The settlement with Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, which also includes another $400,000 from the state avoids further litigation over the matter at a time when the U.S. Supreme Courts conservative majority has signaled that rights to religious practice indoors outweigh the interests of the state to compel places of worship to adhere to public health orders. Copyright 2023 Grace Community Church. LA County modified its health order and lifted the indoor worship ban after the ruling. In February, the high court struck down the all-out ban on indoor services after a series of California churches brought a case. (Photo by Dean . This is an egregious sin.. His first civics lesson? In one, a Catholic diocese and a group of Jewish synagogues challenged New York Gov. Grace Church is involved in several important educational programs that provide multiple pathways to raising children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. Heres why we do it. How strong a politician is Gavin Newsom, really? The victims were regularly quoted Scriptures on forgiveness, trust, love, and submissionand were told to reconcile and return home even in cases where they feared for their safety and their childrens safety. Please login or create an account to use this feature, Learn More | Livestream | Bulletin In Sun Valley, congregants filling Grace Community Church's 3,500-seat . Sunday after Sunday, people packed Grace Community Church and belted out hymns, openly violating Los Angeles Countys prohibitions against indoor services during the COVID-19 pandemic. . Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Mayor Bass seeks $250-million expansion of homelessness program in first State of the City speech, Column: Trump and the NRA might be right about guns and we mostly have ourselves to blame, The LAPD has lost nearly 1,000 officers. News & Events. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Now, Mayor Karen Bass wants to rebuild the force, settlement that will pay the church $400,000, rejected a Chula Vista churchs challenge, Do coronavirus social distancing orders violate religious freedom? Just days after Christmas last year, Cho sent what he called a final appeal to each of the GCC elders. The elders typically meet on the third Thursday of the month from 7:00 to 8:30 pm in T270. It was a long and winding road to get to the legal resolution, tapping into many of the issues that have polarized American society since the pandemic took hold early in 2020. The Roys Reportrebutted Pastor MacArthurs court statement and says they do have evidencethat at least one of the GCC congregants who died was attending GCC. Roys also shared that she believes that GCC was aware of a COVID-19 outbreak within their church and shows evidence in herreport. In the first meeting with Bill Shannon, it was made known that my safety was not the No. Gray had refused to follow leaders counsel to lift a restraining order against her abusive husband, David Gray. This story was updated to include the cost of the countys legal fees. California's Grace Community Church announced that Los Angeles County health officials have cleared the congregation of causing a COVID outbreak this summer. County officials said that Tuesday's settlement was "responsible and appropriate" in light of a February Supreme Court ruling that found California could not enforce many of its pandemic restrictions on churches. People arrive for the Sunday 8:30 a.m. service at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley on Dec. 20, 2020. (RNS) On Easter Sunday, the worship band at Bethel Community Church in Redding, California, opened the service with "This Is Amazing Grace," a 2012 hit that has remained one of the most popular worship songs of the past decade. The $400,000 for the churchs legal fees will come out of the L.A. County Department of Public Health budget. Grace Community Church had planned to host the Shepherds Conference from March 3 to 5 in Sun Valley, a neighborhood that officials say is among the areas hardest hit by the coronavirus in Los Angeles County. I cannot un-know it, and I am in fact accountable before God for this knowledge, and if you have labored mightily to read this far, you are now accountable before God for it as well.. They sided with a child abuser, who turned out to be a child molester, over a mother desperately trying to protect her three innocent young children. 818-909-5500. Childrens Ministry has been actively planning for Vacation Bible School, and we invite you to join us! Ryan Carter is an editor for the Southern California News Group, who also writes stories for the group. In fact, argued attorney Jenna Ellis, the exercise of the statutory power was too broad. Indoor worship, without face masks or social distancing, soon resumed. Contact. In response, the church, meanwhile, sued the state and the county, claiming the COVID rules amounted to constitutional violations of religious freedom. Now that the facts are indeed known, it is not too late to do justice even at this late stage, almost 20 years later, he wrote to the elder board. Cho expected the church to hold itself to a higher standard than even the secular courts. An evangelical megachurch, under pressure from health officials, said on Friday that it had postponed an indoor conference that was expected to draw as many as 3,000 people from across the country to Southern California. Cho said MacArthur had been warned about the concerns but has defended Shannon and kept him in the same position. The change in the legal landscape was set in motion abruptly by the death of the Supreme Courts liberal lion, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, last September, legal experts said. The postponement came after county health officials had said they were exploring their legal options in response to the conference. Members, be sure to register your attendance via the pew card or the Grace Church app. It is in this spirit of service and love that we send short-term ministry (STM) teams from Grace Church each year to build up and encourage our missionaries, and it is therefore with great joy and thankfulness that we look back on the 2022 STM season. Worship, Bible Studies, Sports, and Music. If they had learned that theyd disciplined a man wrongly accused of adultery, wouldnt they want to make that right, even if they found out 20 years later? (Hamilton did not respond to requests for comment.) During a monthly Communion service, MacArthur characterized her decision as unrepentant sin, saying the mother of three chose to leave and forsake her husband. Our organist, Stephen Sturz, has been ministering to our congregation for 45 years. Thats when I began to realize how many people were ill.. Ryan earned a BA degree in Political Science from UCLA and in 2022 earned his Master's of Legal Studies at UCLA. They completed a master of legal studies degree at UCLA School of Law in May 2022. "After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that some public health safety measures could not apply to houses of worship, resolving this litigation is the responsible and appropriate thing to do," the county's counsel said in a statement. Update (8/31/2021, 10:30 p.m.):This article has been updated to include a statement from Jenna Ellis and Charles LiMandri, attorneys for John MacArthur and Grace Community Church. 914 talking about this. In a letter to supporters of the John MacArthur Charitable Trust, obtained by The Los Angeles Times, MacArthur called the settlement a monumental victory and said there is no circumstance that can cause the church to close. In some cases, like those of Eileen Gray and the woman who agreed to a settlement last month, leaders at Grace Community Church went on to support the men they had accused of abuse in legal cases. Religious liberty and the Constitution won today against the overbroad, arbitrary, indeterminate, and clearly unconstitutional mandates from Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles County, Jenna Ellis, who previously served as a senior legal advisor on President Trumps campaign, said in a statement. The pastor shared in his statement that the handful of congregants who were hospitalized and/or died from COVID-19 from within GCCs 6,000-plus attendees did not get infected at Grace Community Church, because they were not attending services. MacArthur pointed out these people had prior medical conditions and were following strict protocols to avoid getting sick by staying home. Women told CT that pastors saw their husbands continued involvement in counseling, caring treatment of their kids in supervised settings, and verbal promises that the abuse would stop as indications that they no longer posed a threat. Religious leaders from Mississippi to San Diego County are suing, asserting they are being treated differently from businesses that can remain open. After the US Supreme Court ruled that some public health safety measures could not apply to houses of worship, resolving this litigation is the responsible and appropriate thing to do, read a statement from county officials. Yet, as Cho brought up in his letters to key elders last year, a string of women over the past decade said they received different counsel at his church when they feared for their safety or their childrens safety. 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Former members who reported abuse said they feared church discipline for lack of submission or abandoning their marriage. ), Whenever I made moves in the direction of the restraining order, it was, Be careful of the heart of retaliation, the woman said. Theres another virus loose in the world, Mr. MacArthur said, and its the virus of deception.. Thousands found Jesus while displaced, which prepared them to plant churches and settle in a new land. Andersens declaration recounts the husband saying during counseling that he and his daughter had touched tongues while they kissed to imitate a scene in a cartoon. The church regularly held packed morning services, defying a court order directing them to refrain from holding indoor services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. . In marital counseling, pastors asked wives whether their attitudes contributed to the patterns of violence, anger, and manipulation in their relationships. Contact the City News Service newsroom at 310-481-0404 or news@socalnews.com. Get notifications on Breaking News. The county and the state will each pay $400,000 to Sun Valley's Grace Community Church to settle a prolonged legal battle that began when the church refused to follow Newsom's COVID-19 restrictions last year. Editors note: Over the years, some readers have wondered why we publish evidence of wrongdoing by ministry leaders otherwise doing good in the world. Its not just another thing to do. M-F 8:00 am-5:00 pm 818-909-5500 . 10:00 am & 7:00 pm, When she challenged the pastors advice to return to and trust her husband, she said she was reminded of passages like love believes all things and that Jesus said to forgive seventy times seven times. Welcome to Every Womans Grace! We need to be together, with our brothers and sisters. Saturday, April 22, 2023 6:00 am6:00 pm. Women have hidden, persevered, and tried to handle things on their own until there was no other choice, she added. Last year, Hohn Cho concluded Grace Community Church had made a mistake. Last Week's Attendance: Cantonese 177, Mandarin 121, English 135, Children 59, Tendercare 18 . According to her account, the trauma and warning signs werent enoughthe pastors wanted evidence of physical abuse, skin to skin adultery, or a conviction of child molestation before agreeing she had biblical grounds for divorce. As Cho wrote in a 20-page memo to top leaders at Grace Community Church last March, I genuinely believe it would be wrong to do nothing. Southern Baptist leader Brent Leatherwood calls on the state to restrain evil through Governor Lees plan to keep weapons from those deemed a threat to themselves or others. Ryan started his career writing obituaries at the Glendale News-Press, before working as assistant city editor for Times Community News (Division of the L.A. Times) and city editor for the Glendale News-Press, San Bernardino Sun and L.A. Daily News. When my wife and I were asked by a friend to pray for a woman my wife happened to know, she reached out in concern, and we were horrified to discover the same awful patterns of counseling were still happening at GCC, Cho told CT. This is when I sadly came to believe beyond any personal doubt that GCC congregants who we still love could effectively be playing Russian roulette if they ever needed counseling at GCC, especially anything involving the care of women or children. Then, on Feb. 5, the high court struck down the indoor worship ban while allowing caps on attendance and a ban on singing, according to the churchs attorneys. The county is very concerned about the public health impacts that could come from an event like this if its held, especially as we continue to see high case numbers and large numbers of people in hospitals who are sick with Covid-19, Dr. Muntu Davis, Los Angeles Countys health officer, told reporters earlier on Friday. To Cho, as well as to seven Christian lawyers who reviewed the material, it was obvious that David Gray was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and Eileen Grays refusal to lift the restraining order to protect her children was objectively reasonable and fully vindicated. They believed that if leaders didnt see their situation as grounds for divorce, their names could be read. A month after moving back in with her husband at the request of their pastors, she called 911 out of fear during an argument on the road. If you have ever felt like most worship music sounds the same, it may be because the worship music is written by just a handful of songwriters.. On Sunday, MacArthur admitted to congregants that "many people" contracted COVID-19 while it "went through" the church in December and January. In its lawsuit last August against Mr. MacArthur and Grace Community Church, Los Angeles County argued that he had openly defied rules against indoor religious services. Over the next few weeks, our church family has the opportunity to partner with CHF; heres how yo. She has also contributed to The Houston Chronicle, U.S. News and World Report and IBelieve.com. It takes a tremendous amount of courage, humility, and vulnerability to even seek help from the church when there has been abuse in the home, said Wendy Guay, who spoke to The Roys Report last year about abuse by her father Paul Guay while he was on staff at Grace Community Church in the late 1970s. All Rights Reserved. County attorneys reasonably anticipated that the court would continue along those lines, said Barry P. McDonald, a professor at the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. His appeals drew from Scripture, sometimes quoting more than 20 verses on reconciliation, wrongdoing, and justicelike James 4:17: Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin (NASB 1995). Your daily news briefing from the editors of CT: European Evangelicals Organize Against Abuse, ERLC President, Covenant Parent Urges Tennessee to Pass Proposed Gun Reform. 65 views, 2 likes, 4 loves, 36 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Kainos Community Church: Live from Mevo Black Teenager Shot in Kansas City, Missouri. This year we are studying the Gospel of John, one of the most cherished books in all Scripture. For years, they had hoped their submission, their faithfulness in marriage, and their desperate prayers would eventually lead to change in their husbands. Come pray with our elders for our church, our nation, and the world. She couldnt wait for that. Months after raising his concerns about a 20-year-old case, Cho discovered another grievous GCC counseling case in the fall of 2022. This meeting is open to our church family. Nothing will come to us except the affirmation that the Lord preserved and protected us through this, MacArthur said. Grace Community Church 13248 Roscoe Blvd. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Aug. 31, approved a $400,000 settlement with a San Fernando Valley church that had defied the countys health order through the thick of the pandemic. Even at his new congregation, Cho began to meet visitors with connections to Grays case, which he saw as a sign of Gods providence. Whenever he met with or saw elders in person, the case came up in discussion. Though the case settled in January, after the woman sought court-ordered protection last year, two pastors had filed declarations on her husbands behalf. They made me look differently at men. Grace Community Church has not apologized to Eileen Gray, rescinded its discipline, or made a public statement on the case, nor did it offer a response for this article. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report in early August saying vaccination offers higher protection than previous COVID-19 infection alone. Call to prayer on Monday mornings, beginning at 9:00 am in the Welcome Center. 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At Grace you will experience powerful worship, inspiring messages and genuine belonging. "From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Los Angeles County has been committed to protecting the health and safety of its residents.". Subscribe to CT for less than $4.25/month. The preliminary injunction was issued last Sept. 10 by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff as a way of stemming the spread of the coronavirus, based in part on evidence presented by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health that Grace Community Church was holding indoor Sunday services, prompting the county to sue the church on Aug. 14. If public safety always outweighed liberty, then wed never have liberty, she told the court at the time, an argument that paralleled with the argument of church attorney Charles LiMandri. MacArthur read from Matthew 16, the passage where Jesus predicts His suffering and . MacArthur and his wife, Patricia, were among those who contracted the virus during that period, taking about two weeks to recover, he said. Sun Valley, CA 91352 Maps and Directions. County officials then sued the church to require it to comply with COVID-19 protocolsincluding barring large group indoor worship and requiring social distancing at outdoor worship. On Tuesday, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors approved a settlement that will pay the church $400,000 for legal fees from defending the lawsuit. Image: Edits by Christianity Today / Source Image: WikiMedia Commons. These . The domestic violence officers dispatched to the scene, she said, told her not to return to home. In the settlement, the wife did not retract the abuse claims made against her husband. MacArthur, in July 2020, held in-person services with congregants singing and sitting next to each other without masks, flouting COVID-19 public health orders that temporarily banned indoor religious services at the time. Even if Roberts is going to side with the three remaining liberals, now you have five very solid conservative votes in favor of religion and who are going to give the government a very strict review, and thats whats happened, McDonald said, referring to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to authorize a $400,000 payment to settle a legal battle with Grace Community Church over lead pastor John MacArthur's defiance of . L.A. County spent more than $900,000 on fees to its own outside attorneys to litigate the case against the church, as well as to defend against a countersuit by the church. MacArthur also said many people contracted the coronavirus, adding it probably went through our church in maybe December or January.. The hearing, if necessary, is now scheduled for July 30. To that end, we are looking forward to a day of prayer led by our elders. Its a victory, thankful congregant Leon Felipe said at the time. The church held indoor services despite the countys ban on such gatherings. MacArthur on Sunday said the settlement money would go to the Thomas More Society, which represented the church in this court case. MacArthur considers church discipline a "distinctive" at Grace Community Church, where elders follow guidelines taken from Matthew 18first confronting the accused privately, and then with . Dean Musgrove/The Orange County Register, via Associated Press, California is experiencing a super bloom,. Ahead of the legal payments, the California pastor acknowledged that he and others contracted the virus last winter. The countys $400,000 payment will come out of the public health budget, and it is on top of more than $950,000 in legal fees the county had already spent on the matter. [ This article is also available in A website for the conference, which was geared toward evangelical men, had pointed attendees to hotels and promised a full lineup of speakers in English, Russian and Spanish, as well as continental breakfast and lunch. Ellis at the time was also senior legal advisor for President Donald Trumps re-election campaign. This year we are studying the Gospel of John, one of the most cherished books in all Scripture. Your daily news briefing from the editors of CT. Bhutanese Nepali Refugees Turn Their Trials into Zeal for Evangelism, ERLC President, Covenant Parent Urges Tennessee to Pass Proposed Gun Reform. Its hard for a pastor to conceive of a dynamic where a woman is receiving mistreatment, where at some point along the road, she is not expressly responsible for it, Holmes said. She also uses Phil Johnsons Twitter post, who is the executive director ofGrace to Youand an Elder at GCC, saying he had the virus in December 2020. 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