Obscure Sect to Take Over Glorieta

Jerome · Jul 18, 2012

With the New Mexico state convention unable to assume responsibility for Glorieta, SBC bureaucrats eager to sell off the denomination's huge western campground have seized on an offer from a school in San Francisco associated with controversial Korean religious leader/internet entrepreneur David Jang:

Sacramento Bee

Olivet founder Jang has faced scrutiny in the past for his work in Asia. He has been accused of having ties to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, and his followers in Korea and China were investigated after reports that they taught that Jang was the second coming of Jesus.
The Rev. Geoff Tunnicliffe, general secretary of the World Evangelical Association, which shares several offices with Olivet, said Jang was cleared of any theological wrongdoing
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The denomination has about 100 churches overseas but only a handful in the United States, some of which have only two or three members
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The school recruits its students from new converts in China and Korea and only accepts undergraduates with ties to its denomination. Many Olivet students go on to work at for-profit Internet companies run by the school's alumni
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The school's financial reporting also has raised questions about how it works. Its 2007 tax return shows $1.41 million in revenue for operating the school and about $900,000 in net assets. But a report from the same year filed with the Association for Bible Higher Education, which accredits the school, showed $9.7 million in revenue and $3.37 million in assets.
Olivet spokeswoman Kristin Cole said the reports to the accreditation group include overseas locations with no official ties to the school.
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