I am shifting the gears for my readers to see through the games, manipulations and atrocities done by people who perceive themselves to have a certain kind of power over people in LEF. This is none other than the rogue who by his classic "boot licking" ended up in Hyderabad as an evangelist to this "big center." Yes, you guessed it right -Gnanakalanjiam!!!
This account I am writing is not something that I heard from someone else but something that I know first hand.
Gnanakalanjiam and his wife came in to Hyderabad center as "insignificant nobodies," at least that's what they told everybody they were. Gnanam told people that he had no powers whatsoever. He told people that Joshua Daniel asked him not have anything to do with money or big decisions like conducting marriages etc. He played the typical game that Gunalan, Immanuel Chakravarthy, John Raja et al play any time people go to him- I will do only what Joshua Daniel/John Daniel approves. This is a typical Marwari strategy that is generally used to put up a show that a person is just a "puppet," while everyone involved knows very well that this so called "puppet" is also the "puppet master." The older generation in Hyderabad (who built this work from the scratch with the founder of Hyderabad LEF center, late Mr. Jubileeraj) were sick and tired of Gnanam's monkey tricks and stayed away from him as they figured it was not worth their time and effort to connect with this joker. Now Gnanam created his own troupe with people who have very little credibility of their own. One such is Jacob Raj, whom Gnanam proudly calls his Personal Assistant (in the lines of Joshua Daniel and now John Daniel calling Gunalan as PA). Apparently, Gnanam only operates through this PA and people have to get in touch with this PA guy to get an appointment to talk to Gnanam. Quite a grand show there!!!
The core team which was responsible for building and growing LEF work in Hyderabad consists of well educated people who had high paying jobs. Almost all Hyderabad people will recognize the following names: Mr. Sinclair, Mr. Prasad (Stenno), Mr. John Isaac, Mr. Baburao, Mr. Ravi, Mr. Darshan, Mr. S. Paul, Mr. Prakash, Mr. Kumar Raj, , Mr. Abraham (PWD), Mr.Alexander, Mr. Timothy (ECIL). (If I missed some names, kindly add them with your comments) These are people who breathed LEF in their prime years and dedicated their time, energy and resources without any hesitation to grow LEF work in and around Hyderabad. Most of these men were married in LEF system and when the time came for them to enjoy the fruits of their hard work, this joker Gnanam ended up becoming the center leader. He systematically sidelined every single one of them and how did he manage to do that? It was all because one or more of most of these men's (mentioned above) children did not give the LEF crooks the pleasure to meddle with their marriages. Whether Gnanam concocted it or really followed Joshua Daniel's dictates is anybody's guess but the verdict was that if someone's child married outside LEF, then automatically the father falls from grace and cannot be used for "ministry." That disqualified most of these men (except a couple who rigged the system with their cunningness) from having any kind of "privileges" in Hyderabad LEF. Most of these men who are now in their late 60s or early 70s are comfortably retired and do not feel the need to massage the ego of this joker Gnanam to "win a spot" in Gnanam's core team. Somehow Gnanam now started thinking that he has become a mini version of "Joshua Daniel." While most of these senior people couldn't care less for a joker like Gnanam, Gnanam likes to believe that he has scared these people away and nobody dares to question him about the way he is doing "LEF business." It is not that these men do not dare to question Gnanam, it is just that they find no reason to stoop so low as to put up with this idiot as almost all of these men have children who are well educated and well placed not only in secular jobs but also in christian circles outside LEF. So, now Gnanam has some small fish that are caught in LEF net to play with to derive his sadistic pleasure.
Here is the account of one such small fish family whom Gnanam and his wife are royally playing around with to their hearts content and this family happens to be related to me.
Gnanam and his wife took control of the youngest of the three children in this family. A sickly father is the only earning member of this family and parents spent their sweat and blood to educate all the three children. The youngest girl came out with flying colors with an engineering degree and had a well paying job. Gnanam and his wife packed off this girl to Salem to work as a school teacher in the LEF school. Of course, the justification is that this girl had "God's call" and all Gnanam and his wife did was to facilitate her desire to obey "God's call." Were the parents happy about it? Now that is a difficult question. Even if the parents are unhappy, how can they voice it out? After all isn't it a matter of honor that one's young and unmarried daughter is taking such a bold step of 'faith' of giving up her all to obey God's call? So, the parents at least did not openly show any displeasure and played along. The girl is in Salem for almost 2 years now. Parents have been running behind Gnanam about the girl's marriage for a while now. Couple of weeks ago, parents got a call from the daughter who was in Salem asking them to book "Lutheran Church" for her wedding and Sridhar Function Plaza (which is next door to Hyderabad LEF center) for reception on May 5th. Is it supposed to be a pleasant surprise or a rude shock? For a minute, let us play along and call it a "pleasant surprise." Then let us see what are all the elements of surprise the parents and family had in store:
1. Who is the boy?
2. What did he study?
3. Where does he work and how much does he earn?
4. Which city does the boy live in?
5. What is boy's name?
6. Who are his parents?
7. Where does the boy's family live?
8. Are boy's parents aware of this marriage?
9. Does this boy have any siblings?
10. How will the marriage expenses be met?
11. Last but not least, why book Lutheran church for the marriage when all of this is happening through LEF?
Without having any definitive answers for any of the above questions, Gnanam directs the girl to tell her parents to book a church and function hall for the wedding.
Now my father who boasts of being in LEF for 40+ years is the one who is responsible for this family to be played into the hands of these LEF rogues. He dragged this family into LEF and of course he has the responsibility to find all the answers for the above questions which he did try to find to the best of his ability. My father who also managed to have several stints in LEF including but not limited to being an "evangelist" unfortunately never had first hand experience of going through the drama of LEF marriage in his 40+ years association with LEF. I can count at least 50+ families my father may have brought into this LEF web but somehow either because he managed tactfully or it just happened, no one so far got trapped into LEF's deeper web- the LEF marriage.So, no one including my father knows the fine mechanics of LEF marriage protocol. But something seemed amiss. There were more questions than answers. Here are some legitimate questions anybody with some common sense would and should ask:
1. Parents are from LEF. They come to all LEF services and more:give tithes regularly and not only that but made the ultimate sacrifice of sending their unmarried daughter to work in a LEF school so far from home (in a different state) for just a fraction of the money she was making as an engineer. Why didn't Gnanam tell the parents about this particular proposal before not only talking about it to the girl but also making the girl "pray" and tell him that she got "God's will"?
What was the need to hide it from parents? Did Gnanam and his wife think that if parents are informed first, then the parents would do their initial research and find something about the boy that may not allow them to go forward? Why work the whole thing around the parents? So, the bottom line is that Gnanam and his wife assumed more control and power over the girl than the parents who raised the girl for all these years!!!
Would Gnanam and his wife allow something like this to happen with their daughter's marriage?
If this is not deception, then what else is deception?
So, now here is how this game works.
The girl/boy gets isolated from the family. While they are away from parents, some LEF rogue takes over the control of these children. All in the name of facilitating the process of "doing God's will," these boys and girls are pushed to marry the person of these LEF's rogues' choice.
Now my father who feels morally responsible to do his own due diligence to find out more details about the groom and his family seems to have found out some not so desirable details about the proposed groom. But it is now too late to even reassess this whole marriage deal as all marriage arrangements are carried out in tearing hurry. Any time any of the family members made an attempt to slow down to buy some time to process this whole marriage deal that seems to be happening at lightning speed, Gnanam acts high and mighty saying "the girl told us she got God's will and that's why we went ahead and organized this marriage and it is up to you all to allow your child to do God's will or not." So, in essence all Gnanam conveys is -"Take it or Leave it." "Taking it" is the only choice left to the parents as leaving it means the family now falls from grace and people in LEF know too well what happens when they fall from the "grace" of these crooked rogues in LEF who pose as "benevolent masters." Knowing that "leaving it" is not an option for this cornered family and in particular to this girl, Gnanam is deriving every kind of evil pleasure in controlling this family. The biggest trump card Gnanam has in his hands is "the girl told us that she got a verse from the Bible that this marriage is God's will so if any one of you have any doubts about this, you are only working against this girl who wants to do God's will."
Now as all of this is happening at "spiritual realm of God's will," lesser mortals such us parents and family members were told not to put spokes in the wheels. We all backed off as there didn't seem to be much room for any kind of rational reasoning with this whole marriage deal but then there is one objection from the family that Gnanam is not able to curb with his trump card of "the girl got God's will." In fact, this trump card that Gnanam used to silence the family when they asked for clarifications and justifications what is now putting Gnanam on a weak wicket.
If all of this is God's will like it is supposed to be according to LEF's protocol, then what is the reason for Gnanam to not allow this marriage to be solemnized in LEF prayer hall?
As it stands today, the marriage is preponed to May 3rd to fit the calendar of Gnana Praksham of Salem who is scheduled to solemnize this wedding. Both the marriage and the reception are going to be held in Sridhar Function Plaza (the compound adjacent to Hyderabad LEF center).
The best justification that Gnanam gave so far for not allowing the marriage to be solemnized in Hyderabad LEF prayer hall is -"I am trying to save the family money as I don't want them to waste money in decorating both the function hall and the prayer hall for the wedding."
My father seems to have muttered a lot of courage to finally confront Gnanam as some of his contemporaries from Hyderabad LEF managed to awaken the dormant spirit of my father. My father seems to have told Gnanam that this marriage needed to take place in LEF prayer hall and if Gnanam was not going to make this happen, then that he would take this matter up with John Daniel, the head of LEF. Now Gnanam apparently asked my dad to write down his request and send it to him so that Gnanam can forward it to John Daniel which my father promptly did.
Now another layer of deception. Why should this supposed request go through Gnanam? What makes grown men like my father turn into puppets in the hands of these worthless people like Gnanam and John Daniel? All of this is way beyond my comprehension. Makes me wonder if God somehow forgot to give courage to my father and realized this after the fact and gave me double the dose of it to compensate for that loss...ha ha!!!
Jokes apart, so while everybody is waiting with battered breath to find out what John Daniel's final decision about allowing this marriage to take place in LEF center, I thought I will write about this here so that there won't be any more foul play as there is every possibility for Gnanam to say that John Daniel did not approve this even without taking the issue to him.
My readers might ask as to why Gnanam would lie like this. Here is why:
This whole marriage seems to be some kind of an unofficial deal that Gnanam and his wife are doing in collusion with Gnana Prakasham and his wife who are LEF evangelists in Salem.
Here are some questions:
1. Who gave power to Gnanam to separate unmarried girls from their parents and send them to Salem?
2. What power did Gnana Prakasham have to accept this girl? (Apparently she is not the only one girl who went from Hyderabad. Gnanam sent few other girls to Salem)
3. Is this some kind of protocol that Gnanam and Gnana Prakasham devised to start controlling girls' marriages after isolating them from their families?
4. If some thing goes wrong with these girls during their stay in Salem, is LEF as an organization liable for this or is it an under hand deal that can never be traced back to LEF?
5. Gnanam has power to move an unmarried girl away from parents. He also has power to fix the marriage of the girl without consulting the parents but he doesn't have power to allow the marriage to be solemnized in LEF prayer hall. In what capacity is Gnanam exercising this kind of power over people? Is it not in the capacity of LEF evangelist which is his official tittle in LEF ?
6. If Gnanam the LEF evangelist fixed the marriage and if Gnana Prakasham another LEF evangelist is solemnizing the marriage of not any random girl but of the girl who was working for a LEF school with the boy who is also from LEF, then what is the reason for this marriage not to take place in LEF prayer hall?
7. What else is required of this family and particularly of this girl (who not only left her parents but also a high paying job) for her to be married in a LEF prayer hall or LEF church as they are referred to?
8. If LEF prayer halls are not available for marriages of people who tithe in LEF, who work for LEF schools and also who marry according to LEF rule books (nobody in the family including the girl has seen the groom so far whom this girl is scheduled to marry on May 3rd) of doing God's will (which is equivalent to blindly believing these LEF evangelists), then for whose benefit is this LEF running?
9. John Daniel should recall that he was married in LEF HQ in Chennai. Not only the solemnizing the marriage, but also the reception which followed the wedding also took place in LEF property. Are all these LEF properties reserved for the sole use of Daniel clan and the selected few?
As always, about things that have anything to do with LEF, there are more perplexing questions than answers!!!
The core team which was responsible for building and growing LEF work in Hyderabad consists of well educated people who had high paying jobs. Almost all Hyderabad people will recognize the following names: Mr. Sinclair, Mr. Prasad (Stenno), Mr. John Isaac, Mr. Baburao, Mr. Ravi, Mr. Darshan, Mr. S. Paul, Mr. Prakash, Mr. Kumar Raj, , Mr. Abraham (PWD), Mr.Alexander, Mr. Timothy (ECIL). (If I missed some names, kindly add them with your comments) These are people who breathed LEF in their prime years and dedicated their time, energy and resources without any hesitation to grow LEF work in and around Hyderabad. Most of these men were married in LEF system and when the time came for them to enjoy the fruits of their hard work, this joker Gnanam ended up becoming the center leader. He systematically sidelined every single one of them and how did he manage to do that? It was all because one or more of most of these men's (mentioned above) children did not give the LEF crooks the pleasure to meddle with their marriages. Whether Gnanam concocted it or really followed Joshua Daniel's dictates is anybody's guess but the verdict was that if someone's child married outside LEF, then automatically the father falls from grace and cannot be used for "ministry." That disqualified most of these men (except a couple who rigged the system with their cunningness) from having any kind of "privileges" in Hyderabad LEF. Most of these men who are now in their late 60s or early 70s are comfortably retired and do not feel the need to massage the ego of this joker Gnanam to "win a spot" in Gnanam's core team. Somehow Gnanam now started thinking that he has become a mini version of "Joshua Daniel." While most of these senior people couldn't care less for a joker like Gnanam, Gnanam likes to believe that he has scared these people away and nobody dares to question him about the way he is doing "LEF business." It is not that these men do not dare to question Gnanam, it is just that they find no reason to stoop so low as to put up with this idiot as almost all of these men have children who are well educated and well placed not only in secular jobs but also in christian circles outside LEF. So, now Gnanam has some small fish that are caught in LEF net to play with to derive his sadistic pleasure.
Here is the account of one such small fish family whom Gnanam and his wife are royally playing around with to their hearts content and this family happens to be related to me.
Gnanam and his wife took control of the youngest of the three children in this family. A sickly father is the only earning member of this family and parents spent their sweat and blood to educate all the three children. The youngest girl came out with flying colors with an engineering degree and had a well paying job. Gnanam and his wife packed off this girl to Salem to work as a school teacher in the LEF school. Of course, the justification is that this girl had "God's call" and all Gnanam and his wife did was to facilitate her desire to obey "God's call." Were the parents happy about it? Now that is a difficult question. Even if the parents are unhappy, how can they voice it out? After all isn't it a matter of honor that one's young and unmarried daughter is taking such a bold step of 'faith' of giving up her all to obey God's call? So, the parents at least did not openly show any displeasure and played along. The girl is in Salem for almost 2 years now. Parents have been running behind Gnanam about the girl's marriage for a while now. Couple of weeks ago, parents got a call from the daughter who was in Salem asking them to book "Lutheran Church" for her wedding and Sridhar Function Plaza (which is next door to Hyderabad LEF center) for reception on May 5th. Is it supposed to be a pleasant surprise or a rude shock? For a minute, let us play along and call it a "pleasant surprise." Then let us see what are all the elements of surprise the parents and family had in store:
1. Who is the boy?
2. What did he study?
3. Where does he work and how much does he earn?
4. Which city does the boy live in?
5. What is boy's name?
6. Who are his parents?
7. Where does the boy's family live?
8. Are boy's parents aware of this marriage?
9. Does this boy have any siblings?
10. How will the marriage expenses be met?
11. Last but not least, why book Lutheran church for the marriage when all of this is happening through LEF?
Without having any definitive answers for any of the above questions, Gnanam directs the girl to tell her parents to book a church and function hall for the wedding.
Now my father who boasts of being in LEF for 40+ years is the one who is responsible for this family to be played into the hands of these LEF rogues. He dragged this family into LEF and of course he has the responsibility to find all the answers for the above questions which he did try to find to the best of his ability. My father who also managed to have several stints in LEF including but not limited to being an "evangelist" unfortunately never had first hand experience of going through the drama of LEF marriage in his 40+ years association with LEF. I can count at least 50+ families my father may have brought into this LEF web but somehow either because he managed tactfully or it just happened, no one so far got trapped into LEF's deeper web- the LEF marriage.So, no one including my father knows the fine mechanics of LEF marriage protocol. But something seemed amiss. There were more questions than answers. Here are some legitimate questions anybody with some common sense would and should ask:
1. Parents are from LEF. They come to all LEF services and more:give tithes regularly and not only that but made the ultimate sacrifice of sending their unmarried daughter to work in a LEF school so far from home (in a different state) for just a fraction of the money she was making as an engineer. Why didn't Gnanam tell the parents about this particular proposal before not only talking about it to the girl but also making the girl "pray" and tell him that she got "God's will"?
What was the need to hide it from parents? Did Gnanam and his wife think that if parents are informed first, then the parents would do their initial research and find something about the boy that may not allow them to go forward? Why work the whole thing around the parents? So, the bottom line is that Gnanam and his wife assumed more control and power over the girl than the parents who raised the girl for all these years!!!
Would Gnanam and his wife allow something like this to happen with their daughter's marriage?
If this is not deception, then what else is deception?
So, now here is how this game works.
The girl/boy gets isolated from the family. While they are away from parents, some LEF rogue takes over the control of these children. All in the name of facilitating the process of "doing God's will," these boys and girls are pushed to marry the person of these LEF's rogues' choice.
Now my father who feels morally responsible to do his own due diligence to find out more details about the groom and his family seems to have found out some not so desirable details about the proposed groom. But it is now too late to even reassess this whole marriage deal as all marriage arrangements are carried out in tearing hurry. Any time any of the family members made an attempt to slow down to buy some time to process this whole marriage deal that seems to be happening at lightning speed, Gnanam acts high and mighty saying "the girl told us she got God's will and that's why we went ahead and organized this marriage and it is up to you all to allow your child to do God's will or not." So, in essence all Gnanam conveys is -"Take it or Leave it." "Taking it" is the only choice left to the parents as leaving it means the family now falls from grace and people in LEF know too well what happens when they fall from the "grace" of these crooked rogues in LEF who pose as "benevolent masters." Knowing that "leaving it" is not an option for this cornered family and in particular to this girl, Gnanam is deriving every kind of evil pleasure in controlling this family. The biggest trump card Gnanam has in his hands is "the girl told us that she got a verse from the Bible that this marriage is God's will so if any one of you have any doubts about this, you are only working against this girl who wants to do God's will."
Now as all of this is happening at "spiritual realm of God's will," lesser mortals such us parents and family members were told not to put spokes in the wheels. We all backed off as there didn't seem to be much room for any kind of rational reasoning with this whole marriage deal but then there is one objection from the family that Gnanam is not able to curb with his trump card of "the girl got God's will." In fact, this trump card that Gnanam used to silence the family when they asked for clarifications and justifications what is now putting Gnanam on a weak wicket.
If all of this is God's will like it is supposed to be according to LEF's protocol, then what is the reason for Gnanam to not allow this marriage to be solemnized in LEF prayer hall?
As it stands today, the marriage is preponed to May 3rd to fit the calendar of Gnana Praksham of Salem who is scheduled to solemnize this wedding. Both the marriage and the reception are going to be held in Sridhar Function Plaza (the compound adjacent to Hyderabad LEF center).
The best justification that Gnanam gave so far for not allowing the marriage to be solemnized in Hyderabad LEF prayer hall is -"I am trying to save the family money as I don't want them to waste money in decorating both the function hall and the prayer hall for the wedding."
My father seems to have muttered a lot of courage to finally confront Gnanam as some of his contemporaries from Hyderabad LEF managed to awaken the dormant spirit of my father. My father seems to have told Gnanam that this marriage needed to take place in LEF prayer hall and if Gnanam was not going to make this happen, then that he would take this matter up with John Daniel, the head of LEF. Now Gnanam apparently asked my dad to write down his request and send it to him so that Gnanam can forward it to John Daniel which my father promptly did.
Now another layer of deception. Why should this supposed request go through Gnanam? What makes grown men like my father turn into puppets in the hands of these worthless people like Gnanam and John Daniel? All of this is way beyond my comprehension. Makes me wonder if God somehow forgot to give courage to my father and realized this after the fact and gave me double the dose of it to compensate for that loss...ha ha!!!
Jokes apart, so while everybody is waiting with battered breath to find out what John Daniel's final decision about allowing this marriage to take place in LEF center, I thought I will write about this here so that there won't be any more foul play as there is every possibility for Gnanam to say that John Daniel did not approve this even without taking the issue to him.
My readers might ask as to why Gnanam would lie like this. Here is why:
This whole marriage seems to be some kind of an unofficial deal that Gnanam and his wife are doing in collusion with Gnana Prakasham and his wife who are LEF evangelists in Salem.
Here are some questions:
1. Who gave power to Gnanam to separate unmarried girls from their parents and send them to Salem?
2. What power did Gnana Prakasham have to accept this girl? (Apparently she is not the only one girl who went from Hyderabad. Gnanam sent few other girls to Salem)
3. Is this some kind of protocol that Gnanam and Gnana Prakasham devised to start controlling girls' marriages after isolating them from their families?
4. If some thing goes wrong with these girls during their stay in Salem, is LEF as an organization liable for this or is it an under hand deal that can never be traced back to LEF?
5. Gnanam has power to move an unmarried girl away from parents. He also has power to fix the marriage of the girl without consulting the parents but he doesn't have power to allow the marriage to be solemnized in LEF prayer hall. In what capacity is Gnanam exercising this kind of power over people? Is it not in the capacity of LEF evangelist which is his official tittle in LEF ?
6. If Gnanam the LEF evangelist fixed the marriage and if Gnana Prakasham another LEF evangelist is solemnizing the marriage of not any random girl but of the girl who was working for a LEF school with the boy who is also from LEF, then what is the reason for this marriage not to take place in LEF prayer hall?
7. What else is required of this family and particularly of this girl (who not only left her parents but also a high paying job) for her to be married in a LEF prayer hall or LEF church as they are referred to?
8. If LEF prayer halls are not available for marriages of people who tithe in LEF, who work for LEF schools and also who marry according to LEF rule books (nobody in the family including the girl has seen the groom so far whom this girl is scheduled to marry on May 3rd) of doing God's will (which is equivalent to blindly believing these LEF evangelists), then for whose benefit is this LEF running?
9. John Daniel should recall that he was married in LEF HQ in Chennai. Not only the solemnizing the marriage, but also the reception which followed the wedding also took place in LEF property. Are all these LEF properties reserved for the sole use of Daniel clan and the selected few?
As always, about things that have anything to do with LEF, there are more perplexing questions than answers!!!
