Child sex abuser quits Meyer ministry

St. Louis Post Dispatch ^ | 12/07/03 | Carolyn Tuft and Bill Smith

[Holly_P]

Nearly every Friday night, Pastor Richard L. Jones led volunteers - often teenagers visiting from churches around the region - through St. Louis streets seeking out homeless to help.

During their weekend visits, the teens would spend days and nights at the St. Louis Dream Center, where they knew Jones as one of several pastors.

[Holly_P]

Meyer is fond of nice things and is willing to spend for them. From an $11,000 French clock in the ministry's Fenton headquarters to a $105,000 Crownline boat docked behind her vacation home at Lake of the Ozarks, it's clear her tastes run more to Perrier than to tap water.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/0/C5099399D2FCC5FA86256DDF00661C5F?OpenDocument

[BooBoo1000]

Hey
she is preaching the word of God. If she makes a buck or two in the process, so be it. At least she is trying to help people. I had both knees replaced, and felt so bad and so down, the only thing on to watch early in the morning, was this lady. She helped me through a lot of pain and suffering. If she lives in a nice house. Good. Would you have her living down by the tracks, just to prove to you she is a good person. Get real..

[Holly_P]

A Jefferson County assessor's list offers a glimpse into the value of many of the items: a $19,000 pair of Dresden vases, six French crystal vases bought for $18,500, an $8,000 Dresden porcelain depicting the Nativity, two $5,800 curio cabinets, a $5,700 porcelain of the Crucifixion, a pair of German porcelain vases bought for $5,200.

The decor includes a $30,000 malachite round table, a $23,000 marble-topped antique commode, a $14,000 custom office bookcase, a $7,000 Stations of the Cross in Dresden porcelain, a $6,300 eagle sculpture on a pedestal, another eagle made of silver bought for $5,000, and numerous paintings purchased for $1,000 to $4,000 each.

Inside Meyer's private office suite sit a conference table and 18 chairs bought for $49,000. The woodwork in the offices of Meyer and her husband cost the ministry $44,000.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/0/C5099399D2FCC5FA86256DDF00661C5F?OpenDocument

[Holly_P]

Meyer's house, the largest of the five, is a 10,000-square-foot Cape Cod style estate home with a guest house and a garage that can be independently heated and cooled and can hold up to eight cars. The three-acre property has a large fountain, a gazebo, a private putting green, a pool and a poolhouse where the ministry recently added a $10,000 bathroom.

[AppyPappy]

WHEW LOOK OUT WORLD THE CHRISTIANS ARE BEING BLESSED!!

And the Devil is doing the blessing.

[Holly_P]

I need me a $10,000 bath room to go in my pool house, oh, wait a minute. I guess I'd need a pool house first..OOPS on me, first I'd need a pool!

In the mean time poor people are saying, "If we only had some ham, we'd have ham and eggs--if we had some eggs"

[Holly_P]

I need me a $10,000 bath room to go in my pool house, oh, wait a minute. I guess I'd need a pool house first..OOPS on me, first I'd need a pool!

In the mean time poor people are saying, "If we only had some ham, we'd have ham and eggs--if we had some eggs"

[Rebelbase]

Its kind of difficult entertain wealthy, mega bucks people who are in need of hearing God's word at their level if you lived in middle class "squalor".

[Holly_P]

..and she does give a healthy 11% a month of her $8,000,000 per month income to charity.

[TrueBeliever9]

I have never been blessed by the devil!

I have been blessed by the LORD God of Israel

Psalm 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits [blessings];

3 Who pardons all your iniquities; Who heals all your diseases;

4 Who redeems your life from the pit; Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion;

5 Who satisfies your years with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle.

[AppyPappy]

But God doesn't buy you a $2M house. The Devil gives those out. For a price.

Choose this day who you will serve.

[Holly_P]

Ole Anthony, head of the Dallas-based religious watchdog Trinity Foundation, says, "She is in the typical genre of the TV evangelists who have become wealthy on the backs of the poorest people they are supposedly ministering to."

The decor includes a $30,000 malachite round table, a $23,000 marble-topped antique commode, a $14,000 custom office bookcase, a $7,000 Stations of the Cross in Dresden porcelain, a $6,300 eagle sculpture on a pedestal, another eagle made of silver bought for $5,000, and numerous paintings purchased for $1,000 to $4,000 each.

Inside Meyer's private office suite sit a conference table and 18 chairs bought for $49,000. The woodwork in the offices of Meyer and her husband cost the ministry $44,000.

[TrueBeliever9]

So in your book the only real estate person in America is Satan? I suppose you think Jesus was poor, and Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Isaiah, Samuel, etc.?

[Artist]

"The ministry said that it hired Jones knowing his background because he had made a "great turnaround in his life." It said the ministry also had consulted with Rice about Jones.

But Rice said no one from Meyer's ministry ever asked about Jones' background.

"If they would have, I would have encouraged them not to have him work around children," said Rice, whose TV station airs Joyce Meyer's television show.

Evidently Rev. Rice didn't think it was important to volunteer the information. Not only that, he helped him get out of jail and gave him land to build a home.

This whole thing is absolutely appalling.

[TrueBeliever9]

Thanks for the inventory Holly_P; I could publish the inventory from my great-great grandfathers house when he died during the Civil War (many luxuries) and none of them came from the devil!

[AppyPappy]

Best, I can tell, the Son of Man had no place to rest his head. David owned another man's wife. It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.....

[Holly_P]

Tell me please what does your grand father have to do with anything?

This woman's "ministry" is a travesty.

By the way the "inventory" is far from complete. If anyone is interested in the entire inventory just click the links I have provided.

The last time I looked, Billy Grahams salary was a modest $75,000 per year - he has a ministry. I don't know though, maybe your grand father did too.

I am not suggesting that ministers should be poor but her life style is obscene.

[TrueBeliever9]

One can pick segments of Scripture out and manipulate them to say what they want: All the disciples were in one Accord! [That doesn't mean they were riding in a Honda].

Joseph, Mary's husband, wasn't some poor outcast. You don't pay taxes unless you have money - then and now! David was a man after God's heart. And to go through the eye of the needle means that an animal knows his Creator and it is easier for an animal to go into Holiness because he knows his Creator! There are plenty of men who had great wealth in heaven, I hope you get to meet some of them.

[matrix2225]

Why did they hire him in first place, if they knew his past?

[AppyPappy]

I don't think this pastorette needs a $2M house to keep her ministry afloat. It sounds to me like she has decided who she will serve. A (wo)man cannot have two masters.