Letter to HT faxed to his office today

Joshua Y. C. Kong, P. O. Box 11923, 88821 Kota Kinabalu  013-8394513; 088247823 jknow823@gmail.com

The Bishop’s Commissary                                                                                 28^th Appril, 2013

Rev Herbert Tong,

Wisma Anglican,

Kota Kinabalu.

Dear Rev Herbert Tong,

Re: Affairs of the ADOS while Bishop of Sabah on forced Sabbatical leave.

The Anglican churches in Sabah had been told that while Bishop Albert Vun is in Sabbatical leave of 6 months, the Bishop’s Commissary would act in his place and there is also a Facilitator or Mediator trying to resolve what I call BISHOPGATE (indisputable)  in Anglican Diocese of Sabah.

It is also a surprise that the Archbishop of the Anglican Province of churches in South East Asia did not issue any pastoral letter on the appointments of your goodself and Bishop Moses Tay.

Now it is coming to the end of the third month of duty of this special purpose for your goodself and that of Bishop M Tay, and the church would like to hear of any report on the status of the BISHOPGATE.

So in this short letter, I would like to hear from you the following:-

1. The Dean and some intercessors have asked All Saints Cathedral’s Congregation to forget the past.  Is this your instruction or that of the Facilitator?  Please confirm.
2. You had been quoted in some postings in the blog that you had made some disparaging remarks of the church members in All Saints Cathedral as troublemakers and that Bishop A Vun did not take a single cent.  (copy of that conversation at a Chinese New House visit is attached).
3. It was declared on 15^th October, 2012 in All Saints; Cathedral by Bishop A Vun that he and pastor Philip Lo had transferred RM85,000 of ADOS money to Thailand for Visa purpose and that the said money held in a bank deposit in Thailand would be returned to ADOS in December, 2012.   Please confirm if the money is now returned to ADOS.

I would suggest that ADOS and ASC would call an EGM or a members dialogue to further discuss the BISHOPGATE to resolve it once and for all rather than hearing sort of ‘strange’ of messages or instructions from the pulpit or the intercessors at the prayers sessions which do not allow the congregation to respond accordingly.  Really this is still practice in the polluted land and not yet in the promised land.   Even many public organizations have OPEN days for fellowships and dialogues.  So I would say it is good governance in any church especially with thousand of members to find comfort amongst us as caring families especially from the clergies and pastors.

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I trust my simple requests would meet with your approval.

Thank you,

God bless,

In the love of Christ,

PS:  Please also comment on the exposed 4 emails between AVCF and CSF on the scandal of ASC AGM 2013.

http://thetrutheng.com/2013/02/26/rev-herbert-tong-where-art-thou/
February 26, 2013 – 3:30 pm
member
Please ask ‘listen’.He posted his remarks about HT on Feb 19 2013 at 10.57am in Blog Bishop AV goes international.
March 1, 2013 – 8:05 am Liaten.
For the information of all Anglicans & part of context of conversation as follows,
a/.HT said, 7.30 am English Parishioners were trouble makers & very judgemental.
b/.HT said, BAV didn’t not take a single cent from ASC & ADOS.
( HT, where did the cash money came from on the Sulaiman Mansion cash purchased ?
were those money came from all the love gifts engagements overseas & in particular
from the rich Indoinesian lady ? ).
c/.HT said, Priests don’t have to be poor & why questioned the 2nd. Condo purchased ?
( Were BAV not abusing & plundering God’s money for 2nd. Condo purchased done
registered under his personal name without seeking Standing Comm. approval ).
d/.HT said, attendance throughout ADOS is growing & ASC 7,30′s congregation was only a very
portion of the Diocese.
( HT, were all these figures on attandance been grossly inflated to shows growth &
were the Celrgy not cheating God ? ).
The above was said by HT during the 3rd. day of a CNY gathering of over 50 family members & HT was
wearing a grey long sleve shirt. A group photo was taken & HT was standing on 2nd.last roll on the right.
To all my friends at ASC, I leave it to you to assess whether HT has been too bias & impartial . Does he
still has the moral & creditability to preach in our pulpits ?

An email from a member at the polling/counting centre

Dear Joshua,

For your information my good friend MKXXX have confronted HT regarding the subject mentioned by you during the AGM election around the registration tables. I was there. HT asks who told my friend. Of course we knew who told us but without permission of that person my friend will not be able to answer HT. Unless you speak to that person and provided that person is willing to testify. I don't this is of any important. HT is insignificant. He is an outsider and only temporary, better for you to concentrated on AV.