My hope was that he would encourage them to come home, get off the support of the church, seek employment, and prioritize the health of their family without burdening the church with their financial well-being and unqualified leadership. He who does not take up His own cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. (Matthew 10:38) Paul writes these things in 1 Timothy 3, so that you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth. If they are within the universal Church, then they should be accountable to these standards of leadership. Better to have been thorough before the Lord in righteousness, and lay the fruit of our work at His redemptive feet than to be found shallow before the Lord and tragically compromised and fruitless in ministry in the years ahead. Keith told me that he asked Dalton to stop recruiting our friends, but Dalton persisted. Either in obedience to Him, come out!, or we would be thrown out as heretics by the One World Church. Dalton Thomas is the Founder and President of Frontier Alliance International (FAI). This relationship evolved into the birth of Israel Alliance International (IAI), the Israeli Division of FAI. My heart aches. Dalton communicated to us that the leaders in Turkey informed this womans elders in her home church and sought her out. This Statement is to enlighten those who are tracking with our various ministries to see exactly what has occurred and to be open about our best efforts to try and address it. God bless you and your wife and household. Nick you might be a brother in Christ, but you are way out of line, what you are doing is pure evil. Frontier Inc. reached a confidential settlement of claims stemming from the alleged in-flight sexual assaults of two passengers, according to a notice filed in the District of Colorado I wish I could say that I was immediately repentant and merciful to Susannas newfound horror, but I wasnt. She submitted to the oversight of her home church and professional Christian counselors to go through the restoration process entirely and with integrity. Maranatha Lord Jesus! The Iranian underground church gives an inside view of the ongoing street revolution in their country after the regime began sentencing protesters to death this week. I shared my regrets and sorrow about my abuse of his trust and offered whatever weak apology I could offer in that moment of impact. The damage already being caused and the potential for exponentially greater damage to the Body and the global Maranatha message was our overriding concern. We are told to love one another sacrificially as Christ loves us. and do it as publicly as you have attacked your brother. The region of Syrian Kurdistan (a.k.a. He was leading the relief initiative in Syria, and completing the second Better Friends Than Mountains film. He is also the co-founder of Maranatha, a global fellowship of churches and ministries. Little did even I imagine how fast this would start to happen! Areas in which Frontier Alliance International provides sustained assistance include medical relief and . How very very sad Nick. Some of this you may already know, and much is likely new to you. At least 135 Armenian soldiers are dead and over 7600 civilians displaced after a short but intense campaign by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces into Armenian territory last week. Frontier Alliance International Inc. cannot currently be evaluated by our Leadership & Adaptability methodology because we have not received data from the charity regarding its leadership capacity, strategic thinking and planning, and ability to innovate or respond to changes.Note: The absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment, it only indicates that we have not yet evaluated the organization. To that end, this is what I did. Addressing the underground church in Iran on Fox & Friends on FOX News, Hosting the White House Faith Initiative in Iraqi Kurdistan on CBN News, Addressing the threat of the IRGC from the Iranian Border on TBN / FOX Business, Addressing the Kurds, Israel and Iran on Jerusalem Dateline, Addressing FAIs Death-Defying Humanitarian Aid Mission in Syria on CNN, Addressing How Israel Partnered with a Christian Ministry on a Secret Medical Mission on CBN News, Addressing Life-Saving Training for the Kurdish Peshmerga in the Fight Against ISIS on Jerusalem Post, Addressing Why the US Should Stand with the Kurds on TBN / FOX Business, Addressing FAIs Collaboration with the IDF in Syria on CBN, Addressing Saving and Changing Lives in Syria on TBN, Addressing the crisis on the Israeli-Syrian border on Jerusalem Post, For all press/media inquires related to Dalton Thomas: dthomas@faimission.org, For inquires related to FAI: contact@faimission.org, For inquiries related to FAI STUDIOS (films and media): faistudios@faimission.org, Hosting the White House Faith Initiative in Iraqi Kurdistan, the threat of the IRGC from the Iranian Border, FAIs Death-Defying Humanitarian Aid Mission in Syria, How Israel Partnered with a Christian Ministry on a Secret Medical Mission, Life-Saving Training for the Kurdish Peshmerga in the Fight Against ISIS, FAIs Collaboration with the IDF in Syria. During the rise and fall of ISIS in Iraq, they lived in Iraqi Kurdistan where they worked alongside the Kurdish Peshmerga. No apology would be sufficient for something like this in the moment, only apologies matched with repentance, ownership of my sin, and change over time. This covered our church-planting efforts with the Kurds in our village as well as my newfound passion for medical outreach (inspired by Preach and Heal by Charles Fielding). FRONTIER ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC is a religious institutions company based out of 522 DOUGLAS DR, Ellerslie, Georgia, United States. It was then that I personally realized something was extremely unhealthy and backwards with Daltons desire for us to not tell anyone, to stay in the Middle East, to have supernatural forgiveness, to want to continue on with the work no matter what. The presence of an independent governing body is strongly recommended by many industry professionals to allow for full deliberation and diversity of thinking on governance and other organizational matters. Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. I am just one person who prayerfully and financially supports one of their field workers who is near and dear to my heart. UPDATE // Dalton ThomasShares the Latest on Gaza and Shelter for Families Affected by Hamas Partner With Us: https://www.faimission.org//shelter-for-families-affected- #becauseJesus #maranatha Built in the spirit of Hudson Taylor's China Inland Mission, Frontier Alliance International (FAI) is a strategic Christian ministry organization in the Middle East and 10/40 Window working among unreached people groups. Anna picked Susannas name and I picked Daltons. His verbiage in that conversation was disturbing and I became suspicious of his motives. Second, this contains a confession, but my primary goal is not to share a confession. In the spring of 2013 we coordinated a trip to Turkey to visit FAI and their team. After staying awake all night, yelling and crying, fearful and tormented, we had our first of five counseling sessions. Now that Im mentioning this woman, I want to speak in her defense. This one statement, especially in a year like 2020, when the judgements of the Lord surround the Church at every turn, should fill each of our hearts with holy fear. YOU my brother need to repent yourself, confess what you have done, and ask for forgiveness. Dalton, Keith, and others on the team responded by calling Susanna vindictive, slanderous, and abusive in these efforts. Shortly after, we began corresponding via Twitter and showing our support for his ministry and their team in Turkey. They have let the gross misrepresentations go unaccounted for. Jeff and Steph discuss 1 Corinthians 1:23-24. We will never ever divide from any of the parties involved in this dispute. At least 30 people were killed in the capital, as the troubled nation edged closer to all-out civil war for the first time in over a decade. No one is obligated to trust an organization or a public figure blindly; to the contrary, organizations and public figures are responsible to act in a way that demonstrates their trustworthiness. I cannot describe the shock and horror I felt-followed by a deep, all consuming depression-upon reading Mike Rs long post. It kills missions by (a) dispiriting the individual vessels who carry out the mission, (b) by bringing irreversible and multi-generational shame to Jesus name where it occurs, and (c) by diverting financial support from biblically qualified individuals and organizations. FAI App Frontier Alliance International. He told me that our families would have supernatural forgiveness and walk through this together. Over time, we learned there was a different version of the story being given as an explanation for Annas despondency and our departure from the Middle East. Forgiving those who sin against us is essential to the Christian life, but extending trust to those who have sinned and continue to misrepresent those sins is foolish. He does not hide or cloak the failures of his people. Im just relieved that it was you. Whatever shock he was in at that time would permit a statement like that (we all say bizarre things in shock), but it was an incredibly defining moment for me. Anna was also in a place where at the very least she felt comfortable doing a radio interview about raising a family in the Middle East and promoting FAI in May 2017 despite declining to engage with Susanna when she reached out to her (something Anna has apparently never had the capacity to do, to my wifes detriment). To fix their eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of their faith, to renew their minds daily, and be transformed into His likeness. In Accordance with the Internal Revenue Service guidelines, FAI maintains discretion and sole control over the use of all donated funds once a tax-deductible . San FranciscoOn Thursday, April 13, at 10:00 am Pacific Time (1:00 pm Eastern Time, 7 pm CEST), experts with Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and four international allies will brief reporters on the grave threat to human rights posed by ongoing UN Cybercrime Treaty negotiations that could lead to broad surveillance. Following the example set forth in 2 Corinthians 5:20, a letter of Appeal was sent to the Directors on Friday, August 28th. Many patrons, FAI ministry recruits and supporters lay their hearts, lives, blood, wallets on the line extremely sacrificially to fuel their important work in the Middle East. Dalton told us that ACTS leadership asked him to take over the leadership and oversight of their operations in the Muslim world as the Regional Director of the Middle East and North Africa for ACTS. The gospel in the nations is too important to risk sending or approving individuals whose lives are not in line with biblical standards for Christian leadership, whether in spiritual leadership (1 Tim 3:1-7; Titus 1:5-9) or in mercy ministry (Acts 6:1-6; 1 Tim 3:8-13). They were demanding that Susanna extend grace to Dalton, Anna, and FAI while only law was being extended to her. This was the undisclosed factor that caused the team in Turkey to disintegrate. Therefore, I am not in any way concerned, before God as my witness, about your threats. Sept. 30, 2022. Fourth, Keith believed that this would be sufficient action to make right the many past wrongs up until that point. Lastly, what do you see as a path forward here? Ruling year info 2014 Founding President Dalton Lifsey Main address PO BOX 4758 Jackson, WY 83001 USA Show more contact info EIN 45-5619623 We pressed on and prepared for a move to Colorado with the remaining families and singles who comprised the core of FAI (three families and three singles), landing there in January of 2015. After my own month long investigation as to how this was handled, here are my findings: 1. But as in the corporate world, the temptation to view entities as Too Big To Fail must not be permitted. Please forgive my brevity, and thank you for the comment: The failure of oversight/leadership within this is indeed both chronic and appalling. In 2012 we met Dalton Thomas, founder of Frontier Alliance International (FAI). I reached out to Keith again and shared my frustration that he or anyone within FAI would look at Susanna as an abusive or vindictive person in this situation. The reality was that ACTS rescinded the offer because the other ACTS team leaders and ministry directors didnt trust Dalton. However, for the record, come the second half of your second sentence (where you claim that we would have done X,Y&Z had our motivations been pure), you have already become factually incorrect inaccuracies that betray your own motivation in writing. The affair lasted a little more than a month, quickly escalating from texting, to talking on the phone, and into a sexual relationship up until the time we went to the USA for counseling in January 2017. Dalton had given me leadership over all things local to our village and related to medical relief in northern Iraq. This serves as a good warning for us to examine ourselves to see if we are in the faith. We wanted to be merciful and supportive of Dalton and Anna so we didnt second guess our nave understanding of mercy or ask the hard questions that we should have. Thanks for your time with this but please respect that Im not going to respond comprehensively, or back and forth its not the place. Funerals and demonstrations were held across Syrian Kurdistan (a.k.a. Location. I am new to FAI, just finishing my 14-day fast, and frankly am completely enamored with Daltons insight and treatment of scripture, putting the puzzle pieces together to form a harmonious picture of the church at the end of the agethis has resulted in a fundamental shift in my approach to eschatology as well as the internalization of the Maranatha message. There is no shade in his presence and my desire is that the light of the Son would do its necessary work and rescue some. After Susanna confronted me, I walked outside, called Anna, told her Susanna found out and that she would need to tell Dalton. In the eyes of FAI, the success of my familys recovery was predicated on our protection of the organization, despite the deception and misrepresentation before and after we joined. The Greek coast guard announced that one of its vessels had fired warning shots towards a suspicious Turkish-flagged cargo vessel in international waters of the Aegean Sea on Saturday, as tensions continue to ratchet up between Turkey and Greece over ongoing maritime disputes. Photographer: Matt Staver/Bloomberg . The mercy of God is too sweet to think that He would not honor the full effort of restoring and prioritizing family health at the momentary cost of ministry activity. The Maranatha message must in word AND deed be intentionally decentralized. This is undoubtedly one of the most difficult situations leadership has to deal with, compounded by the scope of the people involved and the importance of the Maranatha message of Christ. Amen and thank you; please excuse my brevity. Your donation attempt encountered a problem. Hi Wendell, This provided a lull for our family and some time to stay in our village and spend time with our Kurdish friends. Sadly today we see these events happening in many places in the world and I have observed them in places all over the world that I have been involved in. A volunteer is giving their time based on what they believe to be true. The Death & Dearth of Spiritual Authority. These people and their work has inspired and galvanized us to the core and greatly shaped our own Christian walk and ministerial efforts. 5 Ratings. INDEX Welcome ABOUT FILM & TV. An official record of the events that take place during a board meeting ensures that a contemporaneous document exists for future reference. Is this essentially correct? After our final counseling session I called our pastor and told him everything. Instead, I isolated myself to my own harm and the harm of my family. Its hard to know the biblical process for conflict resolution here. PO Box 4758, Jackson, Wyoming, 83001, United States. FAI was at the top of our minds. THE FAI APP ALL CONTENT CONSOLIDATED All our content in one convenient, free app. If you wish to donate, please refresh the page. ; EIN#: 45-5619623, registered in the state of Georgia. My husband and I also see Joel as heroic and honorable in his willingness to plunge into this matter, to give his time extremely sacrificially, and conduct exhaustive research into this sad matter for many months. Suffice to say, again for the record and again to point everyone reading back to the original statement above (that is very clear indeed): Christopher, Steve and myself have been obliged to appeal for public clarity that the Body of Christ are entitled to have. There has been no confession of the deception and false narrative that continued after we left Iraq. That same day, Susanna questioned Dalton about whether or not he would be disclosing the situation to those who were in the process of moving their lives to the Middle East to join FAI. Our comments werent meant to be exhaustive or comprehensive or even good enough, either, just coming from the place of our desire for ultimate right and reconciliation, and mostly just coming from our desire to express our confidence in the good motives of those involved who we know and trust, whatever conclusions are reached by those of you in the midst of this thing. More recently, Dalton spearheaded an initiative inside Syria in coordination with the Israeli Defense Force providing large-scale humanitarian relief to Syrian civilians caught in the crossfire of the war. What better way for the enemy to derail the message than to strike the one proclaiming itbut this is no new tactic. For those who are currently in (or have experience with) positions of leadership, it is often a thankless job, full of many travails. He does not allow for the deeds done in darkness to remain in darkness. Not the hubris and deadly fruit of Christian celebrity that they continue to exhort. Teams enter "interior" regions in which no witnesses exist for . I was busy with the demands of registering and legitimizing an NGO and medical program all while being emotionally and spiritually unfaithful. During the rest of 2015, the FAI team attempted to get to know one another. Dalton taught at the FAI gathering in February 2017, and the Emmaus School soon after that. Azerbaijan Cuts Off Armenians in Disputed Region, Iranian Regime Shows Signs of Desperation, Exclusive: Underground Church Update from Iran, Special Report: The Goat and the Ram (Part 3), US, Iranian Militias Trade Blows in Syria, Outrage in NE Syria After Drone Strike Kills 4 Girls, "Unprecedented" Shelling of Syrian Kurdistan, Special Report: The Goat and the Ram, Part 2. We landed in Iraq in early 2016 and hit the ground running. I walked over to our village office and apologized to him face-to-face. Throughout the week of counseling, we continued to correspond with Dalton. Hypocrisy will be revealed and shouted from the rooftops (just look at Nancy Pelosi and her trip to the hair salon, lol). Dalton and Anna relied on Keith as a voice of wisdom so I wanted to make sure that he knew the full scope of what had happened so he would hopefully intervene, help quench the deception around what happened, and be a voice of reason. Beloved, the excruciating reality of millions of Christians on that Day will be that they short-changed the Lords many (temporal) thlipsis judgements and left themselves unprepared for the Lords final judgement. Those who donate their time and money should be given the right to do so with information that may inform their decisions one way or another. By the end of the week, our counselors had rightly identified our continued communication with Dalton and Anna as inappropriate in light of the affair and told us to cease all communication with them (except for communication about our children as they were still with Dalton and Anna in Iraq). We needed more time to think and pray about our options. One of the leaders who was assigned to Dalton and Anna told me we didnt do a restoration process with Dalton and Anna, at least we didnt complete one and that Dalton wasnt a part of our community. We continued to reach out and found that virtually all the former ministry partners Dalton had cited as vouchsafes had ceased communication with him. He always does this out of redemptive love, compassion in grace at the beginning and moves eventually to judgement for judgement must begin in His house. We did not expect this and in fact, originally planned to give for the foreseeable. . This policy establishes guidelines for the handling, backing up, archiving and destruction of documents. Frontier Alliance International Inc. reported its largest program on its FY 2019 Form 990 as: Provided support and encouragement to missionaries Provided medical care to people with little or no access to care Provide community development in many poor villages and towns Recruited doctors from (More)Provided support and encouragement to missionaries Provided medical care to people with little or no access to care Provide community development in many poor villages and towns Recruited doctors from latin america to serve in asia and middle east Produced and directed media productions to educate regarding poverty(Less). During this interaction Dalton began referring to Susannas skepticism as vindictive and I clarified that her skepticism was quite valid and wise. Stream original and exclusive FAI STUDIOS feature films, TV shows, music videos, & more.

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