 Indeed, at the last international conference held in San Antonio, Texas, in December 1989, Weiner publicly apologized and asked for forgiveness for any abuses anyone suffered from him personally from authoritarianism or from the organization.He also printed a public apology to the church at large in Charisma Magazine in the winter of 1990.In the break-up, leaders announced that the individual local churches were free to become independent entirely or to voluntarily associate with whomever they chose.