Wagenmaker and Oberly hired the accountants. The church hired Wagenmaker and Oberly to review its governance and finances. MacDonald has sued Muller and the radio station for defamation and Muller has countersued. WLS-AM radio show host Mancow Muller, a former Harvest member, broadcast some of those comments, in which MacDonald made statements about a critic, Christianity Today journalists and mainline Protestant Christian churches. The church said it did so after "highly inappropriate recorded comments made by Pastor MacDonald were given to the media and reported." The church, headquartered in Rolling Meadows and Elgin, fired MacDonald in February 2019, after 31 years of ministry. He also posted a video of him speaking with a former longtime Harvest leader who backs MacDonald. The website indicates it is the first of five statements he intends to publish. On Friday, MacDonald posted a statement on his website,, refuting much of what the church and others have said about him in the last two years. Neither has anyone from Harvest Bible Chapel. No one from the law firm or the accounting firm have responded to requests for comment. The church and MacDonald were disputing money he believed was owed to him in deferred compensation, and ownership of the "Walk In the Word" broadcast and digital ministry. The suit also says Wagenmaker advised a church panel that declared MacDonald was "biblically disqualified" from conducting ministry, and helped it write a defamatory statement announcing the disqualification, in an effort to better the church's position in the arbitration. "Wagenmaker, Todd, and HBC agreed that they would seek to delay responding to MacDonald's arbitration demand until after they published the defamatory information against him, and that they would aggressively pursue counterclaims against him in the arbitration once they had publicly destroyed his reputation," the lawsuit states. It contends Wagenmaker, her firm and the accountants knowingly published false statements in their summaries of an investigation of the church in 2019. It alleges defamation, invasion of privacy and civil conspiracy. 4 against Wagenmaker and Oberly LLC, a Chicago law firm attorney Sally Wagenmaker and Schecher Dokken Kanter, a Minnesota accounting firm.
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