Open information requests
What we need.
Every claim on this site needs a source it can stand on. The requests below are the specific documents, recordings, and first-hand accounts that would move claims from “reported by verified ex-members” to documented public record. If you are inside or recently out and recognise something on this list, you can help piece the record together.
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Photographs of printed ministry pages should include the volume title page or spine where possible, so the citation is complete.
The open requests.
- 01
Document
Vision Foundation / Vision Growth seminar materials
Slides, handouts, pledge forms, or recordings from the fundraising seminars (reported under the name Vision Foundation around 2020, later Vision Growth / Vision Accelerator). These would document how the investment programme was presented to members and what was promised.
Feeds: FACTS.md §8 Vision programme
- 02
Document
The ministry passage calling radio the "pipeline of filth"
The phrase is reported by verified ex-members as appearing in printed ministry. We need volume, page, and exact wording, whether in Bruce D. Hales ministry or earlier Taylor-era ministry.
Feeds: FACTS.md §8 technology rules
- 03
Document
The marriage approval checklist
Verified ex-members describe a roughly 20-item compliance checklist (preaching attendance, prescribed reading, budget signed by local priests, compliant housing) reviewed regionally and approved from Sydney, plus a liability waiver signed for weddings. A copy of the form or waiver, from any locality and any year, would be the first public documentation anywhere.
Feeds: FACTS.md §8 marriage approval
- 04
Document
The ministry passage on car brands
Verified ex-members report that the printed Bruce D. Hales ministry (the white books) names BMW, Mercedes, Maserati, and sports cars as prohibited. We need the specific volume, page, and wording. A photograph or scan of the passage settles it as a primary source.
Feeds: FACTS.md §8 car rules
- 05
Document
The UBT voluntary disclosure to the ATO
Later reporting says UBT made a voluntary disclosure and paid several million dollars to the ATO over FBT and salary-splitting for FY2021-24. Any document or first-hand account of that settlement would move it from activist-sourced to documented.
Feeds: FACTS.md §7 ATO raid row
- 06
Document
What the printed ministry costs members
Members are required to purchase the printed ministry at their own cost. A current price list, order form, invoice, or subscription notice documents both the cost and the requirement.
Feeds: FACTS.md §8 ministry purchase
- 07
Public-record lookup
Meeting-room deed transfers to PBCC Properties
Title records, trust deeds, or correspondence showing a locality's hall transferring from a local trust to PBCC Properties Global Ltd or an affiliated trust (known internally as GAP). One UK charity filing shows a transfer for nil consideration; we are establishing the pattern across localities and countries.
Feeds: FACTS.md §8 meeting-room ownership
- 08
Recording
The housing radius directive
Any written or recorded instruction that members must live within a set distance of their meeting room, and any account of a household told to sell and move to comply. Verified ex-members report the policy; a document or recording would establish it.
Feeds: FACTS.md §8 radius rule
- 09
Document
Campus & Co closure communications
The UBT or Campus & Co announcement to members that physical stores were closing, in any form: email, letter, or meeting recording. The closure is currently sourced only to activist archives.
Feeds: FACTS.md §8 UBT / Campus & Co
- 10
First-hand account
How collections are taken at the Lord's Supper
First-hand accounts (which can remain anonymous after editor verification) of the weekly cash collection practice at the Sunday Lord's Supper service: how it is collected, recorded, and where it goes next.
Feeds: FACTS.md §8 collections
How material is handled.
Documents and recordings are archived off-repo, verified, and cited on the site only once they meet the sourcing bar published in the open editorial rulebook. Contributors choose whether they are named, anonymous with editor verification, or entirely off-record. Material is removable on request.