Rev. John L. Wright, Pastor, FBCG, Dead

Photo of Headstone taken by:
Rev. LED Dowell

Following many years of warning Rev. John L. Wright, Pastor, FBCG (Columbia, MD) that the Lord was displeased with his disobedience to God's will, he died on January 28, 2010, following the diagnosis of Melanoma.

I attended Rev. Wright's funeral on Friday, February 5, 2010, as a member of the Clergy . It was held at the St. John Baptist Church in Long Reach, Columbia, MD., where Rev. Robert Turner is the Pastor, simply because the FBCG is still meeting in a neighborhood school. Rev. Wright was laid to rest in the FBCG cemetery located not too far from where the church construction bones remain. It is still not completed after years of legal and spiritual conflicts. The Lord's prophetic Word to them was that, "because Wright refused to obey God's will in my life and regarding that church, then watch it die! The church is dead!"

Today, at most, FBCG remains but a shadow of its once notable self, because they deliberately refused -- utterly refused to believe God really speaks today and forever. Even after they conspired to put me out of the church for giving "Thus saith the Lord," many of the parishioners had died unexpectantly. On one Sunday, in particular, even Rev. Wright was taken out of the pulpit and carried to the hospital in an ambulance during the service, when he fell out. What's more, a lot of the parishioners left that church, because they knew Rev. Wright had not told the truth about me.

When Rev. Wright died on January 28, 2010, (the date of my late mother's birthday), the prophetic voice of God which I had delivered to Rev. Wright and the FBCG late 1980s to early 1990s was finally confirmed exactly the way the Lord said it would be, as per much valid prophetic documentation retained on file.

In 1992, Rev. Wright wanted to keep me from sending "What Thus Saith the Lord" to him and to the church body. In order to do that he and others in FBCG conspired together and filed false court documents against me. They had complained to both the Howard County Circuit and District Courts that I wrote a letter threatening his life. But, that never happened and they knew it was not true. Also, neither Rev. Wright nor any FBCG member-attorneys nor officers or members of that church ever presented any such letter whatsoever. And they could not, because Rev. Wright and the church body knew that it was a prophetic letter that the Lord had me to send, and I did send it -- even though Rev. Wright refused to discern it, believe it, or obey it.

In one such prophetic letter the Lord had me to send, the Lord said, "Sheila will see her father lying in his coffin." And, the Lord also said, "Lainie, stand alongside that coffin and see the man, Wright, in his suit of rest." And, among many more, I also wrote that word and delivered it to the Pastor and church in 1992. However, Rev. Wright and the church trustee board and deacon board saw it as a threat from me. However, many of the parishioners and officers who read it or heard about it saw it as a Godly warning and as being true. They had confirmed in their spirits that it was a word of warning sent from the Lord.

Nevertheless, the circuit court never called for their alleged written evidence FBCG said that they had to prove I had "threatened" Rev. Wright's life. Yet, they had never filed anything in court to be entered into the record, as I had petitioned them to do, in order to prove my innocence, which I had maintained throughout that ordeal and still do to this day. The falsely obtained injunction by FBCG to date has not been lifted by the HoCo circuit court since it was filed by the church on August 11, 1992, to keep me out of both the FBCG and the church cemetery (i.e., After Wright was funeralized ("in his suit of rest"), he was buried in the church cemetery on Friday, February 5, 2010), and I was standing there, also. It was a solemn occasion for me, because the hearts of the people still did not understand what had taken place and why.

Rev. Wright went to his grave without ever making any of that entire injustice right with me or with God. Those false charges Rev. Wright and the FBCG trustees conjured up and brought against me on Sunday, August 9, 1992, in the HoCo District Court was all political and their allegations resulted in my being arrested while I attended the church during that Sunday Communion-Worship Service (August 9, 1992). They called the police to the church and, inside of it while Wright was preaching from the podium, they charged me with "criminal trespassing on private property - (i.e., the FBCG)." Those charges were subsequently Nolle Prossed by the District Court of Howard County after many months and thousands of dollars to litigate.

Original court and church documentation are available upon request.

Those documents will substantiate that I was never "excommunicated" by FBCG, as some of the newspaper reports first stated. And all has been fully documented. That charge, too, was based on FBCG perjured court documents, which also prove Rev. Wright never held such a church meeting, as he also told the circuit court to obtain an injunction to keep me out of the church permanently. Rev. Wright had both political and church clout, but he allowed his mind to deceive him into believing that he could do whatever he chose instead of him stopping to hear God's will concerning a matter. Rev. Wright died in his disobedience just as God had said he would do.

The FBCG church died long ago before Rev. Wright because God took His hand away from the Pastor and congregation because of their disobedience and lack of repentance. Too many church people are playing with God and losing out on the fulness of God's blessings. The question is, What does the Lord God say about that church and the people who walk into it? In all things and in all ways, much has been proved true which the Lord has given me to proclaim.

"Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build and unless the Lord keep the city, the watchman lay awake in vain. . . ." Psalm 127:1a KJV

God is real. God is alive. God speaks today as He did yesterday and God shall continue to do so throughout all eternity. No one is exempt from hearing and obeying -- not even the Preacher.

FBCG Confronts lawsuits - Columbia Flier

UPDATE!!! Friday, September 5, 2008

News the local Maryland newspapers won't tell you!! So, I will!

As far back as January 1990, at the Church Meeting where the proposal was presented for discussion about constructing a new church, my "NAY" was the singular vote there to not recommend the approval of their proposal. The Pastor had also made the decision to not meet first with the Howard County (MD) Department of Planning and Zoning (DPZ) at that time, as I had suggested. I told Wright and those assembled that the DPZ plans for county development are made years in advance.

In that September 4, 2008, referenced article above, the reporter said Rev. John L. Wright, Pastor, refused to disclose what "issues" have hindered their church construction for so long. Wright also declined to mention that it was based on my ongoing legal fight against them in the courts since 2003, which has resulted in the hold up of legal church construction for all of these years.

Lawsuit ---

Rev. Lainie Dowell vs. Howard County, MD, et al.

My Pro se lawsuit and appeals against FBCG construction since 2003 to the present.

What's more, the church and DPZ have also ignored my complaints that the church was in court using the wrong name for their Resident Agent for all of these years. As a result, those lawsuits the contractors have filed against the FBCG were filed in the name and address of a dead man. In fact, he was the Pastor just before Rev. Wright became Pastor of the church in 1971, after the late Rev. Arbie D. Webb had left the church.

During that time, Rev. Webb had startled parishioners by leaping out of the pulpit before service, never to return. Later when asked, he said the Lord had spoken to him to get out of there and that he didn't hesitate. Rev. Arbie D. Webb had been Resident Agent but has been out of FBCG church and has been dead for years, which the church leaders knew but wouldn't change the name of Resident Agent.

Apparently neither the expensive lawyers of the contractors nor the newspaper reporter have conducted an adequate investigation into a whole lot about that church, because they served the lawsuit on Rev. Arbie D. Webb, at an address he hasn't lived in for decades. If they had done due diligence, they would have not ignored my ongoing warnings to them about Wright and his corrupt actions and have saved a lot of time, money, and resources.

When I had read that subject article, Thursday, I went right to the courthouse to retrieve copies of those court documents based on the news report that did not really tell the full story (see info below).

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF GUILFORD (Columbia, MD) faces loss of 100+ year-old church property!!

I can say without flinching that Rev. John L. Wright was warned by the Lord, but Wright called me crazy for bringing the message(s) and he tried to convince our Clergy colleagues and parishioners of the same assessment. Nevertheless, everything I have said in the prophetic writings to Rev. Wright and FBCG officers and parishioners has happened and is confirmed with documentation. One of the court documents I have just retrieved quotes Wright as stating that he could use his status as NAACP head to make calls to speed up getting a building permit which was necessary.

I had filed many complaints about the church proceeding to build without first receiving from HoCo any building permit and about how Howard County officials ignored my complaints, did not even respond to my correspondence even though I was entitled to it by virtue of having filed my lawsuit against both the church and them.

CORRUPTION IS FINALLY ON THE WAY TO FULL EXPOSURE!

The Howard County (MD) closed my case even though it was still on appeal in the Annapolis, MD, Court of Special Appeals. What's more, the lower court NEVER notified me of the closure and have never given me any final order/decision/reason to this day (September 5, 2008). Yet, their records will show that is not their normal legal procedure. How does it work?

I have just retrieved a document from the court dated Thursday, August 17, 2006, in which Rev. Wright is quoted at a meeting saying: "My main concern is the building permit. We cannot do anything without the building permit. We can have all the meetings we want to have, all the discussions we want to have, but we cannot go forward until we get the building permit. . . . When can we get it?"

He went on further to say " . . . . I am familiar with all of the counties in the state of Maryland. I am the former President of NAACP and of the Maryland State Conference. I know how some of this work (sic), some of it is political. We might have to get in touch with the politicians to help us along the way. They have been very cordial; and my people and resources have been very cooperative. I want to make sure we cover all of our basics. (sic) So it is back to # One is the building permit, the building permit. - I cannot over empathized (sic) it is the building permit." quoted -Rev. John L. Wright, Minutes Re: Construction of New Church.

If that dialogue (quoted above) does not explain why my Pro se lawsuits against Wright and FBCG have been treated illegally as they have, then I don't know what would. And, to make matters worse, the current head of the Howard County NAACP is the FBCG Deacon who was hand picked by Wright for that political position. Wright has also held such powerful influential positions in the Baptist Church and denomination. Those high profile affiliations allowed him and his supporters to file false charges against me in 1992, which injunction still remains in place to keep me off church property. Then, even after all of that, I found out that Wright had secretly filed false arson charges against me, which I fought and stopped. (Documented).

The man is dangerous. He cannot be trusted. But who in this county is finally going to conduct an investigation into all of this corruption? The officers of the church and HoCo officials and others knew and have kept quiet in the midst of corruption, fraud, obstruction of justice, violation of my civil rights, defamation, slander, and perjury. And it was done with the help of church lawyers who were members of Wright's church. Isn't that against the law? Nevertheless, they know what they have done and I know they know God will not forgive nor forget it, because they did it in the name of the Lord. And they have still been unable to build. -revldowell

CONTRACTOR LAWSUITS --

Harbor View Contractors, Inc.
Filed Mechanics Liens against FBCG for lack of payments for work they've done. Court records reviewed show the company recently had the case dismissed and they plan to re-start the church project.

Gilford Construction Corp.
The court records reveal this company is currently pursuing a mechanic's lien, also, against the FBCG, for "Breach of Contract," etc. and the church is in danger of losing their church property. Court date scheduled early October.

What those companies fail to understand, however, is that the FBCG church - since 2003 - has proceeded to try to build on an illegal process, which they and the county know about and, also, know that I will continue to pursue the matter in court until a trial is scheduled on my 2004 appeal to stop construction. The matter will not be closed until justice is done.

I had also filed written complaints against the problems with the following architects retained by FBCG:

-SRR & Associates, PC
-Derrick Burnett, AEI

Court records reviewed show the arrogance of Wright and all the other people (including Howard County officials) who believed he was a true man of God with integrity and truth. However, court records show that Wright has recognized the political aspects of this matter (and everything else he has illegally pursued in Howard County and the state of Maryland, because of his prior positions as head of the local and state NAACP and the local and state Baptist denomination). He has abused his office to hurt so many people, including me. And, the only way he has gotten away with it is because of his political influence with the county and state officials and the court.

And even though the papers have yet to publish the facts about this church case, this account will remain as a testimonial, within context, for such time as it is all made public. Since they know the facts and law, they will not be able to say they were ignorant of what the church has done and continues to do. They all will pay the price of public humiliation once the law catches up to them one time or another as it always does.

Nevertheless, by refusing to believe this black, Godly woman preacher, they have prolonged the legal construction. So, keep in mind that everything I have reported can be substantiated by court documentation and other published reports, which anybody who cares about justice will be unable to legally and legitimately refute.


A Current News Article -----
Thursday, September 4, 2008.
Church confronts lawsuits as it builds new home. An article by Derek Simmonsen, in The Columbia Flier (MD),
Email: dsimmonsen@patuxent.com

I need this reporter to contact me, because I have all the answers to his questions about the FBCG construction history and ongoing issues that have halted the work. And this information I can provide will present an article for the public which is long overdue precisely because the Columbia Flier newspaper has repeatedly refused to tell my story about FBCG, Rev. Wright, and me. I have continued to call for an investigation into the ongoing corruption, fraud, obstruction of justice, perjury, violation of my civil rights, etc.

The Flier is our local newspaper and despite my many contacts with them, their refusal to follow through has created a horrible scenario which could have been averted long ago. As well, they could have had the scoop of all time about what was really going on with this widely believed to be the #1 church and pastor, Rev. John L. Wright, in Howard County, MD.

Even the two church contractors who are now in a position of having to go into court to get their money for work performed could have saved money and time and resources, if they had heeded my warnings to them via emails (not sent anonymously). They ignored my contacts and plowed ahead to tear up the church property. And, now it remains a gigantic hole in the ground where nobody can go onto the property to hold church services.

This is the newest information disclosed about the failed attempts of the First Baptist Church of Guilford to complete their new building project since they first proposed it in the 1990s, when I was an Associate Minister there.

All of my attempts to stop the FBCG construction have lasted from late 1990s to this date. As of now, I am awaiting a response to my renewed appeals by the MD Court of Special Appeals in Annapolis, because neither the Howard County (MD) Board of Appeals nor the HoCo Circuit Court nor the Court of Special Appeals has provided me with any Decision and/or Order, as mandated by law. The courts have never scheduled a trial to hear my case, de novo on the merits. And, in fact, they have ignored my many documented complaints about that.

On Wednesday, September 3, 2008, my mother-in-law brought to my attention that the FBCG church ad did not appear in the Afro-American Newspaper church section. I phoned the Afro advertising section to ask why the FBCG was not published there and I was told "We had to put it aside because they have not paid the bill."

It appears the FBCG ad may not have appeared for at least the past several months. I don't read the Afro, but I wonder how many parishioners know their church is in such dire financial straits.

I have accumulated hundreds of pages of documentation to show this ongoing political fight I am engaged in with the FBCG and the HoCo government's lawyers. And, while the Simmonsen article says there is only one lawsuit now filed against that church, that is not true.

I am possibly the only Howard County citizen who has enough knowledge and credibility to discuss this case from its inception in 1990 until now. I have copies of all the court documents, but Rev. John L. Wright, the parishioners, and county officials have scoffed at me and ignored all of my correspondence for them to investigate this matter. In context, this is a spiritual matter, because I had foretold that it is between Wright and God, because of the way he refused to hear and obey the will of the Lord for that church and in my life.

And, if anybody scoffs at that, then they need to talk to me and let me show them the actual proof, within context, that this is one church matter in which there can be no doubt that God is in total charge of everything.

If they had listened to me years ago, they would be in a new church with glory to God. Instead, they are looking at a literal hole in the ground and they are meeting but only for a little while longer in a county schoolroom. If all those FBCG parishioners knew what really happened and why, they would walk away and not look back and the pastor and officers know that.

True Christians who know God do not play with Him. They fear the Lord. They know that God will do exactly what He says and continues to do.

Email: revldowell-clergywomen@erols.com

Law Makers or Law Breakers?Maryland Awareness!

The Holy Spirit told me that "There can be no justice where the keepers of justice are, themselves, unjust." -Rev. L. Dowell.

What do we need? ACCOUNTABILITY, CREDIBILITY, RESPONSIBILITY -- Godly Leaders.

Cronyism, favoritism, and downright, outright evil intentions by perpetrators (i.e., especially in the legal and judicial professions) need not go unaddressed. Newspapers do not want to tell our stories. Family members are probably tired of listening to our complaints. Officials love to pass the buck and hurry us out of their offices. Perpetrators retaliate against us for complaining and label us as being sick, crazy, vindictive, or criminal, even as we work through the system to get justice based on the law and facts. (Don't get tired yet, read on).

Are you fed up with lying legal eagles and keepers of the law who, themselves, break the law? I am. This is for Maryland citizens and others who arrive at this site and understand how crucial it is for legislators to finally protect our rights of due process and equal protection under the law. Here and in all this nation (browse the Net), justice will still cry in pain without redress as long as officials continue to think they are above the law and continue abusing the process with impunity and a lack of accountability.

Most pro se litigants are not in court, because we want to be. For many of us, it comes down to either cracking the law books (mainly the statutes) or else walking away from an obvious abuse (i.e., to everybody but lawmakers who have the authority and expertise to correct it -- but who refuse to do so). We need a voice!

I am hereby announcing my intentions to not feel guilty about pursuing the arm of justice in Howard County, Maryland. Truth and court records give witness to the veracity of my claims of innocence . Truth will always remain true. And, because I know that truth will always surface no matter how long it might take, I have not slept my equitable right to achieve legal vindication.

To: Rev. John L. Wright, Charles L. Fuller, Esquire, Lillie Price-Wesley, Esquire, and other officers and members of The First Baptist Church of Guilford, Columbia, MD, who remain silent about their lying on me in the Howard County Circuit and District courts and "blaming the victim," (me); and to all those Maryland officials and lawmakers who know about and privately shield all of Wright's public wrongs and help him to use our courthouses to illegally back him up, one day, somebody is going to listen to this ongoing plea and investigate what you have done. When they do that, then justice will have been served.

Herein is my special invitation for any of you to disprove my allegations, in a court of law. And this time, you will be required to file substantiating documents, if you have any. You never gave any to me or to the courts. But, I stand ready knowing that hundreds of unaddressed court records to support my allegations will indict you. And no ethical, Godly, legal professional will dare place their reputation and job on the line to protect you perjurers who obstructed justice, as those aforementioned have done. Truth will not only get me in the door but it will also keep me there. From August 9, 1992 until the truth is fully exposed in this matter, I will continue to maintain my allegations are true, even if the newspapers will not print it and the officials will not investigate it.

Stay tuned.