishop’s office, but the bishop seems to stonewalling. By this time the superintendent Noel Chin Pastor Chang should have known the truth. But they are stonewalling too. If their God is not dead, why any of these God’s servants could not tell the truth as it is. Why not? Don’t you think it is their hellish problem to resolve?

You have the right to question them because you are the officers of this historic church and it is paying the apportionment to support the episcopacy. A church in Long Island once stopped paying the apportionment because the bishop removed their dedicated pastor for more than 30 years for this actively growing church because his age reached at the retirement age, 65, according to the church rule, although the congregation wanted his continued ministry.

Thus, if you have the will to serve the church, you can challenge the bishop why he keeps a silence without revealing who confirmed Steve Park’s murder charge against us as church related. Of course it is all depends upon who has such a sensitive Christian conviction without moral ambivalence. A bishop is obliged to follow the righteous way of Christian principle. Pray God for your ability of self government of the church in good faith.

Can you talk that straight to his highness?

Alas! So far up to date, these clergies kept a silence in saintly manner.

Thus, I can dare to say, they are preaching on the pulpit with a bogus faith – hypocrisy. What is your comment?
You should not be in the same boat if you believe in Christ although he was not smart enough to escape to live from the religious mobsters.

ABUSE OF THE TRUST FUND

Yet his mentor seems to have a strong grip on you and other affairs for this church and for the Annual conference which is very dangerous signs of the decay of Christianity. If that is the case, don’t you think one bishop is enough for the Korean community to destroy this historic church? Why does a church need any more such spiritually inept Korean bishops? Where is Jesus justice for our historic injured church or the poor guys like us?

During the court testimony, Park stated $100,000 taken out of the
trust fund to gift Rev. Cha, although the bishop said not so advised. But it is not known the actual amount they spent for him and others. According to information there has been missing more than $600,000 from the church money.

Luckily and bravely, when Ms. Kwang Hee Kim became BOT
chairwoman, she smartly and courageously started to restore the abandoned church money from the NY State. But these 9 trustee members seemed to have no Knowledge what was the difference between the actual amounts before and after the abandonment of the trust accounts.

So far she was the only one who tackled the stupid problem wisely
to recover the trustees’ abandoned money. She demanded an audit the church finance from 2000, (7/15/2007). But Rev. Chang is stalling it. It is questionable what is going on the demand and its struggle to block it.

An official audit should be able to determine the facts and the
moral fate of the church. Stalling the audit Rev. Chang is not faithfully serving God and the church. We come down to this low so as to cheat even God’s money as did in this crooked way?

According to the church rules, the officers at today’s
training ate responsible to find out the facts and correct the inequities done to the church and its members if you believe in Christ and love the church.


REPAYMENT OF EMBEZZLEMENT

Attorney General’s investigation and the court
discovered many irregularities and advised the trustees to recover the illegally used church money from the abusers. Do not cover up the abuses any more!! Enough is enough.

Our historic church should be liberated from the
capitulation of the ghost of the mentor alien to the Christian values.

The trustees in a position to pay attention if the embezzled $70,000 has been made regular repayments to the church, in accordance to the civil authority’s order. (But the repayment is not tax deductible). According to the NY State law, all the church monies are under the supervision of the trustees.


INVESTIGAE THE CORRUPTION
FOR CORRECTION

Rev. Chang received valid informative letters and Valuable court
papers from me for his consideration. Thus he is well informed about the painful tragic events occurred against us in the church under the leadership of Rev. Cha. Tactfully the information adversely seems to have been applied to the factual circumstances, which presents severe moral questions.

You could get the information from him and all the
responsible church officers should openly investigate the past and current events of the church in good faith. Make the findings public and correct the wrongdoings.

We can learn the way of brilliant reasoning from the
confirmation hearings at the congress in the current session how they analyze the events and decide accordingly.

Even cheating little social security payment for the nannies disqualifies the cabinet positions. Is that a poor judgment? Can’t they learn how to cover up from the cheating clergies offering the sacraments with immunity?

The church must let the defective leader stop dirty tricks dealing with the church affairs behind scenes without open discussion, demonizing the innocent members.

CHURCH PROPERTIES

Any letters or papers a pastor received during the tenure in the office
belongs to the church but to the individual. On that matter any books, Computer or software to the church office belong to the church. In the past, when the pastor transfers out, the church items were transferred out too.

The church properties need to be faithfully protected.
For example, the church as this old should have an enough book collection in the church library.

During this training period, the church officers, who
are eager to loyally serve our Lord, should make a moral re-armament of the church as a Christian church, not just as a Korean church, through an analytical study or content analysis of the insane church events since the appointment of Rev. Won Tae Cha to date in light of Jesus’ teaching.

Rev. Chang was informed about the church problems
When he was in the Plainview church in our area. Mrs. Sone visited him to receive counseling on the church problems. According to information he and other Korean clergies held a special diner party for the deposed Rev. Cha. It appeared to be a racially motivated church politics within UMC.

Evidently, with this knowledge, Rev. Chul Woo Chang openly stated at his inauguration that “Rev. Cha is my mentor” as a slap of our face – an insult to the victims falsely accused as the murders and to the disgraced members as well.

I hope that you officers could get good information from the papers and letters sent to him, which belong to the church.

Also, you ask Mr. Won Tae Cha, Young So Kim, Steve Park and others to produce the court papers and related information to the church for an open discussion.

Please let have an open discussion on the wrongs done to the church and the fellow member in the past and take adequate corrective measures for the wellbeing of the church and our community image.

Blindly following the false propaganda is not a wise Christian way of church living. Christians should always be able to analyze one’s deeds and should repent if any sins committed. It could apply to the group like you too.

Now you are responsible church officers to lead the
Church into the right direction like the beacon of the church. We must have the self-respect and dignity as Christians. Let open our hearts to evaluate our deeds in the light of the Biblical teaching. Did you get a vision?

AUDIT
JESUS-IN PROCESS

It is the most urgent first step of your moral task to be
taken care of now to clean up the financial abuses and other inequities, that is the only open way to the Jesus in process of the church.

On 6/25/06, following the UMC annual conference, according to the advice of Rev. Dr. Luonne Rouse, we met with Superintendent Noel N. Chin at his Inter Church Center Office in the morning. At the time Rev. Chul woo Chang appeared too. We expected to hear from the super about his opinion on the money scandals at Korean United Methodist churches and institute.

But, surprisingly, he did not say anything and I explained to them for more than two hours how much Rev. Won Tae Cha and his cronies persecuted us in order to loot the church money. I demanded that the looters should return the abused money to the trustees. Rev. Chul Woo Chang responded in defense, “Demand of the return of the money is anti church and anti Christ.”

But, morally, it sounded like his spitting onto the face of Christ.

Again, it made me recall what he said at his inaugural, “Rev. Won Tae Cha is my mentor.”

On July 15, 2007, the church meeting passed Ms. Kwang Hee Kim’s proposed audit from year 2000 but excluding Korean CPA in order to avoid any conflict of interest.

At the moment, Rev. Chang said “he would do it with two other people.” But, since then, he is stalling it up to now more than one year and one half. Rather he is ridiculing us saintly manner as if our demand of the return of the abused fund as” anti church and anti Christ.” How come?

On 12/14/08, at the church meeting, a resolution passed to recover the abused trust fund as proposed by Mr. Hyun Joong Kim, that was long overdue since Assistant Attorney General Nathan Courtney’s order to recover them. But he delayed it up to now in an excuse that it would be costly for the church to recover.

Now the church has spoken loudly again that “the demand of return of the abused money to the church is “not Anti church or anti Christ”. It is right thing to do for the church officers to recover God’s money from the abusers.

Now his opposition to the return of the abused fund found to be morally wrong as a pastor as the church formally legally, rightfully, demanded to recover them.
Now the audit is imperative. It should be done as soon as possible without further delay as it matters with the image of this historic church.

On 2/01/2009, At the church meeting, the trustees’ financial report omitted the decisions on the audit for the recovery of the abused fund. That was why I noticed the chairman Joon Ki Kim, “Point of order” to express my opinion on the issues. He openly denied it in contrary to the parliamentary rules without any question. As I told him the church meetings are open meeting. It is not proper ignoring Point of order in the midst of these scandals. He might not have full information on the past church events as he was often out of the country for some time.

Let us remember again. Our mentor should be our Christ. The people’s army trained and Sun Tzu’s Art of War expert Won Tae Cha can not be our mentor in any means because he violated every aspect of the Christian principles, my civil rights in the name of the church for greed of money in malice and immensely disgraced our congregation.

THE SENSE OR NON SENSE

Get the Sanctions hearing, transcripts $1300. It will give you true of face of bogus faith of the church officers who perjured what he did for the church against the felonious defendants who was an example of the crucifixion of the innocent church members by the saintly bogus church members, openly lied to the judge who did not know what actually going on. On at the hearing of one session, the Judge said, “The church is not an empty building.” What the judge noticed from the bogus testimony that the church had no spiritual leadership; it was just an empty building. One time the judge said, “I grew up like you in the church environment, bit I did not do this way.”

At one point, Rev. Mark Kim as a church representative as it was a bogus one as he did no appreciate the dirty condition of the church, tried to make a senseless remark as if it was not properly set. So the judge blamed him, are you talking like that although you are speaking better English among them. In order words, your words don’t make sense, out of line as if he come to this heathens jungle to demonstrate his Christian faith in cloud after all this series of drama. It was a non sense moment which immaturity unable to grasp the seriousness of the broken actions by so called church officers.

BISHOP PARK SHOULD BE ABLE TO
PARTICIPATE IN THE RENEWAL TASK

If the church officers are unable to govern the church affairs under the church rules – inability of self-government –Jesus in process, try to take the following steps as the last resort.

The bishop, Rev. Won Tae Cha, Young So Kim, Steve Park, Kyung He Shin and others should be able to participate in an open forum for renewal and repent the past wrong doings before God for the church.

Please let me advise you, “Meditate for a moment” to morally analyze the scandalous church events supported by so called church members if they were correct. You as the members of the associated body, Korean United Methodist Church and Institute are morally, legally responsible for the recovery of the abused fund because it is an in-cooperated legal body under the New York State law.

Thus, the cruelty of the bogus mass murder charges against the
innocent members should be officially declared as “The church’s mistake financing the bogus charge by the Korean church United Methodist Church and Institute and its members.”

And the church should offer an apology to the family as it
financed the trial for the false mass murder charges to send them to the jail.

Unless the satanic mess cleaned up timely manner,
the wicked old devil would come back from time to time to remind you the church officers, reminding “We nicely cheated you dummies for the church financed crooked shows.”

Therefore, the honor relies upon you the church officers’ volition in
good faith to clean up the old dirties if you can smell.
Of course, if you don’t, don’t have to care about them.

RE-ENACT THE SATANIC DRAMA?

However, the mentor business seems to be live and
well at this moment of time among the Korean church system with the hand picked leaders. It could re-ignite the hellish fire again against the enemy. You could re-enact the series of torturous litigation against your enemies as if the violators of God’s rule as did by Rev. Cha’s group.

Any church or clergy could employ this tactic to control or to
destroy any church if there is a will because American legal system allows any church could sue any enemy with church money whether right or not. As such, any enemy could be punished to be bankrupt and tortured.

Never mind there would be the supporting church hierarchies and scavenger clergies thirsty to power play. Now the church seems to show such an ominous pose again. Never mind the money for litigation, the church has it as did in the Korean church cases. It is very dangerous situation of the church that the hellish fire could re-ignite any moment if the devil acts again as the mentor did against our family.

There could be many elder seekers in the midst of calamity if the
mentality of the church group’s hate mongering triggers by saintly clergy because there is nothing changed since the first act of Taliban like Korean church drama.

CELEBRATETHE RECOVERY
OF THE STOLEN FUND

After the restoration of the fund, the clean up job,
the church could make press release to inform the public about our renewal of the church in Christ.

CHURCH SHOULD NOT BE BUILT
UPON THE FOUNDATION OF SCANDALS
Some of the congregants eager to build the new church, which is to be only 25 feet wide. In any even, we should not allow the historic church to be built on this ugly foundation of these scandals. It should be built upon “ The rock” as Jesus said to Peter. (Mt 16:18) Otherwise, Jesus will not return to the unsecured church.

Remember our mentor is Jesus Christ but Mr. Won Tae Cha who ruined our church, disgraced many of us and darkened the image of our Korean people.

We believe in the Bible. This letter is written in honor of our Christian spirit and our Korean cultural heritage for the restoration of our historic church morally and spiritually.

Remember it is a cyber age, every nano second, our knowledge advances, we should not stay on this heretic dummy road in the nano age. If you can change the course, then, now you can proudly tell your children about your church.

We would appreciate any response in pros and cons from any of you. I believe that any church should be amicable as one wish in Christ. I like to understand more about the church functions and Christian minds.
The words in the letter attempted to reflect certain level of cultural aptitudes for easier appreciation.
We shall over come!!
Sincerely yours,

Chae S. Sone

Reference:
Robert’s rules of order
NY state Consolidated Law on non profit organization
Richard B. Couser. Ministry and the American legal system; a guide for clergy, lay workers, and congregation

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