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[lalala]

This may have already been posted, but I didn't see it. Is it alarming to anyone that GCM is changing their college ministry name to  Collegiate Church Network? Here is the official announcement: http://www.gcmweb.net/who/Partners/collegiate.aspx

It was very difficult for me to track down that Collegiate was related at all to GCM, but I noticed several of the board members names, and that Collegiate talks about LT on the website.

Is there an explanation behind this that makes it less... icky?

http://www.collegiatelt.com/

http://collegiatechurchnetwork.com/

[Linda]

Welcome.

Here is a link to a discussion we had about Collegiate Church Network, but thanks for the reminder.

http://forum.gcmwarning.com/ask-larry-pile/great-commission-and-further-subsidiaries/

It's good to be reminded of the repeated changing of the names. I believe there is yet another thread that has a discussion about CCN that I had completely forgotten about when I posted on the thread that I linked. There is so much confusion and deception it's hard to keep up/remember what is going on.

Hope everyone is doing well. I am thinking of so many of you who have left your churches and feel the pain of loneliness of lost friendships as the school year starts anew. You are not alone. God bless and encourage you all.

[gcmToTheMax]

Greg Van Nada of Great Commission Ministries ( http://rivchurch.com/about/leadership/greg-van-nada ) and Tom Thomas Mauriello only give one line of explanation for the name change in the letter. GCM leadership doesn't have any real accountability from an independent, outside board.

Here is the line from the letter and is arguably the only "explanation" given in the letter:
"the missions agency in Orlando—GCM—was never strongly distinguished from the association of campus churches that helped found us."

My opinion: The association of churches that the letter is referring to is GCM.

Personally I don't care about the name change, in-and-of-itself, just how it came about and why. Even if it was done with zero attempt to hide from its criticisms under the GCM name (which I can believe), the way the organization can quickly and almost unknowingly make huge changes without any outside accountability isn't healthy, especially for an organization that has been around as long as it has been - they really need help, but GCM is so inbred and boxed-in they struggle with getting it.

[AgathaL'Orange]

So now no one can google and find the history?

Keep changing the name and running away...

[thrutheyrs]

Agatha, is the name change a part of their M.O.? The church I used to slightly changed their name recently. When I Googled the new name, I did not find any search results that would lead me to this site or warn of it being "cultish", as I did before the change. Also, I have noticed quite a few more people who blog for the church and write reviews for it. Maybe they are all just positive, but now I'm suspicious if there's not a P.R. campaign being done to throw people off the scent.