Letter From Linda Shelton @ Www.lindashelton.org - Feb. '07, Linda Shelton demands the evidence be made public Options

[LaurenceD]

No matter how hard you try to give your "tarnished" version of events, someone will always be around to tell what "really" happened. So, you better run along to bow and scrape and get a new story for tomorrow.

Just a suggestion...

You could improve your image and credibility with others by about 35% if you not post things like this. It only adds to the impression that we're dealing with a character here that's sarcastic, feels cornered, has gotten scorched, and is fairly immature. This kind of unChrist-like sarcastic tone supercedes and wipes away anything good you may have to say.

[Panama_Pete]

Though I usually ignore your posts, watchbird, I could not help but respond to this one. You are making big statements by saying Danny didn't want her around...Unless you are a physic mind reader, you couldn't possibly know what DS was thinking about anything. I have never seen it addressed here, how DS catered to her, bragged on her to everyone, constantly told her and others how beautiful he thought she was..and then all of a sudden....he wanted to get rid of her? c'mon. Anyone that was around them for any length of time would reach for a "hurl" bucket at the way he "fawned" over her and gave her her way about most everything. His biggest fault was putting her up on a pedestal so, in a way, he was somewhat responsible for her resulting attitude.
Also, if he just "wanted to get rid of her" why, right after the divorce, did he degrade himself buy taking her to the airport to catch her flight to Norway (without Nathan) knowing where she was going and who she was going to see, and still, tried to talk her into reconciliation all the way there?
BTW, since the doc and LS was strickley a professional relationship over her son, why was she going to Norway to see him, without Nathan, right after the divorce. mmm maybe she was out of phone minutes
As far as your "changes" remark at 3abn. Yes, the programming improved significantly according to the biggest percentage of viewers. And, "the way workers were treated" vastly improved once LS was gone. Most employees would tell you that. Some said "it was like a load was lifted off of their shoulders while others said the whole atmosphere had become so much more spirit filled. Then, according to some that I knew that worked on the 3abn truck crew LS had their pay at a pathetic level and would not give them a raise. As soon as she was gone, [/b] couldn't believe how little they were being paid and immediately rectified the pay scale. After all they have a huge sacrifice having to be away from their families for weeks at a time.
Truthfully,if you ask most of the workers, they will tell you they can't really think of anything negative that has come from her, not, being at 3abn.

1. Linda Shelton has already responded to this. She says she had no power over how much employees were paid. Linda said she wanted to give Sandra Juarez a raise, but was overruled by her ex-husband, Danny Shelton. Danny does all hiring and firing. Period. Everybody knows that. You know it. I know it. So just stop with this nonsense.

2. Her Replacement = Tommy Shelton. We already know who "her replacement" was, so you might as well spell it out: Linda was replaced by a Reverend dismissed by another denomination. His name is Tommy Shelton, but I suppose just calling him "her replacement" sounds better? You have your marching orders to focus everyone's attention on demonizing Linda - and away from all other core issues? That's what you're getting paid to do as part of your "mending broken people" agenda? Just asking.

3. As for any trip to Norway, the Norwegian doctor, Arild Abrahamsen, has already written and distributed his account.

4. Linda lost her health insurance when she was summarily fired by her ex-husband. You know that. The Norwegian doctor, aware of what had happened, gave Linda access to his medical clinic after the loss of the insurance. Why keep trying to make that something it is not. Even you, yourself, say Linda Shelton was already divorced at that time.

5. I was in Thompsonville shortly after Danny asked for a divorce. I saw no such fawning as you describe. When Linda started the radio network on December 31, 1999, Danny went on the air shortly thereafter and said several times, "I have no vision for radio," with Linda Shelton sitting right next to him on the air. This certainly didn't look like bragging over Linda to me. It came across to me as a message to viewers saying, "Radio is not part of the Great Danny Shelton Vision, so please take note, everyone." But Linda's radio network succeeded anyway, despite Danny's admonition to his viewers. And things were never the same after that.

Linda held a 3ABN Radio School beginning on Monday, March 8, 2004. It was a sold-out event. The Radio Network was succeeding. Danny could see that and he was not happy. If Danny was going to get rid of Linda, he'd have to do it before she added a dozen more radio stations.

Danny demanded his divorce, the night before the radio school started, on Sunday, March 7, 2004. Danny just couldn't handle Linda's success and he was determined to put a stop to it. Linda, not being streetwise, could not suspect what was going on or how her demise was linked to her own success in radio.

Mollie Steenson had gone to India, and I believe she was not in Thompsonville, on Sunday evening, March 7, 2004, when Danny demanded his divorce and put his plan into action. Mollie came back to Thompsonville and was in her office by midweek, but everything was already in motion. My opinion is that Mollie Steenson either couldn't be trusted to help destroy Linda Shelton, or Mollie wanted to distance herself from the planned event, so it was done while she, Mollie, was out of the country - in India, no less. Was that trip to India planned in advance by someone for such a reason? I've decided in my own mind that it was.

6. I don't see that "programming improved" with the Reverend Tommy Shelton sitting in Linda's old office. But that's in the eye of the beholder. Maybe an endless array of scolding, talking heads at 3ABN pleases you. There's nothing special about Shelley Quinn with her veiled excoriation using "John the Baptist" or John Lomacang's version of the same using his "Moses - Touch Not the Lord's Anointed" blatherments. The expoundings of these two strike me as nothing but desperate and weird.

6. Bystander, you keep regurgitating the same old garbage over and over trying so hard to re-write history. It is not working, so give it up. The reason you skip responding to Watchbird is that she knows the timeline, and you cannot deal with that; Your job is to deliver your mudballs to people who you think cannot tell the difference.

7. The entire 3ABN defense from the very beginning has been, "Nobody will be able to criticize us, because they are all stupid and will never be able to figure out what we did for sure," id est, "Nobody knows me and Linda" ad infinitum. Your only purpose on this forum. Bystander, is to muddy the waters with your little mudballs and to make sure it all stays muddy. Everybody can see that, so this must be about your personal paycheck. It certainly cannot be about truth or justice. Not knowing who you are, this is all about your own personal bank account, right? Are you willing to do anything to keep those paychecks coming, no matter what? Am I close? I think I am right on target. I think it is all about money, your money, Bystander, and nothing else. I think everything and everyone comes a distant second with you.

This post has been edited by Panama_Pete: Feb 28 2007, 08:11 PM

[husbandoftheyear]

5. I was in Thompsonville shortly after Danny asked for a divorce. I saw no such fawning as you describe. When Linda started the radio network on December 31, 1999, Danny went on the air shortly thereafter and said several times, "I have no vision for radio," with Linda Shelton sitting right next to him on the air. This certainly didn't look like bragging over Linda to me. It came across to me as a messsage to viewers saying, "Radio is not part of the Great Danny Shelton Vision, so please take note, everyone." But Linda's radio network succeeded anyway, despite Danny's admonition to his viewers. And things were never the same after that.

No, PP, I didn't see the "fawning" over Linda either. But I did see him belittle her in front of people many times.

It's all a game. One face on camera. One face off. Same old, same old.

[Clay]

thanks Pete for outlining the info we have covered... sometimes its good to see it outlined like that and remind those whose goal it is to distract that we still have a grasp of the basic facts... not theory but facts....

[ex3ABNemployee]

Also, if he just "wanted to get rid of her" why, right after the divorce, did he degrade himself buy taking her to the airport to catch her flight to Norway (without Nathan) knowing where she was going and who she was going to see, and still, tried to talk her into reconciliation all the way there?

Now, since we all know how much you HATE hearsay and second hand information, one has to assume you were in the car with them on this trip. Is that correct?

[Johann]

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Also, if he just "wanted to get rid of her" why, right after the divorce, did he degrade himself buy taking her to the airport to catch her flight to Norway (without Nathan) knowing where she was going and who she was going to see, and still, tried to talk her into reconciliation all the way there?
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This is another sign that truth is not in Bystander. Who told you Danny drove Linda to the airport when she came to see us in Norway? I very well remember what Linda looked like after how Danny had treated her in connecion with the divorce. She needed to get away, and Irmgard and I were so happy to see her again after her ordeal. She did not ride with Danny to the airport. This is but another attempt by Danny to project his actions in a different direction attempting thereby to gain the sympathy of others for actions he claims he did, but which he actually never did.

It is true that Danny drove to the airport, but not in the same car as Linda. He merely projects Linda over into his car. Linda was greatly surpriced to see him at the airport. It was dawning on him he made a grave mistake by divorcing Linda, and that he had to tell his audience stories to gain their sympathy. This is but one of his many vain attempts, and you, Bystander, accept his delusions, line hook and sinker, in an attempt to deceive the world. One more star in that crown of deception you are presenting on this net.

You even claimed he was attemting all the way to the airport to get Linda to reconsider. Since you are so certain, were you in that car?

This post has been edited by Johann: Mar 1 2007, 04:27 AM

[Nuggie]

Though I usually ignore your posts, watchbird, I could not help but respond to this one. You are making big statements by saying Danny didn't want her around...Unless you are a physic mind reader, you couldn't possibly know what DS was thinking about anything. I have never seen it addressed here, how DS catered to her, bragged on her to everyone, constantly told her and others how beautiful he thought she was..and then all of a sudden....he wanted to get rid of her? c'mon. Anyone that was around them for any length of time would reach for a "hurl" bucket at the way he "fawned" over her and gave her her way about most everything. His biggest fault was putting her up on a pedestal so, in a way, he was somewhat responsible for her resulting attitude.
Also, if he just "wanted to get rid of her" why, right after the divorce, did he degrade himself buy taking her to the airport to catch her flight to Norway (without Nathan) knowing where she was going and who she was going to see, and still, tried to talk her into reconciliation all the way there?
BTW, since the doc and LS was strickley a professional relationship over her son, why was she going to Norway to see him, without Nathan, right after the divorce. mmm maybe she was out of phone minutes
As far as your "changes" remark at 3abn. Yes, the programming improved significantly according to the biggest percentage of viewers. And, "the way workers were treated" vastly improved once LS was gone. Most employees would tell you that. Some said "it was like a load was lifted off of their shoulders while others said the whole atmosphere had become so much more spirit filled. Then, according to some that I knew that worked on the 3abn truck crew LS had their pay at a pathetic level and would not give them a raise. As soon as she was gone, her replacement couldn't believe how little they were being paid and immediately rectified the pay scale. After all they have a huge sacrifice having to be away from their families for weeks at a time.
Truthfully,if you ask most of the workers, they will tell you they can't really think of anything negative that has come from her, not, being at 3abn.

OK, let me see if I've got this straight...you want us to believe that Linda had so much power at 3ABN that she controlled programming, employee morale and workers' salary? You want us to believe that Danny was impotent and powerless to do anything to break Linda's control. You want us to believe that Danny, the founder and person to whom God gave this wonderful "vision" let Linda get all the power and control everything he felt that the Lord specifically gave to him. Yet with all this power that she supposedly had the 3ABN board was quick to summarily dismiss her and bind her up with a gag order. Yeah...OK...and Bill Gates is just a front for Microsoft...I'm really the President...

[Observer]

Danny was impotent . . .

While I know what you meant, and said, it would be best if you do not post anything that might result in others accusing us of posting inaccurate, or inappropriate information about a medical condition. The way some people attempt to twist what is posted, I can immagine someone doing such. And, I am thinking of one person who might quickly jump on that. That person regularly mis-quotes me.


This post has been edited by Observer: Mar 1 2007, 06:37 AM

[watchbird]

This is another sign that truth is not in Bystander. Who told you Danny drove Linda to the airport when she came to see us in Norway? I very well remember what Linda looked like after how Danny had treated her in connecion with the divorce. She needed to get away, and Irmgard and I were so happy to see her again after her ordeal. She did not ride with Danny to the airport. This is but another attempt by Danny to project his actions in a different direction attempting thereby to gain the sympathy of others for actions he claims he did, but which he actually never did.

It is true that Danny drove to the airport, but not in the same car as Linda. He merely projects Linda over into his car. Linda was greatly surpriced to see him at the airport. It was dawning on him he made a grave mistake by divorcing Linda, and that he had to tell his audience stories to gain their sympathy. This is but one of his many vain attempts, and you, Bystander, accept his delusions, line hook and sinker, in an attempt to deceive the world. One more star in that crown of deception you are presenting on this net.

Didn't you mispeak, Johann? Rather than calling this a "star in that crown of deception" should you not be calling it "one more knot in the web of deception" BS is weaving for presentation to this net?

You even claimed he was attemting all the way to the airport to get Linda to reconsider. Since you are so certain, were you in that car?

Doesn't work. If he were actually in "that car".... then then he could not be "certain" of something that was not true. So either BS is the creator of this particular "knot" or is a direct accomplice to the untruth of the assertion.... or else he is someone who accepts what Danny says as the truth and passes it off to the world as though he (BS) actually knew the difference between facts and fabrications.

Some questions this brings to mind, Johann..... When Danny drove to the airport.... was he following Linda? Did he know she was headed for the airport? If so, how did he know? Did he know her destination? If so, how did he know? If not, was his purpose in following her an attempt to learn her destination? At what point did the hired Private Investigaters pick up Linda's trail? And the final question..... Doesn't it strike you as strange that he kept her under surveilance even AFTER the divorce was final?

[Johann]

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And the final question..... Doesn't it strike you as strange that he kept her under surveilance even AFTER the divorce was final?

It takes a lot of surveilance to attempt to cover one's tracks. Danny once told me that his friend, Garvin McNeilus would never desert him, regarless of what he'd do. He claimed that is true friendship. Danny also told me that Garvin would pay for Private Investigators as long as Linda is alive. What does he need that for since he divorced her?

[PrincessDrRe]

It takes a lot of surveilance to attempt to cover one's tracks. Danny once told me that his friend, Garvin McNeilus would never desert him, regarless of what he'd do. He claimed that is true friendship. Danny also told me that Garvin would pay for Private Investigators as long as Linda is alive. What does he need that for since he divorced her?

This speaks volumes....

[Richard Sherwin]

Control control control. Control freak.

It takes a lot of surveilance to attempt to cover one's tracks. Danny once told me that his friend, Garvin McNeilus would never desert him, regarless of what he'd do. He claimed that is true friendship. Danny also told me that Garvin would pay for Private Investigators as long as Linda is alive. What does he need that for since he divorced her?

[sonshineonme]

NOTE: Her letter of demand, posted March 2nd, 2007 now on her website. To go right there, click here Linda's website




In keeping with Linda Shelton requiring an open and transparent ASI sponsored hearing, Linda has now published a letter that includes a clear demand that 3ABN and Danny Shelton produce the evidence they claim to have for inspection and verification to the entire church membership and to the stockholders in the pews. Danny Shelton in various forms and under various alias has repeatedly referenced evidence that he claims to have thereby giving him a basis for divorce and remarriage. The chairman of 3ABN on AToday has made it clear they have no proof of an adulterous affair. Linda Shelton and Arild Abrahamsen have repeatedly asserted that there is no basis for divorce, that no inappropriate relationship occurred and that there is no evidence to support the Danny Shelton claims.

We have repeatedly asserted that if there is no proof, then a remarriage would constitute an adulterous relationship. Danny Shelton was married at 3ABN in March 2006 to a Brandy Murray, a 3ABN employee that reportedly arrived at 3ABN of Thompsonville in July of 2004.

Here is the letter from Linda in its entirety and is also available at www.LindaShelton.org and on www.save3ABN.com . I believe it reflects the same Linda, a bit stronger and less naive than in the past, but as deeply committed to her relationship with the Lord as we all remember so well on that porch at 3ABN.

Linda Shelton does respond to e-mail and will be happy to have a concert or a deeply spiritual service at your location, wherever you may be.

February, 2007

My warmest greetings,

A couple approached me, with tears in their eyes, and said, "We have just missed you and we wanted to see you to make sure you were okay." As I saw the pain in their eyes, over the events that have transpired in my life in the last few years, it was as if my heart was pierced again. "We are just so happy to see you smiling, in church and still serving God." Our meeting took place a few months ago at the Bible Chapel Seventh-day Adventist Church, where I am a member. I enjoyed my visit with this caring Christian couple and the compassion and love they showed toward me.

Some people act surprised that I am still a member of the SDA church. But why? God is still the same awesome God that He always has been, the incredible Bible truths embraced by the Seventh-day Adventists are still just as true today as they ever were and although a "thousand shall fall on my right and a thousand fall on my left" nothing will ever change these facts. We must hold firm to our faith during troubled times!

Many have written to me over the past many months asking me to update my website. This I have prayerfully considered for quite some time, nearly a year. Quite frankly, I just have not known what to say. I feel that this scandal has made a large, festering open wound in my Church. Perhaps the truth revealed will ultimately bring the healing that everyone needs. Then we can grieve together and move on. I am certain, in essence, I have died a thousand deaths over the events of the last couple of years. But, with the Lords blessing, I will try to address issues which have been brought to my attention in the kindest manner possible.

For the first time in nearly three years I will not simply deny the accusations, but will directly address certain issues. I do not take pleasure in speaking of these things. I think I have always been the one who would rather receive hurt, than be the one to inflict hurt upon others. But during the course of this last year I learned some valuable lessons through Dr. Mable Dunbar of Pollys Place Network, she has been an incredible support and help to me. Mable is a woman who truly loves the Lord and is not afraid to stand up for what she believes is right, even if a whole army would stand against her.

Pollys Place Network is a ministry which empowers abused lives and aids them through their difficult circumstances. It is a marvelous organization and so needed for this age when Satan has focused his wrath upon breaking up the security and circle of love God intended for our families. I videotaped some interviews, for Pollys Place, at the SDA Conference office in Spokane, Washington with several individuals who had been through incredibly painful situations. Each of them, in essence, had the same healing story. It was when they were able to come forward and expressed the truth about what happened to them, that their healing came. Inspired by these individuals, now I can accept and believe it is Gods job to protect the ministry I have loved and co-founded, and its my right and my healing to tell the truth about what has occurred.

I am co-authoring a book and its purpose is to share the silver lining of the amazing lessons the Lord has taught me through this crisis. I feel the Lord has lifted a veil and allowed me to see the world that He sees, a world far different than we see. I see that the darts of false allegations that Satan has thrown toward me and my ministry were not directed solely for my downfall, but the aim was much wider. Although I was the apparent target, Satan was attempting to destroy the ministry I loved and co-founded and cripple the witness of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. My perspective has been forever changed through my experiences and my book will give me the opportunity to share these lessons more fully with all of you. (I will keep you posted as to the release date of this book.)

John Knox once said, "Kings (or leaders) have not an absolute power to do in their government what pleases them, but their power is limited by Gods Word; so that if they strike where God has not commanded, they are but murderers; and if they spare where God has commanded to strike, they and their thrones are criminal and guilty of the wickedness which abounds upon the face of the earth, for lack of punishment." John knew his Bible. It is a Biblical principle that if we see a wrong and only look the other way or feebly say, "I will let the Lord deal with that one," then that wickedness is applied to our slate, plain and simple.

The most devastating blow a televangelist can get is the false accusation of adultery. Although I have already made this statement on my website I want to address those of you who have loved and valued my Christianity, integrity and my ministry for the 19 years that I was at 3ABN. I want to clearly emphasize that I was 100% faithful to my husband. I loved, trusted and believed in him to a fault. Imagine my shock when I realized that the false allegations in the form of libel, slander and defamation directed my way were initiated by two of the closest people to me on planet earth; one was my beloved partner and the other was my closest lady friend. I loved them both and trusted them both to the point that their close communication did not bother me in the least. I know that sounds naive, but I did not believe that Dan would do anything that would harm the ministry we had built together.

In 2004 there was a tremendous outcry at my departure. There was suspicion over how swiftly I was fired from my position and divorced. There was suspicion over the fact that I never had the opportunity to talk to the Board and defend myself. There was suspicion over the fact that every trace of my presence was completely cleared out of the campus of 3ABN, even before my termination, as well as the website, television and radio broadcasts. I was made a sacrificial lamb in a scheme calculated to remove me from both my home and my ministry through an orchestrated campaign of malicious lies circulated around the globe. No words can begin to describe the absolute agony this has brought to my life, but there are other victims as well, and may God bless and spare the young lives and tender souls who have also felt the stinging thrust of this sword of scandal.

It has completely broken my heart to see the emails and letters which have come from the Chairman of the Board, Dan and others at 3ABN, to hear of the television and radio programs where erroneous references have been made to the situation, to watch the ministry that I helped build with much devotion used to destroy me and also to hear of the reports of what is being said on the SDA chat sites about me today by those bent on my destruction...nearly three years later.

It was the false accusation of adultery which caused the loss of my marriage, my reputation, my employment, and everything else. I challenge the 3ABN Board to produce the "irrefutable evidence" which caused a co-founder, a life-time Board member, Vice-President and Secretary of the Board to be removed in that May, 2004 meeting! I am asking, no demanding, that the information is made public, at my request! Cast aside these pretended desires to "spare me"! The world is waiting with baited breath!

The stakes are high. I, as well as others, have personally experienced electronic surveillance, email theft, interception of cell phone calls, post divorce entry into my private residence to the point where charges were filed with the police. It is not easy to live your life when you feel that you can never know for sure if you are being followed, watched or recorded...even now. I have had invitations to do ministry thwarted because of continued allegations by those, who, like wolves in sheeps clothing, attempted to stop my ministry.

I want to make this absolutely clear: I left my home because I was not safe, I was not welcome. I was witnessing the murder of my reputation and ministry day by day. I stayed as long as I felt I could. I hoped, believed and prayed that things would change but they only got worse. The statements made that I left my husband for another man are absolutely and totally false. Any thinking person would realize that I had everything a Christian woman could have wanted in this life: a husband I loved and the opportunity to minister to millions of people about the tremendous love of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, though the ministry that we spent so many years building together. Although two of the people who I loved best have called me "Gomer", yet a more accurate term would be "Hosea", which I would only discover later. But I prefer simply, Linda, "SAVED by the Blood of the Lamb!"

I do not visit the chat sites. This has been a mega-trial for me and my way of coping has been to try and focus on other things. I realize that the individuals which make up our Church need healing from this disaster too. And perhaps the chat sites have served to help people give expression to their frustrations and hurts in this situation. I am grateful to each of you who have prayed and interceded for me. It has meant so much during my dark days. You’ll never know just how much!

Now my kids are grown and I am alone...but not really alone, although I have not husband. Now I belong to everyone and everyone belongs to me! And I still sing, "Thank you for being my family, thank you for being my friends: May God bless and keep you in all that you may do until we meet again!"

It is my goal to just make your journey and mine a little lighter and brighter. I have faith that the Lord still has a work for me to do, a new ministry. I am ready and available for church services, week of prayer, concerts, etc. as the Lord opens the doors. I do not know what my future holds, but God does and that's enough for me.

Just in closing I want to make an appeal to you to get out your binoculars, dust them off, bring them into focus and then search... Love your neighbor enough to be a Good Samaritan. When he is broken and bleeding in the middle of the road, focus your binoculars with the love of Christ, but don't stop there, reach out and meet his need in his time of crisis. Christianity is not something that "just happens". True Christianity occurs when a decided action is taken...when we search, when we fill a need, when we mend a broken heart and when we are just "there" for hurting people. There is a lot of them. But there are too few Christians who focus their binoculars with love.

Thank you for being my family! Stay close to the Shepherd!

Blessings to you and yours

Linda Shelton
Additional info to be considered before responding (this is also post #27.....

Here is her completed letter. As I mentioned in a post earlieron this thread, once she finished her letter, I would also post it under the first letter. Her letter is on her website as well..



February, 2007

My warmest greetings,


A couple approached me, with tears in their eyes, and said, "We have just missed you and we wanted to see you to make sure you were okay." As I saw the pain in their eyes, over the events that have transpired in my life in the last few years, it was as if my heart was pierced again. "We are just so happy to see you smiling, in church and still serving God." Our meeting took place a few months ago at the Bible Chapel Seventh-day Adventist Church, where I am a member. I enjoyed my visit with this caring Christian couple and the compassion and love they showed toward me.

Some people act surprised that I am still a member of the SDA church. But why? God is still the same awesome God that He always has been, the incredible Bible truths embraced by the Seventh-day Adventists are still just as true today as they ever were and although a "thousand shall fall on my right and a thousand fall on my left" nothing will ever change these facts. We must hold firm to our faith during troubled times!

Many have written to me over the past many months asking me to update my website. This I have prayerfully considered for quite some time, nearly a year.

Quite frankly, I just have not known what to say. I feel that this scandal has made a large, festering open wound in my Church. Perhaps the truth revealed will ultimately bring the healing that everyone needs. Then we can grieve together and move on. I am certain, in essence, I have died a thousand deaths over the events of the last couple of years. But, with the Lords blessing, I will try to address issues which have been brought to my attention in the kindest manner possible.

For the first time in nearly three years I will not simply deny the accusations, but will directly address certain issues. I do not take pleasure in speaking of these things. I think I have always been the one who would rather receive hurt, than be the one to inflict hurt upon others. But during the course of this last year I learned some valuable lessons through Dr. Mable Dunbar of Pollys Place Network, she has been an incredible support and help to me.

Mable is a woman who truly loves the Lord and is not afraid to stand up for what she believes is right, even if a whole army would stand against her.

Pollys Place Network is a ministry which empowers abused lives and aids them through their difficult circumstances. It is a marvelous organization and so needed for this age when Satan has focused his wrath upon breaking up the security and circle of love God intended for our families. I videotaped some interviews, for Pollys Place, at the SDA Conference office in Spokane, Washington with several individuals who had been through incredibly painful situations. Each of them, in essence, had the same healing story. It was when they were able to come forward and expressed the truth about what happened to them, that their healing came. Inspired by these individuals, now I can accept and believe it is Gods job to protect the ministry I have loved and co-founded, and its my right and my healing to tell the truth about what has occurred.

I am co-authoring a book and its purpose is to share the silver lining of the amazing lessons the Lord has taught me through this crisis. I feel the Lord has lifted a veil and allowed me to see the world that He sees, a world far different than we see. I see that the darts of false allegations that Satan has thrown toward me and my ministry were not directed solely for my downfall, but the aim was much wider. Although I was the apparent target, Satan was attempting to destroy the ministry I loved and co-founded and cripple the witness of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. My perspective has been forever changed through my experiences and my book will give me the opportunity to share these lessons more fully with all of you. (I will keep you posted as to the release date of this book.)

John Knox once said, "Kings (or leaders) have not an absolute power to do in their government what pleases them, but their power is limited by Gods Word; so that if they strike where God has not commanded, they are but murderers; and if they spare where God has commanded to strike, they and their thrones are criminal and guilty of the wickedness which abounds upon the face of the earth, for lack of punishment." John knew his Bible. It is a Biblical principle that if we see a wrong and only look the other way or feebly say, "I will let the Lord deal with that one," then that wickedness is applied to our slate, plain and simple.

The most devastating blow a televangelist can get is the false accusation of adultery. Although I have already made this statement on my website I want to address those of you who have loved and valued my Christianity, integrity and my ministry for the 19 years that I was at 3ABN. I want to clearly emphasize that I was 100% faithful to my husband. I loved, trusted and believed in him to a fault. Imagine my shock when I realized that the false allegations in the form of libel, slander and defamation directed my way were initiated by two of the closest people to me on planet earth; one was my beloved partner and the other was my closet lady friend. I loved them both and trusted them both to the point that their close communication did not bother me in the least. I know that sounds naive, but I did not believe that Dan would do anything that would harm the ministry we had built together.

In 2004 there was a tremendous outcry at my departure. There was suspicion over how swiftly I was fired from my position and divorced. There was suspicion over the fact that I never had the opportunity to talk to the Board and defend myself. There was suspicion over the fact that every trace of my presence was completely cleared out of the campus of 3ABN, even before my termination, as well as the website, television and radio broadcasts. I was made a sacrificial lamb in a scheme calculated to remove me from both my home and my ministry through an orchestrated campaign of malicious lies circulated around the globe.

No words can begin to describe the absolute agony this has brought to my life, but there are other victims as well, and may God bless and spare the young lives and tender souls who have also felt the stinging thrust of this sword of scandal.

It has completely broken my heart to see the emails and letters which have come from the Chairman of the Board, Dan and others at 3ABN, to hear of the television and radio programs where erroneous references have been made to the situation, to watch the ministry that I helped build with much devotion used to destroy me and also to hear of the reports of what is being said on the SDA chat sites about me today by those bent on my destruction...nearly three years later.

It was the false accusation of adultery which caused the loss of my marriage, my reputation, my employment, and everything else. I challenge the 3ABN Board to produce the "irrefutable evidence" which caused a co-founder, a life-time Board member, Vice-President and Secretary of the Board to be removed in that May, 2004 meeting! I am asking, no demanding, that the information is made public, at my request! Cast aside these pretended desires to "spare me"!

The world is waiting with baited breath!

The stakes are high. I, as well as others, have personally experienced electronic surveillance, email theft, interception of cell phone calls, post divorce entry into my private residence to the point where charges were filed with the police. It is not easy to live your life when you feel that you can never know for sure if you are being followed, watched or recorded...even now. I have had invitations to do ministry thwarted because of continued allegations by those, who, like wolves in sheeps clothing, attempted to stop my ministry.

I want to make this absolutely clear: I left my home because I was not safe, I was not welcome. I was witnessing the murder of my reputation and ministry day by day. I stayed as long as I felt I could. I hoped, believed and prayed that things would change but they only got worse. The statements made that I left my husband for another man are absolutely and totally false. Any thinking person would realize that I had everything a Christian woman could have wanted in this life: a husband I loved and the opportunity to minister to millions of people about the tremendous love of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, through the ministry that we spent so many years building together. Although two of the people who I loved best have called me "Gomer", yet a more accurate term would be "Hosea", which I would only discover later. But I prefer simply, Linda, "SAVED by the Blood of the Lamb!"

I do not visit the chat sites. This has been a mega-trial for me and my way of coping has been to try and focus on other things. I realize that the individuals which make up our Church need healing from this disaster too.

And perhaps the chat sites have served to help people give expression to their frustrations and hurts in this situation. I am grateful to each of you who have prayed and interceded for me. It has meant so much during my dark days. You will never know just how much!

Now my kids are grown and I am alone...but not really alone, although I have no husband. Now I belong to everyone and everyone belongs to me! And I still sing, "Thank you for being my family, thank you for being my friends: May God bless and keep you in all that you may do until we meet again!"

It is my goal to just make your journey and mine a little lighter and brighter. I have faith that the Lord still has a work for me to do, a new ministry. I am ready and available for church services, week of prayer, concerts, etc. as the Lord opens the doors. I do not know what my future holds, but God does and that’s enough for me.

Just in closing I want to make an appeal to you to get out your binoculars, dust them off, bring them into focus and then search... Love your neighbor enough to be a Good Samaritan. When he is broken and bleeding in the middle of the road, focus your binoculars with the love of Christ, but don't stop there, reach out and meet his need in his time of crisis. Christianity is not something that "just happens". True Christianity occurs when a decided action is taken...when we search, when we fill a need, w hen we mend a broken heart and when we are just "there" for hurting people. There are many of them. But there are too few Christians who focus their binoculars with love.

Thank you for being my family! Stay close to the Shepherd!

Blessings to you and yours,

Linda Shelton


NOTE: Her letter of demand, posted March 2nd, 2007 now on her website. To go right there, click here Linda's website


This post has been edited by sonshineonme: Mar 2 2007, 09:56 PM

[wwjd]

[quote name='sonshineonme' date='Mar 2 2007, 07:10 PM' post='181762']
Here is her completed letter. As I mentioned in a post earlieron this thread, once she finished her letter, I would also post it under the first letter. Her letter is on her website as well..

Why is this being posted again. Wasn't the first one that got jerked off ,already posted here, and the second "corrected" one posted also. And as mentioned, it is also posted on her web. One can only take so much nausea, before one hurls.

[Richard Sherwin]

wwjd wrote:

Why is this being posted again. Wasn't the first one that got jerked off ,already posted here, and the second "corrected" one posted also. And as mentioned, it is also posted on her web. One can only take so much nausea, before one hurls.

So did anyone force you to read it? I'm glad it got posted again personally. In fact I think we should all make a few copies to hand out at church tomorrow.