#19 of 54. Letter from Halvard B. Thomsen, Mar. 30, 2007

“I came away from my recent conversation with church pastors reinforced in my conviction that we need to listen carefully to what these servants of the Lord say to us as leaders. Some of them feel that there is a disconnect between leadership and themselves. Where that is true, . . . leadership must take the initiative to correct it.” —Jan Paulsen, president of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, in a presentation titled “Shared Responsibility—Shared Trust.”

“[A]ny further communication between us will not lead to different results. Consequently, I nor anyone else within the GC and NAD administrations will respond further to these communications.” —Halvard Thomsen in his third letter responding to James Coffin, after having written two previous letters—one with 17 lines of body text and one with 12 lines of body text.


LETTER

March 30, 2007


James Coffin
[Address provided]

Dear Pastor Coffin --

Your January and March letters addressed to me and copied to a number of recipients in the General Conference and North American Division are in hand. You are correct that they came in the midst of an unusually heavy travel schedule during the first months of this year.

To my knowledge, none of the people who work in the General Conference complex has received any letter from Lincoln on this matter. Thus, their only knowledge of the things you write is what you have provided in your letters.

We are sorry that there is discord and tension in your family. However, we do not intend to become involved in the private matters of the Steed family—there is no reason for us to do so. The issues which you raise in your correspondence simply must be handled in a private manner.

Sincerely


Halvard B. Thomsen
Chair, Liberty Editorial Board
Assistant to the President for Administration, North American Division

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Jan Paulsen, Consulting Editor, Liberty
Don Schneider, Consulting Editor, Liberty
John Graz, Consulting Editor, Liberty
Robert Kyte, Office of General Counsel
Mike Cauley, President, Florida Conference
Lincoln E. Steed

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