Capstone (n): the high point; the crowning achievement...

                only    WHEN          
                          YOU                   
                                    GET          
                     SOME                    
          GO-GETTER Club: POLICY #1         

Hello both,

The crowning achievement of this blog is being part of the great collective work started on FACTNet - Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 1:50 am. Providing tens-of-thousands of hours of reflection, growth & entertainment. When Pastor Davis died today, my perceived duty to inform died. The king is dead (RIP), long live who's next. Huzzah! Happy RIP Day.

Tithe? Sure, I'm all in. But what's tithe? (originally posted 6/19/2011)...

    easy to understand

                      easy to apply

A policy from God, or rule from men? (you decide) originally posted 8/18/2010...

     easy to understand

                      easy to apply

Jesus, the Apostles, New Testament tithe & Christians (no, they're not kidding) originally posted 9/11/2011...

    easy to understand

                      easy to apply

Abram's tithe (Abraham didn't tithe), Moses' tithe & Christians (no, they're not kidding) originally posted 7/4/2011...

    easy to understand

                      easy to apply

History & dispensation (now with more context & miscellany) originally posted 7/4/2011...

 

    easy to understand

                      easy to apply

SYNERGY? (originally posted 7/20/2013)...

 WHERE the world LEADS 
         NTCC is THERE         
  IT'S policy - SINCE 1969  

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Hear Ye:

Important note:

As you probably know, during the spring conference sessions, the General Board determined that all licensed and ordained ministers be henceforth required to attend a minimum of one conference per year. This is in keeping with Synergy and a true team spirit. Therefore, if you missed the spring conference, we expect to see you this fall.

God v. Graham? The great WAKE-UP. They WIN & you pay (originally posted 12/31/2012) #paytoplay...

Jesus's been reimagined
for the 21st Century
Pilgrim's Progress
& NTCC's
newly remodeled J.C.
is winning.
It's now about what's FUN. 

"New Testament Christian Churches of America, Inc., also called New Testament Christian Church is one of the most wonderful churches available today. Among this church it is well known that we don’t consider ourselves to be the “only ones saved”, and we also know that, more and more, in churches of today, the world and the saints are without distinction. Churches as godly as this one are certainly rare nowadays, but weren’t so rare 50 years ago." - The_WHIRLWIND (on FACTNet in 2004)

It's Christmas. Take the gift of better eternal life to the NEW Year (originally posted 12/25/2012)...

       one of the best things       
          for you and yours           

Please note, the message below is coming from the man who has been 'assigned' to Graham for over 28 (42 now) years; pursuing his "called to administrative work..."? But, we never find out if Mike was talking about the Gift-of-Administration or called as in he was appointed by RWD via child-matrimony. But, he's known by his near-constant intentional ambiguity stemming from his lack of footing.

Sorry about the red ink (again, my commentary). But, as is usual, Senior Pastor Kekel's reasons/reasonings engender more questions than answers; clouds not clarifies, tattles not trumpets, prattles not proclaims.

"Fellowship Meetings weren't of God" or more policy from "the stay-getter with three jobs" (originally posted 11/21/2012)...

ARE WE THERE YET?

Hello all,

Senior Pastor Kekel wrote..."The primary reason for this [Fellowship Meeting cancellation], was to ease the financial burden on the churches and pastors, and stop the monthly disruption of their schedules." QUESTION: How does a church service disrupt a church's schedule? In what way? Does lunch disrupt a diner's hours-of-operation? In what way?

A duck, NTCC's what it seems (originally posted 11/10/2012) #stopbullies...

all that matters is
money & numbers
CLICK TO DONATE
I'LL BE GLAD YOU DID
ASK ME & I'LL TELL YA
PULL MY FINGER

First Anonymous makes it appear (on Jeff's Blog) they went there by accident (“…when someone stumbles onto this page like I did…”).

Then Anonymous went there on purpose to verify something (“…the reason I came on here is because I saw something on facebook and came to check if it was real.”) And now Anonymous won’t be back. 

Not now darling, we'll gaslight later. I promise (originally posted 11/1/2012)...

  HE  DOES,  REALLY  

An alternate title could be: Believe the talk, not the walk. It's the Cult for me.

What a camp-meeting could be: 1854 extract. On amazon also @ 168 pages, illustrated. I've attended this type camp meeting, once with Pastor Davis in Okinawa.

Anonymous wrote as a comment here..."The rooms at camp are not overpriced. 40 a night is not overpriced. Your such a liar.”

Senior Pastor Kekel wrote here..."The blessing is that it enables us to have a place to host the Conferences and keep rooms affordable for those who wish to stay on the Camp. God is good! He has made it all possible through the selfless service of many who have labored here, and by the giving of many who have a desire to be part. All donations to the Campground are tax-deductible (who's rich enough to need to itemize in NTCC?) and go toward (why toward & no to? or is he trying to sound fancy? or does the money not quite make it there?) the upkeep and expansion (for 27% less people?) of our wonderful Campground."

PSA: Recreational Marijuana use is now legal in Missouri. Making conference & being the campground overseer more tolerable. All you need is a drivers license & cash. You can even be from out-of-state. They have Marijuana candy now. Keep some in your Altoids tin to share during service.  If you didn't fly, stock up for back at your work. Still illegal in Idaho, thankfully.

EXTRA! EXTRA! Read All About Us! (originally posted 10/27/2012) #ididnotgothere…

        We consider anyone who's left NTCC       
                            AN ENEMY                            
             So visit our church this Sunday            
           (click to donate to be excused)           

Senior Pastor Kekel calls him “Ramtha Man".  But, don’t call him Kekel or Mike, et cetera; as he takes offense at anything less than the utmost respect/deference shown him, he just won't reciprocate. The rest of us know him as Bruce.

Below are links to all his articles relevant to this piece (followed by my foolish and unlearned commentary):

MCK point 1: A Senior STAY-GETTER* (originally posted 10/16/2012) #armchair...

...the wistful thoughts 
of a desperate man
♪♫
Senior STAY-GETTER
(click to donate)

*Who takes go-getter vacations. Who sends postcards from Rome. Davis' coattails are like cocktails-on-vacation, they're included in the package & cocktails-on-vacation are like sneakin' pizza on a diet & sneakin' pizza on a diet's like building a mansion up the road & building a mansion up the road's like sneakin' cocktails-on-vacation.

MCK point 2: A Senior PEW-SITTER* (originally posted 10/16/2012) #armchair...

♪♫

Señor 😎
PEW-SITTER
♪♫
     M.C. Kekel      
seems one who'd
only benefit from
a full beard
♪♫

the gift of

ADMINISTRATION

(reminds of Gesang)

♪♫

     (click to donate)    

*Mike excoriates folks for not doing enough for God, LIVE on NTCC-TV. No second witness needed. Varied in intensity proportionate to how-much more-money NTCC-of-Graham needs any particular month. Proportionate also to how much ex'r blog Mike sips each month. NTCC Graham's the only church location in the borganization which isn't self-supporting. Along with the campground & print shop, which he's also solely responsible for administrating. So he's moved on to workshop & building remodels. Failure's Mike's own reward. A thoughtful Christian would marvel at the hypocrisy. His pride masking his shame. His seethe drowning-out God's call. 

MCK point 3: He's administratively RESPECTED* (originally posted 10/16/2012) #armchair...

RESPECTED

(click to donate)

♪♫

look at me

under the suds

'tis the FILTH

of GRAHAM

♪♫

look at me

RESPECT me

PRAISE me

OBEY me

SERVE me

♪♫

*He's already respected through his nepo-appointments under the Davis' administration. But Mike shares he's still not RESPECTED enough. Maybe he wants the RESPECT pioneer's & missionary's garner? But he substitutes synergy, workshop & building remodels for souls & go-getting? After tainting the bridal path 45+ years ago, a 2012 pavilion must seem a big thing at 50x50 feet. But, in 2024? Davis was still alive in 2012, so RW still gets all the credit & still all the blame for Mike. We even gifted Michael honorary awards & he still seethes re more-RESPECT live on NTCC-TV. Yes, LIVE. Ingrate. No second witness needed.

MCK conclusion: 5:26 & 27 DANIEL* (originally posted 10/16/2012) #armchair...

CONCLUSION? Besides

where's-the-door

& Daniel 5:26-27?

 RESPECT HIM! Really?

 But he (26M) schtup'd

married a child (16F).

♪♫

  RESPECT HIM! But,

he (24M) groomed

(12/13F?) & romanced

her (14F) first.

YIKES, HE'S C'MING ♫

RESPECT ME! RUN,

Mike's a

content creator

 & he's now on TV.

♪♫

RESPECT ME! FASTER,

Mike's a pretender,

a poseur,

Senior STAY-GETTER

& Senior PEW-SITTER.

♪♫

RESPECT ME! RUN,

Mike blogs & has much

more bonus testimony.

♪♫

RESPECT ME! HURRY,

Mike's a small-fish &

an armchair has-been,

in his small-pond.

♪♫

RESPECT ME! Maybe

just quit, since

Mike & Company

are also covetous,

back biting, proud,

adrift, pretentious,

gossipy & self-justified.

♪♫

Click to donate anyway?

* I 'll add to this

'til naught to say. 

Their tes-tos-t'rone

still ru'ns your day.

 A  judgement's writ

gra'm's had its fun.

The die long cast

we've long begun.

 T o spread the word

the place's fouled.

Tune-in each week

for screech 'n' howl.

 R espected for 

lifestyles of gain.

They seethe it's crass

the men aflame.

 A gainst God's voice

they're long inured.

Feeding their greed

scorning their poor.

 M ock the needy

they should 'a' saved.

The pulpit burn

gra'm's fave refrain.

 T he twisted script

to fill the till.

To build some more

to God it's swill.

 I t's in God's name

but it's from man.

Their pant her sob

their groping hand.

 A ccording to

a faux God's-plan.

Hy-po-crites all

men's plan for man.

 G et-out's past time

step out the fray.

Start living yours

now not someday.

 I f all's been done

in Jesus name.

Why nary change

all's stayed the same.

 T he nyquil high

the well timed pat.

Don't have a kid

your wife is fat.

 Y our daughters cute

at half-past ten.

A few more years

until grown men.

 S ame rite-o'-passage, same rasty cult game.

Same tickle spank feel, ne'erafter the same.

 C hain-linked & online, their ointment draws flies.

S-L to P-I, since one nine six nine.

 S o shake-off the dust, the door's on the way.

Step-off t'ward the light, in Jesus Christ's name.

♪♫

UPDATE: Changed each couplet to a sentence, so mix-&-match your own poem. Though the meter changes for the last 6-lines. A mix-&-match flip-book with writing. Rhyme responsibly. Added illumination.

♪♫

A possibly satirical stream-of-consciousness WALL-O'-TEXT: Coattails are like cocktails on-vacation, they're included in the package & cocktails on-vacation are like sneakin' pizza on a diet & sneakin' pizza on a diet's like building a mansion up the road & building a mansion up the road's like sneakin' cocktails on-vacation. But, Davis' coattails have markedly frayed since 2014 & the Nyquil highball's a thing of the past. Mike's laurel had been high mileage for the decades before this. It must be hard being Davis' lapdog, RESPECTED by him, with so many jobs, while certified & imagining he deserves more head-pats. So he has different, post hormonal, frustrated-desires since 1983? Interesting. He craves head pats & respect. Par? Is this a result from sympathy sucking, or it's own separate thing? No matter. At least Mike has a not-from-testosterone/Viagra struggle of a sort. Davis' Pride & psychopathy built our cult. Mike's taken a wrecking ball to NTCC with his pride & never-been-there-done-that resumé (now televised), which may be a psychopathy. Too dramatic? Maybe uncharitable? Too accurate. Do Tanya & Mike imagine he's post 1981-2014 amazing? His TV viewers know better. So, now word's getting out afresh & he's spreading it this time, instead of FACTNet & Ex'rs. All the blogs were inactive of new posts & getting few comments by 2018. G-Unlearned in 2014 (Davis died), DnA in 2016 (moved on) & Chief in 2018 (wearied of defending & recounting the same elementary [basic & 3rd grade] principles). FACTNet's long dead. All other ex'r blogs had long folded. Just preside over Graham is all he had to do. Ensconced, adhered & unmolested at home & abroad, after 2018 to date (2026). Graham runs itself, as many things do, if not meddled with. The need to fix something is usually the result of the leadership. Just keep workshopping, or finally become Kingdom Oriented. But then came NTCC-TV in 2020 cuz they needed the click-to-donate income during COVID cuz since 1969, they always have more facility than congregation. Even in 2025, 2026, et cetera, since Graham's never been self-supporting. Regular folks don't have to regulate public opinion cuz their income doesn't come from what can be pinched from other's pockets. It's earned. Mike cares what folks think cuz this's just how Mike is & what folks say & peoples thinking directs his leadership & profits (not earned). He's read the blogs, so we're in his thoughts & help guide him administratively. NTCC's satellite churches pay Graham's bills, so he worries in Holy Spirit Glower (see his 2007 Panama visit) & on NTCC-TV. When you're beholden, you're only goal is to keep your constituents, even when it harelips the pope. Even if you're forced to let folks watch TV to do it. God gets it, Davis didn't. Mike's 2027 retirement to AZ won't come soon enough for most. His writing has caused NTCC damage & to himself & now he's added picture & sound? If it don't work, do more of the same, but bigger. Magical idiot. Mike has little production value (for TV also). They could add a CNN crawl with time & temp in an upper corner. You could just watch PiP. Solved it. His own enemy, he may be getting another award. Ex'r staff are reviewing, as we design this award while staying out of his way. Maybe the Cummerbund-of-Significance? Soon he'll look like an African dictator for his tv show wearing the Evangelist-Emeritus'-Girdle-o'-Relevance. He already looks progressingly hollow, as is shared by T.S. Elliot in his prescient 1925 poem about NTCC & its' bad character actors. Hollow progressive works just as well. Better? Again, we're still developing his newest award. Over 40 years overdue & his only last go-getter-esque sort-of ministry. Unfortunately, it won't be awarded postpartum. But fingers crossed, things are tense in Graham. Most have long ceased counting Mike's music ministry, sound system ministry, office work ministry, private office, workshops, mansions, motor home & vacations as ministry & didn't know Mike was an evangelist temp, until he told us on his CEO clog. Like the pavilion, espresso machine & synergy. Like Tanya's solos, Davis' skits, then Mike's workshops. Little effort expended & now with more ineffectiveness. Tanya strugges mightily with vibrato (as did Elvis & Mike) timbre, melody, with diction hindered by a ridiculous faux operatic style. Singing like Tammy Faye's (RIP) makeup; cartoonish & inexpertly loud. I'm sure Tanya's had lessons. Seems a type who'd ignore a teachers council to find another line of work. But, who wants to hear this when YOU'RE THE BOSS'S DAUGHTER? Only the faithful's cash has ever been NTCC's ministry. More?🙄Very well; evangelists don't have to dig anything out or pastor an existing. Just follow the McNally & drive to other's established works & eat at Cracker Barrel. They'll send ministers to your church uninvited (they inform you in advance) since the evangelist needs a weekly income, or to spy on you (pick e, both of the above). Unwaveringly @ NTCC, God's leading is circumvented & His Body rendered a slave & till. His Kingdom a workshop. Continue? Praised, stroked, fed & usually housed. They won't have to spend anything once they get there & then the evangelist leaves with the week's offering. Not more than $500. So most churches wanted to bless the MOG with $500 (gross profit for him & no tax paid). He would usually get more, cuz folks don't listen to the spirit of policy & is why any folks stay. Like's done when skirting political contribution laws & 501 applications. Minister's humble-bragging to each other what they did for the evangelist. We got all his suits pressed above the $500 limit. The wives got his latest-wife new nylons, bra/panty sets & Plan B. I wonder how many preachers wives have used the morning after pill for their abortion? So what, we washed his motor home. Oh yeah, we filled his motor home with 150 gallons of hi-test gasoline. Big deal, we paid for their dental work. That's nothing, he bought my daughter a doll & candy & she doesn't like him now (for example). We don't know what the problem is? She was punished for this ingratitude. Ad nauseum & why NTCC's bigger churches have the most revivals. It's intentional. They'll get thousands in cash, goods & services for, realistically, a week of waiting for evening service to start & naps. Not Graham though, they can't spare an offering since they're never self-supporting, plus overbuilt the campus. Plus, seethe stops revival when Mike man's the pulpit. A few messages in heavy rotation since their only preaching Salvation & Holy Spirit Baptism with heavy asides regarding cash tithe & other offerings. FYI, modern tithe is an offering only, since not required by the New Testament (see internet for more proofs). So, not even much message prep after the first month as a new evangelist. How quick everyone found out some ministers bought Davis a Henry repeater; from these ministers humble brags. The help-others-get-what-they-want (breath) & you'll-get-what-you-want trope. Setting all up for exploitation since all put Davis first & he's never a good reciprocator. Even he had limits. Unless one counts paid to do Verna's (or Tanya's) housework &/or other domestic chores as reciprocal. Earned? A gift? A grift? A sweet deal for all involved? Every NRM cult's entire foundation is grift. MLM (OPM), with chain-link-fence, business vibe & bully jive w/a side of OPP as opportunity presents itself. During the Davis era it was bully-vibe & business-jive. Because Mike snuck his finger into a cookie jar, that's the bed he died on. Is he really a repeat child-offender like's shared here (1990) + here (1992) + here (1993) + here (undated summary of more activities)? Or just the one ongoing time in 1981? Or are all lying about everything? Anything? At all? Even something small? Which? Mike was finished when he started. Why do none in our cult publicly shame these child-romancers? Even the ones with adolescent daughters? Ripka drove his wife to high school on school days after she made his breakfast & ironed his shirt & he helped with homework. Maybe middle school also. They used to make these folk ride the rail, now these tither's won't even show an undesirable the door? Even the Philippines & Thailand jail child-molesters/pedophiles now. But, America gets explosive child-sex trafficking growth since 2020? Babies too. USA! USA! USA! Why don't some NTCC Dad's protect their daughters? Maybe following Davis' & Johnson's example? Being company men? A do what I do & you can have what I have trope? Regina didn't get married until 19-years-old? Well done Sister Olson. No hypocrite, she's singular in a small pond. The real world would have them excoriated online. But a cult allows him to thrive, without need to change his modus operandi. Criminals sometimes hide in cults. Criminals protect criminals. Likes shelter likes. Because opportunity for exploitation is more effective when the exploited are shared amongst the like minded. The campground keeps coming up. Portent (hopefully nothing current)? Are the campground's motel rooms too strong a temptation, therefore excusable? Sorry, who knew you couldn't bear it? This changes everything? So yes, folk's don't respect him. Some folks even have good reasons. So, not only for marrying Tanya, this's just one instance & not even the main one since 2014. A cult, historically, is one refuge for the pervert & their perversions, as all have seen in the news. Don't confuse cult with commune. Commune good, religion cult bad. Have you seen the clip of the chimp who wouldn't get his hand out of the jar (Graham) because he wouldn't let go of the cookie (possession/person)? What did our chimp think would happen? Covetousness illustrated (this could also be the working title of Mike's online newsletter 'My Covetousness Illustrated'). He's started writing self-published books now? A stretch? Okay booklets. A stretch? Okay, pamphlets. Still a stretch. He'll use AI to be able to write cogently. I used to write, manufacture & distribute religious pamphlets & booklets with a typewriter, stapler & copy machine throughout the last half of the 80's in & around Lejeune. Learned from my underground press days in the 70's. My High School had print shop as an elective print shop class. Job cases, photo etching, printing presses, mimeographs. Rubber stamps, business cards, flyers. We could also sign out of study hall to finish projects. Come in before or after school, if the teacher was available. We put out some sweet broadsheets, rubber stamps & card stock. Wood shop, metal shop, print shop. Took them all during my 4-years. I also hung with a Navigator sometimes during Lejeune & we would also use Chick tracks to soul win. My homemade ones were also used by my Free Will Baptist church in NC. When I started with NTCC in Okinawa in 1991, I was told 'we don't do this (pamphlets, tracts)' paraphrasing. My introduction to NTCC's method of only lead folks in a salvation prayer at the NTCC church alter was a new concept & seemed dangerous. What if someone died before they got to an NTCC alter call? I don't remember the answer, but I stayed. Before this there was street preaching in Fort Worth (1982) & 29 Palms (1984/85) as a Baptist. CB radio preaching in North Carolina when I felt lead (1985-90). I was a clown for church events in NC, with make-up, costume, juggling, a balancing act (chairs, tables; if I could pick it up I could balance it on my hand, foot or chin & I still can do it, just not strong enough for some tables anymore), slap-stick, prat-falls & balloon animals. No magic tricks since it's church. Also, proselytizing when & wherever & door knocking. Home & nursing home visits in NC (80's) & Idaho (2007 & 8). Also, Meals on Wheels in Idaho with my AG Pastor. A church I was later elected to Pastor in 2008, but couldn't (NTCC interference again) be licensed, but I got to preach regularly since I still had a valid NTCC ordained ministers license in 2008 & joined the local ministers alliance. Contrary to Davis teaching, the minister's alliance was a complete blessing. Then I joined the military at 48-years-old, after my effort to get licensed failed. In 2018 I resubmitted my application, in preparation for military retirement, then reconsidered being credentialed by AG after reading their current bylaws (112 pages). Lots on tithe & giving sacrificially vice willingly? Or, you have to be willing to give sacrificially to be licensed (paraphrasing). Paying to preach. Thanks to NTCC I may have dodged a bullet with AG in 2008. I was ordained in 2025 by a different org which allows me complete autonomy & ordained credentials (needed for church preaching, legal wedding & funerals in most states & countries; none of which I've done since COVID). Just a means to an end. Like NTCC's print shop & sunday schools are a requirement for getting 501(c)(3) status from Uncle Sugar. Enough about basic go-getting & what it looks like. A new part of my new version of go-getting is I'm not tithing anymore & offering only what I want (or nothing), when I want (or never), see this blog et al for why. Mike's preaching is like a caged chimp slinging poo & a caged chump slinging poo [is]... Sorry, should this be, [is] normal chimp behavior or [is] like Mike's preaching. I like the first one. 2+2=4 4=2+2. Both are equally correct for those not in a cult. Forbidden fruit isn't sweet, just forbidden, whetting (sometimes) dormant desires this-side the-vale. The Bible teaches sin's bitter. Pride gaslights sin's sweet. Pride is...I'm going to do what I want, even if it harelips the pope & interpret things a contrary way, to my advantage every time, with no regard for societal & government norms which don't interfere with business & there's the door if you question me. Comparable to gaslighting a lime tastes like an orange & the sky is green. Pride requires head pats & respect, since it can't get approval from God, moral society, or an undamaged conscience. Mike only imagines his sin tastes berry sweet. Like with Tanya, maybe he doesn't sugar his coffee 'cause he imagines it sweet. It's reasonable a gaslighter would gaslight himself. Would this feel lighter, denying reality? Other styles-o'-liars lie to themselves, so why not imagine no-respect is-respect? Or, childless is with-child? Or a double-wide is a mansion? Or tele-seething is tele-preaching; oops, they already do this one. Or a rule is a policy; oops, ditto. Or a child is an adult; oops again. Or whining is winning. Err, um, they're winning LIVE on NTCC-TV. They also imaginate stay-getting is go-getting, so they've done it before. Mike's had 11-years since Rodger's RIP to prove everyone wrong & now he's broadcasting in the interim & demanding head-pats on TV? RESPECT ME! - this's what Kekel's ministry is. RESPECT ME! - this's what Denis' ministry is (another small man, but in stature). I hope to never experience again someone as vicious from the pulpit as Oloans. Like he was trying to be two times worse than Denis. Matthew 23:15 applies to Denis who was made by RWD; so Rony's worse than Davis. It explains Tony Oloans, who's made by RWD, then Denis, so worse than both put together. YOU SICKEN GOD! is Tony's whole ministry. The Bible may be true? NTCC's in heap-big-trouble. I've heard Tony scream-preach often when we were stationed at NTCC GA & this's what Kinson's ministry will be if ever senior pastor, since Phil reeks bully-vibe (like RWD). If it don't work, do it again. Don't panic, God's 2x worse policy applies to Kekel, who been administratively made by RWD in accordance with Mike's admin-spirit super-power declarations. Spirit-power super-admin? Super-spirit power-admin? First by minister's license, then by marriage certificate, quit claims, perpetual Graham administrative assignment, executive appointments & Grant's tuition up through university. See? Administratively worse than Davis by two-fold. And, since money is NTCC's only goal, he throttles the faithful in Davis' name for more, but to poor effect (surprised). LIVE on NTCC-TV. Woof. Mike likes to administer real good. Pride gets folks thinking, then acting the same each time it's tried. For a most recent example, Mike writes about himself in third person, [w]ith over 45 years of experience in ministry, writing, design, teaching, spiritual leadership, construction, IT, accounting and project management, MCK has lived the life of following the well-lit pathway. The royal WE? Ol' third-person three-job. Nothing about souls. It's easy for who's RWD's son-in-law. Notice MCK's use of 'ministry' is intentionally vague since prostitution could be a ministry, for another example of administering. How many Saint Louis whores were brought to the campground in off-season workshops over the years? Rodger said the darker the juice, the sweater the berry. I'd heard the term long before & knew what it meant, but couldn't perceive a reason why he would often say it at the time. I just chuckled & nodded my head sagely cuz I did knew what it meant. Hustle 'em into the motor home & meet the board in Santa Fe? Pick up a whole corner? Volume discount? An entire intersection? Yikes. This would be a conference. He could enumerate his innumerate accomplishments in God's name, since doublespeak is descriptive of a cult leaders constructed language. So to be clear & not instigate questions through his unremitting ambiguity, we need a current glossary of terms like quit, for one example. Pride requires head pats & Mike always wants more head pats. He's long said this & now it's on NTCC TV. Mike sledgehammers & don't move folks. We had no such problems. If Mike had married someone named Pat, this all would be funny-er. He's head, she's Pat. So he presents the internet with his CV to be praised therewith? For self-assigned credibility? Another awkward humble brag? He want's a television ministry to virtually fill Graham's empty seats with an e-congregation? They can count NTCC-TV hits as attendance. Now all possible with the internet. If they televised conference they could break 500 again (seats 1,200 or 1,400 if you put more folding chairs in the vestibule & to the back around the sound board, as they did only the one time in the 1990's). Works are chaff to God's mill. More administrative works to trust but verify. Serendipitous. Whether Ashmore, Infausto, Gesang, Me, Gaylord (RIP), makes no difference who we were. Makes no difference who gave 4-digits, or where they stuck them. Only right-now counts right-now. God don't credit laurels, even when they're only over 45-years-young. God only credits Christ covering our sin to our credit. God looks for a right-now Christ, not works. Works are nothing to God. Yet, Mike sallies forth with a look-at-me tally-ho & grinds personal axes to tilt at imaginary giants. Everyone's a giant to a small person, so he demands RESPECT ME!, with sparks flying from your television. I'm sure Mike Kekel is taller than me by inches, but he seems smaller. Maybe cuz I only see him on NTCC-TV lately. Show of hands? Maybe this's just a go-getter-perception of a stay-getting pew-sitter. A metrosexual, would he be wearing lifts? Maybe I'm the taller one? We're also the content ones, while he's on TV with sparks-a-seethin'. He preaches & teaches with sparks flying. He'll-fix-us-just-you-wait-&-see with sparks flying. He hates quitters, with sparks flying. He never started, with sparks flying. Evangelist emeritus was his last brief not-Graham, not-admin, ministry, at over 45 years ago. So we can only speak to right-now on NTCC-TV re/sparks-a-flyin'. Not flame, not wind; sparks. Not water; sparks. No faith, hope or charity; just sparks. No light; only heat. No whirlwind; only whirl. I lived in Sparks, in motels sometimes (in good weather you sleep in the park, which was it's own wonderful thing), for maybe 3-weeks, during my freewheelin', 1970/80's, cross-country hitch-hiking-adventures. Sometimes parties took a while back then. Communes easily took months to socialize through; but I contributed by being useful & very willing. Rolls of visqueen, at least a hatchet, spools of wire & I built/ruled my world. I started a few camp-sights back then. This's how communes start, unless urban, before they became corporate. I don't know if they grew after I left. The_WHIRLWIND's (in self-styled name only) at his best when sparks be flying. Yet, a spark can't light the path. A spark's pointless without oil. But, sparks don't light oil, flame does. Sparks promise, not deliver. Sparks light fumes. Mike specializes in both sparks & fumes. They just never quite ignite by Holy Spirit Power. Maybe his tele-screaming blows it out? A spark's potential, not realization. Mike's the poster child for unrealized potential. A spark's just grit & heat; aka Mike's tele-pastoring. I'm Senior STAY-GETTER! I'm Senior PEW-SITTER! I'm RESPECTED! cuz I MARRIED THE BOSS'S DAUGHTER! See Mike get gritty on NTCC-TV, feel his heat. RESPECT ME! He brays? & blows? Ambitious. Was sister Olson disgusted by Mike? Is Verna? Is Rodger? Mom & Pop were. I wasn't disgusted before 2025, Deborah was, but she was in-the-know. I never much considered his children-preferred bent since it was a don't-go-there topic while in. So I never heard about it since we didn't talk ill of the leadership at home. I thought he was a wiz-kid before 2007. When I first when to College it seemed he was everywhere, doing everything. The go-to guy, the guy I like being. So, I didn't know Kekel romanced Davis when she was 14-years-old & until Mike married her at 16-years-old. Although, if you marry a child you can raise her how you want. This's why Davis preferred new converts & why he wanted the unconverted to pray at his alter. God brought you here, so he won't lead you away was one of his levers that's still superficially logical. This's also why he had runaway dogs executed, they had defied him. A dogs version of, if you don't like it there's the door. If murder wasn't illegal we'd all be toast. I was surprised to learn he doesn't do it himself, but passing it on would be a test of & lessening of whosoever did. 2 birds. Davis hated quitters too & anyone better than he perceived himself. I don't see Tanya being trainable. The military are pre-trained, just add an authority figure. Ability optional. They're a good match maybe, since Mike hasn't remained teachable & she's day-school-educated. Regardless she was a child, as we all now know since 2004 (FACTNet again). We quit the cult administratively in 2008. From 2010 to 2012 we blogged, speaking bad-truths of the leadership & about other cult stuff. We left the cult informally by 2007 & I finished my military 24+ in 2021 & started social-security in 2023, with 401(k)'s untouched to date w/no car note, house payment, or other debt. I didn't know about Mike's age-inappropriate conjugating verve until FACTNet & by then I'd been around 13 years by ignoring red-flags & shutting down critics (includes Deborah). Hi, I'm Super-Senior LLC-TV-Pastor Mike Kekel & Pastor Davis respects me & I married the bosses daughter. Click-to-donate since I'm about to retire. I have a mansion & a yacht. Tootles chumps. Really? Why wait? Run along to AZ now. Graham'll be glad you did until shortly after Kinson's installed. Phil will be a YOU SICKEN GOD senior pastor, i.e. Oloans 2.0 & we'll wish Mike was back. Kinson could not care less who respects him. So, Phil will be more like Rodger; better for the org. At one point (2006? so pre-Mike) NTCC had over 160 locations. Growth will start again. Something Davis knew also, other's opinion don't matter as long as there's cash & one way to keep other's cash & get more, is to ignore what other folks say. Mike has yet to learn this. As is proven by Mike's continued engagement of ex'r staff. He's far from equal to this task. How can one withdraw their arm from a piranha tank unscathed? Like Mike, I couldn't do it if defending a lie. So, we all get it. Tanya may even probably know (other's opinion don't matter), being Verna's step-daughter. Verna knows the secret; as long as the cash is there, what Rodger does doesn't matter. Probably by intuition. I can't imagine her reading. Really, Mike's the only clueless one. Even with all his advantages & ability through nepotism to pull back the curtain. Par again, he is amazingly predictably average & once amazed a 14-year-old girl is his fame. Anyway again, many wanted Davis back after tasting of Mike after RIP2014. He bucked pastor Davis' policies before & still chases the world, what can he offer? Senior STAY-GETTER? Senior PEW-SITTER? RESPECTED? What does he offer? He's Tanya's husband? Great, he's still unfit for command & should've been kept in the office by his declared-ministry's calling. Quit means quit & not conduct? Mike's hermeneutics & homiletics are horrendous. Davis'/our rules were Mike's policy? Rules isn't a synonym of policy, but policy is a synonym for rules. Davis always reference his rules as rules. He presented them as rules, we understood them as rules & were never corrected for applying Davis' rules as rules. Like moral isn't a synonym of ethical, but ethical is a synonym for moral. Another way to understand this is morals are never unethical, but ethics can be immoral; again, morals judge ethics, never the obverse. A rule is never policy, but policy is always a rule. Organization's have unique ethics which're sometimes morally wrong. This's also an HR's only function, to enforce org ethics. In opposition to morals if need be & if you don't like it there's the door; like Graham HQ. Society's the only entity which can enforce morality on people. Morality isn't legislation, so morality can legislate morality. Not laws or ethics. While any morals in an organization are universally approved & never wrong, so are brought with each employee, cause morals are a universal standard in categories which matter-not to a corporation. This's why an immoral society will do its most effective damage on a corporations work force. No matter what discipline. Glad I'm retired. Janitor or CEO, morals apply to guiding conduct & decisions. Less morals, less guide. Ethics are fluid & compartmentalized within an org & can be entirely different between different tax ID's, even in the same field. It's inconvenient for ex'rs how facts work. Facts aren't our enemy, just Mike's. Research how facts work when you can, as needed. Anyway, so in other words, I'm not sure what his point of qualifying the difference between rule & policy is is? Does he ever even know? Use of a dictionary/thesaurus is a solely administrative function. Mike can only engage by backpedaling. At least we know Mike writes his own material, undereducated Tanya would do better. Or was he using the main cult tactic of changing language meaning? Is it intentional or incidental? Inquiring minds would like to know; but always more questions remain when they do explain. The ease with which they whiff at slow pitches is breathtaking. It's poetic. The ease of their ignoring context & therefore their hypocrisy, is alarming. YOU'VE CROSSED THE FINISH LINE.

If you've gotten this far & still think this article is subjective, though exactly matching your own cult experience, you still made it to the end. Good job.

Gregory

CONCLUSION: It's A NIGHTMARE - I MARRIED THE BOSS'S DAUGHTER!