They started normalizing Jamin Wight while he was incarcerated at North Idaho Correctional Institution for his crimes. They did not update the church regarding his victim’s condition. This email is dated roughly two months after his conviction on May 17, 2006:
From: Trinity Reformed Church
Date: Jul 27, 2006 at 7:20 AM
Subject: Jamin Update
To: TRCJamin Update
Jamin says that he is physically well and very happy, growing more content each day. He says, “It didn’t take me very long to see that God has a definite purpose in my being here. The harvest is ready and the laborers are few.”Jamin says it’s a beautiful location. They occasionally play softball on Saturdays among other opportunities for recreation. There is plenty of time for reading, but the selection is limited. Books may be sent, but they must be approved and then sent directly from the publisher wrapped in plastic. They all get up at 5:00 every morning and get to bed by 9:00 or 10:00 each night. He says the food is okay, but they use a lot of soy filler which bothers his stomach. However, he was told he will adjust to it, but he has his doubts.
Jamin is thankful for all of the people who are concerned for him as well as praying for him and writing to him. He misses being with his family and friends, but in terms of ministry, he says, “I truly feel like I am at home. I truly feel like I belong here.”
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Lindsey Leithart
Trinity Reformed Church Secretary
PO Box 9029
Moscow, Idaho 83843
TrinityReformedChurch@gmail.com
What in the world was wrong with these people? The ministerial leadership is totally absent, and the officers were clearly a collection of ignorant gits. These fellows give new meaning to the word gullible. They certainly had no awareness of what was actually going on and yet they were no doubt counseling congregants (thank you Mike Lawyer for persuading your “students” to think they know what they are doing.) Do you understand now that Jamin played you all like a fiddle? Every church officer and certainly Toby Sumpter not to mention the TR members who fawned over Jamin should be on their knees begging for forgiveness from the Lord and certainly from Natalie. Inept doesn’t begin to describe your nitwittery.
Rose Huskey
Jamin was right about belonging in prison, he should still be there.
This is just plain horrifying:<> If they believed this just two months after his conviction, then it’s no wonder they sent him on a missions trip after he got out of jail. Jail was his internship. This is twisted beyond belief. Seriously, I’m reading this and I cannot process it. But the e-mail puts it out there as matter of factly as a potluck dinner announcement.
The implication (or declaration) is that, on the surface, it looked like he went to jail for child rape. But that was just a providential circumstance which allowed him to fulfill his true calling, ministering to lost prisoners. Is there something in Moscow’s water supply? Like LSD?
Who was writing and praying for Natalie?
Exactly!
While thing is awful.
Posts like these are why I love this website so much. So very, very much.
Roger that. Thank you!
Actually, this makes perfect sense, in a twisted way. Perfect forgiveness is available through Christ. Anyone who asks, is forgiven.
But…
1) How do you tell if the person asking for forgiveness is telling the truth?
2) How do you tell if the person has a drive that they cannot resist?
3) How do you tell if the person knows what right and wrong are?
I could go on, but really, you can’t. Jamin says he asked God for forgiveness, so therefore Jamin was forgiven. That’s the only way you can think of it, and when something goes wrong, you aren’t at fault because you acted in good faith.
And when we question them, we do so because Satan has entered our hearts, and we are trying to damage the cause of Christianity…
Doug preaches something called “The Objectivity of the Covanent.” This basically means that if someone says they are a Christian you have to believe them since you can’t see into their heart. The rest follows from there.
These so-called leaders who bluster about being “biblical” are quick to overlook vital portions of scripture here. The Apostle Paul clearly stated that anyone accepted into ministry must have a good reputation. Jamin committed his heinous CRIMES while claiming to be Christian and studying at a Bible school. Therefore, the Bible says he is disqualified from teaching and church ministry. It boggles the mind that Christ Church would simply brush that off.
Also, notice Jamin’s statement. No “I deserve to be in prison.” No “I feel terrible for what I’ve done.” No “I’ve betrayed trust.” No “I hope Natalie and my mentors will forgive me.” It’s “The soy hurts my stomach” and “God still has a purpose for me.” No remorse or concern for his victims or reputation. No repentance. No conscience.
I feel sorry for the lay people at CC who have been taken in by Jamin. I feel not sorry at all for the leadership, who know better.
Well spoke!
Jamin was always a narcissist, I just hadn’t been taught the warning signs back when I knew him
Peter Leithart apologized for being fooled by Jamin Wight. This e-mail demonstrates the depth of the deception Leithart and his church embraced at the time. Wight must have convinced them that he was the victim: a man of God in the making trapped by a 13 year old girl and her parents. For this lie to work, of course, you had to believe that a 13 year old could victimize a 23 year old, otherwise innocent man. When you accept the Wilsonian doctrine that beautiful girls should hide under a burkha to avoid sinning against virile, otherwise pure men, then it’s easy to accept the Jamin Wight lie.
Aren’t you being deceptive about Wilsonian doctrine in your last sentence?
You’re right. He doesn’t require burkas.