[UntoHim]

There have been several testimonies on this very forum which give us a pretty good picture of what happened to the Church in Santa Cruz, and most of it has to do with Witness Lee wanting FULL CONTROL over the the local church there. To Lee the term "local church" was really just a local church which fully and unquestionably follows his person and work (re: his authority and his ministry), and if they didn't do so then they were either ostracized (if they were lucky), or a power play would be orchestrated by "firing" the existing elders and installing new, hand-picked "yes men" elders or sometimes he would just destroy the church by pitting elder against elder and member against member, and then just sit back and let it implode from within. This is basically the divide and conquer method preferred by the Blended Brothers in the last number of years.

There are forum members that were in Santa Cruz at various times in it's existence and they call fill you in on all the gory details.