Welfare Client Scammed by CCCare Melbourne

This blog was started to get someone to take notice. Preferably the press.
My story is about how I was scammed by a welfare organisation Christian City Care and their Social /Welfare worker (who turned out to be unqualified).

My CCCare Social/Welfare worker took advantage of my ill mental and physical health and cohersed me into signing a loan with his finance company. In addition he organised a so called web development job with his IT mate Frank Greco of Connections Consulting Melbourne. However like the loan scam this turned into nothing more than 3.5 months (1,400 hours) of slave labour ,of which many promises were made, but in the end I only received $300.

This scam was allowed to go unchallenged. These unsavoury events received a white wash by Christian City Church Whitehorse who oversees the operations of CCCare Melbourne Australia. The director of both boards of Directors was/is Pastor Peter McHugh, the senior Pastor for Christian City Church Whitehorse.

As of the 19'th January 2009 neither Christian City Care nor Christian City Church Whitehorse have given me an apology. Much less entertained a moral, ethical or biblical stand on being accountable for their part in this welfare scam. Of which I'm still owed over $48,000AUD in unpaid wages.

For those learning of this blog from the recent Press Release, I'd like to bring you up to speed with the following article links for your perusal (links open in separate window):

A Bridged Version - CCCare & CCCW Welfare Scam
Christian City Care
Christian City Church Whitehorse
Fudged Social Worker Qualifaction Claims
Opposing Qualified Social Worker Claim

Social Worker Loan Documents Scam
Loan doc 1
Loan doc 2
Loan doc 3
Loan doc 4
Loan doc 5

Pastor Peter McHugh Letter From the Board of Directors
CCCare letter page 1
CCCare letter page 2
Donated vehicle letter
Letter from Church to Vic Roads

Further information about the CCCare and Christian City Church Whitehorse welfare client scam, can be found by either following archive links on this blog, or by referencing this site's sitemap.

CCCW Fact or Fiction Book

Its been a while between posts about Christian City Care, Christian City Church Whitehorse, Pastor Peter Mchugh, Pastor Phil Pringle and Christian City Church Oxford Falls. But that doesn't mean hands have been idle. Far from it.

Tanya Levine Hillsong Book

Fans of the ABC talk show 'Enough Rope' may recall the interview with Tanya Levine, an ex Hillsong covert who was commission to write a book on her experiences at Hillsong which spanned 21 years. As per usual, the Pentecostal Evangelistic Christian zealots rallied together, hissed and spat their venomous anger in unison upon Tanya Levine.

From my perspective, also based on person experience, it seems anyone who stands up against the Hillsong's, Christian City Churches, or any of the many Pentecostal Evangelistic Christian juggernauts will sufer the same condemnation at the hands of these blinded zealots. It's there Modus Operandi.

My personal opinion is that issues such as those raised by Tanya Levine about Hillsong, need to be addressed. Lets face it, the only people that don't like whistle blowers, are the people who are brought into contention by what maybe brought to light; most people are scared of the truth.

Christian City Church Whitehorse Book

This blog has received over 100,000 visits since May 2008. It currently holds numerous spot 1 & page one listings on all major search engines, not only in Australia but world wide. I've received emails from all over the globe. Some are true Christians wanting to express their personal apologies for the treatment I received. Others are concerned with a loved one, who in their opinion, have been brainwashed by Pentecostal Evangelistic Christian movements. Of course I've also received bitter, hateful emails from the misguided zealots too.

Originally this blog was set-up for one purpose only. However over time perspectives change, least mine have. Since writing the personal events that took place at Christian City Church Whitehorse and Christian City Care. And also receiving many emails, I decided to write a book about my experiences at both CCCW and CCCare.

At a guess a few people will be non too happy learning about this book. However, having factual documents to back up my claims will certainly prove advantageous; to which I have accumulated many docs. Locating information on the WWW is not hard, you just have to know where to look!

Before I finish this post, I wanted to express my sincere appreciation to all those who have read this blog and continue to follow its progress. Also thanks to all the true Christians that have contacted me so far.

Money is Big Church Business

I've not posted for a while, but I see that the search engine listings are growing...lol For instance I've got a nice spot 7 out of 72,000,000 sites on google.

If I've failed to mention my main business exercise conducts search engine optimisation for larger corporations. That is we get sites into the top 10 of all major search engines. This topic btw is a walk in the park for getting search engine rankings...

Well back to the topic of Money is Big Church Business.

When Christian City Church Whitehorse were holding their funding drive for the new rooks road church, aptly named build for life, it was said that they raised $900,000 from the VIP dinner. However the purported profit of $38 Million Dollars (I assume tax free) amassed by CCCW in 2003 - 2004 was never mentioned. Yet in contrast the "we are so poor plate" would make its rounds many times in every church service at Christian City Church Whitehorse. There was always some reason why they "CCCW" needed money.

It's pretty obvious that a Church can mean big business.

Hypothetically if one was an atheist and that someone or group of atheists held no qualms about operating a Church or group of Churches with the purpose of making lots of money then you could see why they'd always be finding new ways and making up new buzzword purposes for acquiring money from church followers.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Christian City Church Whitehorse or any Christian City Church is doing this.What I saying is that when I attended CCCW I found it strange that no one service would go by without the begging plates being passed around less that two times.

I also find it strange, if not a little dodgy, that if the profits of CCCW were in fact 38 million dollars for the tax year of 2003 - 2004 why this information was not divulged.

It would seem that if CCCW made a 38 million dollar church business profit, why hit church followers up for cash all the time.

CCCare and CCCW

If this is the first time you are reading my blog, I thought it maybe a good idea to draw you a quick overview of why the CCCare and CCCW blog exists. Although the full account of these issues are contained in this blog, this overview should bring new visitors up to speed on the who, why and where.

In October of 2004 I sought assistance from CCCare the welfare arm of C3Whitehorse that was located at 27 Bank Street Box Hill, Victoria Australia. Back then it was known as Christian City Church Whitehorse.

On my first welfare appointment I met Tony Ryan who introduced himself as the CCCare Social Worker. In a nut shell the CCCare Social Worker turns out was not a Social Worker nor even a Welfare Worker but held the position of unqualified welfare worker.

Unqualified means - lacking qualifications, untrained, unqualified to perform a job that requires qualifications.

Over the course of Tony Ryan being my CCCare unqualified (unbeknown to me) Welfare Worker he not only cohered me into signing a loan with his own Finance Company Brontobyte Financial Solutions Pty Ltd, but also scammed me into working a total of 1,400 hours for his buddy Frank Greco who owned Connections Consulting Pty Ltd.

Most people ask...How on on earth could someone scam you into signing a loan and get you to work for someone for 1,400 hours without being paid.

At the time I wasn't well. I'd recently been released (early September 2004) from a 7 week hospital stay. I was both physically and emotionally drained. I sought help from CCCare because I had no one else to turn to. No family, nothing (In late 2003 I'd lost a business, my 10 year relationship ended in April 2004).

Apart from existing in a dodgy rooming house in Box Hill, I was practically destitute.

It's one of those experiences that unless you've been there, it's hard to understand the dynamics.

Bottom line, I thought that Tony Ryan actually care about my welfare, so I ended up trusting him 100%. If Tony said jump I would.

After working a total of 1,400 hours on the basis of trusting Tony Ryan and his word that I'd be paid, I was sacked. In fact Tony Ryan was the one who sacked me after receiving a phone call to do so by his Mate Frank Greco.

CCCare and CCCW become involved was I connected both Christian City Care and Christian City Church Whitehorse and made a formal complaint about Tony Ryan. Instead of accepting responsibility and accountability for the CCCare dodgy unqualified welfare workers actions, the Chairman of the Board of Directors for both CCCare and CCCW (Senior Pastor Peter McHugh), wrote me a letter dispelling all accountability for their involvement and responsibility for their unqualified welfare worker employee unsavoury conduct.

I'm now back on my feet again and so I decided to start this blog. People of Australia, the world, need to know exactly what was allowed to happen at Christian City Care. They also need to be informed about the (in my opinion) lack of ethics, to which the senior Pastor Peter Mchugh operated the Board that oversees both CCCare and CCCW.