Fraud in Fact: Bethel Congregation children work. Documented facts.
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Dear supporters of Bethel Congregation children work!
My name is Algis Ventsas and I am a member of Tallinn Bethel Congregation. I am writing this letter with a heavy heart, but as a former participant of the children work I feel concerned that the essence of that work has turned to being formal and the Centre's activities have come to damage the community and state. Therefore I feel it’ my duty to inform you – our children’s work donor, about the problems of this work.
With a (now deceased) member of our church, Kalev Kello, we were the first to bring in 1996 the children from Kopli to the church to wash and eat and I also transported them to Aa manor house, where there was situated a shelter. We left the children work (that we started from an empty place and turned into valuable work) in Mati Sinisaar’s hands; yet by now he has substituted it by an organization from which original name today is left out the word „Christian“ with the explanation – or otherwise we will not be supported by local and governmental departments. Now since the „Christian” name removal, the funds have increased from abroad but all government funds have ceased. The funds and security from controlling such amounts of funds have created in Mati Sinisaar the permission to be a law unto himself. As he likes to say, “We are a country within a country”.
The most sad is the people that have been hurt through these practices, in many ways. Shameless Mati Sinisaar’s incompetent decisions have shown total lack of financial understanding, and this has not been a fleeting stage but has persisted and shown to be a permanent and serious problem that has grown into a feeling of being invincible. All failures are explained as “God’s will”. Under this without any form of regulation or control or fear of even correction, there is danger to make God a cover for confusion.
Since 1998 Bethel Congregation has continuously helped the children lacking parental care, creating for that purpose Bethel Church Social Centre with its Daily Care Centre and Children Home. During that period there have constantly occurred misunderstandings and conflicts with the corresponding state departments and local community; most of the reasons have remained incomprehensible to most of the members of the congregation and workers of the Centre.
We have often heard feedback from abroad the unjustified disparagement of the Estonian Republic’s social and welfare work; the kind of attitude towards our state has obviously been created by the negative reflection given abroad by the workers of Bethel Social Centre, with the aim to raise more sympathy and thus get more financial and humanitarian aid from abroad. In the question of Bethel’s children work I inquired of Tallinn Social Welfare and Health Care Department and to the Harju County Governor.
Having received the answers from all the above mentioned, we are obliged to inform you, that the whole children work of Bethel Church Social Centre has taken place without the appropriate ACTIVITY LICENCE, i.e. in the way they see it fit, without any state control.
Hence, operation of the Bethel Church Social Centre is in straight contradiction with several laws of the Estonian Republic, i.e. unlawful. The Pelgulinn House Owners Society as well, local inhabitants, have gathered 455! signatures on a petition. They have constantly expressed their dissatisfaction with Bethel Church’s activities (the new so called “youth home” planned into the yard of the church, vandalizing youth around the church etc).
As the activities of the Bethel Church Social Centre are mainly financed by donations from abroad (in a very small amount by donations from Estonia; state support is absent) and many questions have risen concerning the reasoning of asking the money from abroad and the usage of financial means (corruption, envelope wage etc), we think that it is important to explain to you the actual background of the activities of Bethel Church Social Centre. Many people have been hurt, and many conflicts have been started by the power of money.
We hereby present you the copies of all the correspondence with the named state
administrative agencies and also the position of the representatives of the local community and the official decisions (translations).
With blessings,
Algis Ventsas
Member of EELC Tallinn Bethel Church Congregation
Email: psoriaasikeskus@gmail.com
phone: +372 545 33 660, +372 56 204 707
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PS
While compiling this letter I still was the member of the Bethel Church Board. My wife, Marge Heinoja-Ventsas was a member of the audit committee. At the congregation plenary session on the 23th of May 2010 I was removed from the Church Board on the initiative of priest Avo Üprus; as well was removed my wife from the audit committee.
Annexes:
1. Algis Ventsas and Avo Üprus, Conflikt of interest debate (page 3-5)
2. Letter from the Vice-Chairman Marek (page 6-8)
3. Letter from the orphanage director Inge Ojala (page 9-11)
4. Pelgulinn House Ovwners Society (page 12-15)
5. Tallinn, Social and Healt Service(The original questions-answers and translation)
(page 16-20)
6. Harju County Governor(The original questions-answers and translation) (page 21-26)
7. Statement about exercised supervision of the quality of the social service provided
in(The original questions-answers and translation) (page 27-40)
