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My recollection concerning the Ball Rd property was that it was spoken of as a combined training center, LSM office and printing facility, and place for the church in Anaheim to meet. If that was not the intent, then a whole lot of people were constantly speaking out loud about an error in perception. That the building was to also house the Anaheim assembly of the Local Churches was not simply some afterthought or concession — at least not from what we understood in Dallas at the time.

Yes, it was the LSM and training aspects that lured so many to go work part-time or full-time to build it. But it was always understood that it was also a church. For anyone to suggest to the average member that the church there was at the mercy of some business and its degenerate office manager is to turn the tables on the understood reality. In fact, if the average member in most places had heard of what was actually going on there in Anaheim in the late 80s, they would have demanded that PL be removed from the premises as an unfit "front man" to even speak to them on the phone as a representative of the ministry that they so ardently followed. They would have demanded better and Lee would have been forced to oblige.

But certain ambitious men saw that keeping it unknown granted them favor with Lee, who somehow could not bring himself to give certain controls of his ministry to anyone outside his family, no matter how corrupt he family actually was. And in the process applied the corruption to himself.

In the context of the outpouring of free labor and hospitality, to suggest that it was all for the creation of a nicer office for a corrupt lecher rather than for the benefit of the local members and the churches in general is to mock their sacrifice. And Lee did just that when he essentially dismissed JI and others who insisted that PL have nothing to do with the churches and with the ministry they served. I clearly have doctrinal differences with the LRC in many ways, but little complaint about the average member other than their unwillingness to see beyond what they love about their culture and community. For anyone o suggest that it is simply a matter of the legalities of whose name is on the deed for the property on Ball Rd is to mock their service to both the LSM and the church in Anaheim and pit one against the other.