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[working draft]
YESTERDAY, TODAY & TOMORROW
"this isn't working, do it more..."
"video this & put it online..."
"we only southern-workshop after october, call again come spring..."
"another workshop will fix this..."
"i don't got no respect..."
"we're going to Arizona to workshop..."
"God wants workshop in Hawaii..."
"nobody likes me, everybody hates me..."
"i married the bosses daughter! RESPECT ME!..." or
"RESPECT ME! I MARRIED THE BOSSES DAUGHTER!" See. Either way works. Good question. Thanks.
All 'quotes' throughout this tribute happen/d. Adding dammit on the end at his exclamation point, while he never-went there, would express his gist more completely, topped only on live exhibitions of his head pew-sitter TV shows!
I doubt he'll ever learn "a kazoo can't play first fiddle" & why Graham is failed.
Maybe I should stick with traditional put-downs? "Like putting lipstick on a pig" & "You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear". Much better.
Notional BLOCK-O'-TEXT: Coat-tails last longer than laurels. They're like cock-tails on vacation, comes with a package, except you got away with it, if a concern. Like sneakin' pizza on a diet. Yet, his coat-tails have markedly frayed since 2014. Like someone overserved. His laurels have been high mileage for decades. Much like a tippler's. It must've been hard walking around hang-dog, 'specially with so many jobs he should ha'been patted for. He caught his own hand in the cookie jar, that's the bed he gets i.e. folk's judge him for marrying Tanya. What did he think would happen? He kn'ws* Tanya wasn't & isn't approved behavior. It's not secular societal policy either. Forbidden fruit doesn't always taste sweetest. At least he knows now. But now 'tis his reich of revenge. He's had 11-years to act the fool in the faces who scoffed his marriage to Tanya & now it's televised &/so he demands pats. This's what a Kekel monarchy is. This's what a Denis monarchy is. I hope to never experience again someone as vicious from the pulpit as Oloans. This's what a Kinson monarchy would be. An Ashmore, Infausto, Gesang monarchy. Mine. Pride makes folks act the same way every time it's tried. If it don't work, do it again. Sally forth & grind personal axes to tilt at imaginary giants. Everyone's a giant to a small person, so he peppers your tv with sparks flying, preaching & teaching with sparks flying, to fix us all with sparks flying. The_WHIRLWIND. Did sister Olson despise Mike? I didn't before 2025. But I never thought about this stuff this way before. It's disturbing. I knew the facts, but never considered the implications since it was a don't go there topic, even after I was ejected. *Off topic: Is kn'ws a self-evident contraction of know(s)/knew(s)?
M.C. Kekel is an also-ran, a never-ran stay-getter, with an 'I married the bosses daughter' jet-pack sans controls. But, one can't give what one ain't got. He buck-rodgered pastor Davis' policies & chases the world. RESPECT ME! Why? What value does he give? Bunkum & Chastising christians. So, he's unfit for command. Not because he married you-know-who, this's just how he got there. Stay-getter? Senior pew-sitter? Respected? Bah. Humbug preaching. Hokum teaching. With insensate-booster dongle. At 24, he dated a 14-year-old? Still no outrage? Only when we call Mike names? Got it. Tough room. Did Jesus leave or sumpin'?
This brief satire (now part 3 of 3) is a first-person-narrative for once-wunderkind Michael Craig Kekel. So let him know. Who malaprops quit means quit & not conduct/behave, for one example. This's memorialized in his 2011 message entitled "Quit you like men" & yes, he preached it - out loud & in public.
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Jeez-louise golly-gee will-lickers, I've never learned so much about a person's giving & works in my life; even when a pastor.
"During that time in school, my apprenticeship check wasn't coming in, for months. I called the VA again, and again, and this time said "I'd hate to call my Congressman about this" and I got the check in two weeks. The Lord put it on my heart to give that check to the school, 4 digits worth."
Commendable. From the right of the decimal point? Did he cash it & give anonymously? Well, his cover's blown now. Was this before or after pastor Davis figuratively said, 'we're like minded, your go-getter style reminds me of mine at 24, go for it champ!' He likely endorsed & dropped it in. Can you imagine Mike not taking credit for something? He does need all the help he can get, so he bought a bride? The day Tanya was just old enough to legally marry, no more payments needed, no more evangelism (emeritus, as quick as he went out, he was back; so he passed urinalysis), no more bologna & he can be a stay-getter in Graham with his hobbies. Talking the good fight in Holy Spirit Power. Mike only had to wait until she was 16 or 2 years. Remarkable, we respect his patience-of-Job at 24 & thankfully the minimum legal age for dating wasn't younger.
"I was teaching two classes and preaching every Thursday night during my final semester of bible school, and I immediately said "yes!" when Pastor asked me IF I WANTED TO GO OUT. I quit the next day; no more grease". - M.C. Kekel's ceo blog [who's this guy, we may call bullshit for lack of supporting evidence]
But, it hurts different when giving digits if you already have things (& digits), [leggere velocemente] plus a steady job, plus a stable place to live for decades on end with no chance of moving, (breath) plus a bank account not on 'e', giving money every month to the church your pastoring, for the work of the Lord, and using the rest to go to conference and fellowship meetings, (breath) and/or the inevitable move always just around the next corner for these same decades of involvement, with no light at the end of a very long & winding tunnel.
Whenever we passed through Graham, on our way to or coming from a work or for a Seminar, Mike was still there. He may have even picked us up at the airport, brows & all. Then drop us off with whoever we were to stay with. At the time, Mike presented no delusions of relevance. Dormant? Our hierarchy/preference, before & after graduation for fellowship was Gaylord, Davis, Johnson, Olson (to be polite). The BIG 4 in this order. But the Gaylords had sickened & died, during & right after I finished College. So BIG 3 after 1997. These were the only executives we ever invited to our apartment. Other ministers in between.
We never considered inviting Kekel, Kinson, Gesang, Infausto, et cetera. Kekel & Gesang are silly. Kinson & Infausto overwrought. This wasn't about not liking fellow ministers, not about who's a buffoon or overblown, who's bottom & who's top. We all have our foibles & urges. I liked Kinson. But, we had an opinion of others & preferences for friendship, as everyone does, but getting the most bang for the money we spent hosting at our apartment was a consideration during the depravations of school & NTCC ministries.
One of the times hosting the Johnson's (or he came by himself, pretty common then) we served plain vanilla ice cream & saltine crackers (the fellowship hall was out of deserts). They ate without drama & didn't demand pie. A good time was had by all. No condemnation expressed, no shame felt.
Some years after I graduated we went to Graham to wait for our next work to be readied (Stevens) since it was taking longer than scheduled (we'd already done the handoff at our church), so we rented a house in bonco. I insulated (same job i had in college) & was bounced around to local churches to do whatever. Mostly fellowship, janitor shit & shadow the pastor. I don't remember preaching anywhere & this was before workshops were a thing.
It was still back to Graham for saturday blitzkrieg. Mike assigned us to his team. Too keep an eye on us? Or because Pellicia was always rockin' it as lay pastor (he's a go-getter, no homo)? Does Mike still stack the best folks on his team? I also had to be back for church services. They didn't let Deborah sing, so why'd they need us there, Pellicia? Dobbins was another good lay-pastor, so we asked permission to be on his team. Mike said no to Pellicia when we asked. We could've also church hopped at night & not just during any day. Mike's meetings were a dependable spirit-quencher. A stay-getter spirit-quencher? He keeps getting worse, huh?
No breaks for the congregation, but Mike takes breaks from them regularly. He's a stay-getter minister with go-getting vacations. Shouldn't he do stay-cations exclusively? But, some folks shouldn't speak to the public either, or at all. Maybe Pellicia for senior Pastor? No one more qualified comes to mind. Only if they want to escape Mike's doldrums. He'll never leave. Like a relation by marriage. Gene always did great when Mike wouldn't make it, but he was a go-getter in Okinawa too. Mike & Tanya were the only ones allowed to miss soul-winning meeting (even soul winning). So they stay-got from stay-getting in Graham? Lots of layers of hypocrisy to the Kekel franchise.
When we were leaving after some months, all the executives who hadn't yet, invited us to their place. Kekel, Kinson, Olson, some of the lesser office workers, the suck-ups I assume. Who are the current suck-ups? Our dance card was suddenly very full. So we had to pack, et cetera around being royally entertained by Graham's royalty. Sweet. For those slowly following, this means they made our packing & leaving harder so they could check a box at their convenience. RESPECT ME!
I assume, even then, this's so when someone would say they 'had the _____'s over when they were here' they could say 'us too'. Everything's a competition in Graham, but in their imagination. The rest of us didn't care. Everything's a competition nobody knows about & it's just off the okay highway. Keeping up with the Jones', but american psycho comes to mind.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. As long as Mike & Tanya can imaginate they're the senior bon vivant of Graham, they're just the nicest folks. So, Mike rarely looks comfortable, at his ease, or in command during his tele-pulpit show. Song service (he's the senior musician) often turns embarrassing, as he takes the song leader to task for infractions from his imagination. He's senior song-service scold. Then he speaks another horrible homily. He's also senior soliloquist, so it's more downhill skiing; yelling all the way. Mike is a one-man skit. He needs more variety in his variety-show & charity in his act. You can tell how often Mike imbibes ex'r press in proportion to how seethy he gets during tele-church. He's been pegged lately. Fully throttled.
This was even before they wanted the ego-massage of showing-off for tv. FACTNet, email, Skype, SparkPeople, other websites, Facebook, blogs & now YouTube. Davis used new buildings, paid for by store-front churches. Kekel uses tv, paid for by store-front churches. The only thing never changed are the store-front churches; who've been paying Graham's bills since before 1981. If any of this is God, why lead in so many directions?
Regardless, their gimmicks backfire as cult gimmicks always do. Synergy, blitzkrieg, cheese books, skits, print shop, new education center, new fellowship halls, 1 free lunch, big-green itself, pavilion & now workshops. No new dorms for decades (no growth). Regarding the print shop: What a waste, they could have published the books we wrote. Messages preached compilation (over 500 so far)? How about a multi-volume history of NTCC? I'd buy it, even if Mike wrote it. Being forward, I'll write the foreword. Imaginations the limit, I guess they're too occupied with imagined respect & real real estate. Wedding, funeral, birth announcements? College yearbooks? College textbooks? In NTCC, everything's high school & substitute teacher, so we get business cards, flyers & corner-stapled stick-figure how-to manuals. They never harness their herds potential in anything.
Mike suffers from fear & frustration in facing the bed made for other's (no money) for 44 years, so our cult can have extravagant, never-utilized, statement real-estate in podunk-Graham. Mike's shiny boorish mask for NTCC-tv appearances rubs & grinds congregations raw. Since shiny don't polish rough, rough scores & we still have what we see. Wherever they're at, there they are.
Kekel might have been hierarchyly somewhat right before my fellow students for fellowship. I don't know, why should he care? Just 'marrying the bosses daughter' decided his last-place in the borg. Not what he does & not what his enemies say. Again, this goes for any executive in any company. I'm an ex'r. Why does senior pastor Kekel spend time thinking about people he hates? Is he the actual hater? Maybe he's tired of looking at heels & backs of heads? Most of those who should follow, don't. So, we got Mike.
He's dean, so I associate him with college & his marriage, nothing else. Mike's proud he 'married the bosses daughter', but's mad folks treat him this way. He defined himself, not us. then Kekel's whines about sleeping in the bed he made. He pigeon-holed himself. I'm re-phrasing this incessantly throughout this satire, for the slow-pokes.
He's Davis' son-in-law, so I acknowledged the coat-tail, being polite. Like I have with every other 'I married the bosses daughter' phenom I've ever met. He's just always been in Graham. This's where he's pioneered himself a stay-getter's mission (a basis for his honorary awards). Do they have their plot in Orting yet?
Unlike senior pastor Kekel, I (reagan era veteran) know I gained gravitas marrying Deborah. But since she wasn't the bosses daughter I would be respected for any respect I earned (horseman again). Not that I was a climber, or ever had a problem being respected (or not respected). She gave me access to the upper third of the organization for fellowship. At the time, the old timers (folks around long before mike) were still in our cult. The only reason I was invited to the lodge is I married Deborah & the head-sisters wanted to hang with her. The only reason we (& not just her) were invited back is I didn't embarrass her (or myself). I hung with many great folks I would not have otherwise. When we first went go-getting, pastor Davis told me, in front of Deborah, she'll to train me. This was a relief, I told them as much. A shared load is lighter & this is why I was never an assistant to a pastor.
She has a wealth of knowledge & experience, probably the top 5% most knowledgeable, in my estimation. So, between fellowship opportunities (lodge, et cetera) & her Davis approved guidance, I had it made. Easy-peasy. Kekel is in the bottom 5% based on youtube polls. Showing charity. I wouldn't have to learn everything by making mistakes & she could sing. Another advantage I have over Mike. Plus, everyone respects Deborah, another advantage I have over Mike. Plus, I usually don't make the same mistakes over & over & over & over & over &...again. Another advantage I have over Mike. Plus, I also try to not cause my own problems. Another advantage. Does this add up now?
The hubris I found most odd in the whole organization, even for her, is why Tanya would even blow into a mike with Deborah present, even that Tanya would want to. RESPECT ME! Yet, she keeps singing specials? RESPECT ME! The cut-in-front-of-the-bread-line behavior of a typical cult leader's typical family (no biggie, i like saltines). RESPECT ME! Same as any secular rich-parents kids. RESPECT ME! Tanya is to singing, what Mike is to preaching. RESPECT ME! Plus, Deborah plays piano (drums, tambourine & guitar). Another advantage. So why wouldn't Tanya ever let Deborah sing? RESPECT ME! Or any other better singer since we've all heard lots to choose from? RESPECT ME! Or did they quit-like-men by now?
Our cult's college teaches, use the best resources available for the work of the Lord. For Service, meal, Bible study` - don't serve bologna e.g. if you can serve steak. Folks respect quality. Especially for a service or workshop. Especially for servicemen's work. Everything I had at my disposal (her singing, cooking, includes my notes + after college notebooks, white shirts & wingtips w/hairspray) gave me success in the ministry to varying percentages. I was a success, by anyone's measure, because of Deborah first. My advantages helped me, Mike's nepogasmic advantage (pride) would hurt him if he went out. Hurt his chances of ever going out. Will he ever go out?
RESPECT ME!...Tanya as a missionary, pioneer, evangelist, soloist (& she's the soloist), teacher (& she was my professor) is as ludicrous as Mike senior pastoring a church (& he's the senior pastor).
RESPECT ME!...Why? Give us a new reason. Your marriage to a 16-year-old @ your 26 in 1983, doesn't count since 2014. But folks long term disgust for you (for same) continues undiminished. It's getting mathy in here. Put your pen down. Good listening weather. Remember when Davis use to order us to put our pens down & never tell us to pick them up? Everyone would go home to remember 3-pages of notes to type. In case it was a test, I never picked it up & tried not to look uncomfortable & I would type an extra page (to give him the finger). I have a good memory for what I hear. Another advantage I have over Mike. Since I wasn't transcribing I could bang out 4-pages (1 more than usual) in a third the time.
Remember when the discussion on FACTNet hovered over Olson steering the borg when Davis dies? How would he do it? Would Tanya or Mike listen to him? Joe's a mouse, but I assumed he would turn things around by enforcing pastor's rules postmortem (mike thinks it's postpartum) which the Kekel's scofflawed since before 1981. I'm sure Mike irks Olson unabated. Having to defend the inexcusable. Having to defend the undefendable over & again. So, probably irks Joe worse than Mike does the ex'rs, since he has to daily live with his nose rubbed in disobedience & disloyalty on display. Irked, so the best choice for dear-leader. Mike doesn't represent me, so meh.
The Good News? - 14's the new 24. RESPECT ME! I wonder how many children grew up hearing 'i don't care what reverend Kekel lets ***n* do...' Making every parents job exponentially harder. 'he loves me too much to wait...' RESPECT ME! 'you're 14 now, so...' RESPECT ME! 'he doesn't care that I'm 14...' RESPECT ME! 'please sir, she's almost 14...' RESPECT ME! 'when i told him i was 14...' RESPECT ME! 'He loves me...' RESPECT ME! 'i'm mature for my age...'
Another disturbing point is NTCC girls don't wear makeup, so children look like children in our Cult, not 21. RESPECT ME! 'i told him i was 14 so he'd respect me...' RESPECT ME! '19? oops, you look 14, wear some make-up...' RESPECT ME! '& she'll be 14 next year...' RESPECT ME! 'i'm not like the other kids he's dated...' RESPECT ME! 'he could tell I was special...' RESPECT ME! 'after childrens church...' RESPECT ME! 'he got the key to the...' RESPECT ME! 'he said i'm old enough to decide...' RESPECT ME! 'we didn't go there...' RESPECT ME! 'he respects me...' RESPECT ME! 'since we're getting married anyway...' RESPECT ME! Why? 'pastor said it's alright...' Reads like police reports, no? Moss worked for the SLMPD, when Graham hadn't started yet. Whenever a reverend would get jailed Usually for sex stuff. If you've ever flown in to STL for conference, you know they have fine women. Along with Mike & Roni, I channel too. That was Rodger & Roni. Moss would get a copy to Davis. Davis channeled Hoover like Kekel channels Denis. I wonder who inherited Davis' files? Davis was head for 47 years to Hoovers 48, until their deaths.
He would be a lion on pastor Davis behalf. True lore. Mild Joe would be our Trump. Would Joe get the job? FACTNet wanted to know in 2004. Olson would be our Brigham Young, who strictly taught & enforced Joseph's teachings. No deviations. Not criticism, just observation & educational guessings. I never thought Kekel would be gifted the throne. That he's a serious contender? He isn't a serious person, or one to be taken seriously (personal experience). I assumed, at the time, Davis wanted his Cult to continue after he died? To see everyone's fear & frustration realized in facing what an inconsequential lambaster Kekel is without Davis, through his tv show this year, is very alarming.
Mike's channeling pre-HOP Denis & Ramtha; with the same trajectory of he's insecure (1980), then outcast (1981), then accepted (1983), then entitled (1983), then proud (1983), then defensive (1957 - 1983), then victim/persecuted (1984 - present, Mike's at this step). As the above chart shows, senior pastor Kekel's go-getter phase was from 1981 to 1983 & better than nothing. These aren't all the mile-markers & the order may be switched somewhat, just giving it the gist. The next step is out-the-door if he stays true to the Denis/Ramtha's template & why Arizona is an important development. Denis did it by theft. Davis did it by death. Kekel's using workshops & vacations to cover their being in Arizona. The next benchmark is a Polycom. So, Kekel is using theft also; of time, resources & folks assumptions of where he goes when he's not busy stayin'. They'd better hurry, the Kekel's are tentatively scheduled to emeritus to Arizona bye-bye 2027.
The only difference is Roni's steps to perdition (pride) were impelled by go-getting ministry success upon successes & Mike 'married the boss's daughter' to earn his downward trajectory (pride). It's the pride that creates this path, not what we're proud of. This's why Roni, Ramtha & Mike are the same, as we all are if we're proud enough. Some goals aren't worth reaching. Pride is the same path for everyone, well worn. So I've hit the blogville circuit to opine with others, on the routinely hit-dog loudly-barking on tv. 'I married the bosses daughter' doesn't make him a boss, respected, competent, effective, smart, educated, liked, loved, admired or an internet sensation. Or any of the other imaginings Mike is guided by, or less silly. Kids also think they have the same 'pull' their parents may have. Ditto officer wives. Have you ever 'disrespected' a captain's wife? Well, that's Mike.
Nepotism made him rich & disappointing & disappointedly, only rich since he seemingly puts no effective effort into managing (an administrative function) the helm. So Mike is disappointingly rich. This never translates well into ministry optics if it's severely disproportionate to the flock. The internet never helps either. Great, he's proud he has kingdom Graham, now give an account for this gift spokes-folks? He's had 11-years. The same amount I had pastoring. What has he done with it? What has he done to it? His station as HEIR PRESUMPTIVE grants no guarantee to be successful, bossy, abusive, unstable, anchorless, rudderless, overwhelmed, respected, loved or liked. Davis provided all this for him. But he could have chose what not to be made into by his new station. I own a book by Marcus Aralias, Mike's no Marcus Aralias.
He's still just goofy, is what's left after Davis left. So what he was before? No personal progress? Life's lessons aren't, if we don't learn them. He would, if he had time. The only rights nepotism grants are riches & criticism. Lee Iacocca's book "Where Have All The Leaders Gone?" has more insight. Pastor Davis loved being right about people & he's always right, just ask him & he'd tell ya. I can imagine a cheshire smile splitting his face as he sees the mess Mike is making of NTCC. Davis knew (& most others), but he had to placate Tanya for Verna sake at any cost. Does Verna have dirt to dish? So Mike got the job. It really cost him more than he’ll ever know.
I wunder if Verna has dirt on Rodger? I wunder if Mike is pastor only so Tanya can be head-pastor's wife? I wunder if Mike took the job to please Tanya & why he's listless in ministry & lodges in Arizona? His gift is office work. I wunder if this's the only purpose of NTCC? To give pastor Davis the resources to please Tanya? Does Tanya look increasingly like RWD in sweater set as she's aged past 14? Everything revolves around Tanya? I know she thinks this & it's true within the compound. But, for reals, to this extent? I could believe this easily, but it would be astounding. Does Tanya have dirt on Rodger?
To please Tanya, to please Verna, even at the cost of his life's work, Tanya & our children. The outlier was Mike again, he's attracted to teens & giving him Tanya degaussed him enough to protect the corporation until she aged past his tendency. But then what, start a childrens church? Self-control would be the normal option. Maybe the reason for their sudden move to Graham, just an informed speculation. When did Graham's children's church start? It's been a minute. So once again RW juggles & spins plates to the apprehension & amazement of all. Giving Tanya to Mike was a boss-move sacrifice of convenience for Rodger, but it turned out a band-aid & Mike's still dud-on-arrival in the interim.
Mike would get criticized even if competent, since 'he married the bosses daughter'. It's dopey not to understand this. This defines him for the rest of his silly lifestyle (dumb is secondary), until they emeritus to Arizona in the next few years (no later than 2027). This was his entire identity when we were go-getting for our cult. This goes for anyone related to a boss in any corporation. Cuz it's church it's different? The bosses daughter's husband becomes competent through marriage? Not if he wasn't before. Respected, loved, admired? Historically, only in that persons own imagination.
Here's some more twisted skits: We're all brothers & sisters in Christ, so are all related, so nepotism & incest is the only option for all. RESPECT ME! How's about: We're all children in Christ so technically everyone's doing it? Best he stay a pew-sittin'. RESPECT ME! He's anchored Jesus & chained the cares of this world to his leg & is rudderless overall. So, he can't leave Graham, it's his crossroad.
His spiritual gift is office work (as he ridiculously shares), but with a private office suite (humbly un-plaqued so he wouldn't have to choose a title; efficient, practical, frugal, respected). Being the founders son-in-law has its perks. The main being no one takes you seriously, regardless of competence. So, him thinks respected successes are assured? Mike's actions demonstrate he's in this camp. Some folks operate through the gift-of-error. 'I SAID, I MARRIED THE BOSSES DAUGHTER. RESPECT ME!' Again, this goes for any corporation which allows nepotism.
I'll take all my advantages over his glitz any day. Mike wants big-time industrial-evangelism ministry with no personal synergy or humility, with no go-getter foundation to stabilize & preserve growth (growth still pending), so it's time to start tripping to Arizona. We're still talking about Mike. Without humble go-getter roots, ministry success doesn't happen unless you inherit it. He did, so if it abides is up to Mike. I've watched the big Lebowski & Mike's no dude. You won't be a Swaggart without the humble go-getter roots. Although, to be fair, Jimmy can sing & play piano & his scandal's involved adult women.
Since Graham is failed on Mike's watch, it's still up to Mike. I doubt anyone of us would mind if he blamed it on the ex'rs. Can he turn our Cult around? Stay tuned. They have a tele-pulpit, maybe they could also do a survival show, showcasing their struggle. The name wouldn't need to be changed (lost). Or, he could resign & the executive board could appoint someone more competent (anyone really). I thought of 20 right off, but they quit-like-men already. Including sisters who could also easily out-senior-pastor Kekel in Graham, who've also quit-like-men. I vote for Deborah. Stay tuned to his tele-pulpit variety-show for regular proofs, spoofs, goofs & more besides. Are the 'Skillet Lickers' still licking? Or didn't senior pastor Mike keep Graham's house-band going either? RESPECT ME!
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Espresso station (en suite): Espresso machine, tamper, precision basket, pharmacist scale, WDT and funnel, bottomless pf, descaler, blind basket, grouphead brush, bottomless portafilter, puck screen, RDT spray bottle, Horsehair brush, shot mirror, brass timer, spice & sweetener shakers in custom cabinet, extra milk frother, relevant utensils, cups & saucers, et cetera.
Don't ask me what most of this stuff is. I had to look it up, then copy/paste.
At least I could get my mail from Fontenot, who also showed me how to surf the web in the campus office over the course of a couple few days during scheduled business hours. I would ride to the office with Ripka after he dropped his wife off at middle/high school. I don't remember which. Both, I think. Fontenot was also very helpful with print shop orders & requests. But, this's just policy.
A point is, Kekel wasn't useless then, he just wasn't a thing other than Tanya's husband, unless he was my Professor, but so was Tanya & Gesang. Otherwise he was a non-entity, who also 'married the boss's daughter'. He had a purpose in NTCC (tanya's husband, in the band & mr. microphone stuff), he just wasn't pastor yet & at that time I assume he never would be, for the good of our cult. Did he want it? To be senior pastor? What aptitude was exhibited? Or's this what Tanya wanted?
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. Although Shakespeare doesn't address it, the tragedy is Mike stay-got greatness en suite while gaslightingly saying it was earned (owed) - John Houseman for MCK. Further eroding his respectability. Yet, how does one come back from marrying a mature 16-year-old when you're only a youthful 26? This & the Bible will always define him, not his imaginations. Especially among grown women.
How ick is senior pastor Kekel to grown women who know his past. Do they fight the cringe to shake his hand? Is Verna repelled? Then what's wrong with her? Does Verna let Mike kiss her? What's wrong with her? Verses condemning hypocrisy & worldliness define Mike. Age laws for dating should've stopped Mike. RW should've stopped Mike. Verna should've stopped Mike. Tanya should've stopped Mike. Why wasn't she raised better? Parent's slackin'. The board should've stopped Mike. The students should've stopped Mike (blanket party). Nobody stopped Mike then & they make the same mistake now. I know inaction solves most problems, just not this time. RESPECT ME!
The Kekel's won’t relate to the little people. So, anyone behind the fence, as evidenced by his shared online perceptions of what's struggle, but others would consider not. Not very manly (carter era again). He may have been a child who ran home for care for an owie & we're the same age? hank-hill shudder It would be too rich if he's also the kid who took his ball & went home. hah (alf)! Was he the bully he is now? seriously Snitch? Yes. undoubtedly Teachers pet? maybe a substitute's who also wouldn't know his past Probably no & for the same reasons in his articles. He's not faithful, moral or trustworthy & he's a groan-getter (see youtube). For senior-prom, did Mike dip to a local elementary-school to lure a date? ickity yuck, is this why he's aka Muck? see dr. hook.
Tanya's (1966) entitled, so Mike (1957) panted after it & shortly was hitched (10.16.1983) to her silver spoon & became entitled to it. My take? It’s all about the money, gas-lighting, pride of equipment & child liaisons by a hollow, suited, groan-getter. He still doesn't generate much bang for my buck, or growth from the bucks NTCC's churches send to Graham to pay Graham's bills. Estimated at $52,000 a month in 2010. Could this be a new board position? Child liaison?
Consider this, senior pastor Kekel has never (40 years to date), ever (42 years to date), ever (44 years to date, then do the 'emeritus dip' to AZ)…[leggere velocemente] Pastored a church outside of Graham, pioneered a church, pastored a church which didn’t have sufficient guaranteed income, pastored a church which didn't have nice facilities, or had a dependable late-model car. (breath) Moved every few years, had to quit a job, had to pick people up for church, had to commute to work or church (or even change for church, he worked in church clothes), had to wonder how the church bills were getting paid or went door-to-door door knocking. (breath) Had junky furniture, et cetera for the past 28 years (40 to date).
So maybe he really doesn’t understand? Emphatic enough? I don't really do exclamation points. I feel silly when I do. Like men who drive a jeep, which seems like a high school child, adult woman vehicle. Like sportscars. So I use ! sparingly. Saturday morning soul-winning meeting always felt like it was led by an 'I married the bosses daughter' type. Maybe we'd be worldly if we had Kekel's wealth. We would like to try, so we are. But, not so worldly as they. Maybe just christian-erotica worldly, since there's now modesty-bubbles. But we'll see. It'll take longer, since we have to amass it honest & Kekel has the nepotism head-start advantage. So far we're still the same people (minus the stinking thinking & faithful grifting). We're still standing on our own 4 feet (just like we did in the cult). We have better shoes. We were/are not dependent upon being propped by the man from Cotton-Mill-Hill, and were not exempted from the routine dangers of cult-life by the founder’s wife, daughter & grandson.
I appreciate the way things turn out, and who we are. Things are still progressively better. I also like the fact the blogs are still active and effective (and so effortlessly tweak the leadership since the beginning & steer their actions), and people continue to escape.
He bucked pastor Davis' policies & chases the world, what can he offer? Stay-getter, senior pew-sitter, respected? He's unfit for command.
Gregory
Gregory
:It's A NIGHTMARE
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