When last we heard from Pas­tor Akre he had missed a dead­line for the sup­ply of his promised photographs.

Here we pick up the tale with an apol­ogy and another mov­ing of the goal posts.

In the mean­time, a cou­ple of other scam­baiters run­ning scams with the same gen­tle­man have emailed me their tro­phies – mak­ing me more deter­mined than ever to get pho­tographs for my cal­en­dar – despite the fact that it is now November.

Pas­tor Akre

22 Octo­ber 2009 06:44

To: Bruce Johnson

Brother,

This let­ter to thank you say to you for the phys­i­cal sup­port that spir­i­tual that you to grant us while car­ry­ing out this col­lab­o­ra­tion who I think by the grace of the Eter­nal, will lead us very far!

This evening, I will not be very long, because very tired by these var­i­ous races, then I to sim­ply will say you that we are here on the right track, we are spirit to find an area of agree­ment to fin­ish the work which we must for­ward to you and right after recep­tion of the funds that we will take deliv­ery of, we will set­tle the debts here!

Thus, allow me to give you a new date of recep­tion which I think until before the end of this week will be nec­es­sary so that you obtain us to them var­i­ous photographs!

Then let us put all that in prayer and that God blesses our collaboration!

Pas­tor AKRE

To: Pas­tor Akre

Pas­tor Akre,
I look for­ward to receiv­ing these pho­tographs before the end of this week. Please do your best to do so so that we can bring this mat­ter to a fit­ting con­clu­sion and move on to greater things together.
I look for­ward to see­ing your work so that we can move to bring­ing you and yours to our cel­e­bra­tion ser­vice.
In Christ,
Bruce

2009/10/22 Pas­tor Akre

To: Pas­tor Akre

Pas­tor Akre,
Greet­ings in the Lord’s name.
Could you have the pho­tos to us by tomor­row please?
We have been very patient. But in order to have the cal­en­dar printed in time for our launch (to which you are invited) we will need to have the pho­tos by no later than tomor­row.
In Christ,
Bruce

Pas­tor Akre

27 Octo­ber 2009 06:33

To: Bruce Johnson

Good evening Bruce,

I come by this note to greet you in the Saint Name of the Pow­er­ful Whole dear brother, because you became a whole brother with share with us currently!

Also, it would be nec­es­sary to add and to rec­og­nize that the time required for the design and the send­ing of the pho­tographs which you asked was really a long test and there we rec­og­nize also your patience com­pared to all that!

Cause for which the lat­ter mes­sage that we for­ward to you is the con­fir­ma­tion and a last request to say to you that the pulling of the pho­tographs is entirely fin­ished this evening vis-a-vis all these prob­lems which we had so far, causes for which we ask you for a time still 72 Hours say until Thurs­day Octo­ber 28, 2009 Minuit to trans­fer you the pho­tographs because our tech­ni­cians must work there above because it is for the estab­lish­ment of calendar!

Then sin­cerely grant to us this last chance which is also for us to have the peace of the heart while hav­ing blessed your wishes but by allow­ing us the with­drawal of the three quar­ter of the finan­cial body floors of our min­istry which we used to arrive until this stage dear brother!

Receive dear brother the bless­ing of the Saint Spirit and that it fills you and keeps but at the same time takes along you to accept this final deadline!

Pas­tor AKRE

To: Pas­tor Akre

Pas­tor Akre,
I have received your mes­sage.
Please note that if you fail to meet this dead­line we will be forced to can­cel this trans­ac­tion.
In Christ,
Bruce

Pas­tor Akre

27 Octo­ber 2009 22:42

To: Bruce Johnson

Brother,

Still thank you for the inter­est and the atten­tion that you to carry to our structure!

As be into sour as we will not miss this dead­line which we have just given you and in the Saint Name of the Pow­er­ful Whole, you will receive, the pho­tographs with­out prob­lem at the date indicated!

Also, con­cern­ing the var­i­ous invoices to be estab­lished for our finan­cial equal­iza­tion with which do they have to be addressed? God blesses you brother!

Pas­tor AKRE

To: Pas­tor Akre

Please address the invoices to Bob Ben­nett (whose email address you have) with ref­er­ence to the:
Hill­song United Mis­sions Cal­en­dar Project.
These invoices will be paid promptly upon the receipt of the files.
Regards,
Bruce

Pas­tor Akre

29 Octo­ber 2009 23:16

To: bruce.mark.johnson@gmail.com

Dear broth­ers as a Christ, come here the day of glory!

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Brother,

I am really happy to for­ward to you these pho­tographs because it is the work of a whole life car­ried out and this min­istry is all my fam­ily and God even being the supreme Mas­ter of the armies and the my eter­nal knows it, then take care (pho­tographs) and real­ize together, the work of God!

But you will have to still receive other pho­tographs in our fol­low­ing emails!

Pas­tor AKRE

To: Pas­tor Akre

Pas­tor Akre,
Where are the signs we asked for?
They are clearly not hold­ing signs bear­ing the verses we asked for.
We can not make pay­ment for pho­tographs we can not use.
You have ignored all my instruc­tions.
I am very disappointed.

2009/10/29 Pas­tor Akre

To: Pas­tor Akre

Pas­tor Akre,
Can you let me know when we will be receiv­ing the pho­tos we agreed on.
That is pho­tos of indi­vid­ual peo­ple from your church hold­ing signs con­tain­ing the verses we agreed upon.
You can’t play dumb and tell me that you didn’t agree to do this — I sent you a word doc­u­ment with the verses we required.
With­out this there will be no pay­ment, and we will have to delay the launch of the cal­en­dar. You have put our project in peril.
I urge you to sup­ply the pho­tos we have agreed to as soon as pos­si­ble if you want to recover the costs you have out­layed in prepa­ra­tion for our part­ner­ship.
In Christ,
Bruce

2009/10/30 Bruce Johnson

Pas­tor Akre

1 Novem­ber 2009 21:34

To: Bruce Johnson

Bruce,

Thank you to give us a chance to be able to catch up with all funds which we invested in this project in the hope of us to leave with ben­e­fit allow­ing us to reha­bil­i­tate our struc­ture and to join you in Australia!

Cause for which, we ask you to give us until Fri­day Novem­ber 6, 2009 to put order in all that and to for­ward to you the pho­tographs with the var­i­ous bib­li­cal verses, but will know that the invoice that you received and it is by west­ern union that will have to be made the trans­ac­tion remains the same one!

God blesses you!

Richard AKRE

To: Pas­tor Akre

Pas­tor Akre,
Is there any chance you might get these to me sooner than the 6th?
As has always been our stated pol­icy, we will only pay for the pho­tographs when we receive them.
Please do not mess us around Pas­tor Akre, we must release this cal­en­dar by the end of the month.

2009/11/1 Pas­tor Akre

Pas­tor Akre

2 Novem­ber 2009 23:13

To: Bruce Johnson

Brother,

We have just received in the fine shape your message!

Then we are with the cur­rent of the width that will be able to take if the part­ner­ship stops there or even if you do not receive the pho­tographs at wanted times, causes for which even these pho­tographs that we for­warded to you was on the whole about thirty, but we are obliged to stop and take again the old system!

Thus you will receive at the date indi­cated the pho­tographs with the verses quite as built-in, then is pleas­ant and soft with us because it is still of other expenses engaged in record time so that all that is trans­mit­ted to you within a rea­son­able delay!

God pro­tects you!

Pas­tor AKRE

To: Pas­tor Akre

Akre,
I look for­ward to receiv­ing the pho­tos today.
In Christ,
Bruce

2009/11/2 Pas­tor Akre

To: Pas­tor Akre

Dear Pas­tor Akre, 

Where are the photos?

We can not keep the cal­en­dar from the print­ers for much longer. Please send them today or we will have to can­cel this transaction.

Bruce

2009/11/6 Bruce Johnson

To: Pas­tor Akre

Dear Pas­tor Akre,
Unless I receive the pho­tos in the next 48 hours this deal is off.
It would sad­den me to can­cel our trans­ac­tion when you have incurred real costs. Please let me know where we’re up to in our trans­ac­tion.
We are des­per­ately close to hav­ing to launch the cal­en­dar and I have started con­ver­sa­tions with some other con­tacts in Africa to replace you.
We have had to push the date of our launch back and will pro­vide details for your flight book­ings once we receive the photos.

2009/11/7 Bruce Johnson

To: Pas­tor Akre

Pas­tor Akre,
My dear brother. Where are the pho­tos?
We are very wor­ried now — we have not heard from you for some time.

To: Pas­tor Akre

Brother Akre,
We are in des­per­ate need of these pho­tographs. Can you please give us a revised esti­mate for their delivery?

2009/11/10 Bruce Johnson

Pas­tor Akre

11 Novem­ber 2009 22:59

To: Bruce Johnson

Bruce brother,

Me in the same way Pas­tor AKRE, I am in the embar­rass­ment con­cern­ing the deliv­ery of the pho­tographs to the time given!

I explain you that, because it is con­cern­ing my parish­ioners who work with me which has for a cause of non­pay­ment of the third of their ini­tial pay­ment that some between them vol­un­tar­ily took the load of blocked the process as long as they did not receive their not had.

How­ever as you know it well all my per­sonal invest­ment and two thirds of my min­istry entered this project which we have estab­lish together!

Then by the grace of God and his work which we are spirit to estab­lish, please help us or to finan­cially help me for their pay (my employ­ees) which will be deduce from the ini­tial amount of the $ 8.300 Dol­lars that should pay you for the photographs.

I ask you that because this morn­ing even, we held still together a meet­ing and it is the con­di­tion which they are spirit to ask me so that you can receive as of pay­ment of $ 2.450 Dol­lars which rep­re­sents the amount of their pay all the pho­tographs estab­lished for you! Thus by the grace of God the pow­er­ful whole, prayer to take the load per­son­ally to spend this sum which will be with­drawn the ris­ing ini­tial one as of recep­tion of this let­ter per west­ern union at my fol­low­ing address:

AKRE RICHARD ALEX

10 BP 1085 Abid­jan 10

City: Abid­jan

Coun­try: Ivory Coast,

Amount : $ 2.450 Dollars

Impa­tiently and very quickly, I await your pos­i­tive response to for­ward to you all these pho­tographs to hon­our our engage­ments to both with respect to God and the cer­e­mony which will be held in Syd­ney (Australia).

God fills you his grace!

Pas­tor AKRE

00225 44604123

NB: Unite to me on the tele­phone as soon as you made the west­ern union so that I can put them in con­fi­dence at the sight of the trans­ac­tion and to send the pho­tographs by their inter­me­di­ary to you!

To: Pas­tor Akre

Dear Pas­tor Akre,
I think I have been rea­son­ably clear on this mat­ter right from the begin­ning regard­ing both our dead­lines and require­ments.
You have failed to meet all cri­te­ria laid out for this trans­ac­tion.
Our pol­icy on this mat­ter is clear — we will not make pay­ment with­out receiv­ing the com­pleted work.
Please, I must insist, send me the pho­tographs I have asked for with­out delay with the signs bear­ing the verses included in the Word Doc­u­ment for­warded to you some weeks ago.
This is not a com­plex request. All you need to do is find a few peo­ple, give them the signs, and take the pho­tos. I don’t know why you need to hire appa­ra­tus. Any cam­era will do.
Our graphic design team will ensure the pho­tographs are repro­duced in a usable qual­ity.
I must insist that we be sent the pho­tos in the next 24 hours. Along with an up to date invoice bear­ing your costs.
If this does not occur we will not be able to bring you to Aus­tralia for the launch. We will still make pay­ment for the pho­tos when they are received, but if you miss our dead­line we will not be able to use your pho­tos until next year’s edi­tion of the cal­en­dar. This may delay pay­ment also until the new finan­cial year.
Please send me these pho­tographs promptly my brother.
Bruce

2009/11/11 Pas­tor Akre

To: Pas­tor Akre

Pas­tor Akre,
If I do not receive the pho­tos by  tomor­row we will be forced to leave you out of this year’s cal­en­dar. We have extended our dead­lines too far already and now urgently need to com­plete this work.
If you want our part­ner­ship to con­tinue past this trans­ac­tion — as a church we are con­sid­er­ing sup­port­ing you as mis­sion part­ners — then please meet our requests on this one.
Your response so far has been quite dis­ap­point­ing and makes us won­der if you are seri­ous about devel­op­ing a broth­erly rela­tion­ship with our fel­low­ship.
In Christ,
Bruce

2009/11/12 Bruce Johnson

To: Pas­tor Akre

Pas­tor Akre,
I have man­aged to pull some strings and organ­ised an exten­sion for you until Mon­day.
I have had to pay our print­ing com­pany a 10% sur­charge — I expect you to reduce your invoice by this amount in order to com­pen­sate us for your inabil­ity to pro­duce the pho­tographs in time.
In Christ,
Bruce

2009/11/13 Bruce Johnson

Pas­tor Akre

16 Novem­ber 2009 23:19

To: Bruce Johnson

Bruce,

I have just found a means of mak­ing come the pho­tographs be-with-to say to be able to pay the fees of my work­ers so that they give me the pho­tographs and to for­ward them to you.

This means it is the fol­low­ing, an eco­nomic oper­a­tor has just given me the guar­an­tee to pay the expenses, be-with-to say the fees of my work­ers Thurs­day, there I could in all impa­tial­ity for­ward to you the pho­tographs as soon as that is done.

Then I can have this final deadline?

Pas­tor AKRE

To: Pas­tor Akre

If you promise to get me the pho­tos by Thurs­day you will have your pay­ment in full, for all costs as invoiced, by Fri­day.
Please keep me up to date with delays.
If you can get just one photo to me today, with one of the Bible Verses, our designer can start work­ing on the cover. If we have a cover organ­ised we can go ahead with a launch in early Decem­ber that we would be happy to invite you to attend.
We will be able to hold the launch and take orders for the cal­en­dar there. Even if we don’t have it fully printed until late Decem­ber.
Please let me know if you are able to send through a sin­gle image ahead of the rest.
Bruce

2009/11/16 Pas­tor Akre

To: Pas­tor Akre

Akre,
You promised me the pho­tos by Thurs­day. You have missed another dead­line. Please explain and pro­vide the pho­tographs immediately.

2009/11/17 Bruce Johnson

To: Pas­tor Akre

Pas­tor Akre,
I am sorry to inform you that unless cir­cum­stances change in the next 24 hours and we receive the pho­tographs we will be walk­ing away from this trans­ac­tion and can­cel­ing any plans for part­ner­ship with your church.
You have so far proved to be most unre­li­able — unable to meet con­di­tions imposed by your­self, or instruc­tions given by us.
It is our deci­sion, as a parish coun­cil, to find alter­na­tive (more reli­able) means of secur­ing our pho­tographs.
We apol­o­gise for the costs you have incurred while try­ing to ful­fill our require­ments — but feel that much of your expen­di­ture has proved largely unnec­es­sary.
This is an exam­ple of poor stew­ard­ship of the resources God has given you — and we hope you’ll learn from this when engag­ing in future trans­ac­tions.
We wish you, and your church, all the best in your future min­istries. We are sad­dened that we could not con­tinue to pur­sue this arrange­ment to its con­clu­sion.
If you have man­aged to source the pho­tos — or even one photo — as requested — please send it to us. If you do we will grant you an exten­sion by which to sup­ply all 10 agreed pho­tographs.
We will make full pay­ment upon receipt of the ten pho­tographs.
We are very dis­ap­pointed that our trust in you has clearly been mis­placed. The delay in releas­ing our cal­en­dar is cost­ing us money — money that would have been used to off­set your costs in pro­duc­tion, and to bring you to Aus­tralia for our launch ser­vice.
In Christ,
Bruce 

2009/11/21 Bruce Johnson

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