Dean Bruch and Bishop Jana Jeruma-Grinberga Made the Decision for the Synod

Interesting bit of history. It is all too clear from public documents that Dean Bruch and Bishop Jana Jeruma-Grinberga forced a change in governance on the Lutheran Church in Great Britain. The change has effectively out all power in the hands of Dean Bruch and Bishop Jana Jeruma-Grinberga and their hand chosen Trustees.


The Lutheran Church in Great Britain was incorporated on 30 September 2009.

The Synod of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain voted and approved the action in 2010.

Browse the Lutheran Church in Great Britain's own documents -

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

Here is the report from the Charity Commission:

The Regulator for Charities in England and Wales

Charity Commission

1137050 - THE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN GREAT BRITAIN DUE DOCUMENTS RECEIVED

Activities
THE LCIGB IS A FAMILY OF LUTHERAN CONGREGATIONS WORSHIPPING IN GREAT BRITAIN. WE ARE MEMBERS OF THE LUTHERAN WORLD FEDERATION. IF YOU WOULD LIKE DETAILS OF YOUR NEAREST CONGREGATION, PLEASE SEE OUR WEBSITE WWW.LUTHERANCHURCH.CO.UK OR EMAIL US AT ADMIN@LUTHERANCHURCH.CO.UK AND WE WILL BE GLAD TO HELP YOU.

Financial summary
Contact
THE VERY REVD TOM BRUCH CHURCHES TOGETHER IN ENGLAND 27 TAVISTOCK SQUARE
LONDON
WC1H 9HH
Charity trustees
MS ANNETTE HIGGINS
THE VERY REVD THOMAS BRUCH THE VERY REVD LAGLE HEINLA MR RAKESH PATEL
MR DAVID LIN
MRS LINDA BRUCH MRS SARAH FARROW
Date of registration
23 Jul 2010
Other names
LCIGB (Working Name )
Governing document

Tel: 020 7383 0301
Email: DEAN@LUTHERANCHURCH.CO.UK Website: www.lutheranchurch.co.uk

Financial year end (FYE)	Income	Spending	Accounts received	Annual Return/Annual Update received
31 Dec 2012	£71,111	£60,199	18 May 2013	18 May 2013
31 Dec 2011	£62,525	£80,152	18 May 2012	18 May 2012

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 SEPTEMBER 2009

Organisation type

STANDARD REGISTRATION

Registration history

23 JULY 2010 REGISTERED

Charitable objects

1 TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF FAITH IN SUCH WAYS TO SUCH PEOPLE, WITHOUT REGARD TO THEIR AGE, CONDITION OR RELIGION, IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD, AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT. 2 TO RELIEVE SUFFERING AND HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT TO SUCH PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES, WITHOUT REGARD TO THEIR AGE, CONDITION OR RELIGION, IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.

Classification

What

• RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES

Who

• CHILDREN/YOUNG PEOPLE
• ELDERLY/OLD PEOPLE
• PEOPLE OF A PARTICULAR ETHNIC OR RACIAL ORIGIN • OTHER DEFINED GROUPS
• THE GENERAL PUBLIC/MANKIND

How

• MAKES GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS
• PROVIDES HUMAN RESOURCES
• PROVIDES BUILDINGS/FACILITIES/OPEN SPACE • PROVIDES SERVICES
• PROVIDES ADVOCACY/ADVICE/INFORMATION
• SPONSORS OR UNDERTAKES RESEARCH
• ACTS AS AN UMBRELLA OR RESOURCE BODY

Area of benefit

WORLDWIDE

Where the charity operates

THROUGHOUT ENGLAND

Note: This report is compiled from public information that the Charity Commission holds on the Register of Charities on 12 September 2013.

© Crown Copyright 2013 

Letter calling for Synod to Approve Change - dated: 28 December 2009, yet the documents had already been submitted and approved to Companies House although no one had the authority to take such action.

According to Company Check:
http://companycheck.co.uk/company/07034897

Business Overview

Lutheran Church In Great Britain Limited is an Active business incorporated in England & Wales on 30th September 2009. Their business activity is recorded as Activities Of Religious Organizations. Lutheran Church In Great Britain Limited is run by 9 current members. and 1 company secretary. It has no share capital. It is not part of a group.

The latest Annual Accounts submitted to Companies House for the year up to 31/12/2012 reported 'cash at bank' of £11,930, 'liabilities' worth £1,738, 'net worth' of £13,548 and 'assets' worth £14,942. Lutheran Church In Great Britain Limited's risk score was amended on 26/09/2012.

Company Register

Status Active - Accounts Filed

Registered date 30/09/2009

Company number 07034897

Type Private Ltd By Guarantee w/o Share Cap

Country of registration GB

Previous Names

No previous names.

Company Accounts

Category Total Exemption Full

Date filed up to 31/12/2012

Next due date 30/09/2014

Year end date 31st December

Auditor Name Not provided

Annual Returns

Date filed up to 30/09/2012

Paperwork is more important than food

The Lutheran Church in Great Britain receives a grant from her rich relatives every year. The rich relatives are the Lutheran Council of Great Britain who suddenly changed their name without conversation to the "working name" The Council of Lutheran Churches.

These grants were for "refugee churches" originally but have only come to moderately and rarely support the pastors of Lutheran Church in Great Britain congregations. During the past few years grants were given to the Bishop Jana Jeruma-Grinberga congregation. The congregation that Dean Burch and Bishop Jana Jeruma-Grinberga regularly referred to as the most well-off congregation in the LCiGB. 

More disturbingly, the leaders of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain will not grant any money for a pastor that does not fill out the paper properly. As the application states:

"NB. Unless a congregation submits an application that meets the criteria, it will not receive a grant to subsidise the salary of its pastor(s) even if one has been received in previous years."

What does this mean? It means that a pastor and family who is not being adequately paid, who has previously received subsidies because the leaders of the LCiGB no how poorly paid the pastor is, refuse to help if the paper isn't filled out or is late. Just another example of the total lack of Christian Charity and Compassion and the absolute control that Dean Bruch and the Treasurer hold on the entire church. 

In documentation and actions, the Dean and Treasurer find that paperwork is more important than a pastor and family having adequate food or shelter. Since the Dean and Treasurer are married and they choose who serves in leadership at the Lutheran Church in Great Britain, they have the "votes" to continue policies that are devoid of Christian compassion.

Thomas Paul Bruch and Jana Jeruma Grinberga

More information about the leaders:

http://companycheck.co.uk/director/910592734/VERY-REVD-THOMAS-PAUL-BRUCH

http://companycheck.co.uk/director/914111527

http://companycheck.co.uk/company/07034897

Jana Jeruma Grinberga might as well say: Pastors Kneel Before Me in Obedience!

The Former Bishop's Congregation

The former Bishop's London Congregation was forced to move out of it's historic home. Why?

Was it because of her leadership when she was the pastor?
Was it because of her attempts to negotiate a lease?
Was it because of her administration the finances, accounts and maintenance of the congregation?
Was it because she resigned (or was it retired?) as the pastor of the congregation when the lease deadline was looming?
Did she retire as Bishop (before the completion of her term) to avoid something?

Marvelous Words but a loveless, perfunctory, formal religion

The following quote is from a sermon preached by "Bishop" JJG on 1 Corinthians 13
and Luke 18:31-43 ( reference http://www.anglican-lutheran-society.org/AGM%202011%20sermon.pdf ):

"In our lives of faith, which should in turn bring faith and hope to our families, churches and
communities the love of Christ is made manifest. This is true in the small things just as much as in
the big issues. In our interactions with the bus driver and the bank clerk, in our dealings with those
who hate us; in laughing and in loving, as well as in mourning and in conflict, in the seemingly hopeless situation of Palestine; whether in London, Jerusalem, Helsinki or Stuttgart, Christ in his charity
lives in and through us. "

She also told the story of a friend who came to England as part of the Kindertransport. The friend was adopted by 2 sisters who were "regular churchgoers; well-meaning, presumably, but their charity was cold indeed. They treated her with contempt, and forced her to go to church with them; punishments for misdemeanours were harsh; and there was little sign of love or affection. My friend’s experience of Christianity was of a loveless, perfunctory, formal religion; and as a result, she developed a thorough allergy to the Christian faith."

First a marvelous call to action that the love of Christ should be expressed in all of our interactions - big and small - with the charity of Christ in us and through us. God demands that even "in our dealings with those who hate us" "as well as in mourning and in conflict" that our interactions "Christ in his charity lives in and through us." Too bad those are the "Bishop's" marvelous words but do not describe her actions towards anyone who has questioned her, failed to bow to her unreasonable demands and inflated sense of authority and warped vision of obedience.

The story of the two sisters who adopted the little girl from a foreign land describes the "Bishop's" actions better than the her preached words - for JJG has treated those whom God had entrusted with contempt, she has harshly punished for misdemeanours and she has shown little love or affection - especially for children. JJG's practice of Christianity would make most feel "Christianity was... a loveless, perfunctory, formal religion; and as a result, ...develop a thorough allergy to the Christian faith."

Synod 2013

The Lutheran Church in Great Britain's Synod 2013 was the The Very Rev Dean's show again.

Notice:

- No one in the ENTIRE LCiGB was available to serve on the Trustees except the same one's who do whatever TB says.
- There are still no people of African descent serving as Trustees.
- There is no Annual Report of the Trustees on the Website. Why? Because people will know how small and dysfunctional the LCiGB really is.
- What is posted? A document that uses selective truth and proof texted scripture to prove that the Trustees have no interest in following God or the Gospel but are beholden to TB's solicitors and accountants.
- There is no recognition that the Bishop JGB is no longer Bishop. Why did she resign?
- There is no recognition that the LCiGB has single handedly forced one of the LCiGB congregations to loose their church home, sell the organ and move to an undesirable location.

The LCiGB would rather spend tens of thousands of pounds on solicitors and accounts to allow TB to bully congregations, pastors and others rather than live the Gospel.

Don't forget, the LCiGB is also getting kicked out of its office's in Central London.

Latvian Lutheran Church in London

The Latvian Lutheran Church has severed ties with the Lutheran Church in Great Britain. After cooperating and sharing worship space for more than 40 years, the London Latvian Lutheran Church has found a new home.

Trying to Impress

Thomas or Tom Bruch is the current Dean of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain and the former General Secretary of the Lutheran Council of Churches ( now called the Council of Lutheran Churches).

The Lutheran Church in Great Britain  and Lutheran Council of Churches are both members of the Lutheran World Federation.

The Lutheran Church in Great Britain  also partners with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America  and has recently partnered with Time for God.

Although being recognised by Lutheran World Federation and Church Together in England this does not mean that the The Lutheran Church in Great Britain is credible or should even exist.

If one compares the statistics given by The Lutheran Church in Great Britain in Annual Reports and on the The Lutheran Church in Great Britain website to the statistics that the The Lutheran Church in Great Britain has given to the Lutheran World Federation it is apparent that those responsible for providing statistics to the Lutheran World Federation grossly overstated the membership of The Lutheran Church in Great Britain.

The Way to Become Bishop in the LCiGB

The former Bishop was only elected by 25 votes - total. If each church received one vote for clergy and one lay member then there would be at least 12 churches in the The Lutheran Church in Great Britain. However - each Trustees of The Lutheran Church in Great Britain is able to vote. The largest congregation in The Lutheran Church in Great Britain was given three lay member votes and one clergy vote.

Of the 25 votes for Bishop:

At least FOUR came from the congregation she was serving at the time.
Up to SIX came from the Trustees (of which most where members of her church).

So Bishop Jana was elected by 25 people of which close to 50% were members of the congregation she was serving.

But she has stepped down - quietly without announcement.

Who will replace her?

The current Trustees - each of which have a vote - have been hand selected by Dean Tom Bruch. SIX VOTES. (Do not forget one of the Trustees is his wife.)

Dean Bruch has ensured that all the African clergy are not really considered ordained so they will not be able to vote.

The majority of the Trustees of The Lutheran Church in Great Britain are members of the same church as Dean Tom Burch. The Dean has ensured that the current council of that congregation support him 100%. They take all of his administrative and legal advice and only have a "visiting pastor" because of Tom Bruch. The congregation (his) is allowed three or more votes.

NINE VOTES

IF and it is a BIG IF, there are actually 25 people allowed to go to the 2013 Synod (which is by invitation only and subject to new rules written by Tom Bruch):

25 - 3 = 22 (Dean Tom Bruch has successfully removed three clergy from voting).

So Dean Tom Bruch needs 22 votes and has hand selected at least 9 votes. I am sure he has also rewritten the rules to make sure that most of the other clergy in The Lutheran Church in Great Britain will be unqualified.

So Dean Burch might be elected Bishop - so what? Over the last few years he has almost shut down every congregation in the LCiGB. Even if The Lutheran Church in Great Britain gets "Bishop Thomas Bruch" he will be never be considered a real Bishop by anyone who looks into The Lutheran Church in Great Britain or Tom Bruch.