(Note: After the Smiths and the fake profiles were removed from the OCDG, the Smiths formed a Facebook group called Real Organic Church Discussion.

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1 1) Jim Wright was removed from the Organic Church Discussion Group (OCDG) in December, 2011 after being a member for less than two months. His posts and comments were normally quite critical and unkind, but they were becoming increasingly hostile and antagonistic. And he started publicly blaming Frank Viola and Jon Zens for anything other members of the group said with which he disagreed, even though neither Frank nor Jon had commented or were a part of the discussions, nor had they or their writings been referenced in the discussion. He was finally removed from the group after several warnings by the admins and several communications between him and me. 2) The following screenshots are some private messages on Facebook between me and Keith Smith on 2/15/2013 after he had again posted a link in the OCDG to Jim Wright s blog even though I had previously communicated to him that the administrators did not want anything else written by Wright posted in the group. Keith publicly posted my part of these private messages in the Organic Church Movements (OCM) group on the thread about which Ann Clarkson messaged me (see below). In that thread on the OCM, Jim Wright boasted that he and these others compared notes and shared communications they received from other people like myself. After this communication and the thread on the OCM, we admins of the OCDG removed Keith and Jeanne Smith as well as their related profiles from the group seven (7) in all: Keith Smith, Jeanne Smith, Healing Communities, Lindee Lind, Ann Clarkson, Adam Donahue, and Florian Jager.

2 (Note: After the Smiths and the fake profiles were removed from the OCDG, the Smiths formed a Facebook group called Real Organic Church Discussion. ) 3) The following is a screenshot of a private message I received on Facebook 2/15/2013 from Ann Clarkson after she, Jim Wright, and Keith and Jeanne Smith came after me when I challenged a post by Wright in the OCM group. Kat Huff contacted Ross Rohde (the administrator) when they began trying to bully and intimidate me, and Ross took the thread down. In this private message, Ann used a tactic I had already experienced and begun to expect from this group: Send a nasty, malicious private message then immediately block me so there s no opportunity for me to reply. Then talk about me (lie) in other groups and on their FB pages where I can t see what s being said or respond. Other admins in the OCDG as well as people I know who ve stood against what Jim Wright and these other folks are saying and doing have also received such messages (some of which were even more hateful) and similar treatment.

3 4) The following are screenshots of a private message from Adam Donahue, who I didn t even know and had never had any sort of communication with, but I believed him to be another fake profile. Again, he sent me the last message and immediately blocked me so I couldn t reply. Note that both Ann Clarkson and Adam Donahue think I m a Jezebel.

4 5) At first the fake Facebook profiles used mainly cartoon characters or cartoon icons for their profile pictures, but after those profiles were refused admittance to the OCDG, they began using photos which we admins of the OCDG found were stock pictures taken off the internet.

5 In addition to the fake profiles already mentioned above, I and other admins of the OCDG believe other fake profiles being used by the Smiths and possibly Jim Wright also include: Adam Bartman, Joe Ashton, Tricia Lopez, Elijah Moon, Tom Moore and Christina Swansea. Also, I discovered one of these fake Facebook (FB) profiles used some of my personal information as their own (e.g. graduated from the same college, but they re not listed as an alum), another friended someone that they could have only found from the list of my FB friends, and some of these profiles were following me on FB. So, I had to change all of my privacy settings to Friends Only so my personal information couldn t be seen or used by them. Catherine Seebald