In a prior post, I disclosed that a dispute existed between a group of over 80 former Gospel for Asia staff and the GFA leadership. GFA former staff claims that GFA leaders engage in unbiblical practices. In response, GFA leaders claim that a board member’s investigation failed to find serious problems. Currently, an impasse exists.
Until recently, most of the documentation of these concerns was unavailable to the public because the main website of the former staff group (called the GFA Diaspora) was on a password protected website. That has changed. The website — GFA Diaspora — is now available to the public.
On the website, you can find rationale for the five major problems observed by the former GFA staff, a communications history regarding efforts to bring GFA leaders into reconciliation talks, a review of specific evidence including the K.P. Yohannan ring kissing video, and numerous personal testimonies of former staff which support their overall list of concerns.
I was initially leaked materials from this website by former donors to GFA who believed the efforts of the staff to effect dialogue and change were not being taken seriously by GFA leaders. Since the first post, I have provided several other reports of information about GFA which I believe deserve greater awareness among evangelical supporters of missions. GFA has now ceased all responses to my questions and have failed to answer questions from one other new source — Christian Today.
Perhaps open access to this material will bring matters such undeclared cash carrying, misrepresentation of ecclesiastical practices, massive cash reserves, and other concerns into greater public conversation.