Guadalajara Reporter

Disagreement over a change in the wording of the mission statement of the Love in Action Children’s Center (LiA) in Chapala has prompted six of its primary supporters to withdraw from the project.

The rift began when the current board of directors decided to put the words “Christ centered” back in the mission statement.

These words had been part of the statement for several years but were removed for a year on the advice of LiA Advisory Council members, who felt they might offend some supporters and diminish financial aid.  Instead, the words “Christian ethics” were employed in the values statement, but not as the primary mission.

Several meetings were held to try and resolve the differences and another was planned when Kari Romey, a relative newcomer to Lakeside and a missionary from Indiana, placed a request for prayer on the Deeper Water Ministries website. The prayer called for their followers to pray that the current LiA board of directors would win “the spiritual battle,” adding that “we refuse to allow the enemy to steal, kill or destroy what God has orchestrated.”

The posting prompted members of the Advisory Council, who now perceived themselves as the “enemy,” to break with the Chapala organization.

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