Spirit Church of Bartlesville, OK Doesn’t Want to Hear the Inconvenient Truth About VOM

From: Mr. Jesperson

Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 2:24 PM

To: Darryl Wootton ; Ike

Subject: The upcoming six week series on Wednesday nights taught by a current VOM employee…

Dear Pastors Wootton and Ike,

I am sorry that it is necessary for me to write a letter like this one to the pastors of the church that I have been attending. I know that this kind of letter is no joy to read for a pastor and it is no fun to consider the contents here which may require some difficult and hard decisions to be made. However, I must follow my conscience in what I know is right and I have to do what is right in the sight of God as I best understand it and not what is merely most convenient for everyone. At times like this, I remember how many hornets nests Jesus Himself stirred up around Him. Jesus did not pull His punches, and it drove those with power to want to murder Him in order to silence Him. Jesus warned us about how much deception there was going to be and instructed us to be shrewd as serpents. This is something which is I have found to be something that is done way too little in the Western Church. Jesus even got violent and drove the money changers out of the temple. Sin has severe consequences as we all well know.

So straight to my point: I have a background with “the Voice of the Martyrs” that goes back a long time now. I gave generously to them starting in the 90’s when my best friend introduced them to me. I even attended a conference they put on back then in Phoenix. Starting near the end of 2001 I became much more involved as I moved here to Bartlesville just to be close to them in the hopes I could help “serve the persecuted” in some way. I ended up doing a lot of volunteering for the ministry (hundreds of hours) and eventually became a part-time employee for a short while. My relationship with them ended abruptly shortly before Christmas of the next year. I tell my story of what happened in a blog here: https://thouarttheman.org/2017/05/21/personal-testimony-regarding-volunteering-working-vom/ The short of it was that I became aware that VOM was not actually what it appeared at first to be to outsiders. In April 2012, when Tom White killed himself, I then realized the full extent of what is wrong with the organization. There are all the signs that Tom White turned it into a great fraud, likely for the purpose of funding trips overseas, not to minister to persecuted Christians, but just the opposite, to molest children on the charity dime.

The details are in that blog post that a good man has created in order to deal with the cover up of child molestation in the protestant church, and in this video which was done by a small church as it uncovered that the only thing in the world that VOM will publicly admit to funding is run by a local VOM chapter president who is in charge of an orphanage where there are credible allegations that he is molesting many underage daughters of the poor and persecuted: https://vimeo.com/212739199 This President Isaac is still in this position even today! So the only things that have ever been publicly disclosed about this so called charity is two leaders who are accused of being child molesters. In addition to these facts, I learned from your good friend Jason Elmore right after publishing my story that Tom White’s family was aware that he was a child molester because he got caught in South America and charged with a crime there shortly before he came back here, molested a 10 year old child and then the father went to the police. I have learned who this father is and have seen him many times since and I have seen the child too. It breaks my heart every time I see them.

Jim Dau, the charities “CEO,” claimed that he and the whole VOM board was shocked when Tom White killed himself. They claimed that they had no idea that Tom might be a molester. Given what happened in South America, most likely on a VOM paid tripped, this claim either shows that Dau lied or that he and the board are wholly incompetent. Add to that the testimony of VOM’s founders son Michael Wurmbrand about how he was fired when he asked their board to simple investigate how many children Tom may have molested overseas, and you have plenty of good reasons to stay as far away from this organization as possible. Michael called the current organization “a scam.” You can read what he has to say here: https://dorinpele.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/michael-wurmbrand-the-reason-i-placed-all-in-writing/ When I first read it years ago now, I was already at the point where I concluded everything that he says.

I am obviously writing this because I just heard that you will have some people who work for the VOM organization do teaching in your church on Wednesday nights for six weeks to the whole congregation. This is more than a little disturbing to me for all the reasons listed in those blogs and on that video. I do understand simple ignorance, which is what got me initially. But now some blatant facts have come out since 2012 and these should not be ignored. Pastor Wootton, I invite you to contact your good friend and fellow pastor Jason Elmore in order to double check my part of this story. I went to his church for all those years and he was there with me. I had lunch with him when I was banned from going back into their building. He was there when I needed to talk to someone after Tom killed himself. He is the one that let me know about how Tom was caught in South America and likely his family and probably VOM had to pay bribes in order to get him back. This whole situation is just so extremely ugly. I wish Richard would have shut the org instead of turning it over to a clever son of the devil like Tom White was. Michael has said so much too in what he has written.

I do not know your history with VOM and if you have ever promoted them as a worthy charity to give to. I do not know if you plan to let the VOM employees try to raise funds at your church. To allow them to do this would be highly foolish given all that is known. I do not want to judge the people who are supposed to teach, it sounds like they may have a long history doing other things and may be simply currently deceived like I was when I moved here. If they are sincere, they should leave VOM and find something else that does not hide the way that all its money is being spent overseas. I personally cannot in good conscience attend any services where anyone still currently associated with them teaches. To them I would say, “Physician heal thyself.” Jesus plainly stated that if a religious teacher who is blind leads the blind, that they will both end up in a ditch! While I was still with the org, I too was deceived and was in no position to teach anyone else.

I hope you will take my concerns seriously. Something needs to be done about organizations with Christian labels that are funding or covering up scandal like this. You should not be ignorant concerning what has happened in this organization in more recent years. Especially because it is headquartered in our town here and your church is so very large. I am personally convinced the whole thing has devolved into a work of the devil to turn peoples Godly charitable ideals into the worse kind of evil that Satan can think up. This evil needs to be exposed so that Christians will not be taken advantage of any longer.

The following additional scriptures are relevant: concerning walking in the light, which is the opposite of hiding every detail of what you actually do, Eph. 5:10 “Test and prove what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.” Also, 2 John 9 “Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work.” and Matt 24:4 “Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.” – note that what Jesus is saying here is that many will claim to be servants promoting Jesus as the true Messiah, and yet they will still deceive many. Tom White certainly fits this bill and so we should ask big questions of the org that he built and left behind.

Those who hide what they do and, as Michael wrote in that article, “are paranoid that their office is bugged” are walking in the clearest case of darkness. Repentance is an action. Ignoring signs of evil and moving on as if nothing happened is also clearly evil. Now is not the time to bury our heads in the sand and just pretend that the leaders of this org have proven that they are Godly men and trustworthy! Everyone that I personally know of who has once worked at VOM has had bad experiences, like myself. Good trees do not produce bad fruit. Jesus told us to judge by the fruit that is produced. We have a responsibility to judge and to inspect fruit. VOM is like a huge iceberg where only a tiny part is exposed and everything that has been exposed by God in the last 6 ½ years has been rotten. What does that mean we are to judge about the 99 percent that is still hidden under the surface? So I implore you to please change your plans and cancel this teaching series which I was told is supposed to start next week. Had I known anything about this further in advance, I would have written this same letter to you just that much earlier.

I pray that you will soberly consider all of the known facts and do, in the end, what is right in the sight of the Lord. This is not about me getting my way. In the end I want to see God’s will being done on this earth like it is in heaven. May you do what is right in His sight,

Mr. Jesperson