Find below the letter that a frustrated LEF member wanted to be published in a Tamil magazine run by a respected journalist.

This letter was addressed to Late President of LEF. l and we have not seen any reply to this letter published yet….

We will be sending a similar letter to present head of LEF and we will update you as and when we hear from him. Just like Late President's answer, his wayward son may also have similar beliefs….

Respected Dear Dr. Pushparaj,

I am happy to know that you respect the Laymen’s Evangelical Fellowship, I read your information in Janakaran with interest, and will you please ask the following questions to the leadership of the LEF, Madras and publish if they reply / publish a translation of this letter. I know the answers to the questions and every word I have written is true. I doubt if you will hold the LEF leadership with the same regard after reading this letter.

I am writing this letter to you because I am fed up with the drama and the lies and I am hopeful that you will be able to get answers to these questions from late President

1.     Is it true that the first daughter of the great chairman got married and divorced, more times than one can count?

My Answer: Yes

Late President's answer: 

2.     Does she not play the keyboard in the great retreats, if so what rules? Her travel costs are paid by the LEF organization out of the offerings, what is her remuneration for playing the piano (in $$$)

My Answer: Yes

Late President's answer: 

3.     Is it true that the second daughter got into a series of live in relationship without marrying?

My Answer: Yes

Late President's answer:  

4.     Don’t only the grand children of the great chairman sing in the stage as a choir, their travel costs are paid by the organization out of the offerings, what is their remuneration for singing, The DVD of them singing is sold, who pockets the money ( 5 or 6 figures in $$$). Are there no other talented children who can sing in the LEF? 

My Answer: There are but will not be allowed.

Late President's answer: 

5.     Do you pay / pension your evangelists, NO you refuse to pay them a single rupee, telling them that God will supply all their needs, ( but email / send letters asking them to send the offering money back). All your money is mine us your credo. Self- supporting missionary means, support me.

My Answer: No. Evangelists have to exercise faith

Late President's answer: 

6.     Do you ever have a register of workers, or are all presumed to be volunteers, do you pay them medical / children educational assistance. No you tell them that God should pay for them. Is there no money in the LEF? It is there but for one family only.

My Answer: It is there but for one family only.

Late President's answer: 

7.     Why don’t you add a budget statement at the end of the great annual report, which is read in the great Anniversary day celebrated at all centers, or do you plan to give an account to God only, it will be too late. You receive money from the public, you owe them an account.

My Answer: Joshua Daniel gives account to God and nobody else

Late President's answer: 

8.     What is your personal net worth / of the (First Family), what is the LEF treasury, are not both one and the same. In whose name the properties have been registered, (illegally in your name, and in your children’s name). Are not big houses for your family members being built, trying to fool everyone that they would become prayer center?

My Answer: Yes

Late President's answer: 

9.     Are not the Daniel family members who have blue blood preferred for preaching over sincere workers with years of experience (age of the Daniel family members will be less that the ordinary evangelists experience) and boosted up, saying God told me?

My Answer: Yes

Late President's answer: 

10.  Does not a one family member play the drums, another family member play the trumpet, another family member play the organ, another family member  play the piano, another family member l lead the singing at the same time and in the same stage, another family member  will preach, the retreats are family members' shows, where the first family is brought to India at LEF expense for a nice holiday and to share picking.

My Answer: LEF is first family business

Late President's answer: 

11.  What happens in Beulah Gardens, is it a Bible College / Bible University / your family picnic spot, if it is a Bible college who is the Dean (what is his age). What is the syllabus, what degrees are given there, you say we teach faith, but is there any instance in the Bible where faith was taught? Beulah Garden is an open prison where people are worked to death without salary, who take care of the farm, the cows, the sheep, and the fishes, with teams (gangs) for masonry, welding and carpentry, so that LEF centers can be built up with slave labor (so that you need not spend) are they paid for? 

My Answer: No, the bible says the workmen is worthy of his wages.

Late President's answer: 

12.  Don’t you plan that working wives should support your evangelism so that the evangelist’s work becomes free for you, and deliberately plan for that, and refuse to suggest alternate boy / girl until at last the boy / girl agrees to your choice? How many marriages you suggested are living Hells, will you accept any responsibilities ever, don’t you send Evangelists into new places without language training / money / any preparations?’ And boast about this humble behavior.

My Answer: Joshua Daniel’s will is God’s will

Late President's answer: 

13.  Parents are expected to take care of their sons and daughters families after their marriage, especially the child bearing expenses; The LEF leadership will not pay a paise to the worker. The wife of the worker has to bear the brunt of supporting of financially supporting the family. What is your motive behind this?

My Answer: The idea is to make people poor so that they will be subservient to the leader.

Late President's answer: 

14.  Don’t you know that your extended family members openly eating the offerings, and live a wildlife? You know this is known to you, one of them is playing music in Night clubs but is still supported by the offerings given by people who believe that the money is given for “God”

My Answer: You know this. One of your family members is playing music in Night clubs but is still supported by the offerings given by people who believe that the money is given for “God”          

Late President's answer: 

15.  With a sickening regularity the senior members of your inner circle are accused openly of stealing money. Do you maintain proper accounts for the collected offerings?

My Answer: It is an open loot.

Late President's answer: 

16.  Do you have peace and harmony in your extended family?

My Answer: No, each try to grab as much as possible.

Late President's answer: 

17.  Don’t you think the words of Christ are correct? “By their fruits you shall know them, My house shall be called a House of prayers, you have made it into a den of thieves.”

My Answer: They are but they don’t apply to us as we follow a different Bible

Late President's answer: 

18.  Why do some preachers pocket the offering and live without a care in the world, with permanent employment for life, no pension but faithful loyal workers.

My Answer: These preachers will never question what the president does and are rewarded so as to live without any care.

Late President's answer: 

19.  When you zip around the fancy Mercedes cars and Aero planes and appear in Satellite TV do you think of the ordinary evangelists for whom cycle is a luxury don’t you always pretend that you are a poor man and act “once upon a time I had an ordinary cycle, you will start sprucing, “once upon a time, I was cycling” (all would start laughing sheepishly)

My Answer: These preachers will never question what the president does and are rewarded so as to live without any care.

Late President's answer: 

20. Why have you stopped your preaching trips to Andhra Pradesh?

My Answer:  Because all people in Andhra also have become equally greedy and are giving you 100% of the offerings like their parents did.

Late President's answer: 

21.  What happened to the great preaching trips to Germany?

My Answer: German LEF booted you out and I wonder why?

Late President's answer: 

22.  Are not senior evangelists just dismissed without even an inquiry based on your statement unruly / ungodly etc.?

My Answer: You have the ultimate power to hire and fire

Late President's answer: 

23.  Are not 4 families crammed in one small room, with a very small bathroom, without even a single hook to hang clothes, without even a chair to sit, (beds would be available on hire) and you would shout, “Do you understand how much electricity is used for the fans”?

My Answer: Yes

Late President's answer: 

24.  At the same time, you will stay in an A/C room, your son and family will stay in a multi room A/C complex with furniture, linen and servants. Do you ever bother about the electricity for the Air Conditioners?

My Answer: You and your family is entitled to it as you are the owner of LEF

Late President's answer: 

25.  Indians have to sit on the ground / on chaits while the white skins can have an A/C/ hyall, while the Indians will have to sleep in the open / under trees/ in crammed rooms for the whites a separate nice room with a bed and facilities would be provided, why? This Apartheid.

My Answer: This is apartheid

Late President's answer: 

26.  Why are cars provided for your family members while everybody else has to walk or roll to the meeting?

My Answer: You and your family is entitled to it as you are the owner of LEF
Late President's answer: 

27.  While the poor Indians are given boiled rice during retreats (provided free by the LEF farmers from Andhra) prepared by with cooks who are paid nothing, the rich shop and eat idli, vada, pongal and Chicken Biryani which are sold at a premium price. Are you all conducting retreats or running restraunts?

My Answer: Soon open a KFC, a MacDonald’s, a Bar and a Marriage center, you can get more money. Go open your eyes and see, whether in any church retreat anywhere in the world such things happen.

Late President's answer: 

28.  All will have to pay for the water, for coconut juice, for watermelon juice, cakes, samosas, puffs, cool drinks, etc., etc. at high prices OK but where does the profits go? 

My Answer: Direct to the pockets of the First Family.

Late President's answer: 

29.  What happens to the considerable offerings taken, where the great president the humble great man of God announces “we are giving you an opportunity to participate in the work of God” what is this work of God and why use the offertory bag? 

My Answer: To make a rich family richer. Collect the money directly in your briefcase and purses.

Late President's answer: 

30.  Who are the members of the LEF trust? Who is the treasurer, why don’t you make their names public? (You don’t because all belong only to your family, no one knows the composition of the board, put this information on the website). As no foreign citizen is authorized to be either member / treasurer, your children lie in the VISA form and inform that they are coming to India on tourist purpose but come for business reason (to eat money). After this lie they preach, will God be pleased with a lie? NO. The Devils jump for joy.

My Answer: LEF is family owned business

Late President's answer: 

31.  Are not the LEF retreats falsely informed in the reports to the Government as Annual General Body Meetings, resolutions are passed (secretly), to help you in your looting business.

My Answer: LEF is family owned business

Late President's answer: 

32.  Neither you nor your family members especially your son doesn’t pay any Income Tax in India (you claim you have no income in India) then how come you have so many assets without Income?  Income Tax, The directorate of Revenue Intelligence will catch you both soon and lock you up for life, Be careful, you have been warned.

My Answer: Income Tax, The directorate of Revenue Intelligence will catch you both soon and lock you up for life, Be careful, you have been warned.

Late President's answer: 

33.  How did were the immovable properties in and other places transferred to your son? LEF belong to your family, if so openly announce it.

My Answer: LEF belong to your family and you are a coward to openly announce it.

Late President's answer:

34.  How did you try to sell an immovable property in donated to the LEF in Madras against trust rules in the pretext that nobody lives there?

My Answer: Because you wanted the money so that it becomes easier to spend.

Late President's answer:

35.  Are not the teachers, Nurses, Doctors, in the LEF Schools and dispensaries paid a small amount (Rs.2000 – 3000) a month and what happens to these girls eventually?

My Answer: The catch line is that such girls are ready cannon fodder for marriage to LEF evangelist trainees.

Late President's answer:

36.  Did not 20 brothers die when unpaid volunteers came to do slave labor in the Retreat Campus, (in some cases both son and father had died, leaving two families headless). Did it occur to your sadistic heart to at least give them 1000 Rupees?

My Answer: Instead of helping the victim you openly denied that they were coming to the retreat.

Mr. Joshua Daniel’s answer:

37.  Do you ever think what will ever happen to the LEF after your life gets over (like ELI who was old, fat, blind supporting his useless children and unspiritual like you)?

My Answer: Your family members will beg for bread

Late President's answer:

38.  Is not cash transported and stored illegally in the LEF, were not vehicles and the OB van used for such a purpose.

My Answer: Yes
Late President's answer:

39.  Are the buildings built as per approved plans, who owns them, your family isn’t it. How much is dividend paid per LEF?

My Answer: No dividends. LEF is family owned business

Late President's answer:

40.  Who pays for the foreign trips of the first family members, will you please show the passports.

My Answer: Of course, LEF pays for all this. LEF is a family owned business

Late President's answer:

41.  Don’t you always pretend “I have never taken a single penny?” yes you have only taken rupees.

My Answer: Your eyes are on crores. Why bother taking pennies

Late President's answer:

42.  Why do your family members safely settle while they ask for all to live dangerously for Jesus, why can’t your children work in the LEF schools at the same salary?

My Answer: Nobody questions what first family members as they are anointed of the lord.  

Late President's answer:

43.  Why always pretend, “Special revelations came to the Senior family members from God himself” and so the first family has an extra special revelations and a message to the continents and countries and to the churches, Why always say My father told me … and why the talk, “Angels came to our house.”

My Answer: First family has secure dedicated phone line to God and angels

Late President's answer:

44.  Are there any committees in LEF?

My Answer: Is there only one committee “God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit and You” (As per your own words)

Late President's answer:

Blogger’s note: There are no indications that Latepresident opened his eyes on this side of the Jordan before he died. He did not do anything to correct all the wrongs he had done to LEF and its people. The events that followed his death bear a witness to the fact that LEF people are now thrown from the pan in to the fire…