Unfortunately, that is enough for me to make me want to vomit. Why doesn't he do his good works without that ugly stigma? Many have already.

> This is my first and probably last visit to
> this site. Someone whom I love and admire
> very much drew my attention to the fact that
> my character and life's work were under
> discussion,without my knowledge, on this
> bulletin board based on an email exchange I
> had with an individual that I have never met
> & who uses the alias Texas Ray.

> I received Texas Ray's email to me in the
> midst of attempting to answer viwer
> responses to the 3-part documentary,Hidden
> Lives, shown on Nightline. I feel,in the
> context of what's being discussed, that it's
> important to say that Texas Ray's email
> stood in sharp contrast to the scores of
> other viewer letters in that it showed an
> utter lack of interest in the actual plight
> of the North Korean children and refugees
> that I've been attempting to help for the
> last 6 years.

> Be that as it may, nevertheless I did take
> considerable time to answer Texas Ray in a
> personal letter. I then discovered that my
> email reply to Texas Ray has been
> characterized by him as deceitful, but the
> text of my letter was not actually shown to
> readers he was speaking to on this site.
> Therefore, for the record, I am copying
> here, word for word, the exchange of letters
> that took place on June 11th. My reply is
> placed first and Texas Ray's letter is
> beneath that. (Texas Ray sent a 2nd email
> that repeated the same threat, but I will
> not copy that here.)

> Yes, I do have FM status in the Family
> Missionary Fellowship. The reason that I
> state that here and did not do so in my
> email response to Ray is very simple. He
> issued his request for that information in
> the form of a very clear threat or blackmail
> issued to me his demand as follows:"If
> you will send me an e-letter stating your
> rejection of heretical "family"
> doctrines,.......I will take no action other
> than to publish that letter on several
> family oriented discussion boards.
> If you do not send me such a letter I will
> have no choice but to contact all of the
> media contacts mentioned on your site and
> inform them of the true nature of FWF and
> your own ministry."

> I kept asking myself: Why is a complete
> stranger threatening me in this way?

> I don't like threats (don't know anyone who
> does) and, just as importantly, I don't
> believe in the principle of yielding any
> personal information based on such threats,
> pure and simple.

> As another matter of record, mention of the
> Family Missionary Fellowship as an integral
> part of my missionary training has been
> stated by me in several prominent
> interviews, including NEWSWEEK, Feb. 7th,
> 2001 (regional East Asian edition).I also
> mentioned it in a long interview that was
> published with one of the primary English
> dailies here several years ago.
> I think that pretty much speaks for itself,
> doesn't it?

> That being said, in my descripton of myself
> as an independent tentmaker missionary, how
> else would you describe someone who has been
> alone in a country with his family unaided
> for 6 years to build a work? If you don't
> think that's independent, you've got another
> think coming'

> OK, to sum up, I'm FM and proud to be so.
> I'm doing my best to change the world in a
> place that no one I know of has taken an
> interest. Wanna help? I welcome contact with
> you. If you think threats and blackmail will
> work on me, sorry to disappoint you. That's
> the way that North Korean government works
> and we're trying to rescue people from that
> kind of intimidation.

> Let's win the world for Jesus!

> In Jesus' Name,

> Tim Peters (my real legal name)

> PS--I want to say a personal thank you to
> the two brave individuals on this site who
> defended my work for the Lord. I do
> appreciate that more than I canput into
> words and am encouraged.

> **********

> My reply to a letter from Texas Ray June,
> 11,2002

> Texas Ray,

> As a general rule I don't answer mail from
> individuals who fail to identify
> themselves.Your letter that began so
> cordially rapidly slid into what can only be
> described as an unexpected and very ugly
> threat. I do not know who you are and you
> apparently do not have the courage to fully
> reveal yourself. Further, you seem to have
> no idea who I am.

> Although the tone and substance of your
> letter don't merit further response,
> nevertheless, I will state the following for
> the sake of the people I'm attempting to
> help: I am a tentmaker lay missionary who
> has supported his family with a modest day
> job for years and moonlights as an NGO
> volunteer that works to feed the hungry and
> attempts to rescue the persecuted and
> downtrodden in very dangerous circumstances.
> After considerable research into other
> foundations, I have found that the 10% that
> the Family Care Foundation uses for its
> administrative expenses is considered frugal
> by any measure. Your other comments on this
> point were confusing and made no sense to
> me.

> Because you do not know me personally,
> therefore you could have no idea whatsoever
> about my spiritual journey as a Christian
> and the current state of my religious
> convictions and affiliations. I fail to see
> how it concerns you. Again, I am forced to
> say that your presumptuous intrusion into my
> life and charitable labors is unwarranted
> and distasteful. I'm reminded of what the
> Apostle Paul said: "One thing have I
> desired to know among you, Christ Jesus, and
> Him crucified."

> This, though, I will gladly share with you
> or anyone: when I stand before the Almighty
> at the end of my life, one & only one
> thing will be my plea as a mortal man: the
> blood of Christ has washed my soul and in
> this alone I can have boldness at the seat
> of God's mercy.Do you, Texas Ray, embrace
> this sacred principle that eclipses all
> others? If so, let me further encourage you
> to reflect upon a very valuable guideline
> before seeking to undermine or destroy a
> man's lifelong work for Jesus Christ &
> his fellow man, as you have openly declared
> today in your email that you wish to do to
> mine: "If this thing is not of God, it
> will come to naught. If it is of God, no man
> can stand against it." and if I'm not
> mistaken, the passage goes on to say,
> "Beware lest you be found to fight
> against God."

> May I encourage you to find your own peace
> with God and come to terms with anything
> that's unresolved in your soul. It goes
> without saying that it is a grave thing to
> attack a brother in Christ, about whom you
> know nothing. Please consider this deeply
> before you do it.

> Tim Peters

> -------------
> Letter from Texas Ray to Tim Peters June 11,
> 2002

> Tim Peters

> I was very impressed with the interview on
> CWA. I believe that you are indeed doing a
> good work with your ton a month project.
> I myself spent several months in Seoul and
> Pussan in the
> 1980s (in the family). I left the family in
> 1988 in Japan (in total disgust). More
> recent events have only deepened and
> expanded that disgust. I know there are many
> sweet and sincere people caught up in the
> family.
> However because the "family" in
> general has had such horribly bad fruit,
> stemming from horrible evil doctrines, I
> consider it to be an evil tree that must be
> rooted up and hewn down.
> Therefore I intend to expose your link with
> it in every way possible in order to ensure
> that donations intended to help the poor are
> not diverted by FCF and or yourself from
> your humanitarian project into family use.
> Even FCF's 10% is too much for my taste. Why
> should sincere people tithe to the family
> without knowing it.
> I would advise you to become what you
> claimed to be in the interview.
> "Independant tentmaking christian
> missionaries" and a "mom and
> dad" organization. I realize this may
> be largely true even now. But as long as you
> retain any vestige of family affiliation I'm
> afraid that I must consider you as being in
> the enemy's camp. As family members you are
> perpetuating an abusive cult whether or not
> you are directly involved in such abuse
> yourselves.
> If you will send me an e-letter stating your
> rejection of heretical "family"
> doctrines, specifically the "law of
> love", "one wife"
> "LJR", "posession"
> "spirit helpers" and the divine
> inspiration of David Berg and Karen Zerby, I
> will take no action other than to publish
> that letter on several family oriented
> discussion boards.
> If you do not send me such a letter I will
> have no choice but to contact all of the
> media contacts mentioned on your site and
> inform them of the true nature of FWF and
> your own ministry. I do not wish to
> interfere with your work but the (non
> existent) family of love/COG or whatever
> other alias they go by now is an evil that
> must be pursued and exposed wherever it
> shows its head.
> (end of letter by Texas Ray to Tim Peters)