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| Senior-Pew-Sitter M.C. Kekel |
"I consider anyone who has left NTCC an enemy" Tune in to NTCC-TV, to watch his tele-churched variety-show "I have lots of great things to talk with you about! I have three jobs, including CEO of the Organization, President of the Bible Seminary and Senior Pastor of the local church in Graham, WA." Did you detect Reverend Kekel is still NTCC's senior sympathy-sucker after 42 years? Why's he not weaned? Did marriage stop this? He runs Graham? Graham runs him. This's the same Dean/Professor Michael Craig Kekel who malaprops quit means quit & not conduct/behave in the 2011 message "Quit you like men".
Tune in? Jeez-louise golly-gee will-lickers, he sounds so angry? Well, his shame fights his pride (i've seen video) & covetousness is referee. Sometimes his fight get-loud. But he uses his microphone anyway. Does he keep it in a case like his two-piece custom-made pool-cue? He's long been wresting himself & the Bible, but now it's on TV. Don't envy, pity or hate him. You don't want to be in his deck-shoes or have his church bills, pealing louder every quarter. He wants praise & gifts (i've seen video, click to donate). He wants you to shine his shoes (i've seen video). He's silly (i've seen video & see prior sentence). He's ignorant (i've seen video, same). He's mean (i've seen video). He wants you to wash his car & pick-up his dry cleaning. Bring him coffee 'cause Tanya's at the Bon Marche. Take his lunch to him, when it's your turn. Just like we all did for Rodger.
He's petty (i've seen video). He's an aberration (like roni sans accomplishment & i've seen video). He's uber-entitled (i've seen video). He's vindictive (i've seen video). He's hateful (i've seen video). He's unfocused (i've seen video). He presents as dumb (i've seen video & see all prior/following sentences). I suppose this could still be a strategy, but he's a dangerous force who inspires mediocrity. Gainsaid to help those still trapped, and bring comfort to those who've escaped. He's still a hearty laugh for all & the booby-prize goes to (drum roll)...The same team as last year. An unprecedented 56-peat.
Senior Pastor Kekel’s self-aggrandizing trial is the trial of already having an inheritance you can’t get until you're 24-26. The trial would be waiting for Davis' ticking hot-potato. Or the trial of having a kitchen (does she cook) & walk in closets (she's a clothes horse) too small in your latest mansion. At least 5 to date.
No ministry success, no ministry challenges, no long-term financial challenges...no lack, no want where they couldn't see the light at the end of a very short tunnel. No danger of being held to the same policy as everyone else, because Rodger respects him? While NTCC's active minister's were gaining perspective, respect & appreciation from the work of the Lord in the field, Mike did none of this.
He has no Pavilion fire-pit stories to share with s'mores after volley ball, frisbee & softball. Has Mike even stopped by? Maybe given his Wintergrass Workshop? Oh yeah, conferences have skits now. Has he ever picked up the tab for a Campground thankyou-for-your-service BBQ? I threw this in so he does. Expect this for next conference, since he's a reactive leader, directed by ex'r opinion. He's our puppet on a string. If there're any hamburgers or hotdogs it doesn't count. Your welcome for same.
Minister's work? No duh. Why's this controversial at all? Living real trials, hardships, depravations & also experiencing the frequent joy of many tiny, medium & large successes. While poseurs pose, the beat goes on & the mill grinds. Minister's still an action word (webster online) & Mike's still an inaction figure w/o ken-foo grip. Senior Pastor Kekel knows all second hand, but isn't humble or manly enough (carter era veteran, so yeah) to acknowledge it or start OJT (i'll train him; the line forms behind me). Based only on his online scholarly output, he may be too dumb. So, maybe no second witness needed here either. Can I get a witness?
Yet, he's the self-appointed mouth for all things NTCC, and comments on things he's no firsthand knowledge of; or third or fourth hand in many cases. But he'll blog-it & tell-it from his tele-pulpit & is shocked we reject-it. After all, he's Graham's senior-pew-sitter, x golden-boy & dated the boss's 14-year-old daughter when he was only 24-years-young. See 'Stealin'' by Uriah Heap.
Repetition's a good teacher: Senior Pastor Kekel's been warehoused in Graham for over 28 (43 now) years, so has no “been there, done that” perspective about the works of the Lord in the field. Have you been to a workshop yet? How about his tele-church? Are they tele-workshops now (don't lie, i've seen video)? Or still this-was-said-online damage control services (don't lie, i've seen video)? With an afterthought of alter call.
Kekel's pew-sitting-betters no longer have enough company-spirit to shout "WE ARE WINNING" when Kekel gets on the persecution pedestal in center ring (i've seen video). Maybe a synergy booster will help? The power point from conference maybe? Maybe they can shoot him out the cannon so he would finally go-forth? Or he can bark some more on NTCC-TV, which is always a groan-getter. Although, while wooing her he was a go-getter at only 24-years-young. So he can do it. This's why, for those around before 2014, Senior Pastor Kekel will only be Tanya's consort, since he hasn't done anything else worth noting (other than sound systems, vacation photos & real estate). Tanya was his maiden & last victory go-getting.
So now we'll add groan-getter, go-get-her & go-getter (finally), to stay-getter. He's already a tattle-tale & a tale bearer. Or does this need to be someone else/our fault also? RWD also did all this exact stuff, even the blaming others, but was good at it. But, the main reason Davis was respected & Kekel is rejected is RWD had some been-there-done-that testimony. Davis definitely wasn't a stay-getter, just definitely all the other stuff.
Davis was unique in my experienced, since I had never been in a cult before or since, but I have hung-with & worked-with women & men who were forces before (generals, shop-teachers, hr, waitresses, et cetera), so he wasn't intimidating. What's intimidating about someone spinning plates & juggling balls? So, I'm not saying Davis wasn't a hard act to follow, but Kekel makes everything look hard. He struggles so epically. Like everything is the very. first. time. This's foreign to to me. Although, few people are as distracted as MCK. Although he's starting making his move to Arizona. Although, how many hobbies could one man need? Although, Mike made/makes changes while running things the same way, like he's distracted. Are there good reasons he fails? Sure, he spouts the same clichés, the same patterns, the same patter, behaviors, yet expects different outcomes. The same pay for less success.
So, he moved his own cheese. Then it's "this isn't working, let's do it more"..."Now lets video it & put it online!"..."Another workshop will fix it"..."I don't get no respect."..."We're going to Arizona for another Vacation workshop."..."God wants some workshop in Hawaii."..."Nobody likes me, everybody hates me..." Graham's like a restaurant with too many half-assed items on the menu & children for staff & the books are a till. So you're better served tithing at OCB. Did OCB stay in business after Pastor Davis died?
The 3-point outline reduced to prop to be shuffled & waved, any preparation wasted, along with congregants time & money. Just as well make paper airplanes. Maybe they should call the sacred desk the pulp-it until Mike gets ministry figured out. The alter call, an afterthought, a rote occurrence; soon to be optional? Maybe the print shop could make cards, telling any visitors who expected a church service at a church, how to get saved as they exit? They could even bill, at a dollar a pop, the person who invited/brought/or is otherwise responsible for their attendance. So, $5 a month? Every little bit count's but this isn't enough. Time for a different wack-a-doo gimmick. Rinse, repeat.
You faithfully pay Graham's bills. Do you get any value for what you put in the basket? How 'bout for what the ministers in the work of the Lord in the field mail to pay Graham's bills? Do you still pay for a ministers license? How about coffee @ fellowship? Do you still send Graham money from your church's tithes & offerings so Graham can pay its own bills? No one asked you if Davis could go on a building rampage on the church-behind-the-fence compound Kekel was gifted? So why should you help pay Graham's bills? You're literally paying his figurative inheritance tax.
Senior Pastor Kekel writes regularly how they sacrificed to get where they are, and to have all they have. Citing all the times they went home to eat a sandwich before going out to fellowship at a restaurant (that's a lot of sandwich), to humble-brag about his frugality & to justify having the cash for his lifestyle of the rich & fatuous. Kekel's version of 'buy saving bonds'. What's next, where's your change-jar? You didn't give as much as me. You only have 2 jobs? Eat more sandwiches. If you had washed my car you would have a mansion already. Smile, this tele-churched variety-show is recording evidence against me.
Or, he has to reach back to his childhood in the 1960's (the cracked toilet-seat story's a real tear-jerker). We also had hardships (along with everyone else) in the 1960's, but only have to reach back to our last year with NTCC (2008) for more recent anecdotes. Mind you, while Senior Pastor Kekel shares his testimony of hardship, they were eating their wealth-building sandwiches in their latest McMansion. Not even bologna & white bread like the rest of us plain folk; more likely Boars Head & other deli meats; artisanal breads, cheeses, mustards & other fancy goodies from the fellowship hall.
But, folks that do have to eat bologna, white bread & other cheap tasty trifles, would pick up the tab for them. Their love offering to a wolf in wolf's clothing. Lambs feeding a wolf. How's anyone fooled? He decanted Tanya when she was 14 & he was only 24-years-young? Davis knew what Mike was when he wanted Tanya, a kindred spirit, and these types of jackals can't change their spots & stick together. How many widows mites were divested for Kekel's real estate holdings? How many deflowered change-jars? So they could couple with their unbroke toilet seats in their 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th + mansion, cleaned by Michael's Maidens.
There's still confusion if our cult or the once-wunderkind owns them-thar' estates. All tax records reviewed show they're NTCC holdings. They go out to eat in a late model Mazda/Cadillac/BMW/SUV. They come home to a fully furnished/decorated house, to a son (free baby-sitting) who's in private school (or destined for it), was involved in organized sports, secular college, et cetera.
When Davis dies these not-appreciated handouts will dry up. Entitlement sucks only when it ends. When Davis dies a lot of things will dry up. Mike's entitlement ticket will have been punched. Where will his next benefactor come from? Will he sympathy-suck professionally from that inevitable day forward, or is this where he's already at? He already has his tele-pulpit. Davis has no more daughters we know of. Kekel will have to buy his own pie & milkshake, though he be once-wunderkind Michael Craig Kekel of histrionic imagination. Does he own his yacht?
The high chance someone would pay for their food/dessert/coffee at the restaurant is because he's Senior Pastor Davis son-in-law, not because he's once-wunderkind Michael Craig Kekel, which really twerks Mike's brows above all else, once this started to dawn to him. So, he wants his lawn cut.
When Verna passes he'll loose more. But, he'll still be husband to Tanya. This can't be taken away. I've been a house husband before & is what I now do. For years at a time, at times, so I could really get in the groove. If you approach it as a job, your work is done in 2 hours or less; even cooking. Shopping's extra time. The meal planning, shopping list, to-do lists, & all other household management are included in the less-than 2-hours. Plus, being the house-wife you have much more time to do your honey-do-husband stuff. So I guess I had 2 jobs. Mike still beats me. It's very straight-forward, satisfying & fulfilling. You'll get uber-efficient, which is uber-manly. At least that's what grown women have told me. See, I'm already training Mike. What a good boy am I.
Is Tanya a good cook? Does she cook? I ask because I'm still finding faults. You don't find what's not there. This's why this diatribe's long. If they hadn't done it I wouldn't report it. Every time I've eaten at one of the executive's mansions it's always premium pickings from the i'm-a-poor-student/minister bread-table in the fellowship hall. I don't think I've ever eaten a desert home-cooked by a head-wife. Although, sister Davis cooked the morning breakfasts the times we went to eat at Pastor Davis'. She'd even make seconds, so I always had seconds.
They would even brag about their finds. Sometimes to the folks standing in the line they cut. Just bizarre we were too cowed to call them out & the only proof needed NTCC is a cult. Equally bizarre is all the things the head-wives were so effortlessly able to do, which would bring their superior-lessers to full stop. Even gaining momentum over all these decades. Just fascinating. Shows how distorted they all were & gives pause how they became this way? But, may explain part of what type of person makes a cult leader. The only reasonable answer is this is what's behind their eminence front. This's foreign to how I conduct my day to day life. So, some students had to do without, so the executive wives could entertain (usually other executives & executive wives). Pie serves pie. Cake's for proles.
I've seen the boss-wives take the best pies & breads from the fellowship hall during the day, before the lowly ministers wives & student wives could get there. I've heard sister's planning when to get there before the head-wives. I don't remember what time the cue would start to beat the head-sisters, sometimes hours before we opened, but if they got there before all the common-sisters had been helped they would cut the line anyway, as their eminence dictated to them.
A lot of folks count on the free-bread-table as part of their food budget. Obviously, since they were free-bread-table customers. No one should have to compete with the Graham-hibernator's wives. Like competing with Bezos for free yachts. If there was no cue, these posh head-sisters would enter the fellowship hall, with all the sneak-thief chatter & body language, until they saw they're seen.
Then the looking over their shoulder & around the parking lot stops & the justifications start. Just like when folks are caught by the police. Survey says: 'It's for Pastor Davis/Pastor Davis is coming over' was the number one answer. Some of them must have been lying 'cause it's doubtful even Pastor Davis could each so much pie. They'd finish taking all they wanted, in their subtle make-up & ill fitting finery. Leaving their smug-in-suds bouquet behind. Their gait is: "i-pulled-a-fast-one/we're-so-clever/daddy-will-be-so-proud". We followed them to load their selections into a luxury vehicle. We were mindful where we looked, in their trunk & elsewhere. They'd even take stuff to give to any head-sisters who didn't make it. The thing head-wives never knew is, all knew which ones had been their by their bath-beads. No one else could afford their scent.
They did the same covetous shit for the lodge. Poaching the best pies in Graham & from our other big churches which grifted-food-banks, months before conference so they could have goodly godly goodies at the lodge. Gandy coordinated all this & the trucks would roll in on time. He always did a stellar job. A superior administrator. I salute you with your own faux-meat burrito w/watery coffee chaser.
I ate with everyone else at the lodge (it's not name dropping if you did it, it's a humble-brag), even though I knew this was wrong, I ate the student's/church-member's grifted-food-bank food. But its free pie, so hand me that whole pie, no to the left, my big conference-spoon & a cuppa Pastor's instant made by whoever wasn't a man. No, Kekel never made my cuppa. Nice try though. Almost funny.
This violates any food-bank authorized food-uses rules I've ever read. The food-bank stipulations I've read, showed they were always obtained through fraud/grift. So people saving money for mandatory conference would have to buy what they would have gotten from the free-food table & have less money for mandatory conference. Maybe not going as a result; excoriation pending.
But, not right away. The tippy-top leadership also uses conference-month to vacation. No one would even notice since folks were gone anyway, so they could take their authorized vacation people would know about later. Why waist your authorized PTO? Conscientiousness is for chumps. You deserve extra PTO since you have to take care of the man of God (d.l. moody & r.w. davis). FYI: Board members get a months vacation each year; full pay.
Arizona, Florida, Missouri, Michigan, Hawaii. For example, teach a workshop in Panama & take a week vacation before & after. It wouldn't need to be Panama, just an example for instructional purposes. The irony is the stay-getter doesn't take stay-cations. He pew-sits in Graham for his ministry & go-gets for vacation? There may be other states, since they have to sneak, but these are the known ones. Win, win. They get back to Graham when they get there. No one's the wiser, no one will ask where they've been, until everyone finds out online. They also camouflage vacations as seminars & workshops. They can't do this with revivals since revivals require them to be there more than a day, but they can still take the weeks before & after. Also, no one's the wiser.
So, Davis is dead, Kekel's the Pastor & doesn't get treated as well as the last One. Was Mike keeping score? He even out-loud whines about it. Real out-loud. Lips moving, sound, everything. He even puts it on video now? Kekel seems the type who would notch a gun. Was Kekel that guy who, as he lazed-administratively in any one of his mansions, wrung his hands with cackling delight, rocking forth & back, at the respect & riches he was soon-to-be grifted & is he obtuse?
Leave our cult before it's too late...you'll be glad you did.
Gregory
:IT WAS A NIGHTMARE
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