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Originally Posted by Jo S
Ok so the individual congregations own and manage the actual real estate? There isn't some sort of trust within the LC?
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All the LC's owned their meeting halls, except perhaps a couple new places.
When operatives from LSM came in with their quarantines ~ 10 years ago, they began working with dissidents in all the Midwest LC's who were favorable to them, and held training sessions to help them file lawsuits to take control of all church assets. It was bloody awful. Few would even consider LSM to be acting as Christians. Three cities became particularly vulnerable because one of their elders sided with LSM -- Mansfield and Columbus, OH and Toronto, Canada. Not only did they sue for buildings, chairs, and bank accounts, but also for their "name." That's right. The church with no name went to court to obtain their name. LSM was successful in Mansfield and Columbus, basically because the brothers had no desire to fight their brothers and make the lawyers rich.
Not long afterwards many of the Midwest LC's that resisted LSM takeovers, also became distant from the regional headquarters in Cleveland.