What I read into the initial Straits Times report by Kim Hoh ( Unknowns knock out veterans at Aware polls, Straits Times, 10 April 2009): was that Nazar and some other long time AWARE Christian had very successfully gone recruiting among Christians for new members to increase AWARE's membership and to reverse growing support of the homosexual agenda at AWARE. I thought that Nazar resigned because she found it difficult to work with the new recruits elected to the board (fully six of which she nominated). The subsequent silence of the new Exco was because they were leaderless.

Then came the reports of staff being fired and the locks being changed followed by a press conference where Thio Su Mien is there with the new Exco: Coup leader comes open (Zakir Hussain, Straits Times, 24 April 2009). Thio is called the mentor and she claimed that she started asking Christians to join as she was troubled over AWARE promoting homosexuality in its sex education programme in schools and about proposals to give men the vote among other things. She also claims that she was a founder member of AWARE back in 1985.

The interesting part is this blog by Mathia Lee who is an AWARE sex education trainer and contradicts Thio's assertion that AWARE is actively promoting homosexuality in its programmes. On 10th April, she initially defends the new Exco and suspects that the government is trying to make AWARE controversial through the 10th April Straits Times article: The AWARE AGM 2009 — my personal take: beware of ST (11 April 2009).

Then I find that someone has posted on STOMP (23 April) what (s)he claims to be SMSes and emails that circulated around to recruit Church of Our Saviour members to join AWARE: AWARE - The Hidden Hand. That the person posts multiple messages seems to suggest that they are more likely to be authentic.

Church of Our Saviour appears to be the base community for Focus on the Family which has been actively supporting the Republicans. James Dobson and Focus on the Family seem to be actively trying to implement laws in America that conform to Christian doctrine (or their definition of Christian doctrine). See this Christianity Today article by Sarah Pulliam (24 October 008): An Obama administration, in the eyes of Focus on the Family Action. I would say that Focus on the Family delibrately distorts facts in their quest for legal power and I now suspect that the Church of Our Saviour people are doing the same.

As worrying is the Church's claim that they have a gay and lesbian ministry. If so, I wonder, where are the results? From over 20 years of experience, I am used to seeing converts testify to their liberation from sins and leading (or at least playing an important part in) the charge against their former life. Does the Church have an authentic ministry or are they just creating facts for their cause?

The individual facts taken together seem to suggest that the Church of Our Saviour may be going down the path to worshipping another Saviour, one more amenable to the establishment of a religious state.

If that is true, God have mercy upon their souls.