Part 3: Emergency POLICY CHANGE backslide...

ARE WE THERE YET ? 😎

2026 POLICY UPDATE: Fellowship meetings (FM) are now allowed if supervised by an executive in attendance & more alarming, Denis-style PrayerForce is the new-style prayer-meeting policy for NTCC, also starting this year.

 

RECAP': In 2012 Senior Pastor Kekel shared..."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."

 

SAME QUESTION is still unanswered (though it's only been 14-years): How does a church service disrupt a church's schedule (despite who's preaching)? In what way? Does lunch disrupt a diner's hours-of-operation? In what way? Maybe it depends on the service? Words of Mike & friends in red throughout.

  

If red words are read, with the voice in your head, in the voice of a Graham pretender; while enhancing the read, it may plant a seed, of light in your caveat empter.

 

Order of Service for the NEW-STYLE fellowship meeting (as seen on TV):

 

😎 Start the Show (TV on/find channel) - So far, so good. Breath mints/spray optional. No drinks. No snacks. No bathroom. No children. No cellphone (includes land-line). No cellophane. Click to donate. All consistent with in person attending & ambiance of our cult.

😎 Expect Distracted Ministrations - Usually starts immediate, cuz it (the executive 😎) routinely arrives at church (any church, any service) pre-distracted, off-outline & borg-cash strapped. By usually & routinely I mean every time, no exceptions. The cares of this world? The deceitfulness of riches? Well, a nitpicker's thinking primes its seethe.

     

😎 Commandeer the Service - A nitpicker/Karen/David/Chad/Steve/Timmy always reacts to its own thoughts of how it's not my fault/it's everyone else's. So it's seethe will out & demands your attention. Why can't people just...(blah, blah, fill in the blank with Mike's latest it's not my fault prevarication for NTCC's consistent failure since 1999). It proceeds from no self-control, which manifests as scold & saying out-loud it's not my fault, listen to me, I know things. Followed closely by respect me & I'm a go-getter too & ask my advice, I know a lot.  

    Mike also shares (summarizing), no one gives more, no one sacrifices anymore. He shares the dollar amounts he puts in the offering? But, the slight-of-hand is, since Mike solely controls how church money's spent, he's just giving to himself. While the faithful understand this an example to be followed. The synergy is borg doctrine + Christ's lambs earnestness = more cash. With synergy, only greater profits = proof-of-concept/synergy.

    A resume fluffer. A Bible verse shuffler. Mike even pines, why don't folks volunteer to work for free without being asked? Maybe cuz Kekel's a no-class act. More symptoms of nepo-entitlement are how great I am; I've done a lot. Coupled with, being a pastor's hard, inconvenient & thankless, pity me, pay me. Yes, this is also an out-loud part; it's fascinating folks sh/would pay tithe to pastor themselves -- Spock. Like tipping at a fast food restaurant -- also Spock. This mentality is a bit schizophrenic (also Doctor Spock & now seen on NTCC-TV), but Mike also often shares don't come to me with your problems i.e. pastor yourself. Mike's a synergy of wresting & business acumen. Though folks never know which Mike they'll get, it will include the-red-words in any variation. 

    But, this's all normalized monetized framing & messaging in any cult-real estate corporation & we all gulped it down. Now it's an online gulp & just as unhealthy. Even normalizing child-romance since Kekel/Kinson/Ripka et cetera never repented of their child-romancing, as proven by their respective (respected) marriage licenses. But, Graham's entitled folks aren't just about coupling & talk the good talk. Graham's also, as you may have heard & can see on TV, founded on entitled folks abuses of ministers, members & visitors. Even spanking, et cetera, children cuz their parents allow it & sometimes help. No one cares but God & girls. So, what they neglect is what's addressed on the eXer blogs. 

    Mike wants respect while failing in cleaning the pancake from his face cracks. Only go-getting can clean this up; not guest-go-getting visits. Not even to Hawaii. Detours to fellowship meetings/work shops/hobbies/real estate/shopping are excused as go-getting in their preaching. Mike shares their on-location vacations after guest-go-getting-visits are earned. Even Hawaii. No go-getter gets this executive's privilege. None strive as hard to force-feed error to lambs. Mike does less, but needs more money from you to do it. 

    As you may have guessed, the Kekel's are also the only-ones policy-authorized to guest-go-get in Hawaii. Though, guest-go-getting to Hawaii does involve the legitimate struggle of going to SeaTac (Seattle-Tacoma International Airport/SEA, brutal drive) or to a lesser degree, the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) & flying business-class (so not first-class & might as well be steerage for Tanya, who IS a legitimate struggle) over an ocean (also legit). Anyway, so the blogs & NTCC-TV are a mirror, a magnifying glass, as further seen following (also legit).

 

😎 On Your Mark, Get Set, PREACH! [TL;DR] - Historically, not about Christ [so,  false start].  

    It's always 'bout housekeeping. The blast & plow, but mostly real estate news-'n'-grift. 

WE ARE WINNING!

NTCC's cock & bull preaching is chaff. If what folks can now see on NTCC-TV wasn't true, folks couldn't have report it for these previous decades. If NTCC wasn't a cult, we wouldn't need to. Mike's slap-&-tickle self-reveal provides the most egregious content once/since he started posting on FACTNet in 2004. So, Mike's oft reaped Streisand Effect continues to demand attention with fresh-instances of his cringe on NTCC-TV? Click to verify if NTCC-TV's the best quitter/eX'r resource available.  

    In real-time we see the fib, half-truth, fillip, romance & rub folks have been reporting all along. Little things? Still subjective? Well, it's now on TV. It's hard to get out of a rut, once you're in it. Hard to deny the live broadcasts. A rut, is a trench, is a grave with both ends kicked out & a mass grave's just wider, a synergy of all three. The rut that's NTCC is now synergy-drenched behind a fence. WE ARE WINNING! Cuz their bigger (more buildings), more impersonal (less persons), while still amoral (without distinction). Alloyed with the world, they crow WE'RE BETTER NOW, OUR POLICY'S CHANGED! 'twas Davis' fault. 

    They could just say they're under new management & save us all the trouble of reporting. When you get away with it & once the gainsaying takes hold, it can't be helped (i.e. it's not my fault defense). The QUITTERS & HATE! hasn't changed. Folk still quitin' & Gra'm still hatin'. So fact-check; vet NTCC's online footprint, search for wheat (the chaff's painstakingly administrated by pastor Mike & friends). Don't catch what NTCC has through uninformed exposure. Taking NTCC at their much-talking (face value/vaunted word) is a fools errand, cuz you never know which face you'll get. Mike & friend's ENEMIES & SEETHE! et cetera, gaslit as GOODNESS & LIGHT! from their mouths. 

    Now we watch from a safe distance. Recorded online, telling folks to watch NTCC-TV's like telling folks to don a mask during COVID, fasten a seatbelt, or toilet paper only; a public service. NTCC-TV keeps membership low & victims compliant. Tuning-in's like wearing a mask against involvement. Like using a condom to protect from adultery, while circumnavigating wisper alley. Anyways, don't fall into Kekel's rut, wear a mask (watch NTCC-TV). Don't be like Mike, wear a mask. NTCC's its own anti-NTCC. Its own best defense against cult membership. Did I state this enough ways so it's clear? Do the links help (I've added a lot throughout this blog, nothing's new, just further elucidated)? 

    Any nitpicker's action (preaching off-message at authorized FMs for this example) grasps at its goal, its ulterior motive, i.e. send-Graham-more-money, respect me, work harder, poor me & Graham's enemies. So, just more talk. The lore is NTCC = talk = action. Be ye warmed & filled, in any iteration, for one example. Or now, TV = pastoring, when pastor's an action word, a go-getter word. Graham changed to its TV-Show-&-Church format (COVID synergy) in 2020 & now the line-troops (go-getters) do it too. Once again, the only thing Graham is pioneering is a rut of recidivism, a trench of transgression, a grave for go-getters. A self-serving process, when they would benefit more from being served. 

    Davis' 1999 constructed McMega Church-building, financed by 1,000+ $2,000 pledges, hasn't changed this, nor demonstrated its need (historic low attendance). Then Davis confiscated Parkland's (Tieman's?) congregation. Like eminent domain. So Graham could afford this additional monthly bill from this ill-advised expansion (pledges already paid-in-full the construction costs -- RWD, now they needed money for utilities, et cetera). Then Davis ran them off toot sweet in the interim. Full circle, like a cat chasing its tail. Regarding real estate, Gra'ms always cart b4 horse. But now, NTCC-TV's your inoculation against cult involvement. 

    All lack in NTCC's directly from what Kekel's allowed to get away with & to date. Beginning with a 1980, Saint-Louis-style, child-romance. Yet, Grahamites still struggle mightily to preach Christ crucified. Every message awash with destructive criticism, carnal correction, pride, enmity, snipes, stripes, threats & weasel words (most used since this underpins all else as the means to facilitate its facade end). Who has time for God in this environment? 

    The characterizations by this blog, though easily verified-true through NTCC's TV-Show-&-Church, regard their executives only, not the go-getters (unless noted differently). Plus, strictly accurate at the time of posting. Pastor Watson, pioneering in Shreveport, is impressive, for one go-getter example. Well spoken, spoken well of, confident, relaxed. Knows how to wear & move in a suit. Not frenetic in his delivery (tone & gestures, no fidget). Good mic discipline. I never did as well. In our cult, cream's allowed to curdle. Best Watson beware. 

    IRRELEVANT ASIDE (in a blog full of them): As seen on NTCC-TV, they're now allowed to wear plaid suits (another change) & this's the only thing tempting me back to the fold since 2008.  

    The first/last Graham TV-Show-&-Church service I sat through was 3.29.2026, (not a fellowship meeting, randomly chosen & I watched the entire service, but didn't click to donate). Serendipitously, this service was where Mike made Denis-PrayerForce-type prayer-meetings official policy in Graham (after the 10:30 mark). Now, when a conference is its routine sparsely-attended dud, it can be prayer-meeting's fault. Like they needed another excuse. The one's they've been using have worked okay.

    Does our cult really need more excuses? So they're now extra-praying for conferences, providing another it's not my fault raspberry (cousin to seethe in this context) for Mike. Why the extra-praying if things are great, as Mike & friends preach? So, you'll also be extra-paying to pay for your extra-praying for camp-expansions. More seethe from Graham, cuz Mike needs to strong arm it's not my fault cash from the go-getters. PrayerForce was the start of Denis' decline also, at least as early as 1997, when I was assigned to Woodbrook for training; along with the Devonshires. So, we got an early glimpse of Denis' trajectory & shared concerns with Graham. 

    After this, I'll just read/skim the service transcripts (more efficient/less onerous) & likely just as infrequently as my viewing history. If Mike would rid himself of his technique of whiny pantomimes of folks, sometimes real & mostly imagined (Mike's a story teller), in Hardy Har Har voice, then he'd be comfortably watchable--if I set my hermeneutics aside in suffering his exegesis. I'll stick with the transcripts though (copy & paste-able into Word/Notepad; then searchable/quotable bonus). If you watch without sound, this further emphasizes Mike's entitlement, anger & pride. Mike's a 7-point outline; God's word manifest. 

    It's Bizarre, his increasing parallels to Prince Zuko. His own worst enemy, the clown-prince now-king wants to be King. Historically, in our cult, all compromise comes from the top 😎 & after Grant was born. Before this, Kekel's 1983 marriage to a 16-year-old was the hot-topic. He was only 26, but been romancing her since she was at most/almost 14. So, no change. No ministerial respect or cooperation with go-getters. No deference to go-getters. Mike lacks grace as a guest at a go-getter's work. His no-tolerance-for-others policy is what you tolerate. His senseless reactions to 'distractions' i.e. singing & musicians & mostly during song-service irony. So, music now interferes with the song service?  

    First, a church service interferes with a church schedule, now music needs fixin'. A pattern emerges? Didn't even need AI, it's so blatant. So, what's the common denominator, the pattern? Too discordant for him? Does he hate jazz too? Only likes bluegrass? Then he should like jazz; same trunk, different branch. He could recognize the connection at the festivals he attends. Reminder, we're discussing fellowship meetings, not regular services. Though NTCC leadership's painfully consistent across all platforms. Consistently painful? 

     Mike wants higher standards in something marginally church related & not real estate. Then seethes when he gets out what he's put in? He wants better optics, but broadcasts online without changing Graham's methods. So, without filter. Mike wants to reap what & where he hasn't sown. Mike wants Christian optics. Mike wants, but's found wanting. A pity for MCK & friends. Maybe they all think GIGO means Garbage In, Gold leaf/goodness/grace Out. Greasy grace. Amazing. What's this garbage, I want my gold-leaf, like when Davis ruled the roost. Amazing. Wherever he goes, there he pees, then he leaves & what you get every time (consistent). Marking territory while still mailing it in? 

    Mike's there to square your work away, while never having done it himself & at your church's expense? An unasked for benefit, unfunded mandate, or pride-trip for a no-getter? You're left making excuses when it's over, to yourself & your members, to normalize his aggressive rudeness. Unimpressive, despite Mike's best efforts. We all did the same thing after an eXec's visit, as needed & why things trend worse for NTCC the more Graham gets involved. Like the government, Washington knows best, on both coasts. But, what's the deal, as an inveterate hater, Mike hates musicians too? Equal opportunity, or evil opportunist? 

    Is Mike's internal disruption during a (live, on TV) song service a self-hate symptom? If it ain't broke, he'll break it? Leading to 'fellowship meetings now disrupt a church schedule'. Who knew, still wrapping my head around Mike's latest absurdities. I.e. a fellowship meeting disrupts a church's schedule & music disrupts the song service. But, only when Mike breezes in, baggage in tow. Again, how can a church-service disrupt a church-schedule? Only room for one in the spotlight? God will give him a forgiving ear if he prays fervently, loudly & while walking (this only works if others see it, but don't look around). 

    Don't be an impeder, don't be like Mike. Did Jubal play this same peccadillo? Are all string musicians proud? Hamstrung, strung up, strung out, string you along? String tie, string cheese, string band, string theory. Third string, second string, first string, apron string, benched in Graham. “A physicist might argue that music is the harmonic resonance of our soul & the string theory of our hearts". -- John Cage [disputed,  attributed to Cage, Coltrane & Limpsync; retrieved 2023; although, I would've swapped soul & heart, hierarchies should match, n'est-ce pas] Maybe Mike should travel with his own house-band. Dust off Davis' skillet-lickers (like everything NTCC, not original)? He plays all standard garage-band instruments very well. 

    Maybe between guitar builds, he could build a one-man-band rig to take on his ministry vacations. Give us lesser musicians a break? Teach more music workshops. Reroute the vacation (reminds of Grateful Dead or Phish fans, their carefree vacationesque lifestyle) to someone else's church to redo their sound system before the next fellowship meeting? Although, this'd be initiative & brotherly love & Kekel don't allow no unmolested peers in his orbit -- Vic J. He tamps folks using all standard cult-leadership methods, so's to keep himself peerless. Just like Rodger & it's policy. Give the go-getter of the church he's visiting an offering for an upgrade to whatever displeases him? Provide a solution after the criticism? Nope, Kekel's strictly OPM, MLM & NRM. These are Kekel's standards/guides. 

    Howz 'bout provide any solution, at any time, for anything at all (piffle, 'tis beneath he)? Some folks are complainers (Mike), some are solvers. Which's the real Mike? Some folks boss, some facilitate. Some folks are brothers, some bothers. Some healers, some are haters. Minister or molester? Helper or harmer? Pastor or predator? Grooming masqueraded as discipleship. Groove with me SAINTS (a no-pressure spirit-break from this onerous topic)! Continuing, if Mike don't like it, maybe do it himself? If you don't like it, quit (we've long had Davis' permission). 

    But, take it away Michael (as never-ever-seen on NTCC-TV--the following's the only satire in this article) 😎 With exceptional microphone technique he'll open the service in fervent prayer (defined as the process of walking & talking unimpeded) 😎 expertly play all instruments (first-take pressable) 😎 lead the congregational flawlessly 😎 expertly sing the special 😎 preach fervently & on-message 😎 make the alter call 😎 pray with each respondent (the unsaved are not allowed at fellowship meeting, or conference; understandably) 😎 close in fervent prayer (the process of walking & talking unimpeded) 😎. [END SATIRE] Then move-on to fix someone else's go-getting; bad feelings in its wake. 

    He'll unironically tell you how it's done right, from things he reads, hears or sees, but's never done (also synergy)? Like workshops & other pulpit seethe (all seen on TV), Mike has to grind as pastor, cuz with synergy, go-getters/people need pastorin', but shy from his standard-organizational NTCC-pastor hijinks. Detail oriented, Mike has the eye for the negative (me too & without projecting). The fault-finder's gaze (me too & in context). Deliverer of an evil eye from behind your pulpit. Volunteer, unpaid, saved, filled, adult (& not ministers) musicians get disciplined. Extra if they're black & sometimes only if they're black; see for yourself. 

    Our cult-LLC substitutes force for finesse & synergy for loyalty to its go-getters. They didn't get God's no substitutions KJV memo. Synergy puts profit before people (no exceptions). Synergy leaves corporations no choice in this, but Mike was already there & Graham's been nothing-but throughout it's storied history. We just didn't know it until recently. They force revival. They force WE ARE WINNING!. Now lacking a reality, they mimic what's everywhere else on TV. A reality sacrificed to synergy, while surrounded by independent churches upholding a stricter standard (right on 224th), so why choose NTCC? Since NTCC couldn't hold the banner, God encroached on their territory. 

    But, they won't fix anything? They even force praying the right way now (just like Denis' PrayerForce). They strain out gnats (nitpicking). They enforce policy while excusing themselves. They do unto others, but won't respond in kind. No one ever makes Kekelesque corrections during a conference, cuz no one else is this rude (& your not allowed to touch their slimey-anointing, for fear of a fake Bible judgment that only applies to the go-getters). Plus, Michael brooks no input from go-getters. 

    So, continue keeping your head down. The other option is quitting (do it right though). Anywho, they'll force a particular outcome, then tell you what to think about it. Then change with next tide & gaslight any who notice, while persistently televising fresh proof of all negative assertions on the blogs Let's force folks out who won't change with us, who resist our compromise. Then undermine & shun them for following their conscience. Like what was done to us in 2007 to present. They even shun the whistle blower. Thank Synergy. 

    They cherry-pick their Bible-accusations, when not lying & wresting the rest of the time. Praise synergy. Now it's let's-PrayerForce (Denis 2.0). Praise synergy. This was also the beginning of the end for Denis & his shame driven pride. So, Mike's just next-up before the throne, although Denis had something to be proud about when an NTCC'r & HOPCC beginnings. Anyway, praise Synergy. Then Fuhgeddaboudit, for cult's sake. All exits are open.

    Don't question or correct Mike (as he often shares on NTCC-TV), or any of the executives in Davis' small pond. Don't even correct something as minor as his malapropisms. Is Mike's whole ministry a malapropism or just an aberration. Quit means stop only, postpartum & postmortem are synonyms, are the more notable ones & the only ones I know of. Although, I rarely watch his TV-show, so their may be other instances. Imagine Mike preaching a fellowship meeting in Berea? A nitpicker who's declaring victory over everything & in defeating your preparations, derails an entire service to make on-the-fly random reactive corrections. Needful things, or Kekel is a left-brained toady to his own mind? 

    He has no victory over himself, while hosting how-to workshops on how-to have a victorious (i.e. profitable) church, from things he's read. You prepare, he reacts negatively & close to the start of service, since Mike arrives pre-primed to project his faults to make your work more productive (profitable). Undoing other's careful preparation of their own work for him to guest-preach at. Synergy may be profitable, but fails at human application, so's unprofitable when applied to Christ's body. If it isn't profitable it's not synergy, no exceptions. Synergy isn't kingdom oriented, since Christ's body is always only people, not ever real estate, not even a little bit or sometimes. 

    Mike's needful things often look like just-chest-thumping. Nitpicking needful things? But no one dares correct him like other Pharisees were in Acts 15. Getting things just right; extra cleaning, et cetera. Your unimpeded fervent extra-praying, undone. Your sweet disposition, undone. Your recent converts, undone. The Davis spirit of  'I don't eat cake' as a visitor, a guest? When he's there to ostensibly help? Dictating needful things or nitpicking his side hustle? Policy or rule? Mike's shown himself ungrateful/entitled/unfiltered in most instances (long before FACTNet even). Typical of any I MARRIED THE BOSS'S DAUGHTER!. Does Michael really think he has a mandate? Delusional.

    Maybe he also needs an advance team to prepare all to his liking, like's done for tent revivals & musicians. Would Mike then be calm & reasonable, polite & thankful, or would he need more work arounds, more diva support, no more brown M&M's? Mike's an or-else pastor. While eXer's are so-what quitters. If not already in play, would pharmaceuticals help? Does Mike only eat pie now? Instant? No, cuz Mike's turning more towards Denis' style than RWD's, as seen on NTCC-TV. 

    So keep your espresso machine, cuz Denis was fancy too. More fancy than RW. But, never as fancy as the Kekel's, so keep your caffeine-addict machine. Since re-instituting FM, most of the churches have gotten espresso machines. Nods to the Kekel's excess. Like tithe, it shows you're really in. On Mike's team. While the jars of instant grow stale. Nods to Davis' stagecraft. I still only drink generic white-can instant, made with tap-water & soy milk & sometimes honey, at home. [end TL;DR]

     

😎 Take the Offering - 😎 Takes its fee 😎 eats some pie 😎. The nitpicker's reward & the motive for its goal & goal for its motive (synergy jargon). The need for grift is pre-installed in any rule or policy change, so they repeat often (also synergy). As all know, lots o' change since Grant's birth. The above NEW-STYLE fellowship meeting overview seems longer than it is & is like watching any NTCC-TV service in this regard. Can you believe in-person attendance seems even longer. 

    

😎 Leave to guest go-get at the next minister's work, or meander back to Arizona via Graham & his other hobbies, till we need another seethe from his ego. Although, they're still pantomiming Graham's a thing @ 5-graduates in 2026. Down from over 70 before Kekel failed into his current leadership positions (3+). Like Olson & Kekel share, Mike has a lot of power to effect change. Dangerous in a synergists's hands. Seemingly, Mike & friends aren't through throttling NTCC's faithful. Still painful to view, not surprising to see it still goes on. So we all still ain't missin' a thing.

 

How long 'till you stopped laughing about Mike preaching in Berea? Synergy only benefits the policy maker; this's the rule. The grift's included, so made to order for NTCC. Ensure you give more, or they'll be back & nitpick more from your work. Though you earned it, they're entitled to it. Now they 'come and get it' at fellowship meetings. Yikes & zounds. Saving other-minister's-churches the cost of a stamp? Can't wait for the mail? This's not it, non-Gra'mites still mail Graham checks too. Still searching for a purpose for Graham & how it benefits go-getter works. I'm from Graham & I'm here to help, or is it help myself? Grift is it's own reward & keeps Graham coming back for more. Why do you?
     NTCC keeps doing what they got away with (also synergy). E.g. what once was forbidden (also synergy): Child-romancing, tight clothes, makeup, mixed bathing, Mass Choir music, gossip, VCR, DVD, cake, TV, hair dye, internet router, drinking, smoking (vaping, dipping, nicotine patch), child-romancing, gluttony, slander, libel, covetousness, abortion (plan-B also), sports (bowling & volleyball), cursing, theft, drugs (gummies, caffeine, added sugar) & other hobbies. Still found wanting during any dispensation. The Old Masters would have a full-time ministry painting today's vices. They could even televise like Graham's happy accident & Bob Ross do.
    Would it be cheaper & less disruptive to pay them not to come? They're inexplicably still building & remodeling. So they bring their offering basket for: 1. Graham 2. The Santa Fe Campground 3. The AZ Campus' bills to your church. The only 3-works (print shop too) in the borg not self-supporting? Click-to-donate during COVID wasn't enough. The bubble will burst again, like in 1999 when Davis' consolidated local churches into Graham to pay for his Big Green Church. What a weenie. You thought there's another reason?
    There wasn't the growth to warrant a Graham facility expansion, just like now (there was in Parkland though & relevant below). But, at that time it was a student chapel only, not open to the public. Other than 'Al the Barber'. Growth came from getting new students from the churches also paying Graham's bills, then as now. In the 1990's there were hundreds of students any given semester. Remember the polite scrum to pick-up mail between classes? Anyone? Pepperidge Farm?
    Shortly after they built the bank(s) of student mailboxes in the office to manage the crowd, student numbers began its dive. Graduating classes once averaged 60+ every year for years consecutive at Graham's 3 year college (3x60=180). More bodies than Graham's combined seminary & civilian congregation today, as seen on NTCC-TV. It's being reported by Mike, their attendance is 300 on a Thursday night (7.2.2026). No crowd shots to verify. The old student chapel holds over 400 legally. 409, 456, I don't remember what the max-occupancy-sign read? So, what was the point? God didn't have one, it was Davis groping another brass ring. His mercy-go-round of psychoses. Proof to himself of his assertions. A 'Little Jack Horner' in a barong.
    I liked crowding into the student chapel. Very collegial, intimate, exclusive, memorable. A goal reached, a stepping stone, the means to an end, opening vistas. Christmas style excitement year round. Special. The rush getting ready for campus activities (I love wearing a suit, I can pretend I'm Martin or Davis Junior). The rush entering the chain-linked gate, then finding a parking spot, or walking from the dorm (Coop) with my brothers in Christ. The rush going through the chapel doors. I liked to fling the door open & stride in to where I wanted to sit. The sensation, to me, was similar to high-diving into the deep end of a heated pool, so why I did it. I often closed my eyes as I walked through the door, then opened them to the magic. No York Peppermint Pattie needed. The thrill sitting in my favorite pew (I liked the balcony) waiting for church to start. Then the service begins. Then fellowship. Repeat often. Enjoying little things is easy, plus they're free. Mike needs a supercar for his warm fuzzy.
    NTCC enervated itself. Not the cars & real estate; these're vibrant as ever. Only my last active-year in the cult in 2007 looked similar. Enervation is what's on TV, regardless of when started once Grant was born. Hard to fathom it's continued unabated. Maybe we were forced out just in time? We all see changes every month lately. It once was no changes before Grant & only Grant-related changes after Grant's (1991?) birth. Until FACTNet started influenced NTCC leadership to change more policy in 2004, during Kekel's well documented I'm a hero era (ongoing, current dispensation). 

    They could have shunted the licensed pew-sitters to the local churches, if they needed more room (& they almost did, it was getting shoulder-pad to shoulder-pad). The local pastors would appreciate the help & company. The pew sitters would probable like the change of scenery. Win win. This would have reduced Graham by about a third. But, they needed the pew sitters tithe & offerings, even with much less facility than today. Rock, hard place. Synergy is never win win. When synergy's introduced, it's their win, you loose. So maybe when Pastor Davis told me he had no more preachers to send, so stop pioneering, I now know he meant I can't afford to loose any more tithe payers right now, cuz I routinely over-build? This was before I started my awareness of the cracks in Graham's armor.

    So, they usurped (synergy) Parkland's large congregation to pay Graham's new unneeded-new-chapel bills & increased the Parkland folks mileage to their new unasked-for fancy church by about 30-minutes each way. Puyallup (now defunct) & Tillicum were/are too small to steal & Woodbrook's still a servicemen's work. So, it was up to Parkland to save Davis bacon. How many Parklandites still attend Graham? One? None? Another Davis scheme come to naught? Some things never changed. Trite but all true.

    What? Me worry? Real estate is success -- RWD. No? How more-often do we hear about real-estate than a souls-update? But, all that matters is money & numbers -- RWD. More MLM Nonsense? No matter, they're always at the whistling past the grave yard phase. Build, collect money, worry, repeat. You'll never do church right, send MCK-Graham enough money (they're spenders), or succeed enough for your fearful leader-through-marriage. But, they'll keep building statement real estate while workshopping, fellowship meeting & conferencing your time away, to help your work send more money to pay more bills for Graham's overbuilt compound. Except, this latest in a long series of scheme's also not working. What did Graham do with the PPP cash? Is this what's further overbuilding the campground? Have they instituted the policy of stay on camp only, not in town, again yet? Maybe next conference. If you don't stay there, they make less not-for-profit profit & why Davis would pressure folks to stay on the campground (so a long standing concern, traditional by this point).

    Then they phased out the Biblical office of Bishop as a cost-cutting measure (synergy). A Bishop must get a huge salary to think firing him would save enough money. Except, it's still not enough. Like a Jeepney* in the PI, mostly show, little go. Only a frame-off overhaul (NTCC is long past the tune-up stage) will bring Holy Spirit Power. NTCC was a 4-barrel V-8, with scoop, Hearst, shackles & slicks in the '90s (thanks majorly to Denis). At over 170 church locations from steady growth through the decade. Now it stays under 100 since Grant started high school (circa 2005 & there's a known correlation), but it's been as low as low 60's. 

    Keep the car waxed (i.e. build more) & tires shined & no one'll guess the engine's been swapped (unless it's televised). They swapped Davis for Kekel. Remember being shocked when Olson didn't get the job. Now they can't get it up, to their old highway speeds, so were off-ramped to the frontage road after Denis left cuz he's the only engine powering the pre-FACTNet decade's growth. Yeah, they're still enervated & it's painful watching from home. Not from any of this, it's just crappy TV. *In defense of the fabulous traditional Jeepney, they start off low power, small engine (4-cyliner). It's the showy part I wanted for analogy. The trikes are even better; more open & cheaper. Walking's great too, so much to see (no matter where you live). The people are precious & Davis didn't deserve them. Mike & Tanya will never go there again. To icky-bleck, to unfancy for them during their one-off vacation to an NTCC Asian conference. So, not a new thing, they've been vacation-ministering for decades to date.

    So relax. Keep calm. If you need more money have more church services (workshops, conferences, FMs) -- RWD. Quiet quit. Follow your leader's example, as seen on NTCC-TV, where expectations are Biblically lowered each service (this's also synergy, i.e. the means justifies their end in this instance). Or just quit. The clean break. The exit stands ready, while you're still aging into NTCC's retirement policy. Stay with the cult & your current lifestyle (or less) is your assured future. You have all the money, yada yada you'll ever have as a member in good standing. Blitzkrieg when your 80. Changing spouses, towns, public schools, assigned churches, jobs & apartment/parsonage is your testimony. Or stay parked in Graham, while your calling remains unfacilitated by Graham. With a cloak of be ye warmed & filled, against life's chills, from this LLC. They're praying on for you.

    Regardless, after 14-years FMs aren't a burden & schedule disruption? Which is it? Or does Mike assume he's not a/the burden & schedule disruption? It's everyone else? But, wherever you're at, there you are. Whatever problems Mike had with your church during FM, he'll have at the next (as seen on TV) & matches the problems he has with Graham. It's Davis fault? More it's-for-thee (like no-sports allowed), not-for-me (like door-knocking). Yes, the Mike who's a by-product of marriage, hobbies, real estate, stuff, vacations & synergy. Who still pines, nobody knows the trouble I've seen & I have 3 jobs. I.e. positions, white collar, private office(s). Imagine Mike doing under-floors in Washington State in a-foot & a-half of cold winter-water? It's been reported they couldn't stomach the PI even as a tourist at an Asian conference. 

    What does he offer besides byproducts of 'take the path of least resistance' & the 'most profitable route (synergy) between 2 points is the right one (e.g. they 86'd NTCC's salaried Bishop)' & 'my success through marriage'. Davis also did the do what I do to have what I have. But Davis only had one daughter, so Micheal can't say this. Mike steers our cult with the finesse of a the-bosses-son-in-law while monologuing his exploits & struggles on NTCC-TV.

    Maybe watch any NTCC-TV episode, featuring any pastor, at any NTCC location, to decide for yourself. NTCC's pastor's gunna pastor. [They've been taught] If they don't plow folks, nothing'll grow. But, since they never stop plowing (know none other) & never sow seed, nothing grows. Which warrants more plowing, cuz they know none other [way]. Expecting different results each time they plow -- Albert Einstein [disputed]. All becomes feedback & interference. Like a garage band whose members never quit high school, kept a day job & are puzzled they only play the garage 10 years later. A success has more skin in the game than talking on TV. In this decade of side-hustles, religion is Mike's.

    If plowing don't work, more'll fix it & we're all (the lost & dying) still waiting for something spiritually big (or little) to happen, anything by this point, since 1969. They almost arrive, over & again. NTCC's real-estate success is a mirage of spirituality. Willing dupes in cahoots with the government's regulations. A result of synergy based Bible doctrine. Just like Constantine's Catholics. Then, they veer 'round Christ (a roundabout by this point) to build more proof God's in their midst. A rinse, repeat roundabout.

    There're few things more carnal than a church building program. Worse when their wasn't growth to warrant it. Worse when their isn't growth to fill it. Worse when perpetual. Worse when, once built, it's not freely usable by the congregation. Worse when submitted as evidence of God's favor, like a big bank account. The prosperity gospel. Not a Graham, LLC problem as they build their buildings in the red. Something to yell WE ARE WINNING! at. The resounding resultant echo is the harbinger of more nothing. More overbuilt emptiness. More less. They build by faith? Then be a George Mueller (NTCC knows his testimony & example well). Don't shill cash from your sheep. NTCC's Another non-denominational prosperity denomination. Without distinction. Bonus synergy for full-Gospel & KJV-only claims in name only.  :POLICY UPDATE

 

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