ATTN E360 MEMBERS - THE TRUE MISSION IS *YOU* NOT A FEW DISHONEST LEADERS!
WHY WON'T E360 LEADERS TRUTHFULLY ANSWER DIRECT QUESTIONS?
WHY IS THERE SO MUCH EVIDENCE OF CONTINUAL INTENTIONAL DECEPTIONS BY ETHNOS360 EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP?
TO BE CRYSTAL CLEAR... Our concern with ETHNOS360 is 'not' the Members themselves, it is the (secretly) dishonest LEADERSHIP.
Present day ETHNOS360 is simply NTM 2.0 ruled by the same small group of men who have made certain that the original NTM 1.0 "Culture of Silence" lives on.
UPDATE - As of December 2024, Ethnos360 has declined to contact the Ethnos Truth Project to submit any request for clarification or retraction of any documentation on this website. INSTEAD, they have quietly modified some content on their own website, but we see there are mis-representations in some of those "modifications". This only reinforces our observations that Ethnos Leadership is often deceptive even when the Truth would serve them better.
The corporate structure (and legal status as a church) allows ETHNOS360 Leadership to lie with impunity about anything they choose, knowing that there is no mechanism for members and supporters to hold leadership accountable for any of their decisions. (Assuming the members find out in the first place).
ETP has many reasons to believe that "immunity from meaningful outside scrutiny" may be about to end for Leadership, who, as of May 2024, are 'themselves' under investigation , allegedly for "Failure To Report CSA".
Truth is truth. It does not matter who is asking the following questions, only that ETHNOS360 has either ignored them, or when that has failed, they have published misleading or even outright false answers. Until now, they have gotten away with it.
Here is the bottom line right from the beginning... There is ample documentation and public testimony (beginning at the 47 minute mark in this video link) that current ETHNOS360 Executives have been engaging in an ongoing conspiracy to cover-up, minimize and whitewash known cases of Child Sexual and Other Abuse in their mission in a misguided effort to shield the organization from civil and reputational liability. In the process, they have allowed known child predators to be free to re-offend, and they have intentionally misled members and supporters to hide the truth.
If ETHNOS360 Leadership refuses to directly and truthfully respond to these straightforward questions with legitimate proof instead of offering pious assurances and pointing to their previously published phony excuses, then we will all know that many of the serious allegations and accusations being publicly raised against them are being validated.
Before we ask the questions, here are some facts we are standing upon:
Fact 1 - Thousands of members and over 20,000 supporters of NTM/ETHNOS360 have been unwitting victims of a shockingly two-faced group of "Executive Leaders" whose zeal to protect the organization itself has led them to do or approve of a long list of very questionable, unethical and potentially criminal acts for many years.
Fact 2 - Just because as of 2024 there have not been public consequences for these secret acts does not mean the consequences are not coming. Consequences 'are' coming, either at the hand of earthly authorities or God who is not being fooled by outward appearances which are subject to manipulation.
Fact 3 - While every individual is responsible for their own actions, lying is morally wrong but generally not illegal. However, if a corporate executive lies by falsifying documents or destroying evidence he may face civil or even criminal penalties.
Fact 4 - Blindly denying and doubting that these serious allegations against this group of respected men are even 'possible' does not change the inconvenient facts that researchers have gathered from public sources.
Opinion 1 - We should judge an Executives' actions, not just their words. If we are wise, we will carefully EXAMINE THE EVIDENCE as opposed to ONLY BELIEVING WHAT WE WERE TOLD (but with no actual proof being provided).
Opinion 2 - Regardless of their social popularity, mission leaders who are caught in lies should be disqualified from serving in leadership positions. Based upon the evidence, all of the men in ETHNOS360's power structure need to be questioned under oath regarding what has gone on during their tenure.
Opinion 3 - If a member of ETHNOS360 has knowledge of serious wrongdoing by someone in leadership but they willingly look the other way in the mistaken belief that "unity" is to be valued above "truth" then that member is 'also' responsible for contributing to this leadership scandal. Silence is not necessarily a virtue and neither is failure to confront obvious sin, especially by those who are the public face of the mission..
Finally - Concealing or destroying evidence of Child Abuse may be criminal. Don't do it, and do not protect someone who is/has done so, regardless of their prominent position within the organization. DO NOT ASSUME YOU WILL NOT BE CAUGHT. SOME OF YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN (CAUGHT), YOU JUST DO NOT KNOW IT YET. (We are not playing games here. Based upon evidence we have seen, we suggest that several men need to resign your positions and seek outside legal counsel immediately. This investigation is not going away and your own actions good or bad speak volumes about your character)
ETHNOS CLAIMS INTEGRITY AND TRANSPARENCY SO LET'S FIND OUT!
AFTER A CAREFUL SEARCH OF THE ETHNOS360.ORG WEBSITE AND PUBLICATIONS WE HAVE A LIST OF QUESTIONS!
ALL OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WILL FOLLOW BELOW HAVE EITHER BEEN QUIETLY IGNORED FOR YEARS OR ELSE ETHNOS HAS PUBLISHED ANSWERS THAT ARE AT THE LEAST MISLEADING AND IN MANY CASES ARE OUTRIGHT FALSE, BUT UNSUSPECTING MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS NEVER KNEW (until now).
Contrary to their website, ETHNOS leadership simply does not adhere to many of the biblical principles they preach. ETHNOS HQ has been accustomed to being able to unilaterally control the information flowing out to their members who seldom have access to the truth that their leadership has carefully hidden from them.
Our research into EHNOS360's EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP, specifically since 2007 under CEO LARRY BROWN, has raised some very serious questions on a wide variety of major topics, some of which are briefly touched on below. You will notice that there is an unmistakable pattern of deceptive behavior at the corporate level which is very disturbing coming from what is self-proclaimed to be an upright and God-honoring mission organization.
There should not be the "appearance of evil" let alone the "actual evil" which we have uncovered. Leadership created these questions, we are merely the ones who put them in some semblance of order.
At the end of the list, ask yourself, WHY would leadership create so many doubts?
2024 - E360 qUIETLY ADMITS THEY CONTROLLED IHART SINCE 2010
"THE IHART DECEPTION" WAS AN INGENIOUS TOOL USED TO PROVIDE COVER AND OFFER PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY
Our investigation into ETHNOS360 Executive Leadership has revealed that almost every one of the serious allegations of wrongdoing being raised against ETHNOS360 can be traced back to very bad decisions made by mission leaders around the 2010 time-frame after they could no longer hold off the flood of claims by NTM MK's who were accusing NTM personnel of Child Sexual and other Abuse (primarily) at MK Boarding Schools during the 60's thru the 90's, but prior mission leadership had mostly refused to take any meaningful action.
IT IS THE MISHANDLING OF THE ABUSE INVESTIGATIONS FROM 2008 FORWARD THAT WE BELIEVE NEEDS TO BE CAREFULLY EXAMINED. WITH EVIDENCE, WE ALLEGE THAT THIS "MISHANDLING" WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT, AND IT APPEARS TO BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF A CAREFULLY ORCHESTRATED COVER-UP CONSPIRACY TO PROTECT THE CORPORATION.
Below are just a few of the questions that ETHNOS360 Exec Leadership has never been forced to answer completely, let alone under oath after being confronted with documentation. There are many direct questions which ETHNOS has flatly refused to answer which has only served to increase the suspicions that there are a lot of skeletons locked away in the closets at Sanford.
- It is a well documented fact that as early as 2008 multiple women, who were survivors of child abuse as MK's of NTM had met and communicated with NTM Chairman Larry Brown and other NTM Board Members in an effort to convince NTM to begin investigating their cases. Does ETHNOS360's current CEO Larry Brown deny the allegations of stonewalling and broken promises made by the Survivors who wrote the "Final Plea to NTM" as posted on the Fanda Eagles Forum in July of 2009?
- Over and over in 2011 and 2012 various NTM leaders including Brian Shortmeier represented IHART as being "independent" and not under the control of NTM. Did Brian Shortmeier know he was signing letters that were false?
- If Mr Shortmeier 'did not' know his statements that IHART was independent were false at the time that he presented IHART to Survivors in 2012 (other evidence suggests he did know) then how can he explain the fact that he has never corrected the record to clear himself from public accusations that he was part of a conspiracy by NTM Executives which was designed to protect the corporation at all costs?
- If NTM's assertions that IHART was not under their control were truthful, then how was it that NTM had the power to FIRE the original IHART Coordinator Pat Hendrix in the Fall of 2014 and replace her with NTM's long-time "fixer attorney" Theresa Sidebotham?
- Why does the ETHNOS website have a Frequently Asked Questions section specifically devoted to this subject, where they use cleverly worded partial truths to effectively lie about their previous legal relationship with Attorney Sidebotham which goes back 'years' before either of them will admit now?
- Who at ETHNOS360 (secretly?) ordered Professional Investigators International (Pii) in the Fall of 2014 to turn over to Attorney Theresa Sidebotham more than 1675 pages of original investigation documents along with 475 hours of audio interviews that Pii Investigators had gathered from NTM Panama Mk's during the FIRST Panama IHART Child Abuse Investigation lasting from 2012 thru 2014 but the results were never allowed to be published?
- Why did ETHNOS order (or permit) their newly installed IHART Director Atty Theresa Sidebotham to issue a misleading statement that the original Pii Panama Investigation was "incomplete" because it did not include "Leadership Culpability" when in fact Pii is on record (fully documented on this website) saying their 2011 contract with IHART for the Panama Abuse Investigation actually "prohibited" Pii from investigating any member of NTM's Leadership?!?
- Why has NTM/ETHNOS never rebutted the published statement by Pii in March of 2015 asserting the truth that Pii was "contractually prohibited" from disclosing evidence of NTM Leadership culpability which they had knowledge of? Later, be sure that you visit the "NTM Evidence Suppression" page where we published the Pii rebuttal to the myriad of lies coming from IHART/NTM . (These are very serious allegations of Corporate Malfeasance which NTM buried!) Demand outside accountability for these vile acts by NTM Leaders!
- If there was a clause in the original IHART Pii Panama Investigation contract signed in 2011 that "prohibited Pii from investigating NTM leadership" who at NTM ordered that such a clause be included in the contract? It seems highly doubtful that IHART Coordinator Pat Hendrix would have 'unilaterally' included such language, so the obvious conclusion is that Pat Hendrix was instructed to do so. Why?
- Does NTM/ETHNOS deny whistle blower allegations that NTM Executives had gained knowledge in mid 2014 that in the course of the Panama investigation Pii had been given significant evidence implicating NTM Leadership in serious (even criminal) wrongdoing, and that NTM Executives determined that they needed to install Attorney Theresa Sidebotham as IHART Director so that she could order Pii to turn over their entire work product to her so they could prevent the embarrassing information from becoming public?
- Did NTM and their attorney conclude that placing the 1675 pages of the Pii Panama Investigation in the hands of Theresa Sidebotham would bring all of that incriminating evidence under "attorney/client privilege" which shields NTM/ETHNOS from having to turn over damaging evidence to child abuse plaintiffs?
- Why have Panama MK's reportedly been denied access to their own case files after the MK's had turned over documents and given Pii Investigators intimate details of their child abuse and the names of NTM Personnel between 2012 and 2014?
- Why has no ETHNOS Executive ever spoken out against this ongoing deception of the mission members which has caused virtually all of the membership to ignore 'years' of public warnings by NTM abuse survivors and even other organizations such as MK Safety Net that NTM's members were being intentionally misled by their mission leadership regarding the gross mis-handling of "historical child abuse cases"?
- Why does ETHNOS choose to use carefully worded (mis-leading) phrases like "We have committed to investigate every abuse case that is brought forward" while ETHNOS leadership knows full well the myriad of public accusations since 2011 that the 'majority' of NTM MK's who were abused REFUSED TO PARTICIPATE IN A RIGGED IHART PROCESS?
- Clearly, most (if not all) executive board members since 2006 know they have participated in systematic cover-ups of a vast number of Sexual (and other forms of) Child Abuse cases, how is it that not a single one of these outwardly and self-professed "Godly Men" have never publicly corrected the false information continually published by NTM and then ETHNOS360?
- Is it just a very strange coincidence that Scott Ross who was tapped to be the NTM attorney had complete access to 80-90 unresolved Child Abuse cases in 2002 had served in PNG with Larry Brown who was named CEO in 2007, and together they and others who had similar reasons to resist transparency circled the wagons at HQ until they were forced to take action?
- Is it just another coincidence that others in leadership who knew the awful truth kept the code of silence while they all managed to find creative ways to make it look like they were on the side of truth when behind the scenes they were secretly stonewalling, isolating and sabotaging the efforts of abused MK's who still trusted them?
- Does ETHNOS360 think that we researchers make allegations of Corporate Malfeasance that we do not have sufficient documented proof to support? (We have much more incriminating evidence from whistle-blowers that we are holding in reserve in case Larry Brown foolishly decides to release another (false) public denial like he sent to ETHNOS360 Supporting Pastors following the February 7, 2019 Today Show)