Posted on 08/31/2025 6:42:23 PM PDT by Morgana
Pastor David E. Taylor, the name-it-and-claim-it faith-healing and prosperity gospel heretic, was arrested yesterday after the FBI enacted coordinated raids on properties connected to his church, the Kingdom of God Global Church, including on his 29,000 square feet “parsonage” that he purchased in 2022 for $8.3M.
Along with Taylor, Michelle Branon, 56, the church’s executive director, was also arrested, and the two of them were indicted on charges that they used forced labor to generate millions of dollars in donations.
Taylor, who self-identifies as an “apostle”, claims that in 1997 he was “given the keys to the Kingdom of heaven by Jesus in a face-to-face appearance in a dream.” Taylor has parlayed the alleged experience to sell his book Face to Face Appearances from Jesus: The Ultimate Intimacy, in which he claims to offer readers the formula to “Meet Christ face-to-face in person”, as well as several other more typical name-it-and-claim-it promises. According to the WFLA:
The Department of Justice said investigators found that Kingdom of God Global Church was, in fact, a perpetrator of a large human trafficking operation that spanned multiple states like Michigan, Florida, Texas and Missouri.
According to the indictment, Taylor and Bannon established call centers in these states operated by people called “armor bearers.”
“Armor bearers were Taylors’s personal servants who fulfilled Taylor’s demands around the clock,” the DOJ release said. “Taylor and Brannon controlled every aspect of the daily living of their victims. Victims slept in the call center facility or in a ‘ministry’ house, and Taylor and Brannon did not permit them to leave without permission. Taylor demanded that his Armor Bearers transport women from ministry houses, airports, and other locations to Taylor’s location and ensured the women transported to Taylor took Plan B emergency contraceptives.”
The release stated these people would work at these call centers or perform other services for Taylor without pay for long hours.
Federal prosecutors said if the workers did not meet Taylor’s “unattainable” donation goals, they would suffer “public humiliation, additional work, food and shelter restrictions, psychological abuse, forced repentance, sleep deprivation, physical assaults, and threats of divine judgment in the form of sickness, accidents, and eternal damnation.”
The indictment says that Taylor raised more than $50 Million from these people alone, which he then spent on luxury properties, clothing, and vehicles. The two were indicted on the following charges:
Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering: up to 20 years’ imprisonment and a fine up to $500,000 or twice the value of the properties involved in the money laundering transactions.
Conspiracy to Commit Forced Labor: up to 20 years’ imprisonment and a fine up to $250,000.
Forced Labor: up to 20 years’ imprisonment and a fine up to $250,000.
Nice work if you can get it, huh?
The parsonage I grew up in was about 2,000 sq. ft., heated by only a pitiful coal furnace.
Looks like the one from A View to a Kill
One notes that, among the original twelve, it was Judas who held the purse. (John 12)
Great! As a Christian I would love to see these greedy false teachers behind bars for the rest of their life! It angers me so much that my fellow Christians have so little discernment that they are unable to see that these false teachers are really demons who are leading them straight to the lake of fire.
A lot of idiots never read their bibles and have no discernment or common sense.
Hint: If someone is selling you “access” to God, they are a shyster.
Obama gave this grifter a “Lifetime Achievement Award” I believe.
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.”
- Matthew 7:15
I should’ve been a preacher.
Thanks for posting that reminder that Obama gave him the presidential medal of freedom.
https://ministrywatch.com/trial-set-in-case-against-two-of-david-e-taylors-ministries/
According to a notice posted on the IRS website in November 2022, the tax-exempt status of JMMI was revoked in May 2021 for failing to file Form 990s for three consecutive years. Apparently, the status was also revoked in 2010 but was reinstated in 2012.
I’m with you on this one.
Unfortunately.
Looking at you, Joel Osteen.
Sick.
RE: Conspiracy to Commit Forced Labor: up to 20 years’ imprisonment and a fine up to $250,000.
Amazing coincidence (as usual for me). I watched the 1957 movie Untamed Youth last night. Cotton pickers were scarce compared with the bumper crops which would rot or be plowed under so the bad guy set up his woman friend judge to push all of the young people arrested to choose cotton picking over jail time. Turned into slave labor. Boss with two attack dogs kept them in line.
Workers were given dog food and told it was beef stew. One guy: “I don’t what this meat is but I swear it was once under a saddle.”
Movie was one of the 41 films starring Mamie van Doren.
Press Release
Two Self-Professed Religious Leaders Who Used Physical and Psychological Abuse to Coerce Victims to Solicit Tens of Millions in Donations Federally Charged and Arrested
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