PASTOR KARL STRADER
IS HISTORY
KARL STRADER
One thing can be said for Assembly of God Pastor Karl Strader of Lakeland -- he just refuses to go away quietly. A year after giving up the most visible symbol of his one-time religious conglomerate -- the monumental Carpenter's Home Church sanctuary -- Strader is now 76 and fighting prostate cancer. And after experiencing the loss of a once-thriving ministry and seeing one of his sons serve years in jail, his theology now embraces a concept not much talked about in his Pentecostal tradition -suffering.
Yet he still preaches twice on Sundays and has plans for new ventures, launching a satellite preaching ministry and an Internet "congregation."
"I feel very fulfilled . . . because I've turned the baton over to younger men. I don't have to deal with the nuts and bolts of pastoring," Strader said recently in an interview.
Like a Shakespearean king or a biblical patriarch, Strader has divided the dwindling Carpenter's Home Church into two congregations and given them to his son and son-in-law. Stephen Strader is remodeling a former Scotty's hardware store as a home for Ignited Church on the north side of Lakeland, and Shane Simmons has taken over the Auburndale Life Church.
Technically, Carpenter's Home still exists as a "multisite" church in the two locations, with Strader as an overseer or bishop. Auburndale Life Church operates under the nonprofit charter held by Carpenter's Home, although Ignited Church now has a separate legal identity. But there is no longer a single congregation that bears the name so long identified with Strader. He preaches at a Sunday morning service in Auburndale and on Sunday afternoon at Ignited Church.
Relaxing in his home not far from the sanctuary he built, Strader said he has no regrets about selling the building to Without Walls Central Church because it had become such a burden. Saturday, July 15, 2006 by The Ledger
O LORD my God, if I have done this: if there is iniquity in my hands, if I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me, or have plundered my enemy without cause, let the enemy pursue me and overtake me; yes, let him trample my life to the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah (Psalms 7:3-5)
Roy Aldrich, a retired school teacher, who was robbed of a 100,000 by Dan and Karl Strader, knew that Karl Strader was an enemy of good men. In January, 1995 in regard to Pastor Karl Strader Sunday sermon on ‘Enemies’ Roy Aldrich made the following remarks:
I would like to join the ranks of those who Karl Straders counts as his “enemies.” by the following statements:
1) I am the enemy of lying and deception which hurts and robs people.
2) I am the enemy of those who practice cruelty in the administration of any corporation, especially churches.
3) I am the enemy of any minister who allows the use of his pulpit for personal vendettas.
4) I am the enemy of any minister who uses his pulpit for soliciting public and personal sympathy over controversial matters involving his family.
5) I am the enemy of every minister in the world whose sense of right and wrong is based on nepotism and favoritism.
6) I am the enemy of the policy of Karl Strader who raised $52,000.00 for Dan’s defense fund and $58,000.00 for repairing a roof and not one dime for his son’s elderly and devastated victims.
7) I am the enemy of the disrespect represented in the Strader attitude towards the State Attorney and Judge Robert Doyel, a true servant of God.
8) I am the enemy of the policies of secret salaries which conceal huge benefits flowing from trusting church members to their leaders- salaries which provide sumptuous life styles, while at the same time, these same leaders are firing and traumatizing the “little people” under their care like Cindy Deaton, Patricia Aldrich, Jack and Betty Collins.
9) I am the enemy of huge personal gain to Karl Strader and Joe Perez derived from their secret management fees from the CHC Life Center Retirement Estates.
10) I am the enemy of the thinking that some claimed “anointing” or supposed special privilege with God gives anyone the right to turn a Christian church into their own personal “cash-cow.”
11) I am the enemy of the thinking expressed in the attached sermon outline which implies that the welfare of CHC is determined by any one man or family. We are supposed to worship Christ, and not the Straders.
12) I am the enemy of any minister who uses his oratorical ability to rally church audiences into cheerleading and other emotional excess as a device to shore up a crumbling personal empire.
13) I am an enemy of any organization that suggests opposing the leader’s lifestyle and words is opposing God.
Believe it or not Pastor Karl Strader actually preached on Psalms chapter seven and made it his prayer one Sunday morning. He actually mouthed the foolish words and asked God to do the same to him if he did evil to others. Well, God heard and answered Karl’s prayer and his honor was laid in the dust. And now Assembly of God Pastor Karl Strader is history!
The Assembly of God denomination unlike other denominations is not a democratic organization. It is an old boys club made up of pastors to support pastors. It’s hierarchy including superintendents are appointed by pastors and not by members. Ministers instead of a church member preside over board meetings unlike in other more democratically operated Protestant churches. Many of its churches are owned by pastors rather than by members. In America it’s a very small religious, arrogant and hypocritical denomination which produced the three Musketeers: Jim Bakker (1987), Jimmy Swaggart (1988), and Karl Strader (1989). Together, these so called men of God have robbed, raped and even murdered the defenseless elderly people in their communities and affected many lives across America.
The money that flows through the Assembly of God denomination, as well as other denominations in America and is not openly accounted for, is in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and offers religious politicians and unscrupulous scoundrels a gold mine or “cash cow” as Roy Aldrich called it. Some of the things that go on in AG (Assembly of God) CHC (Carpenter’s Home Church) and Baptist Christians make the soap operas on television appear mild in comparison.
More money is embezzled from the church each year ($16 billion) than is given to foreign missions ($15 billion) reported the newly published second edition of the World Christian Encyclopedia. The exhaustive survey of global Christianity contains some good news. It notes that Christianity has become “the most extensive and universal religion in history,” with some 2 billion adherents—one in three of the world’s population—at the start of the new millennium.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/56459981/Strader-is-History
http://karlstrader.com/
Yet he still preaches twice on Sundays and has plans for new ventures, launching a satellite preaching ministry and an Internet "congregation."
"I feel very fulfilled . . . because I've turned the baton over to younger men. I don't have to deal with the nuts and bolts of pastoring," Strader said recently in an interview.
Like a Shakespearean king or a biblical patriarch, Strader has divided the dwindling Carpenter's Home Church into two congregations and given them to his son and son-in-law. Stephen Strader is remodeling a former Scotty's hardware store as a home for Ignited Church on the north side of Lakeland, and Shane Simmons has taken over the Auburndale Life Church.
Technically, Carpenter's Home still exists as a "multisite" church in the two locations, with Strader as an overseer or bishop. Auburndale Life Church operates under the nonprofit charter held by Carpenter's Home, although Ignited Church now has a separate legal identity. But there is no longer a single congregation that bears the name so long identified with Strader. He preaches at a Sunday morning service in Auburndale and on Sunday afternoon at Ignited Church.
Relaxing in his home not far from the sanctuary he built, Strader said he has no regrets about selling the building to Without Walls Central Church because it had become such a burden. Saturday, July 15, 2006 by The Ledger
O LORD my God, if I have done this: if there is iniquity in my hands, if I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me, or have plundered my enemy without cause, let the enemy pursue me and overtake me; yes, let him trample my life to the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah (Psalms 7:3-5)
Roy Aldrich, a retired school teacher, who was robbed of a 100,000 by Dan and Karl Strader, knew that Karl Strader was an enemy of good men. In January, 1995 in regard to Pastor Karl Strader Sunday sermon on ‘Enemies’ Roy Aldrich made the following remarks:
I would like to join the ranks of those who Karl Straders counts as his “enemies.” by the following statements:
1) I am the enemy of lying and deception which hurts and robs people.
2) I am the enemy of those who practice cruelty in the administration of any corporation, especially churches.
3) I am the enemy of any minister who allows the use of his pulpit for personal vendettas.
4) I am the enemy of any minister who uses his pulpit for soliciting public and personal sympathy over controversial matters involving his family.
5) I am the enemy of every minister in the world whose sense of right and wrong is based on nepotism and favoritism.
6) I am the enemy of the policy of Karl Strader who raised $52,000.00 for Dan’s defense fund and $58,000.00 for repairing a roof and not one dime for his son’s elderly and devastated victims.
7) I am the enemy of the disrespect represented in the Strader attitude towards the State Attorney and Judge Robert Doyel, a true servant of God.
8) I am the enemy of the policies of secret salaries which conceal huge benefits flowing from trusting church members to their leaders- salaries which provide sumptuous life styles, while at the same time, these same leaders are firing and traumatizing the “little people” under their care like Cindy Deaton, Patricia Aldrich, Jack and Betty Collins.
9) I am the enemy of huge personal gain to Karl Strader and Joe Perez derived from their secret management fees from the CHC Life Center Retirement Estates.
10) I am the enemy of the thinking that some claimed “anointing” or supposed special privilege with God gives anyone the right to turn a Christian church into their own personal “cash-cow.”
11) I am the enemy of the thinking expressed in the attached sermon outline which implies that the welfare of CHC is determined by any one man or family. We are supposed to worship Christ, and not the Straders.
12) I am the enemy of any minister who uses his oratorical ability to rally church audiences into cheerleading and other emotional excess as a device to shore up a crumbling personal empire.
13) I am an enemy of any organization that suggests opposing the leader’s lifestyle and words is opposing God.
Believe it or not Pastor Karl Strader actually preached on Psalms chapter seven and made it his prayer one Sunday morning. He actually mouthed the foolish words and asked God to do the same to him if he did evil to others. Well, God heard and answered Karl’s prayer and his honor was laid in the dust. And now Assembly of God Pastor Karl Strader is history!
The Assembly of God denomination unlike other denominations is not a democratic organization. It is an old boys club made up of pastors to support pastors. It’s hierarchy including superintendents are appointed by pastors and not by members. Ministers instead of a church member preside over board meetings unlike in other more democratically operated Protestant churches. Many of its churches are owned by pastors rather than by members. In America it’s a very small religious, arrogant and hypocritical denomination which produced the three Musketeers: Jim Bakker (1987), Jimmy Swaggart (1988), and Karl Strader (1989). Together, these so called men of God have robbed, raped and even murdered the defenseless elderly people in their communities and affected many lives across America.
The money that flows through the Assembly of God denomination, as well as other denominations in America and is not openly accounted for, is in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and offers religious politicians and unscrupulous scoundrels a gold mine or “cash cow” as Roy Aldrich called it. Some of the things that go on in AG (Assembly of God) CHC (Carpenter’s Home Church) and Baptist Christians make the soap operas on television appear mild in comparison.
More money is embezzled from the church each year ($16 billion) than is given to foreign missions ($15 billion) reported the newly published second edition of the World Christian Encyclopedia. The exhaustive survey of global Christianity contains some good news. It notes that Christianity has become “the most extensive and universal religion in history,” with some 2 billion adherents—one in three of the world’s population—at the start of the new millennium.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/56459981/Strader-is-History
http://karlstrader.com/