Dr Michael Brown Exposed: Exposing the Lies and Revealing the Truth PART 9

A Few Comments:

"Third party investigation is needed! Not to mention his cover up for pedos in the Haitian orphanage! He’s always covering up for others who are being exposed! Blessings"

"No pastor should return. My thought, once an abuser, ALWAYS an abuser."

"What is so disturbing is that these men coverup their minister’s corruption!! And women are thrown under the bus…."

"These hucksters are getting a second chance before the victims get a hearing!!!!! Great statement!!!"

"Name & shame these people who assist & encourage the abuse of God's sheep. It's evil, vile and ungodly."

"The report said his behavior was "not grevious enough..." That needs to be explained"

"So tired of these sycophants dumbing down sin and calling it anything but what it is…."

"Well, let’s see what God has to say about these re-definitions…"

"Unless we deal with wickedness when exposed in ourselves or dr Michael Brown and deal w it like we would a wound underneath the skin it will grow into an incurable state worse than the 1st. Deal with it now or later-he won’t be able to run from it."

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Chapter 1 Something’s Not Right by Wade Mullen

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

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Thank you, Ron, for sharing!

May 31, 2025

"Ray is the husband of Kim, who we maintain was groomed into a verbal and erotic relationship with Mike Brown. His daughter is Jordan. Both of them sent me letters this week asking me to read them online and publish them. The Bible says that we are to be a voice for those without a voice (Prov 31:8). Mike Brown said that he and Kim were peers and that he was not her pastor. The truth is, when he began to groom her in earnest, he was her senior pastor and her husband's employer. Yes, this was SA from her pastor. However, in his first comments, Mike Brown described his relationship with Kim as her being the guilty one. Neither Ray nor Jordan has anything close to the reach that Dr Brown has. And they don't have a friend like Heather Schott, willing to give them an opportunity to respond. We will do our best here."

A letter from Ray, Kim's Husband

To anyone who is listening,

I am Ray. Michael Brown and I were not peers. He would call me. I didn’t call him. He would show up at my door. I didn’t show up at his door. Nancy and I were not in the habit of emailing each other. I mostly did not email Mike. He predominantly sent emails to my wife, Kim’s email address. Usually casting vision, commenting on Scripture, etc. He often used the remark with her, my wife, “we are in sync.”

He first began calling us on the phone in August 2000. I believe that he was acclimating us to the practice of him calling either one of us, then eventually not me. His excuse that he had boundaries in his life for physical contact with women, but not for email, is not plausible. We know that he spent much time alone in parking lots in a parked car with Sarah, nearly a year later and according to her testimony, she had unfettered access to be with him alone in his office.

He said we all played games together. I can’t say we never did, but I have no memory of that. And if we had been friends and peers, he would have known that I loathed most table games except chess and Chinese checkers. He brought over his Woodstock VHS tapes so that we could learn how revolution comes about. It was grueling. At the time, like sitting through a defensive driving class with a teacher who was giddy about it.

He often started his sentences with “Trust me…” or “In truth…” At some point, I even told him that the only people I knew who constantly say “trust me” are car dealers.

On the few occasions that we went out for dinner together, Mike usually picked up the tab. We generally couldn’t afford to eat out frequently, and if we did, we liked to take our children.

Mike cautioned me when I was once entertaining what he considered to be poor scholarship (meaning not his) regarding Christian teaching. Mike made fun of all things Southern, or bashed the Southern construction men working on his house. It got to the point where I mentioned to him and Nancy that they might be happier back up north.

Mike depicts us as being co-workers in church, or some sort of notion that got mumbled through during the podcast. The truth is, when we were first becoming acquainted, Mike was one of the prominent leaders of what many believe was one of the greatest revivals of the 20th century. To simply say he was not her pastor is only technically true and partially true. (It could be that Mike’s greatest skill is in telling a truth without telling the truth.) But Mike is denying the powerful role that he played in that revival and his influence upon others. Him referring to Kim as a peer to him, is ridiculous. He was the scholar. He held a weekly meeting for visiting pastors from all over the world to the revival, was writing books at the time, traveling and ministering around the world … while Kim was a housewife. Peers, they were not. Add to the fact that Mike is known for his ability to convince people of things, and you can see that they were not peers.

But he fails to mention that by the time the abusive patterns began to reveal themselves—he washer pastor. He also failed to mention that during the Fall 2001 semester of FIRE (when he would have been beginning to pursue my wife in earnest), he hired me for a vaguely defined position, encouraging me to just try it out at least. He paid me a market-worthy salary without fail, while it seems many others were not always getting paid, which I was unaware of at the time. In other words, to hire me at a time when he could not pay the school staff was irresponsible and reveals that he may have had bad intentions.

I discontinued that position in December 2001 because something felt icky to me. I have in my own 2001 journal entries personal reflections on the conflicts I felt with Mike and the school at the time, and why I felt that Mike was not called to this city (Pensacola).

In the beginning of 2002, I was no longer employed by the school and had no connections there. I was unaware of the larger context of Mike’s abusive and manipulative behavior until approximately a year ago. So, when I confronted Mike it could be argued that we were peers: me confronting him about his betrayal of me and my family. One man to another man about a woman. Old as dirt.

Mike failed to mention in his interview last week, in this alleged “mutual” emotional affair, that he demanded my wife stop having sex with me (maybe because Pastor Heather didn’t ask). Nor has he ever explained how he could make such a demand. She did not demand that of him. He failed to mention that he began demanding my wife meet him somewhere private. My wife did not demand that of him. So this was not merely an emotional affair; Mike began to act possessively towards Kim.

In the Heather Schott interview, he failed to mention that he tried to touch my wife’s leg while the four of us were riding in a car in the dark. Can you even imagine such a scenario?

To me, though, in the present, the most vicious twisting of perceptions is his explanation of the infamous nightstand notes. The evil embedded in his nuanced psyche is encapsulated within his short and simple response, “She said something inappropriate that surprised me, and I wrote it down.” He had the audacity to accuse Kim of being the aggressor, all while making the claim that he wanted to protect me and my family.

Did it surprise Mike because all his efforts had finally paid off? What inappropriate talk had you been patiently nudging her way to finally get her to cross a line? (Mike will begrudgingly say what happened to him, but he will not say why.) Did Mike write it down and keep it in his nightstand drawer so that he could read it over and over? Did he add to it? Did he write erotica and leave it in his nightstand drawer in hopes that Sarah would find it—and possibly it would help her to cross a line? There’s only one person in the world who really knows. Mike.

I stated in my first testimony the sequence of events during the first part of 2002 to the best of my knowledge and memory. It is my understanding and belief that my wife came to me and confessed what had happened before any of the other events Mike cites. But really, at this point, trying to make a point about who confessed first or who repented first is a distinction without a difference. Mike doesn’t win an “atta’ boy”, a sticker, or a participation trophy if he was first to confess. Definitely a cringeworthy moment and a glimpse at his juvenile nature.

Mike cited a couple of dates later in 2002 where I met him at Friday’s restaurant, Kim met Nancy at some point, and/or maybe we all did. Mike makes it sound like everything at that point was pretty much ok again, practically friends. I have almost no memory of what that would have been like. But as time progressed, I realized more and more in my life what a naive idiot I was, and that those follow-up visits likely had a lot more to do with the two of them trying to “handle” us—to keep us from ever telling a secret that could professionally damage him. In the end, it was those scandalous notes he kept in his nightstand that brought about his exposure.

Mike neglected to mention his manipulation and abuse towards the Prip's, towards “Elizabeth” and her parents, the Barry’s, towards staff, and other ministers with whom he claimed a plurality of leadership.

Whatever Mike did twenty-plus years ago is one thing. The reason for his troubles today, though, is his re-creation of it when confronted. Mike refuses to surrender his intellect to Christ and confess his pervasively deceptive ways. He has to win—or burn the world down trying. It is astounding, really.

With that experience under my belt, I don’t believe I have ever encountered a man more disturbing to me than Mike Brown. Because he claims a godly motive behind what he does and says, yet there are seemingly countless layers behind that facade, which pre-empted me from having my own thoughts, caused me to question my own perception of reality, and leave me utterly exhausted. To me, that seems akin to witchcraft.

The only question left is, Michael Brown, why do you lie before God who sees all?

Ray, Kim’s husband

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A Letter from Jordan, Kim and Ray's Daughter

From Jordan, Daughter of Kim:

It is with great reluctance that I am coming forward with a statement on behalf of my mother and father. However, after hearing the interview of Mike Brown with Heather Schott, I cannot stay silent any longer. Some time ago, my father graciously gave a statement. However, things like this have a way of taking on a life of their own. Important details get drowned out in the noise of it all. So I would like to say this for the people in the back. My mother did not have an affair with Mike Brown.

I was unable to stomach listening to the entire 3 1/2 hour disgusting podcast done by Heather Schott, but I did listen to Mike Brown give his account of his interaction with my mother, and it was one of the greatest falsehoods I have heard to this day. For Mike Brown to say that a relationship between him and my mother was mutual or imply that they were in any way peers is false.

In his interview, Mike Brown implied that our families were the best of friends, and while our families were friendly, it was not in the way he portrayed it. Anyone who looks back at my father’s statement will see that he describes it as very much like the movie “What About Bob?” where Mike Brown was a bit of a nuisance you just couldn’t get away from. Mike Brown calling my parents while they were on a vacation with their children was just intrusive. Calling and speaking to my father to share some kind of ministry news and then asking to put my mother on the phone so he can tell her himself is grooming. Why did he need to speak to my mother personally? Why could he not tell my father the news and let my father tell my mother?

That is only a small example of Mike’s invasive actions towards my mother and our family during that time and it is my unprofessional opinion from my own experience that Mike Brown was not only grooming my mother, but also my father to be okay with personal interactions between himself and my mother.

In September 2001, Mike Brown hired my father on staff at Fire for a position that was not clearly defined. At that time, not only would Mike Brown have been viewed by my parents as a lead minister, but also as my father‘s employer. It was later during that time that a phone call with an inappropriate interaction between my mother and Mike Brown became known to my father and my father confronted Mike Brown about it.

To not acknowledge that there was a real and substantial power dynamic is a grave oversight. My parents and Mike Brown were never peers and the reality is that Mike Brown attempted to pursue the wife of a then-staff member. That is far from mutual and doesn’t account for the horrible position Mike Brown would have put my mother in at the time.

Mike Brown was, at that time in our lives, our pastor, as well as the man who signed the paycheck for my family. That is not a “mutual emotional affair.” Hearing Mike Brown describe this as a mutual affair with a peer, apologizing for the offense to his wife, while also defending himself regarding Sarah Monk, declaring that his intentions were nothing but pure is disgusting. The reality is that Mike Brown was a lead minister, president of a school, employer of Sarah Monk, and employer of my father, while he was pursuing the wife of an employee, as well as being inappropriate with another employee more than half his age. That is what I call a pattern and a power trip.

In Mike Brown’s interview with Heather Schott, I heard him say through his tears that there has not been a normal day for him and Nancy since all of this came out months ago. That is the consequence of Mike Brown’s past actions and continued evasiveness toward his abusive behavior.

In my own experience with sin and failure I have experienced exactly what a worship song describes as the overwhelming, never ending, reckless love of God. When there is sin in our lives God gives us opportunities to make it right and when we don’t take that opportunity it escalates and often ends in embarrassment and humiliation.

When God rips everything we thought we ever knew about ourselves away we experience true poverty of spirit and on the other side of that is blessed restoration. I pray that Mike Brown will allow God in and that he can experience the blessing that comes with true poverty of spirit. That is the gateway to healing and restoration.

Ultimately, the intricate details of this are impossible to know. The only other person that would be able to shed light upon it is no longer here—and Mike Brown’s testimony and character has been proven to be unreliable and untrustworthy. I will tell you with confidence though, that if my mother were here, as much as she would hate it (and I would hate it for her), she would share quickly, plainly, and truthfully what happened, no matter the cost to her.

I could write tit-for-tat all the day long trying to unravel Mike Brown’s lies and deceit. But ultimately, there is something bigger than that to set our eyes upon. It’s something bigger than any one of us. It’s a move of God I am seeing over many people that come from many walks of life, standing up and saying no to an old, broken system that we do not want to take part in, where people try to lead others with manipulation and intimidation instead of simply leading by serving. God is moving in our hearts, in our homes, and in our families and the way of the old system will not be allowed to cross over the Jordan into the promised land.

I have seen many comments over the last months with people’s assumptions about my mother, and that has hurt my father more than I can describe, and has been sad for us to see my mother so poorly represented. How convenient for Mike Brown to be so open about a version of a story about a woman who is no longer here to defend herself. That is disgraceful and Mike Brown, you should be ashamed of yourself. Please, just stop talking about my mother. My mother will not be a faceless, voiceless person with no defense. We know the truth. God knows the truth. My parents have carried no shame regarding this situation. It was let go and restored long ago between my parents.

Before my mother died, I asked her if she was at peace with God or afraid to die, and she said that she was not afraid and she was at peace. I would like to finish my statement with borrowed words from my father that he spoke at my mother’s funeral. These are the life-giving words that describe who my mother really was.

“I want to tell you what I believe may be the most important part of ‘Kim’s’ life message. Several days before she passed, a portion of Scripture kept coming to my mind. At first, it did not seem to speak to what we were experiencing. Nevertheless, I began reading it out loud while sitting beside her and did so for several days until she passed. A few days went by, and I began to realize something from it. John 1:1-1:18

“George McDonald once wrote something to the effect of this: as we grow older we are moving either towards God-likeness, or we are moving towards our natural and carnal ancestral traits. In her childhood and earlier years, ‘Kim’ overcame many obstacles and difficult challenges in her life. As she was entering into what would have been the autumn of her life, ‘Kim’ continued to bare her heart open to God. She contended for the faith. In addition to that, over the past five years or so, she read nearly 150 books from a list of important literature from the past 200 years.

"Her love for outdoors, water, sun, sunsets, bike rides, walks, and the evening moon and stars could rival the magical wonder of any of her grandchildren. ‘Kim’ was ever moving towards God-likeness. And during the past couple of years especially, she kept growing brighter… and brighter. She was full of life and love for everyone. She was grateful, and appreciated the simplest pleasures of life. She loved to serve her family, ponder beautiful readings and beautiful music. Dutiful mother, grandmother, and responsible steward over her resources. Loving friend to many, lover to God and his creation. Faithful and faith-filled wife. ‘Kim’ deserves high honors today. Your mother deserves high honors today. Not because she did everything right, or never did anything wrong, but because her life viewed in its entirety, bore witness of the light. She left us with something worth gleaning from, something worth striving for, something worth imitating, memories to cherish, and a brightly lit torch that is worthy of picking up and running with.”

THAT is who my mother was. That is the torch I will pick up and carry to continue the work my parents and many others started. When you think of my mother, may this be what you think of. May her life be a message of God’s love for us above anything else.

Signed,

The proud daughter of “Ray and Kim”,“Jordan”

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PART 1

http://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/04/michael-brown-and-mike-bickle-exposing.html

PART 2

http://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/04/michael-brown-and-mike-bickle-exposing_23.html

PART 3

http://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/04/michael-brown-and-mike-bickel-exposing.html

PART 4

http://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/04/michael-brown-and-mike-bickel-exposing_29.html

PART 5

https://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/05/michael-brown-and-mike-bickel-exposing.html

PART 6

https://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/05/michael-brown-and-mike-bickel-exposing_4.html

PART 7

https://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/05/michael-brown-needs-to-step-down.html

PART 8

https://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/05/michael-brown-and-haiti-exposing-lies.html

PART 9

https://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/05/dr-michael-brown-exposed.html

PART 10

https://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/06/rick-joyner-and-mike-bickle-exposing.html

Michael Brown and Haiti: Exposing the Lies and Revealing the Truth PART 8

My mother on occassion would tell me the famous quote by Sir Walter Scott, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!"

Who knew this saga would be so intense??

We are now going to focus on the Haiti orphanage run by Keith Lashbrook and the ties to Brownsville Revival School of Ministry, Fire School, Fire International and Globe International.

As you may recall, I was a student of Brownsville Revival School of Ministry in 2000 and after the school split, I joined Fire School headed by Dr Michael Brown, graduated in 2002 and was a Fire International missionary living in Berlin Germany until 2005 when the Lord opened my eyes and I quit the school and returned to the USA.

Read Ezekiel 8

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Haitian Adoption Nightmare

FAMILIES CLAIM SEXUAL ABUSE AT MISSION

By Rick Outzen

LINK TO DECEMBER 2011 ARTICLE:

https://inweekly.net/haitian-adoption-nightmare/

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The following are from emails recieved from friends

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> This statement is to anyone that is asking for proof that Brown tried to silence me (and other moms) in 2010-early 2011:
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> What would you do (I’m asking those of you who have sat under MLB as a student) if someone you hold in such high esteem (Brown) continued to insert himself with (very opinionated) advice, after you found out that your children had been sexually abused by someone in ministry leadership?
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> Then add the level of chaos and confusion we faced because the abuse had taken place in another country and your local authorities didn’t know what to do with the police reports because the crimes were commited outside of their jurisdiction.
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> Let’s even add that the country where the crimes took place had just been hit by a massive earthquake that destroyed government buildings.
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> Now, let’s add the fact that your children are not yet US citizens and came here on humanitarian parole. Most of the children were not even adopted yet (still in the process).
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> Let’s think about your home. You are in a state of emergency with your children. You’re looking for someone to counsel them and most counselors you reach out to do not feel they are equipped to handle this level of trauma (in your local area), some children even need inpatient intervention, and you must protect the innocence of the other children (young biological children who have not been abused) while maintaining peace and never ever shaming your children who have lost all innocence (ALL innocence-even my 3 year old).
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> Back to Brown…after sitting under his teachings, mentorship, leadership for years…you’ve developed the “WWBD” complex (what would brown do) because he was the epitome of holy living (right?). Well, I had this complex. I brought it into my marriage, my parenting, my life.
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> In July 2010 I received my first of 3 phone calls (I believe 3), along with emails and messages from Brown, chiding me to be “above reproach” while handling the information I have received from my children (and several other familes with adopted children from the same orphanage), telling me to not send letters to donors and churches that currently supported the corrupt missionaries, to not inform the public through social media (warning them), to not take legal action at that time (this was 7 months into our discovery phase).
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> What would you do if you received a FB message at 11:40 at night within 30 minutes of posting something on social media; something you (as a grown adult and parent) felt was pertinent to let your friends/family/acquaintances know? A message that strikes your core with “WWBD”. Those of you who have had this complex can understand how I felt. I felt shame. I felt like I was a gossip and a bad Christian. I felt the same way I just felt when I watched his pathetic interview with Heather Schott 2 nights ago (yes although I’m free now, the emotions came flooding back in).
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> Very few have walked out what I have over the past 15 years. My focus was always on my children. So my focus was not on my former teacher. But the questions did often come to mind, or they would come up in conversations with other Haiti mamma grads or family members. Especially when I would see Brown insert himself into Morningstar and IHOP abuse issues. I would watch from afar and think, “That’s just like what he did to us”. I still let it go.
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> Another point I’d like to make, is after our final phone call where MLB once again chided us about our tone and actions (February 2011) he did not reach out to us again. I reached out to him in May 2012 to ask if he or someone from FIRE could give account of Keith Lashbrook’s grooming of young female students and SA on their campus in 2007, or locate one of his victims, in order to testify in Keith’s court hearing as a witness to his predatorial-like behavior. Then, about a year and a half later (fall 2013) I asked him about a certain Messianic church, wanting his opinion. We’ve never communicated ever again.
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> Over the past 12 years he had never reached out and asked about my children. He never asked how the investigation was going.
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> Why would he be so invested from July 2010-February 2011 (2/2011 is when I informed him that ICE was involved and lawyers were hired), and then never reach out ever again? Don’t you find that odd?
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> Jump forward to December 2024, when I read the Roys Report. I read about what he had done to Sarah, I read about what he had done to “Kim”. I read about what he helped his son in law cover up (a fellow grad in my class). I read about the years of manipulation and coverup by him. I was shocked. I couldn’t even wrap my mind around it at first.
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> Weeks went by. I couldn’t shake the memory of what he had done to “us Haiti moms”. So I reach out to them. And we all shared the same feelings.
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> I then decided to give my testimony to the Firefly investigator (although it was outside of the scope of his investigation), and in order to prepare for his phone call and jog my memory I went back over all of the emails and messages with Brown- so did the other moms. And, it’s like “the scales finally fell off”. I truly saw it. He didn’t care about us. He cared about the sanctity of the institution-Globe and FIRE’s reputation. HIS reputation. He had manipulated us with his “fatherly advice”. He tried to control the narrative and put out the “fire” he saw coming. A fire that would lead back to his ministry; letting a predator off the hook.
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> See, he did not report Keith to Globe, the agency that oversaw Keith Lashbrook in Haiti (the agency we later sued-public record) and Brown absolutely KNEW that Keith Lashbrook was a GLOBE missionary. I’d even told him when he met my adopted son Benjamin at my 10 year BRSM reunion that I had recently taken Ben to a Globe picnic so they could meet him…but he knew even before that, because GLOBE and BRSM sat on the same campus and Keith would visit our school when he was in town for GLOBE events. Notice in Brown’s email to Doug Gehman (below), President of Globe, that he signs “Blessings, Michael”? They all knew each other. First name basis. Had been in the same circles for years.
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> Brown and Josh Peters (former Globe missionary same time as Keith) knew Keith Lashbrook was a Globe missionary and did not inform Globe in 2007 when they kicked Keith off of their campus (Keith was living in an RV on the FIRE campus and leading a “father daughter” outreach to the FIRE female students). In fact, Brown waited 3 years to tell Globe, after he found out about our children being abused in Keith’s Haitian orphanage.
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> It is because of this realization that I decided to speak publicly, for the first time (other than an interview with a local paper in 2011).
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> Michael Brown has shown a pattern of manipulation, control, and cover up-silencing victims (and I now know about other situations that have not been made known publicly…direct knowledge…not “gossip”).
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> I will not be silenced…
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> Attached are correspondence’s from Brown.
> The last one is a letter I wrote to my attorney at the time, responding to her question about Brown’s email telling his “grads” to not take legal action and not go public.

NOTE:attachments were not included in the email

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Below is Kjersti Johnson's Response to Dr Peters' letters followed by her interview podcast with Wake Up and Win podcast a few weeks ago which was posted on this blog in Part 1.

To FIRE Grads and FI Missionaries,

Once again, I am torn between making a statement or notbothering. I honestly don’t care what Dr. Peters thinks of me, but the posture in which he has written his two letters to FI Missionaries is bothersome to me. Not only is he overly defensive and ugly with his words, but he is also not entirelyhonest in his responses. As grads and current missionaries, I understand if you want to stay out of the fray, and I have no hard feelings towards that stance. But, if you are curious, and would like to hear both sides of the story, please continue, and know that my heart is not to destroy anyone, it is only to speak truth to the lies and to stand with the abused.

In my interview with Wake Up and Win, I did not feel like I was overly harsh with Josh and Tobi Peters. I stated that they knew the allegations against Keith (of inappropriate behavior with teenage girls) but did not think it was their place to share that information with us. However, they knew that we were adopting children under his care, and so I had questions. I did not make inflammatory remarks, I did not accuse him of anything, I simply said that they were our covering as FI missionaries, and they did not share pertinent information with us that could have protected our other children. My line of questioning was more about why they would protect an alleged sexual predator (he was preying on teenage girls under the guise of a father/daughter healing ministry) rather than err on the side of protecting children under the care of the alleged sexual predator? I still feel like that’s a fair question. If I heard allegations of inappropriate conduct from an adult male with teenagers, and that adult male oversaw an entire orphanage of children…. I might have had a different response. And by “might” I mean I definitely wouldhave done things differently. But I never accused Peters of being involved in the abuse or even of covering anything up.

I realize Dr. Peters wrote these two letters to FI Missionaries and asked for them not to be shared. But someone deemed it appropriate to share, and I am thankful. There is a common saying, “Truth does not mind being questioned, but a lie does not like being challenged.” I will be responding to the statements in Peters’ letter that I feel are problematic or untrue and I give you full permission to share, disagree, or challenge my side of the story because, well, it’s just my side of the story. I have nothing to gain and everything to lose, but I cannot stand by and let untruths go unchallenged.

In Peters’ first letter, “Setting the Record Straight,” he said that he had no part in our trip to visit the Lashbrook orphanage in Haiti. Except… he is the one that connected us with the team that was going there. In the letter, he stated that Erich and I came home from being missionaries in Irian Jaya because “it was too a difficult place to live and work.” That is entirely untrue. We came home for two reasons; first, because the tribes needed a linguist and we were not linguists. Secondly, because we were 5 months pregnant with our first child and wanted to deliver in the States (not in a country where blood samples are carried around in open jars and you have to bring your own linens to the hospital). I was 4 months pregnant, traveling up the MembramoRiver in a dugout canoe, being bumped by a crocodile big enough to swim in the Membramo River, surrounded by a tribe that, four years prior, was still head hunting. We did not come home because it was too “difficult.” We loved the “difficult.” We came home because it was not a safe place to have our first born. We did not return to Irian Jaya after our daughter was bornbecause our hearts were still in Haiti (after spending 3 months there with a FIRE Medical Missions team before we got married). And that is when Dr Peters connected us with the Lashbrooks to visit Haiti and explore the possibility of returning to the field there instead of Irian Jaya. This statement was irrelevant to the conversation and was meant to undermine us. It shows a lack of character, in my opinion.

One of the most ludicrous things in Dr Peters’ letter is the statement that he does “not recall any initial conversation with (us) asking if (we) should adopt Haitian children from the Lashbrook orphanage.” We were full grown, married adults with a kid of our own. Missionaries, actually. We were not his children. The irony of him thinking we should have asked him for his advice, as though he was our father figure, while he withheld information that could have protected our family, simply because it “wasn’t his place to share,” is laughable. You wanted us to treat you like some sort of guardian, or father figure, while you were not guarding us or looking out for us in any way?

In Peters’ letter he states that “there was no connection between the issue with Keith Lashbrook in 2007 and the orphanage issue in Haiti.” In my opinion, sexual misconduct with teenage girlsconnects directly with child sexual abuse.

Peters then refers to the gospel writers and makes some random comparison about how all their versions of what happened with Jesus were different in detail. Hmm. Except they all told the same story… but okay.

On page 3 of the letter, Peters refers to me questioning him having heard rumors and not sharing them with us and then states that he “had no information about any abuse at the orphanage.” This is a deflection. I never said he had information about abuse at the orphanage. When I called the Peters to tell them what our boys from Haiti were saying, I remember their response being something like this, “Yeah, we knew of allegations against Keith of inappropriate conduct with teenage girls, but we didn’t feel it was our place to share.” In the letter, he adds, “If I were to adopt, I would have done a thorough background check on the orphanage myself!” (Emphasis not added, that exclamation point was his.) So, if I understand correctly, we shouldn’t have trusted the fact that if Dr. Peters, our covering as FI missionaries, was sending us to serve in an orphanage, that it was a trustworthy ministry. Apparently, we should have vetted it ourselves. This leaves me feeling really confused, should we have trusted you or not trusted you as our covering?

Now for Peters’ second letter titled, “Dispelling Erroneous Claims about Dr Peters and Dr Brown’s involvement with Haiti.” Right out the gate he states that “Keith’s departure from FIRE was very public. His actions did not have anything to do with child abuse.” At this point, Erich and I had graduated from FIRE, at least 5 years prior, did not live in Charlotte and would have had no knowledge of Keith Lashbrook’s “ministry” on the FIRE campus, let alone him being kicked out. And ALL OF his actions in NC had to do with sexual abuse and grooming.

Peters goes on to talk about inflammatory statements made on the grads page, none of which were mine. I was a guest on a podcast, I raised valid questions and said nothing inflammatory or slanderous. I was not included in the naming or branding of the podcast and have erred on the side of respect when questioning the way FIRE leadership handled the Haiti situation.

I cannot say with certainty, but I believe it is highly unlikely that the leadership at FIRE was unaware of Keith’s connection with Globe. I have every reason in the world to doubt that statement, but no proof. Keith had been a Globe missionary since 1997. The Peters themselves were Globe Missionaries until the split in 2001. Globe is not that big of an organization; it seems highly unlikely that the Peters did not know Keith Lashbrook was among Globe’s missionaries.

As I stated in my response to Dr Brown’s statement to The RoysReport regarding us adoptive moms; even Browns use of the word “attack” in relation to our public cries for justice is revealing. In Dr. Brown’s letter to Globe, he was not “confronting” them, he was advising and encouraging them: he thanked them for their time, was sympathetic about the difficult situation, and said he was praying for them. In his communication to us, he instructed us to: give Globe more time, do not take legal action, do not “attack” Globe, and to believeGlobe (who we had informed him was actively lying to us.). He basically told us not to “attack” the agency actively covering up the abuse of our children.

Dr Peters says that we claimed that FIRE discouraged us from filing a lawsuit and that we believed a lawsuit could have stopped further abuse. That is not what we claimed. We were simply asking questions like, “If FIRE had warned Globe of Keith’s allegations in 2007 and had him removed from the orphanage pending an investigation, would that have prevented some abuse?” Or “If FIRE and GLOBE had taken the allegations from our kids serious and demanded that Keith be removed from the orphanage, pending an investigation, could it have stopped the abuse sooner?” Let me ask you, how would you, as a believer, as a parent, as a missionary have handled allegations of child abuse (following previous allegations of sexual misconduct with teens) from a missionary who was overseeing an orphanage? Would you have told the families of the abused to settle down? To trust the process? To not take legal action? To believe the agency actively lying to you and trying to cover up the scandal affecting their very ministry? No, I hope not.

Peters also states that the “Task Force” that Globe formed to investigate the allegations believed “abusive activities took place at the (orphanage) but that none of the abuse that could be pinpointed actually involved Keith Lashbrook or any other Globe missionaries.” I find that interesting since Florida state CPS investigated, interviewed several children, and concluded that Keith’s own adopted children were not safe in his care and removed them permanently from his custody. There are court documents to back that up.

Peters accuses us moms of becoming cynical, sarcastic and mean-spirited in response to Globe’s lack of action. That might have been true in the end but let me add some context; each of us reached out to Globe, acting out Matthew 18 (which is NOT the proper way to handle a CRIME), and fully expected them to react appropriately. I have a copy of the letter I sent to the “Task Force” and it was not inflammatory, sarcastic or mean spirited. They, on the other hand, were condescending, dishonest, and shared all the information we entrusted to them with the accused. When we asked them for help with therapy for our kids, they told us they could not because it would make them look guilty. No joke, I have the email. So yeah, if you had heard the stories coming out of our children’s mouths and reached out to a “Christian” agency (who was the covering for the guilty party) for help with their counseling and received that as a response… you might get cynical as well. When your own leadership, who you have followed and respected for years, treats the accused with more respect and sympathy than you and your abused children… yeah, you might get sarcastic.

As far as Dr Peters throwing Mr. Barry and Mr. Gladstone under the bus while attempting to look like he’s not throwing them under the bus… Mr. Barry was not even on staff at FIRE in 2010. He and Carolyn were partnering with us in pursuing justice for our kids because it was the right thing to do and they are people of integrity. Mr. Barry and Mr. Gladstone both responded to the allegations as you would expect a fellow believer would respond; they were shocked, appalled and called for action immediately. Dr Brown delayed in responding, tried to give the impression he was advocating for us (even though he never asked what we needed) and then appeared to side with Globe, encouraging them and showing them sympathy while rebuking us adoptive parents for speaking out. Dr. Peters isn’t far from correct in saying that he was not involved. After sending us to Haiti to connect with the Lashbrooks and responding with a “What did you expect from an orphanage in Haiti?” attitude after finding out about the abuse, we never contacted the Peters again. When we contacted the Peters initially, it was not because our adopted boys were “too unruly” to have in our home. We contacted him because they had been horrifically abused and were grooming our own children for abuse and we felt like they needed to know what was taking place at Globe. Again, this feels like another character attack from Peters meant to undermine us.

Lastly, Dr. Peters states that the “FBI finalized their report and did not find enough proof to pursue any kind of legal action”which is entirely false. In fact, they turned their case over to ICE with findings of sexual abuse and our case is still open with ICE.

In closing, when BRSM split and FIRE was formed, I was home for break. My pastor got a letter from Kilpatrick that was not kind towards the faculty who chose to leave with Dr Brown, and he encouraged pastors and parents to make their students remain at BRSM. I also got a letter from Mr. Gladstone regarding the formation of FIRE. There was nothing unkind, accusatory or ugly in the letter. No defense of their decision to leave, just an invite to join them. That letter is the reason I went with FIRE. I could see the posture in which each letter was written, and it swayed my decision. If you are torn, I get it. We have looked up to and respected these leaders for decades now and it’s confusing. But if you can step back and read Dr Browns statement to TRR and read both of Dr Peters’ letters from an objective place… you will see the posture in which they were written. They have everything to lose and us moms, we have nothing to gain. We did not set out to destroy anyone. Honestly, I was only seeking justice for my kids. The investigation into Brown brought into the light some questions about Haiti and I was just excited to have light shining on it again. This was never about Brown or Peters for me. It was only ever about truth and justice for the kids. I did not intend to be caught in the crosshairs, but to be honest, the lack of integrity, humility, and even Christlikeness coming out of the current FIRE leadership camp is shocking. I might be a nobody, but I won’t back down. It is our job to speak truth to the lies and I won’t stop. Isaiah 59has become my favorite passage in recent years, so I will end with a portion of it:

“So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows… Justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter. Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes prey. The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice. He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intercede; so his own armbrought salvation.”

I believe God is moving and that His “own arm” will bring justice. But I will not disappoint Him. When He looks, he will see people willing to interceded. He will see me. He will see Natalie and Milissa and everyone who has stood with us… and His justice will roll like water (Amos 5).

Sincerely,

Kjersti Johnson