Open Letter to Glenn Goodwin
June 12, 2008
Gospel Assembly
7135 Meredith Drive - Des Moines, Iowa 50322
Glenn Goodwin – Pastor
Copies to: Other
ministers of the Worldwide Gospel Assembly Churches.
Dear Glenn,
If I could stand up
in a public meeting of the Gospel Assembly Churches, this is what I would do:
I would look
directly, face to face with you and I would say this:
Glenn, I tried going
to you privately and telling you my grievances about Lloyd Goodwin. Remember
when I came to you after church that Wednesday night in 1991 and ask you if I
could talk to you? This was after you told me that I was not allowed to speak
in your church until Lloyd Goodwin came back into town. I told you that I had
tried to address Lloyd Goodwin with my problems with him but he refused to talk
to me about it. Instead, he stood up in front of the entire church, with my own
husband present, and said words similar to these:
“Wanda Mason is going
to die in a horrible fiery crash and be burned and charred beyond recognition!
If this doesn’t happen within a short period of time, then God never called me
to the ministry.”
Robert’s quote from
transcript: http://www.gospelassemblyfree.com/news/TRANSCRIPTInterviewBobKim.htm
Bob: "Then in the service, my wife's name and Kim Park's
name was mentioned at least a half dozen different times in conjunction with
one another and on one on one basis. My wife's name was mentioned and
the fact that she was going to die an unnatural death. The scripture was given,
quoted, he made it very plain that she was going to die an
"unnatural" death and he gave a time table on this Saturday night of
somewhere, probably, for using the scriptures from the Bible, the neighborhood
of one to two months. The service then,
Wednesday, May 15th, I was present at this service, my daughter was present at
this service where it was, again, the scriptures were used and the time frame
was changed at this point. My wife's name was not mentioned because visitors
from out of state were present in this service, so no name was actually
mentioned but he alluded to everything so everybody was very aware of who it
was because of previous services. He mentioned at this point that she was going
to die a death and she was going to die a fiery death, her body was going to be
charred beyond recognition, and the fact that she would die very soon. He would
not say how soon but in both cases he mentioned the fact that she was either going
to die or he was not called to the ministry. He was that plain, that evident
and he made that statement in both services, on two or three occasions
especially, Saturday the 11th. On Wednesday the 15th, he made the statement
again if this did not happen then he was not called to the ministry."
Glenn, do you
remember telling me that you weren’t an elder and that I needed to take it to
the elders? So I asked you who the elders were and you said, “Vernon Goodwin
and Lee Ray.” I thanked you and left.
The following is a copy of the letter that I sent to Lloyd explaining the
situation.
http://www.gospelassemblyfree.com/letters/ltr4.htm
Excerpt from letter:
“Paul said "If
you have ought against your brother, go to him and him
alone and if he won't hear you, then go to the elders and if they won't hear
you, then go to the church." (Actually, it doesn't say go to the elders, it says to take some
others with you but I knew that in this case, it would have to be the elders
that went with me.) I want to do it right and God's way.”
Then I wrote a letter
to Vernon Goodwin and he also refused to hear me. The only reason I sent it to
what I thought was his place of business, was because Lloyd Goodwin wouldn’t
let anyone read my letters.
http://www.gospelassemblyfree.com/letters/vernon.htm
Letter from Vernon Goodwin:
7/24/91
Wanda
Mason,
I
do not understand why you would mail any correspondence addressed to me to
Brooks- Lussem Insurance Agency. I have no relationship with that agency. I am
particularly at a loss to understand since my name and address is listed in the
telephone directory. In the future, please do not send any correspondence to
any place of business addressed to me. In fact, I am
asking that you not address any correspondence to me concerning this matter.
Vernon Goodwin
I sent a letter to
Lee Ray and he told me he threw it away. I had asked him to give the letter that
I wrote to your father, Vernon, to him and he said he didn’t give it to him but
just threw it away. In fact, NO ONE would hear me. I tried doing it the
Biblical way. People either sent my letters back, gave them to Lloyd Goodwin,
or threw them away. I had to resort to other methods just to get you to read a
letter from me, remember?
For five years, I
pleaded with Lloyd Goodwin to do the right thing. All my letters and his back
to me are on the website now for the entire world to see; all those letters that
Lloyd Goodwin forbade anyone to read. He even said he didn’t read them, which
was a lie because the very next service he would be up there preaching about
what I wrote in the letter.
http://www.gospelassemblyfree.com/letters.htm
I was sincere in
reaching out to him. I really hoped beyond hope that somehow he would listen
and do the right thing. But he just kept on digging his own pit and after five
years of God wooing him and asking him to repent; he fell into his own pit. I’m
not the one who died, Glenn; it was Lloyd L. Goodwin who dropped dead in
church. Can you at least admit that much?
Several of us have
tried to reach out to you, Glenn. You refused to hear any of our grievances unless
we promised not to say anything about your Apostle, Lloyd L. Goodwin. We have
letters on the website proving this. You even went so far as to say that we
should “cover up” evil!
http://www.gospelassemblyfree.com/gac/glennletter1.html
Your own quotes: “If we meet with you, please understand that
we refuse to listen to any charges, claims, grievances, gossip, innuendoes, or
disparaging statements about Bro. Lloyd Goodwin, Bro. Vernon Goodwin, any
minister or any saints in this church. --It is the Devil who
is the accuser of our brethren. Rev.12:10. We refuse to become an accuser or a
judge. We are not interested in the results of any investigation. The
ungodly are the ones who did dig up evil. Pro. 16:27.
The Lord gave us a paddle to cover up
evil, not to dig it out and expose it. Deut. 23:13-14.
Furthermore, we will not engage in any debate with you or your brothers. II Cor. 12:20, Rom. 1:29. We will not enter into any strife.
11 Tim. 2:24, Isa. 45:9.”
We have put nothing
on those websites that is not true. You have lied and even committed crimes
against the state to protect your Uncle Lloyd. I really don’t know exactly how
much you knew about all his shenanigans, but I believe you know a lot.
Now, I’m going to ask
you publicly to hear me before the entire church. Will you listen to my
grievances now? Will you listen to all the voices that are hurting because of
what your Uncle and your church did to them? Will you listen to all the young
people who were beaten, raped and mentally abused in your church? Are you ready to admit that openly and commit
to some kind of restitution to make things right with them? You do believe in
restitution, don’t you Glenn? Lloyd
Goodwin was pretty big on restitution. Do you still believe what he taught?
Glenn, I’m asking you
here, publicly, to hear us. I’m asking you to make a public repentance for not
only what Lloyd did, but for what you’ve done in continuing to uphold him as a
great apostle, when the truth is that he was nothing but a liar, an adulterer,
a thief, and a murderer. Even if he never really physically “murdered” anyone,
he was still a murderer because he murdered people’s souls, lives, families,
reputations and etcetera. His life was a farce. You need to admit that to the
people you are in fellowship with. Can you do that, Glenn?
If you’re willing to
do that, then I’m willing to publicly shake your hand and endorse you as a true
child of God. I’m willing to make that public on the website and the message
board. That’s what I’m willing to do. What are you willing to do? You do need
our endorsement and forgiveness, Glenn, because whatever you’ve done to these
little ones, you’ve done to Christ.
Sincerely with all my
heart and soul,
Wanda Mason
http://www.gospelassemblyfree.com