prophet said:
bgwilkinson said:
prophet said:
bgwilkinson said:
"Looming largest, of course, is her perspective that the offerings went to her Dad, and not to deposit, overseen by deacons and a financial secretary..."
Up until Glen Smith died maybe, but as he was the treasurer he was the only deacon that had the availability of the financial records. Mrs. Anderson was a church employee and directly answerable to Bro. Hyles. All accountability was lost when the only elected person died.
I oversaw a budget, and dealt with Mrs. Anderson on a daily basis.
If you had, as well, you would know that she could tell ANYONE "no".
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What I do know is that as a deacon I was not allowed to view the financial records and bank accounts. I do not mean the sanitized budget that Mrs. Anderson kept by hand. I am referring to the multitude of off budget or black budget accounts that were totally off limits to the deacons.
None of which contained monies collected on the public services.
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It would be nearly impossible after all the time that has passed to prove that either way.
The point was we did not know and were not permitted to find out.
How can you prove now that no monies from offerings went into black budgets?
One Saturday night after Glen died some of us suggested that we have an audit of all church accounts, on budget and off budget, as it had been a couple of years since we had had one.
Bro. Hyles pointed to the back door of the Adams chapel and said, "If you do that I am resigning and walking out that door and never coming back and you'll have to come up with the money".
We never brought it up again until he died.