City Life Church Melbourne refuse to stop their leaders profiting from abortion
Are SteriHealth Board Members Christians?
Almost a year ago, in February 2011, it was discovered Christian leaders from various church ministries in Melbourne were making money out of a clinical waste company called SteriHealth. No real problem here, well, not until it was also discovered that the company was actually involved in collecting aborted babies from many of the hospitals throughout Victoria, even private abortion clinics. Moreover, that SteriHealth was actually discarding these little broken and shredded bodies (along with other hospital waste) into the company’s own incinerator and then disposing the ashes into landfill.
When SteriHealth board members (all Christian leaders from a variety of church organisations) were confronted with evidence of this, their initial reaction was in effect, “Yes, but only one or two aborted babies have been picked up”. They insisted this occurred inadvertently. As a result of a acquiring a business and not being aware of their customers (eg a woman’s health centre which turned out to perform abortions).
Even the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) heavies came to the board members’ defence, such as Managing Director Jim Wallace, and Victorian Director Rob Ward and Chief of Staff Lyle Shelton. It should be pointed out that Rob Ward worked for SteriHealth previously and that SteriHealth regularly placed full page company advertisements in ACL’s View Point magazine .
Along with ACL, City Life Church leaders (Mark Conner and Peter Leigh), Crossway Baptist church leaders (Dale Stephenson and Craig Winkler – who is the second largest shareowner in SteriHealth) and David McCracken Ministries (David McCracken) also backed SteriHealth. In fact they went as far as not merely responding to phone calls and emails, to marginalising and even berating those who brought the news into the open. Claiming their comments were “outrageous”, “aggressive”, “distorted”, “slanderous”, “divisive”, “cowardly”, etc.
But more of the truth came out six months later (July 2011) when Freedom of Information responses revealed that SteriHealth was indeed picking up aborted babies from many of the Victorian public hospitals. It is not known whether they are also servicing private abortion clinics, as FOI requests only extend to the public sector (eg Government funded and managed hospitals).
So what is happening now? Since then SteriHealth managers and church officials have laid low and done little to nothing to change the situation. At present SteriHealth is still picking up aborted babies. And they are still incinerating these babies. It is certainly a case of ‘money talks’ and business as usual. But this was to be expected especially when quite a number of the shareholders of the company are church attendees and leaders, such as Craig Winkler (Chaiman of Crossway Baptist) who is the 2nd largest SteriHealth shareholder.
While we scratch our heads and wonder how these Christian men can get it so wrong, the question remains, “Are these men truly Christians?” That is, are they true disciples of Christ? Or are they simply, as Jesus said to the religious leaders of His day, “white-washed tombs, appearing to beautiful on the outside, but within are full of dead men’s bones, and all uncleanness … [who] want to appear to others as righteous but on the inside full of hypocrisy and wickedness.” (Matthew 23:23-27).
Whatever one may think, God will bring everything into the light; if not on this side of the grave, at least on the other side.
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So who are these board members / church leaders? And what type of Christian ministries are they linked to? And who are some of the other people involved that are either profiting directly or indirectly from SteriHealth? (Bear in mind, most of the men below own large shares in the company. For example, Dan Daniels owns nearly 50% and Craig Winkler 10% of SteriHealth shares.)
Lorenzo Coppa
Chairman of SteriHealth and former (2011) Board Member of David McCracken Ministries
Dan Daniels
CEO of SteriHealth and Board of Elders City Life Church
Markus Koch
Executive Director of SteriHealth and former (2011) Board Member of City Life Church
John Sikkema
Independent Non-Executive Director of SteriHealth and Managing Director 2Significance
Mark ConnerSenior Pastor City Life Church Melbourne
Peter LeighExecutive Pastor City Life Church Melbourne
Senior Pastor Crossway Baptist Melbourne
Craig WinklerFormer (2011) Chairman Crossway Baptist Melbourne
David McCrackenDavid McCracken Ministries
Atrocious stuff. What are the true Christians nearby doing this? I live in Qld but will pass this on to everyone i know.Gee I wonder what the sterihealth staffers think about their christian bosses doing this? pretty sleezy.
Wow I knew some of these big churches were pretty lame but not outright evil. These BMguys are apostate and big time. & y’re right J P some witness!!!!!! What are the dudes who go to the same churches & own families. heard of this site thru friend.
Personally speaking I cant think they’d be Christians. Burning babies is not wot any Christian would do and making money too. Like all of us these BM will face God one day.
Hippocrits! This is why people dont go to church. Like Sophie said they will get theres one day when they meet there Maker with a capital M. Don’t know how they thought they wouldn’t get sprung.
They preach about eternal life, but help killing life at the same time
Three words to describe this shocking situation, SHOCKING ! SHOCKING! SHOCKING!
All this is bound to be happening given the church is so corrupted and polluted. God will purge His bride one day, and make it spotless in the mean time these people think they are getting away with it but aren’t really. Every thought word and deed has to accounted for, mmmmm I guess incinerating aborted babies will be hard to explainaway.
Not Christians because it is Evil what the leaders are doing. God gives people over to their sin. They might without even knowing end up throwing their own grand children in the incinerator which thy own. Someone on the blog wrote what would their staff think of these men but I say what would their wives and children think of them? I could not live with myself if I was them. It is hard to know why they are doing this because they don’t have to, because no one has to be part of this unless they really want to. It must be all to do with the money they are making.
Can see ACL being tied in with this mob in some way because they were partially responsible for gays being given more and more rights. Gay lobbyists want marriage, so now ACL scream “no no too far!”. Sorry to say it went too far when gays wanted their relationships to be treated as mainstream society and given the same privileges as married heterosexual couples, all of which ACL accommodated.
How corrupt has the church got with this happening is beyond anyone’s comprehension. Picking up aborted babies and incinerating them is so deplorable so screwed up. The churches should be shut down and exposed to everyone.
These leaders like fleecing their sheep of 1,000s of $$$$. Dealing in aborted babies is a nice little sideline for them. Could figure David McCracken is connected to this as he claims to be a profit but he’s a crack pot and a charlatan. Here’s an example of the stuff he does in the name of God to make money along with Dan Daniels, Asley Evans of Paradise Church SA and Mark Conner http://www.davidmccracken.org/assets/downloads/DMM_PartnershipBrochure_w.pdf
I would like to thnk these sterihealth people are ignorant. But it they know. Managers have to know and they’d be dumb if they didn’t. Thanks for informing us about this.
I’m not sure where you’re getting your info, but it’s more than an interesting read. down right disturbing all of this.Hopefully it wakes people up to these City Life pastors and leaders and others involved.
I agree with the bloggers like Jazz who say this is shocking business and for money.
absouletly shocking how this can go on! What are the salt shakers and others doing abiout it in Victoria? How is it that City Life and Crossway Baptist congregation arent getting off their backsides and start yelling and getting rid of these so called leaders. David McCracken is not a “prophet”. He is a charlatan! A scammer! Taking money from the gullible and fleecing the flock in the name of God. SHAME SHAME on him and the other men, like Dale Stphenson, Lorenzo Coppa, Dan Daniels, etc, and also the women involved. The poor little aborted babies are made in God’s image and you do this to them! I would not like to be you on the day of God’s judgement. You wicked wicked people.
What the heck are these men in leadership still?Dealing with bruised and crushed little infants is an abomination to a Holy God. They are monsters not Christian men and they don’t represent the church people.
like some of the people have already said on this blog these people who can do this with these babies are not christians but demonic. we are surely in the end times.
I hope this isn’t written to slander these people as if it’s not true then their names have been dragged through mud BUT if it is true then I hope they will stop and do a 180 deg turn about
Jacinta, the truth is out. Dan Daniels, Lorenzo Coppa and others have admitted SteriHealth, has, and still is, picking up aborted babies from Victorian hospitals. (Bear in mind, they only did this after they knew FOI responses revealed that SteriHealth was the contractor collecting aborted babies from hospitals.)
It is an indictment on those individuals and organisations who profess to be Christians and have known about this, eg Australian Christian Lobby, City Church Melbourne, David McCracken Ministries, Salt Shakers, Catch the Fire Ministries, Crossway Baptist Church Melbourne, and so on — and have chosen to deflect criticism toward SteriHealth church leaders/board members. In many instances, supporting their “business” behaviour. By doing this they have failed to be faithful to not only our weak and vulnerable neighbours: the unborn; but they have failed to be faithful to Jesus Christ.
The situation is still going on, SteriHealth has contracts with many Victorian hospitals to collect their aborted babies. This is a fact. They said they were going to stop when it was discovered what they were doing back in January 2011. But they have not. Will they?
More importantly, will they repent to a Holy Sovereign God for being involved with the abortion industry, by collecting the discarded and broken bodies of these little children, throwing them into their SteriHealth incinerator, and discarding their ashes into landfill – as if they were garbage … And even, yes, even, after knowing — and knowing that others have known, what they have been doing?