A few days ago I reported about a “pastor” and his wife who were arrested, accused of some shoddy dealings with an 80+ year old man.  I reported HERE

UPDATE:

Press on THIS LINK to find a news release from Ventura County District Attorney Gregory D. Totten about this case.

The news release features husband and wife, Alonzo Gene McCowan (DOB 7/5/60) and Kimberly Ann Oglesby McCowan (DOB 11/6/63).  GO HERE to see their website and church video.

Alonzo Gene McCowan faces 15 years if convicted.

Lonnie McCowan’s attorney, Ron Bamieh, said the case “is much ado about not a whole lot,” adding that Gilmond’s lawsuit against the McCowans was settled last year with Gilmond getting monetary compensation.
“Now, they are taking a civil case and trying to make it a criminal case, and that will be the fight we have in the next few months,” Bamieh said. He said $500,000 bail was excessive.

Hold up. Back up. Did this attorney say that:

a. This case is much ado about “not a whole lot”
b. There was monetary compensation to the victim

Monetary settlement to the victim means that there was money OWED to the victim.

Hicktowners, keep me updated on this case. It will be interesting to see if this “pastor” does any time.

People, you had better support and protect your elderly relatives!

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OUCH!  Can you imagine being an adult, supposed Christian and you find yourself with handcuffs?  I would be humiliated. 

“Rev.” Alonzo McCowan and his wife, Kimberly Ann Oglesby McCowan were both arrested, charged with theft from an elderly person, money laundering and grand theft.

According to reports, an elderly man turned over his home to them and he did not get paid.  WHERE are the families of these elderly people?  Their families need to protect them!  Wolves abound.

The Camarillo couple allegedly got now-86-year-old Leo Gilmond to sign over the deed to his Ventura house, saying the church needed a rental for church dignitaries and students. Gilmond wasn’t paid the promised $460,000.

Hat tip to Evangelist ET for story lead

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It’s been a minute since I’ve posted any articles about bad boy “ministers”. I just needed a rest. When I did a poll recently asking Hicktowners what types of articles they wanted me to post, at the top of the list was articles about rogue “ministers”. So it’s time to get back to it.

This article is about a “priest” named David Dueppen. I reported recently about Priest Cutie who was caught on a beach in Miami getting his groove on with a woman whom he later married. Good for him, actually. At least he married a woman and was in a relationship with a woman as opposed to a child. So I have nothing but love and respect for Priest Cutie-pie….um Cutie.

Well Florida has its share of priests who are giving up on trying to stay true to those ridiculous celibacy vows. Check this out:

She was an exotic dancer at a Miami strip club called Porky’s. He showed up wearing a Hawaiian shirt, eager to share a night in the VIP lounge.
They began a torrid, on-and-off love affair that ended for good in January, after she gave birth to a daughter she says is his. Now, she wants child support and has filed a restraining order against him.

Uh…apparently the mother of his alleged baby now views the priest as satan himself:

Former stripper Beatrice Hernandez filed the restraining order last week, claiming that an argument over paternity and child support escalated when Dueppen began “grabbing her by the throat and choking her.”
“He is the devil,” said Hernandez, 42, of Miami, who provided DNA test results naming Dueppen as the father. “He is the devil dressed as an angel.”

Hmmmmmmm……Under normal circumstances, I’d invite the good “priest” to sit on Hicktown’s hotseat but since he’s being accused of being the devil…a hot seat may not be enough!

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Hat tip to Evangelist ET for lead

Church Without Walls is in the news again.  You all remember when the Whites shocked everyone with their divorce announcement. Then eyebrows raised when Paula moved to Texas to help her partner, playboy Rick Hawkins with his “church”.   Link and Link

As it turns out, he ended up being struck with all types of sexual harassment allegations so he closed down his “church” and opened an “epicenter”.  And Paula, for her part, became a “life coach”.

Randy White at one point had put the church up for sale.  And now he has resigned as pastor of that church and guess who’s taking over?

That’s right. Paula White is returning to the church as pastor.  No work yet on whether playboy, Rick Hawkins will follow or whether or not they have broken up:

One week after her ex-husband resigned as senior pastor of Without Walls International Church, Paula White plans to take the pulpit Sunday as the church’s new leader, the Whites said in separate interviews late Friday.

White, who held her first staff meeting Friday and spent time looking for a place to live, said she will officially take the reins when she preaches at its two morning worship services. The services will also honor Bishop Randy White, who founded the church with her 18 years ago.

“Did I see it coming? … I can say that Without Walls has never been out of my heart or my being, and I’ve never been out of theirs,” she said. “But I have stopped trying to figure out sovereignty and destiny.”

Word of Paula White’s new post seeped out Sunday when Randy White preached his last sermon as senior pastor at the church and resigned. White, 51, said he was stepping aside because of health concerns. He declined to elaborate on his condition, although he said he had been ill and in and out of the hospital for much of the last seven months.

“I have some serious health issues right now,” White said in an interview Friday. “I’ve had six different doctors say that I had to take the stress, the pressure out of my life. So I’ve resigned, and Paula’s taking over.”

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Hat tip to Deputy Monica for story lead

The odd, evil looking entity in the picture above is “Nuhlimkilaka”.  In the Indian culture he is known as the “bringer of confusion”.

And surely the bringer of confusion is active in the church world today.  Case in point:

From time to time I peek in on Juanita Bynum to see what she is up to.  Her blog/website is very revealing.

Although most people have written her off, she is still God’s child and He is very much concerned about her. So am I. Juanita Bynum is a talented woman. And she’s gifted. I believe that God truly has anointed and called her.

But do you know that the devil will test a gift and fight to throw a Christian off course?

GO HERE  to read one of the best articles out there on the spirit of confusion. Juanita Bynum is a confused woman and that article, written by Minister Don Nicely, will shed light on her ilk—because clearly there are others out there who are like her.

She recently changed her name to Juanita Bynum II. What on earth sense does that make? If you check out her blog, she no longer calls herself a prophetess and does not allude to being a minister or preacher at all.

The titles that she has listed are:

Actress

Entrepreneur

Author

Recording Artist

Empowerment Lecturer

Back up. Back alllllll the way up. Empowerment Lecturer? What in the hay is that?  That’s worldly stuff. No place in scripture is there mention of any empowerment lecturers.

She even tried her hand at DJing  for a while, though I have no idea what came of that.

This is the same garbage that Paula White went through when she started calling herself a “life coach”  and “motivational speaker”.  Again, that is the world’s language.  On top of that, she fell so hard that she even was tied in with this loser (still might be, as I have not followed up on that story).

I don’t know whether or not you all have noticed, but the devil is making an in-road which is significant.

This is not about Juanita Bynum. This is about the spirit that has thrust her into a ball of confusion. This is not about Paula or Randy White, but the spirit of confusion that destroyed their marriage and caused them to live a lie before the public.

This is not about T.D. Jakes. It’s about that spirit of confusion that sent his son away from a multi-million dollar mansion into some woods to engage in perverted acts with strange men who could have HIV or AIDS. And T.D. Jakes has backed off of preaching a firm gospel.

I believe that the backing off is directly related to his son. Instead of confronting the wicked spirit that is controlling the son, Jakes deals with it by putting sugar in God’s Word—the word that God says will remain the same yesterday, today and forever.

What this is about is a very methodical dismantling of scripture and the powerhouses that were bringing scripture to this nation via television and satellite.

When was the last time you watched TBN?  It is so watered down that I have not seen it in at least 5 years. The Spirit of God left that network long ago—although we know that God is everywhere.

Before our very eyes you are witnessing cloaks being removed by God and you are seeing the works of the devil as he spins and crafts confusion to Christians who obviously were planted on a very week spiritual foundation.

Stay alert, saints. Watch and wait.  The spirit of confusion is not from God. In fact, scripture warns us that a double minded man is unstable in ALL his ways. Hold tight to your mind. It’s your greatest gift!

By:  Lynn

Have you all ever head the saying: It is better to give than receive? Well apparently, either the “Rev.”  Patrick Dunne does not believe that saying or he has never heard it. Check out the allegations:

The Rev. Patrick Dunne was solemn and silent yesterday as he entered a not-guilty plea to stealing $432,000 from his White Plains church, including money intended for Hurricane Katrina victims.

Dunne, the 63-year-old former pastor at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, was arraigned in state Supreme Court in White Plains on an indictment charging him with second-degree grand larceny. He is accused of stealing the money over a six-year period and using it for personal expenses and recreation, including gambling.

The case went to a grand jury last week after months of negotiations between prosecutors and Dunne’s lawyer failed to produce a plea bargain. Dunne, pastor of the Mamaroneck Avenue church since 1991, is facing up to 15 years in prison on the felony charge.

No comment!

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Hat tip:  Evangelist ET

By:  Lynn

     “Pastor” Alfred F. White of Kansas City, Kansas, PLEASE take your rightful place on Hicktown’s hotseat.

Sir, where exactly do I begin with the questions I have for you?

a. Are you engaged in the sin of adultery and/or fornication?

b. Do you even believe that adultery is sin?

c. Do you teach your church about fornication and adultery?

d. Can you explain why/how it is that a woman is now accusing you of fathering her child outside of wedlock. She is further accusing you of beating her almost to death because you denied that the child is yours and commenced to laying on of unholy hands. Can you explain any of this?      

A metro pastor faces felony assault charges after a bleeding and beaten woman showed up at a stranger’s doorstep accusing the man of beating her.

Alfred F. White, 54, a pastor at the Community Missionary Baptist Church in Kansas City, Kansas, is charged with first-degree domestic assault in the incident.

Hicktowners, you all can read this for yourself but check this out:

Young says she found the 34 year-old woman on her porch curled in a ball and covered with blood that was gushing out of her head. According to authorities, the victim’s temporal artery was found to be severed as a result of blunt force trauma.

Scary what’s sitting up in pulpits calling themselves pastors!

Hat tip to Evangelist ET for story lead

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by Deputy Diva

Hey “Pastor,” what is this I hear about you allegedly stealing $85,000 from your congregation so that you could get plastic surgery, botox shots and some fancy new duds?

I thought we are all made in God’s image?  Are you that unhappy with the face that God gave you that you had to reportedly STEAL from your congregants to ‘make it look perhaps more youthful’? 

What’s wrong ‘Pastor’?   Is your jaw too tight from those botox injections that you can’t respond?

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (WPIX) — Law enforcement officials say 66-year-old Rev. William Blasingame stole nearly $85,000 from his congregation in order to pay for plastic surgery, botox shots and expensive clothes.

The landmark St. Paul’s Memorial Episcopal Church has been shaken by the alleged stomping of the Eighth Commandment (“Thou shalt not steal”), as parishioners grapple with the idea that the man that they said looked so good could have treated them so badly.

Authorities say Blasingame wrote checks to himself from the account that was targeted for maintenance, upkeep and beautification of the church grounds. That money was also supposed to go to parishioners in need.  SOURCE

Hmmmm… the money was supposed to go to needy parishioners.  I guess the good ‘Pastor’ decided his NEEDING to look good more was way more important than those needy people whom he looked at each week, obviously without any guilt, remorse or shame. 

By:  Lynn Green

There is something peculiar in the Louisiana air.  For the second time in two weeks, I’m reporting on a Louisiana church that is trying to oust a pastor.

More and more church members are fighting back. The people of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church are in the process of trying to oust their pastor, Donald Robinson. They are accusing him of not accounting for $20,000 that he got during the Katrina tragedy. He was supposed to use the money to repair his church. He has not done so. With that in mind….what exactly did he do with the money? He’s not talking:

“He took a catastrophe and turned it into an opportunity for himself,” said Claudell Riddle, a member of the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church congregation. “And we are getting to the bottom of it.”

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Hat tip to Hicktowner, Destiny’s Lady for lead

By:  Lynn Green

“Pastor” Patrick Dennis has put his MySpace page on private now that his church has filed a lawsuit accusing him of hitting someone with a baseball bat and bedding down and impregnating members.

However, I noticed when his page was still open that he had a HUGE game ad posted. It’s a game called “Mobsters”. And the way the game is set up, a person is supposedly a “petty thief” who—over time, builds up a posse of gang members/hoodlums and he works his way up to a head mafia man/woman.  In the game, he performs “hits” on people’s lives, etc.

That’s a “game” that this “pastor” is encouraging others to join.

One of his boys has the ad on his Myspace page also—helping “Pastor” Dennis find mob members.  NOTICE:  They are engaged in damage control so his “boy” might take the ad down or lock up his MySpace page so you all don’t see it:

Check this out—from the MySpace page of another “Pastor”, friend of Patrick’s:

Pastor Patrick Dennis wants you to join their mob in Mobsters, a Mafia-style combat game played on MySpace.

Start out as a petty thief and work your way up to become a Mob Don!

You know what scares me? He actually had members following him and sitting under him in church. SCARY!