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

[Bystander]

Yes, unless you are hiding from Mr. L. Westphal.

Oh, so you are saying that some of them are....Like ex employees of Mr. L
Thanks, that helps a bunch.....

[Johann]

Oh, so you are saying that some of them are....Like ex employees of Mr. L
Thanks, that helps a bunch.....

Helping whom?

[PeacefulBe]

Fair enough if you don't want to answer. But who are your defenders of truth? Watchbird, sonshineonme, sister, peacefully bewildered, lurker, panama pete, lookin4truth, hershey99, paper tiger, soul expresso, DrRe, shall I continue?..............

wwjd,

My husband is an unbeliever but allows me to pursue truth as I judge important. When I checked out this 3abn forum to see if what a friend was saying was true, I searched and found truth indeed! My husband is not happy that I am involved in this hot-button issue, but he sees the importance of exposing the abuse that has been reported and even he sees as verified.

One condition he has asked me to honor is for me to remain anonymous. He feels that what he has heard of Danny Shelton's tactics are of concern enough that he doesn't want one of his hired "thugs" showing up on our doorstep to try to intimidate this old grandma into backing down from this pursuit.

BTW, when I tried to get the story from Danny and others at 3abn, all I got was snubbed. I did not enjoy the free access that Bystander, wwjd and others have had.


PB

[sonshineonme]

wwjd,

My husband is an unbeliever but allows me to pursue truth as I judge important. When I checked out this 3abn forum to see if what a friend was saying was true, I searched and found truth indeed! My husband is not happy that I am involved in this hot-button issue, but he sees the importance of exposing the abuse that has been reported and even he sees as verified.

One condition he has asked me to honor is for me to remain anonymous. He feels that what he has heard of Danny Shelton's tactics are of concern enough that he doesn't want one of his hired "thugs" showing up on our doorstep to try to intimidate this old grandma into backing down from this pursuit.

BTW, when I tried to get the story from Danny and others at 3abn, all I got was snubbed. I did not enjoy the free access that Bystander, wwjd and others have had.
PB

Wow PB, this has been quite a journey for you, and your husband. He sounds very wise as well.

[PeacefulBe]

Wow PB, this has been quite a journey for you, and your husband. He sounds very wise as well.

I have to admit that this journey has not taken me where I thought I would go. Truth is surprising that way sometimes!

My husband is wise and a sweetheart. I pray that he will one day open his heart to the Lord again.

[Fran]

Yes, unless you are hiding from Mr. L. Westphal.

Boy, Johann, I understand what you are saying! I am so glad I came tonight!

[Ralph]

One condition he has asked me to honor is for me to remain anonymous. He feels that what he has heard of Danny Shelton's tactics are of concern enough that he doesn't want one of his hired "thugs" showing up on our doorstep to try to intimidate this old grandma into backing down from this pursuit.

Your husband is very wise. I keep everything backed up. Even if my PC were compromised, I would lose very little information.

[sonshineonme]

I have to admit that this journey has not taken me where I thought I would go. Truth is surprising that way sometimes!

My husband is wise and a sweetheart. I pray that he will one day open his heart to the Lord again.

He will. I will pray for him.

[Johann]

Oh, so you are saying that some of them are....Like ex employees of Mr. L
Thanks, that helps a bunch.....

That leaves him (LW) pretty much alone. I understand he was trying to make an impression on the graduates of Loma Linda University last week-end. How many helpers does he have left by now? He was trying to cover up some of the pictures he displayed! Smart!!!!

[husbandoftheyear]

That leaves him (LW) pretty much alone. I understand he was trying to make an impression on the graduates of Loma Linda University last week-end. How many helpers does he have left by now? He was trying to cover up some of the pictures he displayed! Smart!!!!

I am a little lost. Care to give more info into this new subject between you, WWJD, and BS.

[Johann]

Boy, Johann, I understand what you are saying! I am so glad I came tonight!

It's good that you are around, Fran. I'd better get back to the Nobel story.

I am a little lost. Care to give more info into this new subject between you, WWJD, and BS.

We'll leave that to the investigation of the Internal Intelligence.

[Johann]

I am a little lost. Care to give more info into this new subject between you, WWJD, and BS.

Just a slight clue. Mr. L. Westphal was recently featured with a cover portrait on 3ABN World Magazine. He is evidently a very valuable man to 3ABN because of the millions he gets 3ABN annually in annuities. His main office was, when I last talked to him, at Loma Linda, CA, and I suspect he is still there because a few days he was seen putting up a booth for 3ABN by the University. In connection with that booth he was displaying a large poster where he made a futile attempt covering up the center picture featuring Danny and Linda.

Why was he using this? Why was he attempting to conceal the center picture?

[Noahswife]

In connection with that booth he was displaying a large poster where he made a futile attempt covering up the center picture featuring Danny and Linda.

And now paraphrasing a famous radio commentator,

I get the "rest of the story"

Thanks.

nw
C"i"

[Johann]

And now paraphrasing a famous radio commentator,

I get the "rest of the story"

Thanks.

nw
C"i"

And in a few hours we can all enjoy resting in the Lord on His Holy Day - the Sabbath! What a joy!

This post has been edited by Johann: Mar 16 2007, 05:06 AM

[sonshineonme]

Bumping up.

To keep balance in this, it helps to remember all the pieces of this puzzle. Linda finally speaks here. That's her right. Will DS dislike this little kink in things? I think so. Does she have anything to lose by requesting full disclosure? NO, unless she were guilty of the trash that has been told of her. Does DS have the guts to admit he went to far?.



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