Context: Before the start of the church service, Ovidiu Teodorescu received a phone call from the newly Church of God appointed pastor, Ionel Burzo, who was named church pastor two months prior, but had not come to officially take over the church. Ovidiu Teodorescu had prepared to speak that evening. At 5pm, when he received the phone call from Ionel Burzo, he was informed Andy Dimbi would be delivering the main message that evening, and in English. At the very start of the church service, seeing that no one in the congregation was primarily English-speaking, but several only understood Romanian, Ovidiu Teodorescu spoke with Andy Dimbi, and requested he preach in Romanian. Andy replied sarcastically, relating to Ovidiu that he was going to preach in English and did not need his translation services either. Andy Dimbi’s refusal then upset the elderly members of the congregation who were solely Romanian-speaking, as they were being denied understanding of the message for no reason, as there was no reason to deliver the sermon in English. Andy Dimbi began to preach and then proceeded to engage in a public argument with an elderly member of the congregation before continuing his message, belittling him in front of the congregation. The member was also upset as to why the current Pastor Ionel Burzo had appointed him to speak, as the congregation had voiced their concerns regarding Andy’s recent initiation of prying and inappropriate conversations with women and minor girls (from within the congregation) via text message. This member ultimately left. The video depicts this occurrence. The audio file attached also outlines a conversation/argument that occurred directly between Andy Dimbi and members of the youth immediately following the close of service. Youth members, including: Andrey Mudryak, Abigail Teodorescu, Ana Antimie (Vulcan), Ruth Teodorescu, & David Teodorescu were present at the time of the conversation. Andy Dimbi was attempting to speak privately with select members of the youth to sway their opinion on the events that took place between himself and the elderly member of the church, Vasile Vulcan (grandfather of Ana Antimie [Vulcan]) who has since passed away). Ana and Andrey both eventually refused to speak to him privately after realizing his intent was to exclude Abigail from the conversation, and the youth collectively expressed their disgust for what took place and for his unwillingness to accommodate his audience, as the main point of speaking to a congregation was to have them garner Biblical knowledge. A vast majority of the congregation that evening had not understood his message as the whole gathering was Romanian-speaking, while only a handful spoke/understood the English language
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