“Forced to a destination for one’s own purposes” – the definition of a hijacking.
Alan and Kathryn Scott were entrusted with the Anaheim Vineyard only 4 years ago. The Scotts had said to the search committee, which was comprised of Anaheim Vineyard pastors and elders, that theirs was “a lifetime appointment” and they were “Vineyard through and through.” But Alan and Kathryn and the board recently voted to disassociate from the Vineyard; essentially stealing the home of the Vineyard instead of leaving to start their own movement. This was all done in secret and is a breach of contract. It is criminal. (One member, Pete Greig, left the board after this went down.). The hurt and devastation that has ensued is vast. The Anaheim Vineyard house, bought and paid for by the Vineyard Anaheim people, and home to many all over the globe, has been hijacked. Reverberations have been felt around the world.
It should be noted that in 2018, when Lance Pittluck retired, the original board (which Alan has since replaced) realized the bylaws needed to be updated to keep a potential bad actor from taking advantage of the power he would have. Instead, they trusted Alan and Kathryn’s character and integrity to uphold the spirit of the bylaws and in no way imagined they would use the bylaws to steal the Vineyard house for their own purposes.
During the Covid lockdowns, just two years into leading the Anaheim Vineyard, Alan and Kathryn with Jeremy and Katie Riddle decided God told them to leave the Vineyard movement but keep the house. They proceeded to lay plans without one conversation to any leaders in the Vineyard. As Rich Nathan says, “God does speak today. But whenever a so-called ‘leading’ is obviously self-seeking, fundamentally dishonest, lacking in accountable discernment, demonstrably hurts others and especially when money or power is involved, you can rest assured that it is NOT God who is leading.”
Alan recently had the Vineyard house and property assessed at around $70 million and decided to take it and the bank assets of around $7-10 million and personal home and vehicles assets of around $1.7 million out of the Vineyard and into his own movement. This is wrong. Sadly, it may be legal. But like many laws today, just because something is legal does not mean it is right.
If the Scotts and Riddles felt the Lord calling them to their own movement, the Vineyard would have blessed them and would have been extremely generous with them. Many of the old Vineyard would have prayed about following them out of the Vineyard to their new church because of strong ties to the people in the church.
The Lord birthed something beautiful at Anaheim Vineyard and many will come to rally and live out boldly for the Kingdom their inheritance. The rally cry is for Jesus’ name to be exalted in the streets. That will never be destroyed.
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