Didn't he go to jail a few years ago for scamming people out of their hard earned dollars?
James Orsen “Jim” Bakker (pronounced “Baker”; born January 2, 1940) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister and a former host (with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.
A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry. Subsequent revelations of accounting fraud brought about his imprisonment and divorce. He later remarried and returned to televangelism.
I don’t think it was just any people. I believe Bakker specialized in convincing little old ladies who lived on their social security check to cough up their Ensure money for God.