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Pastor Paul Petry - Grounds for Immediate Termination of Employment
* continual insubordination and submission to leadership and spiritual authority
* Refusal to Ministry Coaching Program [emphasis added]* Divisive within Mars Hill Student Ministry and undermining of Pastor Adam, Deacons and entire ministry
* Blame shifting to Proxy leadership for misbehavior of children
* Public accusation of Lead Pastor [Jamie Munson] regarding hiding the real bylaw document
* Not following protocol and process for making bylaw comments by contacting church attorney without permission
* Ongoing contentious spirit to leadership regarding changes and direction
One of the things that has not been discussed much (if at all) is the subject of how far back some of the relationships members of the Mars Hill Church Board of Advisors and Accountability have had to the organization that was formerly known as Mars Hill Fellowship and now as Mars Hill Church. Ostensibly the role of the BOAA is to have men who are neither members nor pastors of Mars Hill Church playing some kind of advisory role that avoids a conflict of interest and provides disinterested oversight. However, it is not clear that some or even all of the members of the BOAA have necessarily even had to make the case for why any of them are truly disinterested parties.
For the sake of review, it seems that the Ministry Coaching Program Jamie Munson made reference to would refer to Ministry Coaching International and at least two Mars Hill Church leaders over the years have had formal ties to the organization, Dave Kraft and Michael Van Skaik.
http://www.guidestar.org/ViewPdf.aspx?PdfSource=0&ein=71-0914449
Officers, Directors, Trustees and Key Employees
Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2011
Greg Salciccioli
Richard Savidge
Chris ALtig
Barry Engelman
Michael Van Skaik
Jim White
John Warton
Daniel Harkavy
Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2007
Greg Salciccioli
Jim White
Dennis Blevins
Michael Van Skaik
Daniel Harkavy
Tim Cahill
John Warton
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Michael-Van%20Skaik/1442366541
http://www.zoominfo.com/CachedPage/?archive_id=0&page_id=5861318324&page_url=//www.ministrycoaching.org/about/board-of-directors/&page_last_updated=2013-12-14T04:29:48&firstName=Michael&lastName=Van%20Skaik
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http://web.archive.org/web/20130413044851/http://www.ministrycoaching.org/about/board-of-directors
http://web.archive.org/web/20130413044851/http://www.ministrycoaching.org/about/board-of-directors
So as recently as April 2013 there was some listing for Michael Van Skaik having a role on the Board of Directors at Ministry Coaching International. What's more notable, for the sake of considering the terminations and trial of Paul Petry in 2007 in particular is that Michael Van Skaik was listed as being on the Board of Directors at Ministry Coaching International in the year that Petry was fired and the grounds for Petry's immediate termination were outlined in email.
One of the questions that no one has raised so far amid any controversy or coverage of Mars Hill Church is who Paul Petry's coach in affiliation with Ministry Coaching International would have been. If one of Munson's stated reasons for the immediate termination of Paul Petry was that Petry was refusing to cooperate with a coaching program that may have involved someone who is now on the Board of Advisors and Accountability then this could be considered evidence that Ministry Coaching International (for which Michael Van Skaik was member of the board of directors in 2007) had some kind of business relationship or formal relationship with Mars Hill Church and that Petry's alleged refusal to cooperate with the coaching program was considered a basis for termination. Was Mars Hill Church paying money to Ministry Coaching International in any capacity circa 2006-2007?
Who were the coaches assigned by MCI to handle coaching of pastors at Mars Hill Church? Petry's alleged refusal to participate seemed to be considered serious enough by Jamie Munson in 2007 to be a ground for immediate termination but now that these grounds for termination have been made public they open up secondary questions about the nature of the relationships people connected to Ministry Coaching International went on to have with the leadership culture of Mars Hill Church. How can Mars Hill Church (or anyone else, for that matter) be convinced that the BOAA is made up of men who have an impartial interest in the effective management of the church if Michael Van Skaik was on the board of directors of an organization that may have been contracted with Mars Hill circa 2006-2007 to coach?
For that matter, given Michael Van Skaik's historic role on the Board of Directors and given Dave Kraft's history of being an employee of the organization Mars Hill Church members it's worth asking another question about the 2007 trial of Paul Petry. If Michael Van Skaik was on the Board of Directors for Ministry Coaching International in 2007 and Dave Kraft had a longstanding ministry affiliation with MCI then couldn't Dave Kraft's presence on the EIT investigating the legitimacy of Munson's charges against Petry be considered a significant conflict of interest in itself at least in potential if not in practice? If one of the stated reasons Munson gave for terminating Paul Petry was his refusal to cooperate with the Ministry Coaching program why put an employee or formal associate of Ministry Coaching International on the EIT in the first place?
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