241: Leaked Messages Reveal VBM Scrambling to Control Investigation of Allegations

Preacher Boys Podcast

Eric Skwarczynski

Documentary, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime, Christianity

4.6 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This episode would not have been possible without the efforts of Dear Vision Baptist and their work documenting the allegations surrounding Vision Baptist Missions. For more info, visit DearVisionBaptist.com.

In this episode of the Preacher Boys Podcast, host Eric Skwarczynski provides an update on the sexual abuse allegations against Austin Gardner, founder of Vision Baptist Missions (VBM).

To watch the original episode, visit: https://youtu.be/2-3JaMqPYjk

He discusses a compilation of Marco Polo videos sent amongst VBM leaders, in which VBM President Jeff Bush expresses concern about the scope of the investigation.

The videos also reveal the dismissive tone of VBM leaders, including Pastor Trent Cornwell, towards the abuse allegations directed towards Gardner.

The videos raise serious questions about the leadership of VBM.

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0:00.0	Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised.
0:09.2	You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement.
0:20.3	The testimonies shared on this podcast are told
0:22.8	from the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. Not all legal outcomes are known or final.
0:29.7	Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. Now, here's your host,
0:36.5	Eric Squarsinski. Welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. I'm your
0:41.1	host, Eric Skorsensky, and I'm bringing a disturbing update to a previous story. On September 22nd,
0:46.9	2021, I released an interview with Becky Earnhardt, who made allegations of sexual abuse against
0:52.6	Austin Gardner, the founder of Vision Baptist
0:55.3	missions in Alpharetta, Georgia.
0:57.2	If I have my numbers correctly, I believe that Vision Baptist Mission was presented with 24
1:04.0	letters, I believe, from missionaries, stating abuse of some type.
1:11.6	And then within the survivors of Austin Gardner website,
1:16.7	I believe there were at least 12 different submissions of specific situations
1:22.5	or validating things that I said happened. They were able to validate that what I said was true.
1:32.2	They had firsthand knowledge or had seen some of the evidences of the things that I spoke about.
1:41.3	And now you have to remember, his family has had a presence in Peru for a long time.
1:49.6	And so what a lot of people in America don't understand is that while we are working on the
1:55.2	American side, we're also working on the Peruvian side. And so we have, there are a couple of lawyers that are already
2:02.1	working on that side handling things that are coming in from that side. Much has transpired
2:07.4	since that video is released. And of course, you can check out that video over on the Preacher
2:10.9	Boys podcast and the Preacher Boys YouTube channel. But there's been an internal investigation.
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