A shake-up appears to threaten the survival of Laymen for Religious Liberty, the group which sponsored the controversial media campaign in Florida and sought to sell to the public an illustrated version of The Great Controversy. This summer, Laymen for Religious Liberty director David Mould wrote to donors, confessing to an unspecified “moral fall” and advising them that his organization would be restructured as a result.

Pilgrim’s Rest, an independent publication based in Tennessee, reported in August that all but two of Laymen for Religious Liberty’s staff had resigned. The 16-page expose included, as evidence, photocopies of letters and canceled checks, allegedly provided by those who had resigned.

According to Pilgrim’s Rest, former employees say they resigned because of Mould’s alleged sexual improprieties and fiscal irresponsibility. The report further claims that Laymen for Religious Liberty is nearly $1 million in debt, with no hope of recovery unless Mould is willing to go through a major belt-tightening and put on indefinite hold all plans for a nation wide campaign.

One of Mould’s employees, before resigning, found that the public had ordered only 77 copies of the illustrated version of The Great Controversy as a result of the campaign, according to Pilgrim’s Rest. This information was provided to the employee by West Telemarketing, the answering service used for the Orlando media campaign. The 800 number earlier given for ordering the book is no longer in service.