fter the tour, my sister, April, became homeless and came to Oregon with her young daughter to regroup. Because the Blodgetts were in the guest cabin and we had absolutely no room left, I moved her into the warehouse we had rented. Susan and I were likeminded in this - when family asks for help, you step up. This building didn't have a shower at all, so she and her daughter used the bathroom sink and a basin to wash themselves. This was the best we could do for her at the time. Thus, Sharon's constant whining was ridiculous considering the relative luxury she was living in.

April was not committed to the Lord, but was fiercely loyal to me as her older brother. The Blodgetts both immediately started in criticizing my sister. We moved the teaching tape dubbing over to the warehouse and she took over that process. In return, we provided her with enough money to live. As we paid for the building and all the utilities, she got by.

We had a difficult time not laughing out loud when Sharon publicly announced one day that April was so lazy that she "needed to get a second job." Sharon told Susan she knew plenty of single moms with two jobs. Susan told her she has a job right here. Chris was equally disrespectful of April, but the Blodgetts kept it away from me as they seemed to be attempting to drive a wedge between Susan and April. I eventually learned this 'divide and conquer' tactic is standard fare for the Blodgetts.

Susan recognized it long before I did, and immediately told me that Chris and Sharon were regularly criticizing April. At every opportunity, they tried to undermine her position because she "wasn't walking with the Lord."

April took over all the bulk mailing duties. Because we broadcast daily on the radio, many people think of Christian Media as a radio ministry. The truth is, we do quite a bit more in print than on the air. A typical issue of Christian Media has a print run of about 25,000 pieces. These are all stuffed in envelopes with a return Christian Media envelope to expedite orders.

Having previously worked at a Southern California newspaper, April took over the stuffing crew which usually needed about 10 people working intensely for 5 days to stuff the entire issue. These are not volunteers as we don't have a viable church body standing behind this ministry. The one exception I can remember was when Craig Portwood first came up to our premises, he worked on a stuffing crew and refused to be paid. Everyone else was paid. Before April headed the crew, Susan usually stuffed with the crew to help set the pace. Neither Chris nor Sharon ever worked one hour on a single print stuffing crew.

April also took over the manufacture of our colloidal silver generators, in addition to running all the tape duplication for the many tapes that we distribute. This was a serious workload and helped Susan to focus more on cutting down the order backlog.

Although the Blodgetts continue to deny everything, I now have written testimony stating that approximately a year ago, during the period immediately preceding an exhibition in Sacramento, Sharon specifically spoke on the telephone to Christian Media contacts and stated that "James is defensive and protective of his sister. James pays her wages for doing nothing all day." (1)

fter the 2000 Blodgett tour, Ralph and Kathy Haaff, and other contacts made during Chris' tour (along with numerous other Christian Media listeners from around the country), got closer to Chris because of his radio show and called in on a regular basis. Chris (and Sharon) began to "confide" in Ralph that there was "sin in the camp" at Christian Media. At first, this took the form of innuendo of a very nebulous nature. We now have information indicating this "confiding" occurred with contacts in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Texas, and Missouri. This pattern also occurred through letter writing with other active listeners and supporters of the ministry. Many of these people would regularly speak with Chris via telephone in the studio when he was off the air.

Chris was the board operator during the day shift when many of the Christian Media Network programs were broadcast live. As many radio hosts call in on the telephone to do their shows, Chris began telephone relationships with several of the network hosts including Steve Quayle, Bill Brumbaugh, Kirke Wise, and Francis Steffan.

Apparently, by characterizing these frequent conversations as "confiding" something to a "brother" so they could pray that God would help the "problems" with James and Susan, the whispering was not easily perceived to be the gossip it plainly was. These conversations took many forms, but they were all apparently calculated to place Christian Media and myself in a negative light. As previously stated, we now know that Chris told several individuals that he wasn't being paid by the network. This was a bald faced lie. Indeed, during several fund-raising oriented broadcasts on his program, Chris repeatedly tried to convey that he needed money for his vehicle - again subtly giving the impression that he was not being paid by the network.

Eventually, the innuendo was replaced with direct accusations and lies. Several people, including the Haaffs and Francis Steffan and his wife Elizabeth were told that Chris and Sharon spent "thousands of dollars" to build a bathroom in our guest cabin, and then we threw them out! Later, the story evolved and Chris supposedly built the room addition himself. The simple truth is, I have the receipts to show that I paid for every penny of the bathroom addition. It was built by carpenter friends of mine. Again, the only reason we had it built in the first place was because of Sharon's complaints.

On another occasion, a listener was told that "Sharon cuts all the silver rods for the colloidal silver generators and bundles them herself. Her fingers bleed." (2) As previously stated, even though this is a process that has to be done periodically, Sharon tried to cut rods on one occasion, and Chris ended up doing the work for her. No-one's hands "bleed" from using clippers on the thin silver that is used for colloidal silver!

Almost a year ago, Sharon specifically told the Haaffs, "Susan doesn't help with any of the work load for Christian Media Network." (3) Sharon further stated that she and Chris "do all the work up there and don't get paid wages at all." (4) The timing of these lies is significant, because the Blodgetts have repeatedly and categorically stated that the entire conflict they had with Christian Media was triggered by the introduction of Craig Portwood. Yet Craig only came to work for Christian Media in October, 2000 - at least 6 months after the accusations and slander actually began.

During this same time period, Chris specifically accused Susan of stealing money that was sent to him. Ralph Haaff testifies that "Chris says he has found letters addressed to himself months old having been opened and in the letters people say they have included money or offerings to help Chris out and the money is gone. Sharon says [Susan] takes all the money out and keeps it for the whole of CMN." (5)

This is yet another blatant lie that dates back at least 6 months. Chris never once stated concerns to anyone here in this area. While we did receive checks (and cash) specifically addressed to Chris, he received every penny of those monies. Indeed, he has not produced one person, check, receipt, or any other documentation whatsoever to verify any of these statements. So while Chris was telling Christian Media friends that we were stealing from him, he was broadcasting daily on the network, receiving healthy wages from the ministry, and continuing to pray and fellowship with us as though there was nothing wrong. This is the epitome of what the New Testament calls "a double minded man."

The continued slanders were heavily focused on Susan. She was characterized by Sharon as being "a bossy and arrogant person [that] runs things on the mountain and James is afraid to say anything or take charge of the household for fear of retribution from Susan." (6) Sharon Blodgett has further accused Susan of being "a fake" who promotes MSM products on the air, but "she hasn't taken MSM a day in her life." (7)

I can personally testify that Susan and myself try to take MSM every single day. Indeed, other workers on the premises, including one couple who are personal friends of the Blodgetts, (8) have been given MSM doses to drink as we took our daily glass full of the product! Some days we would forget to take the product, but this is a blatant fabrication, specifically calculated by Sharon Blodgett to make themselves look like suffering servants of the Lord that have to put up with this unruly woman that has usurped her role as the wife of a Christian leader.

It would seem that Sharon never thought any of these slanders would actually get back to us from across the country, for it is a relatively easy matter to document our continued use of what we consider to be a wonderful product.

Much later, after we became aware that Chris and Sharon were making wild accusations behind our backs, we began to backtrack and try to reconstruct the source and the timing of the assertions. Our last encounter with Sharon occurred at the end of November, 2000. Sharon had come to work with Chris and had her muddy shoes up on the computer station that each of us does our live broadcasts from. This is a nice piece of furniture in the studio with a computer on it, and a boom microphone hanging over it.

Susan came in to the studio and told Sharon to take her "filthy feet" off of the furniture. Please bear in mind that in November there is mud and animal droppings all over the ground surrounding the buildings. This was appallingly rude behavior, and by this time Susan had no patience left for Sharon's insolence and disrespect. Susan told Sharon, in Chris' presence, that it was "disgusting" to have that filth on the computer desk that I broadcast from every night. We haven't seen Sharon since.

On December 18th, 2000, in a personal letter from Sharon to a 3rd party, she wrote "things are stressful up at James and Susan's. I haven't been up there since Susan said I was disgusting. It's almost 3 weeks and neither one of them have asked Chris about me and why I don't go up with him anymore. They just don't care. That's the problem." (9)

In a later retelling, Sharon embellished the facts just a bit. Ralph Haaff stated that Sharon asked him on the phone why would Susan be disgusted with her feet on a desk that "Chickens poop on, cats sleep all over, with an inch of dirt covering it in an old barn."

The "old barn" in question is a new studio building that houses thousands of dollars worth of broadcasting equipment. There have never been any chickens in the studio! The only cats that were ever in there belonged to Chris and Sharon, and after they knocked over and damaged a couple of components we banned them from bringing their animals in the studio. There has never been "an inch of dirt" on my computer console. These were just more complete fabrications from Chris and Sharon Blodgett.