Immediately after Don Miller was fired from the staff of Beaverton Grace Bible Church for divisive behavior, his friends launched a vicious slander attack of criminal accusations meant to destroy the church, the pastor, and precious families. “Sex offenders having free reign in children’s areas” -JULIE ANNE SMITH’S GOOGLE REVIEW. What kind of church would allow that? A monstrous church. What kind of pastor would allow that? A monstrous pastor. OR… it is A MONSTROUS LIE told by dangerous people! Julie Anne Smith and Meaghan Varela LIED. The TRUTH is presented in this video.
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I’ve read Julie Smiths writings and she left me with the impression that the sex offender was an old criminal, not a young disabled boy. IMHO, that is beyond sick to frame that family like that. I can understand your desire to protect that child from further slander with a lawsuit. The same “Christians” who say you can’t sue evil people are probably suing the spouse they are divorcing right to the cleaners. I commend your efforts for this family and yourselves.
My husband and I started coming to Beaverton Grace about a year into all the crazy things happening against families in the church. When we came, the church was really ripped up because of all the accusations being made against so many families in our church. Pastor Chuck and Tonya and his family were completely emotionally and physical beaten down from dealing with everything going on. And Matt and Dawn (Kevin’s parents) were dealing with everything that had happened as a result of all the accusations made against their son. Everyone was hurting. You could see it everywhere, every Sunday. The struggle and pain was on every face.
But a lot of stuff changed when a whole bunch of families up and left the church one Sunday. These were the people who had ties with the people hurting Pastor Chuck’s family and the other families in the church. They left because after three years of this mess, Pastor finally stood up for his and other precious families in the church. In church one day he finally told everyone that this was enough. There were people in the church that everyone knew still had friendships and constant fellowship with those who were making accusations and lying about what was happening in the church. That day Pastor preached a sermon on putting out and away from those who call themselves Christians, yet are living in blatant sin. Well, the people who were causing (and still are) destruction to families in the church were obviously in blatant sin. They were in sin, and their children were in sin. The Bible states outright that what they were involving themselves in (gossip, slander, lying) and what their children were doing (committing fornication, getting drunk, and celebrating sin) was sin. We had to cut ties with them. To keep the whole church from being infiltrated and taken down by more sin, to keep those in the church from getting involved deep in sin, we had to separate ourselves. The Lord Jesus commands us to: “But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.” 1 Corinthians 5:11. It says it clearly right there! And we did it and continue to do this for the glory of the King. The King who died to save us! We and Pastor didn’t do it because he hates these people. It’s for the glory of God and for the good of those who have fallen in sin, that they might turn to righteousness.
And after this breaking apart from these revilers, the fellowship of our church became so sweet! We were no longer bound by the secret sin, gossip, and slander within the members of our church. Everyone was finally of one mind. We wanted to protect our families, to preach of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and have sweet, genuine fellowship with one other. Amidst all the trial, struggle, and hatred that so many families have gone through in the church, the Lord has held us together through it all. He has made us stronger. He has blessed us for obeying Him. We counted Him worthy of the cost that we have paid. He is who we do everything for! He is the rock of our salvation and He will keep us until the day of Christ Jesus! “He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 1:8. That is the truth about what has gone on in the last four years. We have been brought through great trial yet the Lord has sustained us. And we pray that He will continue to be glorified!
And I wanted to share with you this one thing that I can’t seem to forget. I remember about a month before all of those families left the church together. I remember sitting at the dinner table at the Castien Family’s home. During dinner I was talking to Mrs. Laura Castien, and as we were talking about the church, she told me, “You know, Kasey, we have a very loving and caring Pastor. He is a man who dearly cares for the sheep of the Lord’s fold.” It was a sweet statement about the reality of the heart and character of our pastor. I see it every Sunday and every day! Just as she said, he is a man loves dearly the people of the church. He is a pastor who cares for the Lord’s people, but who is not afraid to speak Biblical truth to the Lord’s sheep when they go astray. He does this because he’s commanded to and will held accountable for it on the Day of Judgment before the throne of Christ himself. He does it to please and honor His Lord and Savior.
And that statement above was made by one of the women who now accuses Pastor and the church families of the most vile things. And I have to ask these people, why would you do that? We knew you guys. We know that you know the truth. What is the point of all this? What will it matter at the end of time. What will you have to say before your Lord on the day of Judgment. You know that none of the accusations you’ve made against pastor are true. You know that he’s never done any of these things. You know that he still loves you all dearly. You saw him for the man of God that he was. So, why now do you do this against a man who is righteous in God’s sight? Please, just realize what you’ve done. There’s still time to turn back. You have days yet before you. The Lord can redeem them all.
I hope this sheds some light on the situation at hand.
For the glory of God,
Kasey
Kasey, you’ve been such a blessing to me. So many older Christians, people I so admired for their service to the Lord have really disappointed me through this ordeal. Their visible service was a coverup for their duplicitous lives. The pattern seemed to first start as a coddling of their sinning kids (instead of leading them to Christ), which devolved into partying with these same kids (instead of exhorting them to righteousness) and finally leaving the church with their “lovers of pleasure” kids. Joining with our church’s accusers must help them justify their new lifestyle. After all, if the pastor is a monstrous fiend his kind exhortations to follow Christ and obey Him must be monstrous too. People I thought were so strong turned out to be just flowery-worded windbags with contempt for the Church. And the Lord has shown me that real strength can be in a very youthful package!
You don’t make false accusations of that sort on the spur of the moment.
This woman carries some intense hatred.
Only vile people like this would come up with such heinous accusations.
All because she was miffed about her friends.
I don’t go saying that someone abused me because I don’t like them.
And I wouldn’t take lies to the police either.
What a nasty group of people that have lost their minds!
I’m sorry for the families that had to deal with all of these very personal attacks.
Love you guys!