{"id":3954,"date":"2018-12-18T08:38:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T13:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/mormontherapist\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2018-12-19T01:12:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T06:12:31","slug":"witnessing-for-our-kiwi-mormon-page-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mormontherapist\/2018\/12\/witnessing-for-our-kiwi-mormon-page-6.html","title":{"rendered":"Witnessing for Our Kiwi Mormon &#8211; Page 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3995\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/153\/2018\/12\/48367725_10218026234797452_5307417080532828160_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">Continued\u2026<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The following are the \u201cwitnesses\u201d that have been written in behalf of Gina Colvin, who is being summoned to a disciplinary court on December 20, 2018. If you\u2019re interested in submitting a witness\u2026 please share with me at nhelferparker@gmail.com. I will continue to update\u2026 or create further posts as I receive them. I will keep blog posts to about 1500 words\u2026 that\u2019s why there will be more than one \u201cpage.\u201d<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Dear Bishop Shaw and President Ornsby,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">I want to add my name as a witness to what a beautiful disciple of Christ Gina Colvin has been to me and my family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">I am a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day-Saints, converted under the pretense of problematic history, culture, dogma, and doctrine.\u00a0 With many of my questions going unanswered for 20 + years, I pushed through \u201cfaithfully\u201d serving in many callings in the church, including Bishopric and Stake callings. \u00a0Despite having doubts and serious questions I tried to find the best resources to keep me in communion with God and engaged in the LDS community that I have come to love.\u00a0 The Spirit was calling me to engage in a deeper and more meaningful relationship with my Heavenly Parents and their children, but here lies the problem\u2026\u2026. the Church has been failing my family miserably with the right nourishment. \u00a0You see, Gina is a Jesus girl through and through.\u00a0 And because of her desire to follow Jesus Christ, I have learned that God has many more beautiful gifts and talents through other faith communities that I could engage in to strengthen my testimony of a Loving God.\u00a0 Terryl Givens asks all the time, \u201cWhat is your holy envy\u201d when he speaks of other faith communities.\u00a0 Do you not see what he is doing here?\u00a0 He is challenging our paradigms and to look at more inclusive community.\u00a0 We can now engage with the LDS community and defend those on the fringes, just as Christ did.\u00a0 I have learned to come to a place of grace and love that reaches farther than our small communities.\u00a0 This we have done because Gina has shared her journey with me and my family.\u00a0 She has been cherished through my faith expansion.\u00a0 Gina has taught us how to engage with God to discover our divinely creative gifts to love deeper and have more meaningful relationships.\u00a0 God is much more gracious and loving because we know Gina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">I sincerely hope you would consider your decision to hold a disciplinary council.\u00a0\u00a0 I hope and pray that your eyes and heart may see the beauty and love that Gina holds for her fellow brothers and sisters.\u00a0 Your message will be loud and clear to thousands of others like us on the \u201cfringes\u201d of the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>LDS Church<\/a>.\u00a0 So, although the actions you take on Gina may feel like they are only with Gina, we will not let her carry those burdens alone and they will become our burdens and we will carry them just as Jesus Christ took upon himself our burdens.\u00a0 I hope that you understand our desire is to make the LDS Church a safer place to worship and serve one another.\u00a0 Open your heart and mind to the possibilities that God is sharing with us in these days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Please do not take these actions lightly.\u00a0 Our love is not only with Gina, but with her family as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">We have been called to witness and stand for truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Mosiah 18:9<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Yea, and are willing to mourn with those that mourn; yea, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort, and to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places that ye may be in, even until death, that ye may be redeemed of God, and be numbered with those of the first resurrection, that ye may have eternal life\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Thank you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">The Gomez Family<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Placido Gomez Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Boise, Idaho<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dear Josh, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I hope this letter finds you well as we prepare for the wonderful season of Christmas. We love you and your family and have enjoyed our friendship since you moved to to our neck of the woods. We have had fun times with you and your extended family too. For this reason I am writing to you, because I am worried for you.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We were sad you were taken out of our ward to become Bishop of Parklands. We couldn\u2019t see the reason for it, why you would have to go to a ward that had plenty of eligible priesthood holders, but now it becomes clear. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I see this as a set up, that you have been hand picked for the job of dealing with Gina Colvin. You will be the one that ends up taking the fall for this spiritual atrocity. Chosen to carry out the wishes of others to remove a thorn in their side. Chosen because perhaps you don\u2019t know Nathan and Gina very well, and on face value it\u2019s easy to be convinced that this is the right thing to do.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We do know Gina and Nathan. We have loved, served and laughed with them over many years. You may know that we also have been struggling through our own faith transition\/crisis for over 10 years. This has been 10 years of wrestling with uncomfortable truths and realizations that have been difficult, isolating and hurtful.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We felt largely unsupported by our ward. \u00a0People didn\u2019t want to talk about our concerns and we felt dismissed as people tiptoed around us to avoid openly discussing any of our sincere, deep and troubling issues. This was hurtful at first, but we are OK with it now, as we accept and have come to understand the difficulty of dealing with cognitive dissonance and acknowledge that it is easier and safer for others to distance themselves from confronting hard truths. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Yet through all of this have been Nathan and Gina. They showed us love and acceptance and gave compassion and support through many late nights, tears and open discussions that our breaking hearts longed for. No judgements were made, no subject was taboo, they listened, cared and allowed for personal spiritual investigation and healing. We may have abandoned the church \u00a0very early on in our journey, were it not for their friendship and support. They listened to our heated discussions and provided a rational and reasoned sounding board and safe place for us. A place that should have been in our ward but was sadly lacking.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Through Gina\u2019s online blogs and podcasts I know that she has provided similar support and refuge for thousands of others who are struggling through the mire of faith transition that is modern mormonism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span class=\"\">\u201cWe claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men\/women the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.\u201d \u2014<\/span><a class=\" decorated-link\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/pgp\/a-of-f\/1.11?lang=eng#10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"\">Articles of Faith 1:11<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This is a basic tenet of the church. So why would this not apply to Gina \u00a0and her choice of how she chooses to commune with the Saviour?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In all of the time I have known them, Gina and Nathan have helped me find a personal relationship with deity. They have never encouraged me or my family to leave the church or abandon mormonism, quite the contrary. They helped us navigate a way to stay and find value in what at times appears to be a very broken Church.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As you approach your decision about the upcoming disciplinary hearing and potential excommunication, I think you need to be prepared for the consequence of your actions. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Are you really prepared to tear apart an eternal family? <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Do you, from a surface viewing of \u201cevidence\u201d want to destroy the eternal temple bonds to her husband and children? <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The brutal and spiritual abuse of excommunication is a man made doctrine and finds its place only in cults that shun those who do not worship the leader or subscribe to Group think.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ultimately the only person with the authority to judge Gina is the saviour. You as a bishop are appointed as a temporal judge. Your decisions should reflect those that the saviour would make.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In all my scripture study, I have yet to read of the Saviour casting anyone out of his church. If Gina is guilty of anything it is in not putting her faith in the arm of the flesh but in Christ. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span class=\"\">\u201cLet no man glory in man, but rather let him glory in God. \u2026 These shall dwell in the presence of God and his Christ forever and ever\u201d (<\/span><a class=\" decorated-link\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/dc-testament\/dc\/76.61-62?lang=eng#60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"\">D&amp;C 76:61\u201362<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\">)<\/span><span class=\"\">.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Are you prepared for the ripple effect of your actions.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The effect upon the online community who find refuge in Gina\u2019s work, the effect upon other faith communities in Christchurch and world wide. Do you want to become known as the bishop who excommunicated someone for following Christ but not following the President of the Church?<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I think this type of action only justifies those phariscal members of the church to continue being intolerant of those who make them feel uncomfortable by making them think deeply about their faith. Where the saviour preaches come follow me, your decisions will only validate \u00a0and encourage the exclusive mindset to just \u2018get rid of them\u2019 and these type of people will continue to push people out, people like Us? <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ultimately you will be judged by the world for your decisions but more importantly by the Saviour.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tread carefully, As I said at the start of the letter, we are worried for you. This has been set up for you to take the fall by those unwilling to do so. Like Pontius Pilate they have washed their hands of it and the judgment now lies with you.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We love Gina and greatly appreciate her. We have our differences of opinion in some areas as would be expected, but she deserves better treatment than this. She needs love, support and understanding. She needs a community that is accepting of her and embraces her. We also acknowledge Nathan and how truly devastating a decision such as excommunication would be especially for him. We will stand with Gina and Nathan through this hurtful process, but this is not about taking sides, it is about trying to be Christ like and mourn with those that mourn and returning the kindness and support that Gina has shown us and thousands of others like us.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We hope that you will accept this letter in love and kindness as it is intended. Just our thoughts for what it\u2019s worth.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Best Wishes and Love<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Andy and Kez Jones<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Natasha Helfer Parker, LCMFT, CST can be reached at\u00a0<a class=\"ext-link decorated-link decorated-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.natashaparker.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-wpel-target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">natashaparker.org<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0runs an online practice,\u00a0<a class=\"ext-link decorated-link decorated-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.symmetrysols.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-wpel-target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Symmetry Solutions<\/em><\/a>, which focuses on helping families and individuals with faith concerns, sexuality and mental health. She hosts the\u00a0<a class=\"ext-link decorated-link decorated-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonmentalhealth.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-wpel-target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">Mormon Mental Health<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"ext-link decorated-link decorated-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonsexinfo.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-wpel-target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">Mormon Sex Info<\/a>\u00a0Podcasts,\u00a0is the current president of the\u00a0<a class=\"ext-link decorated-link decorated-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonmentalhealthassoc.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-wpel-target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">Mormon Mental Health Association<\/a>\u00a0and runs a sex education program, <a class=\"decorated-link decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/sextalkwithnatasha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sex Talk with Natasha<\/a>. 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