3.8
After studying these 700+ pages of document, I noticed many unimaginable and incomprehensible practices of IA administrative operations. Using the minutes of IA Standing Committee’s Oct 2008 meeting (which was held in Hong Kong) as example:
a. On March 18, 2009, five months after the meeting, Elder Lin wrote to the IA EXCO members explaining to the EXCO members how the subject minutes were produced. Elder Lin wrote “Standing Committee’s Oct 2008 meeting minutes were prepared after the meeting and sent to the Standing Committee members. Standing Committee members continued to discuss and continue to modify the minutes for more than ten times. Finally, the minutes were settled on November 3, 2008.”
b. This episode provides church members a rare chance to understand how the IA has been operating under the leadership of Elder Lin. Simply consider this:
-i. As soon as an IA meeting ends, don’t the contents of discussion and meeting resolutions become frozen and fixed and no one can ever change these facts?
-ii. Why was it so difficult for Elder Lin and his staff to accurately and truthfully record these facts of an IA meeting?
-iii. Why the draft minutes signed off by Elder Lin contained so many mistakes and errors that what recorded in the minutes were not in line with other Standing Committee members’ recollection and understanding of the resolutions reached at the same meeting? Why the initial minutes prepared and/or signed off by Elder Lin were so wrong that the Standing Committee members had to revise them for more than ten times before finalizing them!
-iv. Under this mode of operation, how can the IA guarantee that all documents it sends out to churches are honest, accurate and complete?
-v. Can it really be that all the IA’s meeting minutes are produced in such a muddled and confused manner?
3.9
The IA invited me to attend a Forum specially organized by the IA Executive Committee to discuss issues related to Pr. YM Incident (please see Evidence Section, pp. 27)
a. After I had appealed my request of obtaining additional documents to the IA Executive Committee, Preacher Chao informed me by telephone on January 26, 2011 that the IA Standing Committee had decided to invite me to a Forum designed to discuss Pr. YM Yang related matters. The Forum was organized by the IA Executive Committee and be held on March 22, 2011 in Taichung, Taiwan.
b. Over the phone, Preacher Chao agreed to ask the IA to allow me an hour to share with the IA EXCO members on the difficulties and obstacles I had encountered while trying to help the IA.
c. The IA formally sent me an official invitation to attend the Forum on Feb 22, 2011.
3.10
For the Forum, I had specially prepared a 40-page report in Chinese and English and asked Elder Lin to forward this report to the participants a week before the Forum so that the IA EXCO members could understand ahead of the meeting what I wanted to present at the Forum. In this way, the Forum would be more fruitful and effective. Unfortunately, Elder Lin, who knows very well that a great majority of the EXCO members are not good at English, only sent the English version of my report to the EXCO members (see Evidence, pp. 28–40).
a. Based on my initial understanding of the disputes between Preacher YM Yang and the IA, I had prepared a 40-page report in Chinese and English to be presented at the Forum. My objective was to share with the EXCO members on what I had learned.
b. The fact that the IA had only given me 37 pages of document was mentioned in the report.
c. Despite being aware of the fact that the majority of the Forum attendees were not proficient in English, Elder Lin at his wisdom decided only send them the English version of the report.
d. This extraordinary act made me wonder, and I could not fathom
1) Elder Lin’s intentions,
2) his objectives of the Forum, and
3) his expectations for the Forum.
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