Evangelist’s Hummer Repossessed!
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.
"The sheep are happier of themselves than under the care of the wolves." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.
On May 21, 2003, Charisma News Services reported that “After 27 years at the helm of the evangelistic Power Team, founder John Jacobs has announced his retirement, which he says will be effective in July. On the day Jacobs announced his retirement, his Hummer was repossessed. In an effort to retrieve personal property, Jacobs said he tried to disconnect the vehicle from the tow truck and subsequently damaged other cars in the lot. "It was a stupid thing to do. It certainly wasn't the right choice.
The 43-year-old attributed the May 7 move to the pressure of leading a large ministry coupled with several personal "hits" in the last three years, including a divorce and hasty remarriage that was later annulled, the death of his parents and financial hardship brought on after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
He said the incident did not lead to arrest, and he has agreed to settle with the owner of the tow truck.
Based in Dallas, the Power Team has performed outreaches in churches, prisons and schools across the country and overseas. Made up of 20 world-class athletes, the group has seen thousands come to Christ at events and crusades.
But after Jacobs' divorce in 2000 from his wife of 16 years, several Power Team members left the organization to form a similar group called Team Impact. Jacobs was accused of assaulting one of its members, Jeff Audas, in May 2000, but the misdemeanor assault and battery charge was dropped.
In August 2002, Jacobs filed for personal and ministry bankruptcy, leading to a reorganization of the Power Team and the appointment of a trustee who now oversees the ministry's finances. Jacobs' personal bankruptcy was recently reversed, and he says he is "personally working some things out" with creditors.
Jacobs plans to remarry this summer. He said he is living in an apartment, drives a Ford Taurus and is "really enjoying living the simple life." He asked that Christians pray for him "and to pull for me spiritually. After being with the Power Team for 27 years, it has definitely taken a toll. ... After the load that I've carried and what I've been through, I'd appreciate, really, people's prayers and people's support and people pulling for me."
In America religion should not be a vehicle for wolves in sheep's clothing to get rich but rather a vehicle to help the poor and needy? What happened to the vow of poverty that many catholic monks used to take? The greedy protestant TV evangelists should consider it and the words of Apostle Paul who stated in the book of Acts I have coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel. "Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me: Acts 20:27 But today’s thieving evangelist state “You know that I am rich because of the love offerings and tithes of the dumb sheep!” As Tampa’s South African Evangelist Rodney Howard Browne taught "sheep needed to be fleeced or they would have too much hair and could not see where they are going. It was the pastor’s job to fleece the sheep."
Just because the IRS allows university presidents and other non profit charitable CEO’S to get large compensations doesn't mean that religious leaders such as Randy White should make around a million dollars just like his friend evangelist Benny Hinn! Compare the following resume of Dr. Randy White and the special friends that he knows (http://www.withoutwalls.org/pastor1.htm) and the resume that was made about Jesus Christ:
"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many." Mark 10:45
"how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. Acts 10:38
Dr. Randy White
Senior Pastor of Without Walls International Church
Dr. Randy White is the powerhouse founder, and Senior Pastor of Without Walls International Church (WWIC), a multiracial, multicultural congregation that has grown from five members to 10,000 members since 1991. Under Dr. White's leadership, Without Walls International Church has twice been named one of the fastest-growing churches in the nation by Church Growth Today.
Known for his dynamic preaching and practical teaching styles, Dr. White brings God's Word to life through sometimes intense, often humorous, and always relevant sermons, and dramatic, entertaining illustrated sermons. He communicates the message of Christ with sincerity while bringing it down to concrete realities for the year 2001 and beyond.
Tenacity and brokenness underscore his success as a respected, and successful evangelist, author and pastor. As an ordained minister he is also known for his pursuit of evangelism and restoration, Randy White comes from a rich heritage of preachers. At age 13, he decided he too would devote his life to ministry by preaching in prisons, on the streets, and in nursing homes.
Still, Randy held on to his dream of becoming a minister. He entered Lee College (now Lee University) and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Ministerial Studies and a Master's Degree in Divinity, and an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters.
His early ministry positions included work with T.L. Lowery - one of the leading pastors in the Church of God denomination, who would later become his mentor. He served on staff with Dr. Lowery and his church of over 5,000 members, for more than 7 years.
In 1990, Randy and his wife Paula, made a leap of faith. They began to reach out to the people that nobody else wanted: the "unchurched", the broken, the derelicts, the Mafia, and the children in the inner cities. Together, in 1991, they eventually opened the doors of South Tampa Christian Center, which would later become Without Walls International Church.
Ten years later, this thriving church has confounded and amazed those who warned the Whites that the "poor" could not support a ministry. Today, Without Wall's membership and the weekly attendance are tangible evidence of its success. Its diverse congregation is a vegetable soup mixture of Africans, African Americans, Whites, Pacific South Islanders, Asians, Hispanics, and Europeans from throughout the world. They are rich, poor, homeless, men, women, children, corporate professionals, CEOs, professional athletes, all searching for one common thing: "Restoration".
Traveling extensively both nationally and internationally, Dr. White's message revolves around the theme of calling people to repentance before God.
He also trains individuals and congregations on how to reach the unchurched, the homeless, and the inner city. Dr. White gives practical and insightful instruction on how to take cities for God.
His vision for the city of Tampa has resulted in more than 200 in-reach and outreach ministries that serve over 15,000 people per week, with an estimated 1,100 conversions weekly. Without Wall's core philosophy is to meet people where they are - and that is often outside the four walls of a church building.
His ministry has been recognized by some of the most influential people of our times, including former U.S. president Bill Clinton, former U.S. president George Bush, Sr., former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, General Colin Powell, former Vice President Dan Quyale and Boxing's heavy weigh champion, Evander Holyfield for its uncommon approach to solving challenges that affect our nation and the world. Dr. White has taught and trained in Russia, Israel, Puerto Rico, Australia, Singapore, Hawaii, Uganda, South Africa, Canada, Germany, England, Holland and throughout the United States
While the Tampa Tribune in an article by Michelle Bearden titled ‘Expensive Walls’ reported about Randy Whites $ 2.1 million home:
TAMPA - When preachers Randy and Paula White bought the $2.1 million red-brick house on Bayshore Boulevard last month, they were already thinking ahead to November. ``We always do a `Table in the Wilderness' Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless,'' says Randy White, senior pastor at Without Walls International Church. ``Now that we have the space to do it in our own yard, we'd like to find a way to bus them here for the party.''
The Whites, who came to Tampa 13 years ago, say they sometimes worried they wouldn't have rent money after they started their church in 1991.
Last year, they claimed a combined income of $600,000. Of that, $179,000 is Randy White's annual salary from Without Walls, a church that claims 15,000 members and brings in $10 million yearly in revenues. Co-pastor Paula White, who is gaining international acclaim as a televangelist and speaker, is paid $120,000. They also receive an $80,000 housing allowance from the church.
`Grossly Underpaid'
The Whites also are accountable to an 18-member church board, which sets their salaries, pension plan and housing allowance. According to an outside financial accounting firm, they are not compensated enough for their work.
``For the size of their church and its revenues, they're grossly underpaid,'' says H. Michael Chitwood, who heads Chitwood & Chitwood financial services company. The Tennessee firm works with nonprofit organizations to determine benefit plans and salaries, based on what the Internal Revenue Service allows.
Neither the Ledger nor the Tribune reported on the fact that Randy White and Karl Strader were CEO's of their religious incorporated non profit organization and what this entails. For the record, none of the major thieving evangelists or CEO’s such Randy White, Kenneth Copeland, Oral Roberts, Rodney Howard Browne, Franklin Graham, Karl Strader or Stephen Strader have earned doctorate degrees never mind a degree in business administration. Secular presidents of universities and non profit charitable organizations have earned doctorate degrees and are qualified to earn their salary unlike many Pentecostal religious leaders who have honorary degrees bestowed on them by Oral Roberts university.
But greedy and thieving TV evangelists always justify what they are doing because they are uncomfortable with their thievery. Richard Dortch, VP of the PTL club, now an ex felon stated that when he was earning very little he didn't care if people knew but when he was stealing $400,000 he didn't want anybody to know? There are always tell a tale signs about their thievery and live styles that give them away.
Unlike Jesus Christ who owned nothing, Televangelists Jan and Paul Crouch who lost their tax exemption for their Trinity Broadcasting Network are definitely not lacking in any material possession. Their home is described as "a palatial estate with ocean and city views and was purchased for around five million dollars. It has six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a billiard room, a climate-controlled wine cellar, a sweeping staircase and a crystal chandelier. The three-story, nearly 9,500-square-foot house, has an elevator, also has a six-car garage, a tennis court and a pool with a fountain.
Trinity Broadcasting, established in 1973, has more than 768 TV stations on the air worldwide. The Crouches oversee a $100-million-plus-a-year enterprise. One of the Crouch estates is TBN's ranch in Colleyville, TX, just minutes away from the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The 80-plus acre ranch contains eight houses and horse stables, is estimated to be worth about $10 million.
Mind you President Clinton did and President Bush does release his total salary and his personal income tax to the public while Billy and Franklin Graham do not. But adulterous and lying Bill Clinton seems to have more integrity and accountability than Southern Baptist Evangelists do in this area?
There is no honest reason for Franklin Graham and his thieving Evangelists friends to hide their salaries unless they are rapists and thieves who use others for their own selfish and secret agendas?
Billy Graham has become a god to Southern Baptists and Evangelicals when to others he is a liar, a thief and a con artist demonstrated by his taking total compensation of over $500,000 annually for the last ten years and not disclosing it to his donors while working less than fifty percent of the time.
His money did not come from God but from the public. His non-profit tax exemption did not come from God but from the public. Lying Lyons supporters argued that if his board approved something that it was all right. But that is not what the Judge who convicted and sentenced Lyons to jail said.
So why are Rev. Jesse Jackson or Southern Baptist Evangelist Billy, Ned or Franklin Graham Hiding Their Total Compensation? How about their friends?
We all know that Billy Graham's favorite verse in the bible is John 3:16 but very few know that his worst verse is John 3:19- 20
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
"And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. "For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. "But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God." John 3:19-21
It is a fact that Jesse Jackson, Billy, Franklin and Ned Graham and Billy Graham Evangelistic Organization love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil. Everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest their deeds should be exposed. And that is why Billy Franklin and Ned Graham and all chairmen of religious non-profit organizations in America hide their total compensation from their donors and the public. So much for their perceived integrity and their real hypocrisy! But what do you want from wolves in sheep’s clothing?
"The sheep are happier of themselves than under the care of the wolves." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.
On May 21, 2003, Charisma News Services reported that “After 27 years at the helm of the evangelistic Power Team, founder John Jacobs has announced his retirement, which he says will be effective in July. On the day Jacobs announced his retirement, his Hummer was repossessed. In an effort to retrieve personal property, Jacobs said he tried to disconnect the vehicle from the tow truck and subsequently damaged other cars in the lot. "It was a stupid thing to do. It certainly wasn't the right choice.
The 43-year-old attributed the May 7 move to the pressure of leading a large ministry coupled with several personal "hits" in the last three years, including a divorce and hasty remarriage that was later annulled, the death of his parents and financial hardship brought on after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
He said the incident did not lead to arrest, and he has agreed to settle with the owner of the tow truck.
Based in Dallas, the Power Team has performed outreaches in churches, prisons and schools across the country and overseas. Made up of 20 world-class athletes, the group has seen thousands come to Christ at events and crusades.
But after Jacobs' divorce in 2000 from his wife of 16 years, several Power Team members left the organization to form a similar group called Team Impact. Jacobs was accused of assaulting one of its members, Jeff Audas, in May 2000, but the misdemeanor assault and battery charge was dropped.
In August 2002, Jacobs filed for personal and ministry bankruptcy, leading to a reorganization of the Power Team and the appointment of a trustee who now oversees the ministry's finances. Jacobs' personal bankruptcy was recently reversed, and he says he is "personally working some things out" with creditors.
Jacobs plans to remarry this summer. He said he is living in an apartment, drives a Ford Taurus and is "really enjoying living the simple life." He asked that Christians pray for him "and to pull for me spiritually. After being with the Power Team for 27 years, it has definitely taken a toll. ... After the load that I've carried and what I've been through, I'd appreciate, really, people's prayers and people's support and people pulling for me."
In America religion should not be a vehicle for wolves in sheep's clothing to get rich but rather a vehicle to help the poor and needy? What happened to the vow of poverty that many catholic monks used to take? The greedy protestant TV evangelists should consider it and the words of Apostle Paul who stated in the book of Acts I have coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel. "Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me: Acts 20:27 But today’s thieving evangelist state “You know that I am rich because of the love offerings and tithes of the dumb sheep!” As Tampa’s South African Evangelist Rodney Howard Browne taught "sheep needed to be fleeced or they would have too much hair and could not see where they are going. It was the pastor’s job to fleece the sheep."
Just because the IRS allows university presidents and other non profit charitable CEO’S to get large compensations doesn't mean that religious leaders such as Randy White should make around a million dollars just like his friend evangelist Benny Hinn! Compare the following resume of Dr. Randy White and the special friends that he knows (http://www.withoutwalls.org/pastor1.htm) and the resume that was made about Jesus Christ:
"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many." Mark 10:45
"how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. Acts 10:38
Dr. Randy White
Senior Pastor of Without Walls International Church
Dr. Randy White is the powerhouse founder, and Senior Pastor of Without Walls International Church (WWIC), a multiracial, multicultural congregation that has grown from five members to 10,000 members since 1991. Under Dr. White's leadership, Without Walls International Church has twice been named one of the fastest-growing churches in the nation by Church Growth Today.
Known for his dynamic preaching and practical teaching styles, Dr. White brings God's Word to life through sometimes intense, often humorous, and always relevant sermons, and dramatic, entertaining illustrated sermons. He communicates the message of Christ with sincerity while bringing it down to concrete realities for the year 2001 and beyond.
Tenacity and brokenness underscore his success as a respected, and successful evangelist, author and pastor. As an ordained minister he is also known for his pursuit of evangelism and restoration, Randy White comes from a rich heritage of preachers. At age 13, he decided he too would devote his life to ministry by preaching in prisons, on the streets, and in nursing homes.
Still, Randy held on to his dream of becoming a minister. He entered Lee College (now Lee University) and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Ministerial Studies and a Master's Degree in Divinity, and an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters.
His early ministry positions included work with T.L. Lowery - one of the leading pastors in the Church of God denomination, who would later become his mentor. He served on staff with Dr. Lowery and his church of over 5,000 members, for more than 7 years.
In 1990, Randy and his wife Paula, made a leap of faith. They began to reach out to the people that nobody else wanted: the "unchurched", the broken, the derelicts, the Mafia, and the children in the inner cities. Together, in 1991, they eventually opened the doors of South Tampa Christian Center, which would later become Without Walls International Church.
Ten years later, this thriving church has confounded and amazed those who warned the Whites that the "poor" could not support a ministry. Today, Without Wall's membership and the weekly attendance are tangible evidence of its success. Its diverse congregation is a vegetable soup mixture of Africans, African Americans, Whites, Pacific South Islanders, Asians, Hispanics, and Europeans from throughout the world. They are rich, poor, homeless, men, women, children, corporate professionals, CEOs, professional athletes, all searching for one common thing: "Restoration".
Traveling extensively both nationally and internationally, Dr. White's message revolves around the theme of calling people to repentance before God.
He also trains individuals and congregations on how to reach the unchurched, the homeless, and the inner city. Dr. White gives practical and insightful instruction on how to take cities for God.
His vision for the city of Tampa has resulted in more than 200 in-reach and outreach ministries that serve over 15,000 people per week, with an estimated 1,100 conversions weekly. Without Wall's core philosophy is to meet people where they are - and that is often outside the four walls of a church building.
His ministry has been recognized by some of the most influential people of our times, including former U.S. president Bill Clinton, former U.S. president George Bush, Sr., former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, General Colin Powell, former Vice President Dan Quyale and Boxing's heavy weigh champion, Evander Holyfield for its uncommon approach to solving challenges that affect our nation and the world. Dr. White has taught and trained in Russia, Israel, Puerto Rico, Australia, Singapore, Hawaii, Uganda, South Africa, Canada, Germany, England, Holland and throughout the United States
While the Tampa Tribune in an article by Michelle Bearden titled ‘Expensive Walls’ reported about Randy Whites $ 2.1 million home:
TAMPA - When preachers Randy and Paula White bought the $2.1 million red-brick house on Bayshore Boulevard last month, they were already thinking ahead to November. ``We always do a `Table in the Wilderness' Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless,'' says Randy White, senior pastor at Without Walls International Church. ``Now that we have the space to do it in our own yard, we'd like to find a way to bus them here for the party.''
The Whites, who came to Tampa 13 years ago, say they sometimes worried they wouldn't have rent money after they started their church in 1991.
Last year, they claimed a combined income of $600,000. Of that, $179,000 is Randy White's annual salary from Without Walls, a church that claims 15,000 members and brings in $10 million yearly in revenues. Co-pastor Paula White, who is gaining international acclaim as a televangelist and speaker, is paid $120,000. They also receive an $80,000 housing allowance from the church.
`Grossly Underpaid'
The Whites also are accountable to an 18-member church board, which sets their salaries, pension plan and housing allowance. According to an outside financial accounting firm, they are not compensated enough for their work.
``For the size of their church and its revenues, they're grossly underpaid,'' says H. Michael Chitwood, who heads Chitwood & Chitwood financial services company. The Tennessee firm works with nonprofit organizations to determine benefit plans and salaries, based on what the Internal Revenue Service allows.
Neither the Ledger nor the Tribune reported on the fact that Randy White and Karl Strader were CEO's of their religious incorporated non profit organization and what this entails. For the record, none of the major thieving evangelists or CEO’s such Randy White, Kenneth Copeland, Oral Roberts, Rodney Howard Browne, Franklin Graham, Karl Strader or Stephen Strader have earned doctorate degrees never mind a degree in business administration. Secular presidents of universities and non profit charitable organizations have earned doctorate degrees and are qualified to earn their salary unlike many Pentecostal religious leaders who have honorary degrees bestowed on them by Oral Roberts university.
But greedy and thieving TV evangelists always justify what they are doing because they are uncomfortable with their thievery. Richard Dortch, VP of the PTL club, now an ex felon stated that when he was earning very little he didn't care if people knew but when he was stealing $400,000 he didn't want anybody to know? There are always tell a tale signs about their thievery and live styles that give them away.
Unlike Jesus Christ who owned nothing, Televangelists Jan and Paul Crouch who lost their tax exemption for their Trinity Broadcasting Network are definitely not lacking in any material possession. Their home is described as "a palatial estate with ocean and city views and was purchased for around five million dollars. It has six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a billiard room, a climate-controlled wine cellar, a sweeping staircase and a crystal chandelier. The three-story, nearly 9,500-square-foot house, has an elevator, also has a six-car garage, a tennis court and a pool with a fountain.
Trinity Broadcasting, established in 1973, has more than 768 TV stations on the air worldwide. The Crouches oversee a $100-million-plus-a-year enterprise. One of the Crouch estates is TBN's ranch in Colleyville, TX, just minutes away from the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The 80-plus acre ranch contains eight houses and horse stables, is estimated to be worth about $10 million.
Mind you President Clinton did and President Bush does release his total salary and his personal income tax to the public while Billy and Franklin Graham do not. But adulterous and lying Bill Clinton seems to have more integrity and accountability than Southern Baptist Evangelists do in this area?
There is no honest reason for Franklin Graham and his thieving Evangelists friends to hide their salaries unless they are rapists and thieves who use others for their own selfish and secret agendas?
Billy Graham has become a god to Southern Baptists and Evangelicals when to others he is a liar, a thief and a con artist demonstrated by his taking total compensation of over $500,000 annually for the last ten years and not disclosing it to his donors while working less than fifty percent of the time.
His money did not come from God but from the public. His non-profit tax exemption did not come from God but from the public. Lying Lyons supporters argued that if his board approved something that it was all right. But that is not what the Judge who convicted and sentenced Lyons to jail said.
So why are Rev. Jesse Jackson or Southern Baptist Evangelist Billy, Ned or Franklin Graham Hiding Their Total Compensation? How about their friends?
We all know that Billy Graham's favorite verse in the bible is John 3:16 but very few know that his worst verse is John 3:19- 20
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
"And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. "For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. "But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God." John 3:19-21
It is a fact that Jesse Jackson, Billy, Franklin and Ned Graham and Billy Graham Evangelistic Organization love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil. Everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest their deeds should be exposed. And that is why Billy Franklin and Ned Graham and all chairmen of religious non-profit organizations in America hide their total compensation from their donors and the public. So much for their perceived integrity and their real hypocrisy! But what do you want from wolves in sheep’s clothing?