This is a picture  my son Alfons and I took of the Bainbridge home in Woodstock when we visited NB the spring of 2024. They weren't home at the time so we didn't meet them ... but this picture is important to me, as to me it represents an enormous trauma and an extreme injustice that I understand so well. 
 

This is just a collection of the communication between senior workers and the Bainbridge family that own the convention grounds.

The short version is that Bob and Stacys daughter felt that the  sexual abuse she was subjected to in the work was more than she could or should take, as she recieved no support or understanding from senior workers. She then choose to quit the work.  Bob and  Stacy took this to the workers  which originally agreed with the complaints .. but later recanted and insisted that it was just an imagination from Morgan   and refused to do anything about it.  
 

There was ample proof and others that backed her story so Morgans parent   asked for at least an acknowledgement of the problem which workers refused and decided to cancel the convention. An ugly prestige issue from senior workers

The following are 9 letters documenting the communication. 
 

2023-06-30

Unawareness does not diminish moral responsibility when personal ignorance has been an active choice!

Seems that a well used method for 'inside membership' to live with the revelations of recent months regarding vice, cruelty and horror within the organizations, is to cut themselves off from the information flow that would distress them.
 

Willful ignorance!
 

2023-06-26
Although it has come at a great cost .. there is an amazing beauty in all the different candles of moral enlightenment that have recently shone light and understanding in an otherwise dark and murky environment – An environment of purposely maintained darkness where the vilest of crimes have obviously had the liberty to operate – and go unseen.

I hope that all these brave souls involved (that we can now read about)  and that have proven the courage and moral strength to share enlightenment with us and others, can understand the beautiful moral service they have done to create an environment of purity and decency so that us others can live our lives in honor and in truth.
A very practical version of "Let your light so shine --- "

 

2023-05-21
Woodstock convention update

Here is a link to a recent document explaining the ugly and cruel development for the Bainbridge family and the convention on their property. This seems to me to be proof that there will be no significant change in 2x2ism until the ministry steps down from their high horse of the arrogant and self-righteous claim to ultimate moral authority.  The original issue was simply critisism of some moral issues regarding individual workers.   --  Simple, clear and noncontestable enough -- yet perceived as an unwelcome challenge to the ministries 'holy' monopoly on moral determination. 

2023-05-10

I may live on the other side of the world .. and I haven't had a personal tie to the 2x2 organisation for over 20 years. --- Yet the recent events in eastern Canada  by a group of obviously arrogant, extremely self-good and hypocritical senior 2x2 officials has sickened and disgusted me to the extent that I cannot just let it pass. 

It began, as I understand it, with an honorable and sincere sister worker, unable to endure an abuse environment she was working in any longer .. Chosing to quit "the work"  that she had hoped to give her life to -- and at one time had believed in.

In line with the honorable principle of "being a light in dark places", that many of us grew up to believe in, in leaving she courageously chose to describe  the environment of ugly and demeaning abuse that she had fled from. She is not alone amongst former fellow sister workers with these complaints.

Her parents, also in line with their own belief in truth, honesty and decency (and love for their daughter) chose to stand by her side, and help her just to be that candle bravely flickering for enlightenment in the darkest of places.  A responsiblility any honorable parent would, or at least should feel.

Rather than honorably dealing with the offending issues ... top 2x2 officials have chosen, in the selfish interests of protecting the "image of the fellowship", to diminish the seriousness of the sexual abuse issues she endured,. They have chosen to discredit and slander the honor and dignity of this honorable woman (acquiting her abusers)... and then as well, have chosen to punish and dishonor her parents in the ugliest, most painful and most demeaning manner possible.

How can participators in this  fellowship just stand by and look the other way and pretend? Is their no honor, decency or moral responsibility left in membership or the ministry? What is moral cowardice?

 

Edgar Massey

I recognise the longstanding mindset from our own history