Camp Comments Explanation #1

Obviously, in attempting to blog the progress of my life for those who care to follow it, I am at times going to refer to Dorion Bible Camp and Conference Centre (CSSM Ministries) and my long history there.

I would think that anyone reading a blog would do so with the prior
understanding that such a document is highly personal and subjective and therefore view comments contained therein in such a light.

But I am stating here that it is my intention to be accurate and fair, while recognizing the role that my own raw emotions may play in my perceptions.

And, though I have my own views about the current state of CSSM, DBCCC and speculations about their future, if I ever do state them, they should not be taken as impugning the *characters* of my ex-co-workers or especially of the board or Ontario Council members. I say "especially" of the latter because, due to the extreme lack of direct communication, the individual opinions of *those* people remain virtually unknown to me.

Of course, therefore, what my responses would have been to their opinions and questions about me remain unknown to *them*. In the end I was deprived of the opportunities to give such responses, unsure what I needed to respond to. But the decision has been made nonetheless.

Though it troubles me that huge decisions about my life were made based, as far as I can tell, on conversations *about* me (of which I've been given no record), not on those relative few that were *with* me, again, as I say elsewhere, some of you might say, "Welcome to real life. Deal with it."

Well, that's what I'm trying to do. Please, pray for me.
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Update October 2007:

As you know, some of the key players are now no longer around: the Branch Director has retired and the Dorion Bible Camp Executive Director resigned from his Administrative position to take on a sort of counselling role more in line with how he sees his gifts (that's my speculation from a distance).

Unfortunately, the remaining leader at Dorion Bible Camp likely remains unchanged toward me. Sadly, I believe that he received faulty information about what was going on, and have now told him so. The one time we met, I had to correct (with an email from the E.D. he'd not seen previously) the version of the story he recited. See "If It Had In Fact Been True" in which I explain how differently matters would have unfolded, had his version been accurate.

I suspect that the information given me at the time was faulty as well. It was certainly incomplete. I heard of many meetings to which I was not invited, nor given minutes about our situation, despite the fact that they concerned me directly. I have asked now for this missing information, but have received nothing.

I hesitate to say who it may or may not have been who gave him and me faulty information. Nor can I be certain what was deliberate or not, and what motives may have been involved in passing on or choosing to believe faulty information.

However, had we followed Dr. K's professional recommendation and all sat down together with some experienced guidance and talked this all through (as I agreed over and over again to do), I believe that this could have all been cleared up. Hopefully, this is a lesson Dorion Bible Camp has learned and now practises.

See Camp Comments Explanation #2.

See Camp Comments Explanation #3.

See Camp Comments Explanation #4.


See Camp Comments Explanation #5 ("He has admitted none of his faults.").

See Camp Comments Explanation #6 ("Is there still a job for me there?").