OPEN LETTER TO ALL SABAH ANGLICANS

OPEN LETTER TO ALL CONCERNED SABAH ANGLICANS esp 

lawyers

 “Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you .  Always give yourself fully to the work of the Lord, because you know your labor in the Lord is not in vain”  1Corinthian 15:58

I have been very patient asking some good lawyers possibly pro bono to guide us not me alone to expedite the Civil, Criminal, Police Report, MACC, Bank Negara, and any other possibilities.

All these involve proper planning and a lot of executive effort.

The other day many were angry when they alleged me impatient with HOBs.  So I am proven right now as any delay by them already exposed themselves to willy dilly.  This crisis has been brewing for six years or even to 20 years as our members in Good Sam can testify.  Yet the HOBs did not show any urgency.  To add salt to injury, recalcitrant AVCF was not even suspended and he demanded people to give more as one pastor prayed that those who do not tithe would be made poorer. 

The 18 September 2012’s decision by the HOBs was unconstitutional.  What else to talk when in the Court document, AVCF boasted about the rules of the ADOS and APSEA Constitutions.  Definitely birds of the same feathers had given away their last cards.  Anglicans should react to such disorders when God is about ORDER.

Then the 19^th December 2012’s Archbishop Advent Letter only uphold the earlier illegal terms plus only one additional “mediator” which is meaningless if AVCF stays as Bishop.  HOBs don’t push your duties and your responsibilities to the Commissary and the Mediator and believe AVCF would listen to them as AVCF still have the prerogative to do what he likes in ADOS by remote control.  If that happen, all the Bishops in HOBs of APSEA are also determined as recalcitrant.  Are the Bishops absconding from the top duties and canonical disobedience to God, they all pledge to serve? So  their socalled anointing by God is deceitful and fake and scared to act in very demanding, stressful and even endangering scenario.  No excuse now, if Jesus could go to the Cross for all of us, then why fear men?

Can the mediator be effective in the effort if AVCF does not turn up with all the documents to prove his innocence.  Rather, when we have all the documents or none of that, the obvious is that AVCF is guilty on all counts.  It is anticipated the mediation would fail and we will blame the BLOOD in the hands of the Bishops of APSEA as BISHOPGATE must be resolved long ago, now into another few months or never.

I knew all alone the HOBs of APSEA are incapable people and useless to wait for them.  All necessary action could have proceeded in parallel while many of us waited for them.

Now the expectation is even bigger from Sabah Anglicans although some blame me for the failed civil action that ended on 18^th December, 2012.

I am surprised why HOBs waited for the decision of my civil action for the Advent Letter the next day.  The delay was just meaningless as the new term of a mediator was simply a red herring in the ongoing crisis

Based on the opinions in thetruthasc blog, it is very likely after the very long wait for internal settlement with the worsening crisis, what is left for the Sabah Anglicans to pursue to overcome the very sinful development in ADOS some already evident and some still on the way to emerge?

My  civil  case would be re-filed soon, while others are contemplating more aggressive approaches to remove AVCF as bishop to quicken the healing and restoration process in ADOS.  The butler at Vatican only committed one tenth of what AVCF had done, and yet the RC Pope forgave and sacked the butler.

I wish all the best to the 5 complainants and the 10 appellants and hopefully they would find the right legal formula to achieve the common objective namely remove AVCF and his cronies.

I would like to caution them of my experience after dealing with the legal case for more than six month in a new journey gaining some experience in streamlining the case in a re-file.

I believe there are at least ten options to move the case in the Civil Court, and all very tough challenges but it is meaningless if the recalcitrant bishop stay in office although on Sabbatical leave with access to the resources of the Diocese to defend his rotten case.

So we need to move a package of ‘untested and untried’ legal and other methods in dealing with the recalcitrant Bishop.

For this we need a task force by Sabah Anglicans, for Sabah Anglicans and of Sabah Anglicans and outsiders should stay clear.

Another laughable and very grieving  instruction from the HOBs is that we stop all actions and do nothing when we are the victims, and let the aggressors to go on with the massive wrong doings. Don’t use the blogs, don’t use the Courts, Don’t use the Police, while the aggressors use all the facilities of the ADOS including the pulpit, the church and diocesan bulletins, the Police to attend ordination service in church on 29^th August 2012 and the ground breaking of House of Celebration on 24^th July, 2012,  press, Courts, etc.

Of course Sabah Anglicans are doing much to salvage the ADOS and church of Christ and so what is wrong with that?

Christmas is the best time to redirect/re-energise ourselves when we allowed ourselves in slumber during the last Christmas when I was told of this BISHOPGATE.

Joshua Y. C. Kong