Linda and Tom Bruch are still controlling the Lutheran Church in Great Britain

Need proof?

The latest Health and Safety Regulations for the Lutheran Church in Great Britain have the following reference:

Documents:LCiGB:Linda:Policies & Procedures - general:Health & Safety Policy Final 5.3.15.docx

Is there any question who Linda is?

Bishop Jana Jeruma-Grinberga - At least she doesn't have to pretend to be Lutheran anymore

http://eurobishop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/st-saviours-riga-welcomes-their-new.html

War, Peace and Truth Jāna Jēruma-Grīnberga

Jāna Jēruma-Grīnberga writes about "truth" and "conflict":

Conversely, accepting falsehood and lies as a legitimate tool of warfare, and a ‘smart’ thing to do, surely undermines the basis of our faith. 

She is very familiar with using falsehoods and lies as a legitimate tool of her leadership as Bishop of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain. She is very adept at using half-truths and making false statements in order to gain control of congregations and pastors. By using falsehoods and lies as tools in her Ecclesiastical toolbox she undermined the faith of many, she shut the doors of a congregations and she caused unspeakable hardship to a family with small children. She writes eloquently because it is easy for her to see and understand the use of lies and falsehoods to as leadership.  



She knows what she is talking about when she writes:

How is the church to react to this? Can we respond with Pilate – „what is truth?”, on the assumption that we cannot hope to find an objective truth in a situation of conflict? How do we defend the whole notion of truth telling, of not bearing false witness, in a situation where deliberate manipulation of facts, as well as outright lies, have become common currency (note that Zaborowski regards Russian behaviour as being ‘smart’)? Of course, in this world of smoke and mirrors, of cyberwarfare and internet trolling, it is actually difficult to keep any overview of where the truth actually lies in a very complex situation. However, Jesus says „to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”” (John 8:31f, NIV). Clearly, then, the association between acceptance of God’s word as our true pattern of faith and life, sustaining us in our discipleship, and the liberating effect of a knowledge of truth, sourced in God’s word, is of fundamental importance. Conversely, accepting falsehood and lies as a legitimate tool of warfare, and a ‘smart’ thing to do, surely undermines the basis of our faith. The Church, the Body of Christ (whatever particular extremity we might belong to, and in whichever country we happen to be) is called to hold up a mirror to the behaviour of those in government and in positions of responsibility, and to call them out for being dishonest and untruthful. We are called to speak truth to power; and if we don’t, we may find ourselves echoing the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany in the words of the Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt on October 19, 1945: „With great pain we say: By us infinite wrong was brought over many peoples and countries. That which we often testified to in our communities, we express now in the name of the whole Church: We did fight for long years in the name of Jesus Christ against the mentality that found its awful expression in the National Socialist regime of violence; but we accuse ourselves for not standing to our beliefs more courageously, for not praying more faithfully, for not believing more joyously, and for not loving more ardently.”4


http://insight.sherborneabbey.com/war-peace-and-truth/

How to Claim Growth When Your Church is in Decline

The Lutheran Church in Great Britain shows an amazing growth of 40% in income in one year! How could this be?

Force all the congregations to send the money to the LCiGB then pay expenses for those congregations. Benefits for the Lutheran Church in Great Britain:

1. The Trustees now control all the money of the congregations.
2. The Trustees control the salary of the Pastors.
3. The Trustees have to approve every financial payment.
4. Money is power.

The Trustees have also been reduced in number leaving Tom and Linda Bruch having almost complete control of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain.

See http://lutheranchurch.co.uk/userfiles/file/Trustees%20Report%20for%20Year%2031%20Dec%202014%20Final%20signed.pdf

For all the information.

88% of Income for the Lutheran Church in Great Britain is Restricted

See the 2014 Trustees Report at

http://lutheranchurch.co.uk/userfiles/file/Trustees%20Report%20for%20Year%2031%20Dec%202014%20Final%20signed.pdf

Sad? Misleading? Pathetic?

On the most recent post on the Lutheran Church in Great Britain Facebook page there is a picture from more than six years ago. Not only is the picture old it was taken in a church building that the Lutheran Church in Great Britain lost use of under Bishop Jana Jeruma-Grinberga. Additionally, the picture gives the impression that the Lutheran Church in Great Britain is a multicultural church.

The Lutheran Church in Great Britain Annual Report is Astounding

Some Highlights

S Farrow theological education fund (a Trustee)

Donation to cover legal fees in 2011 - - - 31,904 (convenient)

"During 2013, a total of £5,806 (2012 £2,645) was paid to trustees"
More than 20% of the total budget of the Lutheran Church in Great Britian





Read it here all:
http://www.lutheranchurch.co.uk/userfiles/file/Trustees%20Report%20for%20Year%20Ending%2031%20Dec%202013%20final-1.pdf

Same Trustees for Years LCiGB, Lutherans in England

http://www.lutheranchurch.co.uk/page/council

The LCiGB Council is the governing body of the church, and consists of the following trustees:

Mr David Lin, Chair 

The Very Rev'd Tom Bruch, Dean*

Mrs Annette Higgins, Vice-Chair

Mrs Linda Bruch, Treasurer*

Mr Rakesh Patel

Prof Robert Lee

The Bruch are married. Despite Guidelines from the Charity Commission the Lutheran Church in Great Britain continues to defy best practices.

St Saviour’s Anglican Church in Riga, Latvia

Bishop Jana Jeruma-Grinberga

The Right Reverend Thomas (Tom) Bruch

Thomas (Tom) Bruch

International Lutheran Student Centre, Londonhttp://www.ilscentre.org.uk/Lutheran Church in Great Britainhttp://lutheranchurch.co.uk/Website still features Pictures of Pastors that are no longer part of the Lutheran Church in Great BritainFORMER Lutheran Church - Missouri Synodhttp://www.lcms.org/  http://www.porvoocommunion.org  Porvoo Churches website  http://www.cofe.anglican.org/info/ccu/europe/ecumbackground/reuilly_factsheet.rtf   Information about the Reuilly Common Statement  http://www.lutheranworld.org  Lutheran World Federation website carries news of ongoing ecumenical dialogues  http://www.elca.org/ecumenical/fullcommunion/episcopal/ccmresources/text.html    Evangelical Lutheran Church of America website showing official text of ‘Called to    Common Mission' with links to other Lutheran ecumenical relationships and to the    Episcopal Church of the USA website  http://www.elcic.ca/docs/waterloo.html    Evangelical Lutheran Church In Canada website giving text of Waterloo Declaration   ‘Called to Full Communion'  http://www.anglicancommunion.org   Anglican Communion website  http://www.cofe.anglican.org/info/ccu/   Council for Christian Unity serving the Church of England's ecumenical and  inter-  church relationships  http://lutheran.org.uk/default.htm   Lutheran Council of Great Britain website  

Bishop Jana Jeruma-Grinberga, Lutheran Church in Great Britain, Lativa

Bishop Jana Jeruma-Grinberga

FORMER Bishop of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain (which is just in England)

Office in London, England.

FORMER Pastor of St Anne's Lutheran Church, London, England, United Kingdom

FORMER Pastor of the Latvian Lutheran Church in England

Ask Tom Burch

Is it true you took the passport of an employee at the International Lutheran Centre because you suspected misconduct?

How many people have you fired in your career?

How many times where you called to serve a church?

How have you practiced grace?

How often have you told the story about people thinking you were black?

Why do you have a faux British accent when you born in Chicago?

The Truth is at http://lutheranchurchingreatbritain.blogspot.com/

Make sure you visit:

http://lutheranchurchingreatbritain.blogspot.com/

The Dean and Bishop have spent more money on lawyers trying to bury the truth. However, their money only works at the uk version of the blog.

All other versions - in all other countries are not changed by the lawyers and money of the Dean, Treasurer and former Bishop of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain.

Tom Bruch, Lutheran Church in Great Britain, Lutheran Council of Great Britain, Council of Lutheran Churches in Great Britain, International Student Centre London

Tom Burch, how did you loose your American Citizenship?

Jana Jeruma-Grinberga

Jana Jeruma-Grinberga

St Saviour’s Anglican Church in Riga, Latvia and the Lutheran Church in Great Britain's "Bishop"

St Saviour’s Anglican Church in Riga must not have asked for any references except from Tom Bruch, Linda Bruch or a few others who have been Jana Jeruma-Grinberga.

Did anyone mention she was removed from the Latvian Church in Great Britain?

Did anyone mention the massive fines and penalties levied against her former parish for failure to comply with UK Law?

Did anyone mention that she rewrites rules to suit her own political gain?

Did anyone mention she has no degree in theology?

Did anyone ask how she covered up her failures by destroying the lives of immigrants?

New Rules for Ordination

The current Bishop of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain has changed all the rules concerning ordination. Pastors who were ordained by the previous Bishop have been told they are not really ordained Lutheran Pastors. 

Pastors who have been ordained in the last few years have been told that they are not "fully approved" as Lutheran Pastors. The Bishop has even told a Bishop from a Lutheran Church outside of the UK that the Lutheran Church in Great Britain does not ordain pastors except women who come from countries and Lutheran Churches that do not ordain women. That statement was news to the men who have been ordained in the Lutheran Church in Great Britain.

Additionally the Bishop has refused to ordain any pastor with more theological education than the Bishop. Unfortunately this eliminates most of the Lutheran Pastors in the world as the Bishop has no degree in theology and most Lutheran Pastors have graduate degrees in theology. 

The Bishop also appointed a lay person with no theological or pastoral training to Chair the committee responsible for theological education. This lay person is also appointed to mentor candidates for ordination and guide them in their theological and ministerial formation. Would a doctor be mentored by someone who never went to medical school? Would a solicitor or barrister be mentored by someone who did not read the law?


Is it incompetence? Fear of challenge? Insecurity?

Because the truth is not wanted by the LCiGB

https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/1945044

Someone complained to Google to have this removed. Doesn't that prove the Very Rev's Bullying Behaviour?

Bullies Try to Stop Information that Might Identify Their Behaviour

Will you consider the behaviour of a Very Reverend in the LCiGB and this list?

• Jekyll & Hyde personality
• always charming and beguilingly plausible, especially to those who are capable of protecting or enhancing the sociopath's position
• excels at deception (this must never be underestimated, but always is)
• excels at evasion of accountability
• is extremely and successfully manipulative of people's perceptions and emotions (eg guilt and anger)
• silver-tongued, has an extreme verbal facility and can outwit anybody (including a top barrister) in verbal conflict
• will often engineer himself or herself into a position of authority as gatekeeper of the organisation and thus the person through whom all information must flow, and the person to whom all requests for services must be referred - which he or she then takes delight in denying
• is adept at offering weak and inadequate people the positions of power, control, security, influence or respect that they crave but who lack the necessary competencies to achieve - such people are unaware that their consequent dependence on the sociopath makes them permanent manipulatees, pawns and expendable agents of harassment
• identifies those essential to the sociopath's survival and manipulates their perceptions them by making them feel special and thus obligated to reciprocate with support and protection
• manipulates others into making fools of themselves in situations where they cannot back down or from which they cannot withdraw - these people become increasingly susceptible to further manipulation and are then trapped as pawns in the sociopath's game
• is likely to be surrounded by people who, having been subjected to control, manipulation and punishment by the sociopath, look wretched and who start to exhibit behaviour best described as disordered, dysfunctional, sullen, aggressive, defensive, hostile, retaliatory, counterproductive or cult-like and for whom disbelief, disavowal and denial are instinctive responses
• creates an environment where levels of denial are so great that those involved are oblivious of the foolishness and self-evident absurdity of their denials when presented with the facts, with the result that non-involved observers are led to question whether such levels of denial merit psychiatric intervention
• is contemptuous of disrepute to their organisation and of collateral damage and of the destructive consequences for all direct and indirect parties 
• is always surrounded by and leaves behind a trail of dysfunctional organisations, destroyed businesses, ruined careers, stress breakdowns and unexplained suicides
• despite a trail of devastation to individuals, organisations, families and communities, the actions of a socialised psychopath may go undetected or unrecognised for years
• a history of conducting frivolous, vexatious and malicious legal actions, especially (but not exclusively) against anyone who can recognise the sociopath for what he is
• only after the sociopath is exposed and relieved of position, or they move on, can the full depth of their destructive behaviour be fathomed and the consequences calculated
• is skilled at identifying, undermining, discrediting, neutralising and destroying anyone who can see through the sociopath's mask of sanity
• at all times restricts the actions and rights of others (especially those holding the sociopath accountable) whilst aggressively protecting his or her right to do anything without being hampered by social norms or legal requirements
• pursues endless vindictive vendettas against anyone perceived as a threat or who attempts, knowingly or unknowingly, to identify or reveal or expose the sociopath, or who makes efforts to hold the sociopath accountable
• is adept at appropriating rules, regulations, procedures and law to manipulate, control and punish accusers regardless of relevance, logic, facts or consequences
• persists in and pursues vindictive vendettas using self-evidently false evidence or information, even after this is brought to the attention of the sociopath
• will often manipulate minor bullies into acting as agents of harassment and as unwitting or unwilling conductors of vendettas
• is adept at placing people in situations where the sociopath can tap into each person's instinctive urge to retaliate in order to use them as his or her instruments or agents of harassment
• gains gratification from provoking others into engaging in adversarial conflict
• once conflict has been initiated, the sociopath gains increased gratification by exploiting human beings' instinctive need to retaliate - this is achieved by encouraging and escalating peoples' adversarial conflicts into mutually assured destruction
• revels in the gratification gained from seeing or causing other people's distress
• when faced with accountability or unwelcome attention which might lead to others discerning the sociopath's true nature, responds with repeated and escalating attempts to control, manipulate and punish
• is adept at reflecting all accusations and attempts at accountability back onto their accusers
• is adept at creating conflict between those who would otherwise pool negative information about the sociopath
• has no limits on his or her vindictiveness
• the need to control, manipulate and punish develops into an obsession with many of the hallmarks of an addiction
• is skilled at mimicry and can plausibly and spontaneously regurgitate all the latest management jargon
• exhibits minimal professional skill level and competency
• exploits his or her intelligence to excel at talentless mediocrity
• is always identifying the behaviours and strategies to which other people respond with the desired effect
• is able to anticipate and credibly say what people want to hear
• is easily able to win people over before betraying them or deceiving them or ripping them off
• easily manipulates and bewitches an immature or naive or vulnerable or emotionally needy person to be their spokesperson or agent of aggression
• exploits anyone who has a vulnerability
• is pushy and extremely persuasive
• is sexually inadequate and sexually abusive
• is likely to protect anyone accused of or suspected of sexual abuse of pedophile activity, and will frustrate or obstruct investigations into that person
• maybe associating with, or actively involved in, abuse or pedophile activity
• has no emotions, no emotional processing capability and no ability to understand other's emotions
• is incapable of understanding, initiating or sustaining intimacy
• the male sociopath has often convinced a string of women to feel they are in love with him and despite being treated abominably they blindly continue to be loyal to him and minister willingly to his every demand
• may start projects with apparent enthusiasm and energy but quickly loses interest
• frequently takes unnecessary and uncalculated risks but takes no account of consequences
• is likely to be illegally diverting or siphoning off significant sums of money to his or her own budget, project, account or cause
• is unreliable and untrustworthy in every facet of life
• is likely to be leaking confidential information or secrets to third parties
• is likely to have committed or be committing criminal or near-criminal offences, eg fraud, embezzlement, deception
• is likely to have committed or be committing breaches of harassment and discrimination law, employment law, contract law, etc
• cannot comprehend the deeper semantic meaning of language and is thus unable to understand or appreciate metaphor, hyperbole, irony, satire etc (these elicit either zero response or a hostile response)
• likes, seeks, enjoys and relies on procedure, ritual and ritualistic practices
• through arrogant overconfidence takes increasingly risky chances and eventually overplays their hand or makes a mistake which leads to the sociopath revealing him or herself
• exhibits parasitical behaviour, takes everything and gives nothing
• grabs headline credit for minimal, flukey or other peoples' success whilst surviving off the backs of manipulatees who are exclusively blamed for all failures
• rarely blinks, may have stary scary eyes that cut right through you, or may avoid eye contact completely
• is callous, cold and calculating
• is devious, clever and cunning
• is ruthless in the extreme
• regards people as objects and playthings to be discarded when surplus to requirements
• displays zero empathy
• completely without conscience, remorse and guilt
• malicious and evil

The Socialised Psychopath or Sociopath

Also known as the corporate psychopath, workplace psychopath, industrial psychopath and administrative psychopath.

Motivation: power, gratification, personal gain, survival
Mindset: manipulation, deception, evil
Malice: high to very high; when held accountable, off the scale

What would Bishop J Jxxxxx-Gxxxxxxxx or Dean Txx Bxxxx say? Now we know, they took action to remove statements of the truth. They have spend more money on legal fees.