A little more background on how everything started to unfold: Hear from former and current members

Here are two more stories that I did covering the information about House of Prayer for the newspaper. Both of these article were within weeks of the first article of May 2017.

Article 1:

Church draws focus of activist

Posted online June 14, 2019, 9:56 a.m.

Bobby Worthy apparently isn’t one to keep quiet if he thinks civil liberties are being violated.
Worthy is the outspoken founder, president and chief executive officer of Justice League United, a non-profit organization based in his home town of Blackshear.

Worthy, an avid political activist, has traveled across the nation as a civil rights activist. Recently he’s been advocating on behalf of former members of the House of Prayer Christian Church. He also said he’s looking after Liberty County taxpayers.

Worthy attended the May 19-21 protests when former members of the Airport Road church claimed its leaders are running a cult.

Worthy plans to hold his own public meeting June 22 with former HOPCC members who claim family members still in the church are being distanced or cut-off from them. 

Let me ad some information here. Worthy made some unfounded claims about law enforcement being paid by the church. It was completely FALSE and untrue. Law Enforcement Officers routinely get hired to duty off-duty security at events and functions and are allowed by law to do so and be in uniform and even in their patrol cars. During the May protest the church had hired off-duty officers for security reasons. I've hired off-duty officers for Courier newspaper events. The Chamber hires off-duty officers for events. It is common practice and not illegal as he tried to claim. That made me suspicious of Bobby Worthy  so I looked into his records and found that:

He was convicted of felony forgery in Ware County.

The forgery charges covered Ware, Liberty and Wayne County.

According to the Georgia Department of corrections Worthy was in and out of jail between 1990 until 1998.

According to a news report on Douglas Now, Worthy was convicted of theft by deception in October of 2015 in Ware County and was sentenced to one year probation.

I promptly stayed away from him as any type of source. I also warned former members about him. He states he is trying to help but he also seems to ask for funds to cover his costs. 

But he did hold that meeting which was reported on. Here is article 2:

Tempers flare during, after meeting

Posted online June 28, 2017, 8:33 a.m.

A June 21 meeting billed as a town hall for former members of the House of Prayer Christian Church nearly led to fistfights as tempers flared.

The contentious meeting inside the Liberty County Recreation Department’s Stafford Pavilion was organized by activist Bobby Worthy.

Former members used the platform to attack the church and its leader, while current members of the church interrupted speakers and defended the church.

The meeting quickly turned confrontational and led Worthy to demand church members leave if they weren’t respectful.

Once church members left the meeting continued.

Among those who spoke out against the church was the Rev. Ray Yorke, who said he and his wife came from North Carolina to attend the meeting.

Yorke said he was a pastor at HOPCC for 12 years. He claims the church and its leader, Rony Denis, are frauds and has created a website, hopcc.com to allow former members to tell their stories.

Yorke claims church leaders are forging documents, manipulating the members of the congregation, harassing former members with scare tactics and committing fraud.

As he spoke, current church members continually interrupted Yorke, including Cesar Vargas and Mike Patterson, both of whom stepped up to the podium to speak.

Vargas said he wanted people to know that Yorke willingly took money Denis paid him during his 12 years at HOPCC.

Patterson repeatedly asked whether God or the Devil started the House of Prayer.

Yorke replied that Denis founded HOPCC and said, “God doesn’t start a lie to answer your question. (The church) is a fraud and all of you know it is.”

Family dispute
Vargas and his mother, Gladys Jordan, a former church member, clashed at a public protest in May. Jordan, who was also at the June 21 meeting, noted both Vargas and Patterson were wearing blue tooth earpieces and said that others from the church had brought in cell phones.

Jordan said the church doesn’t allow its members to own cell phones, computers, television or access to the internet because they consider those a portal of the devil to spread lies.

She claimed it likely that Denis allowed them access to technology to video the event and tell Patterson and Vargas what to say.

Jordan has been trying to convince her older son to leave the church and said at the May protest that she and her two sons joined HOPCC when it formed in 2004.

She claimed she was “cast out” when she started questioning leadership and the church’s unaccredited education program.

Jordan’s younger son was also expelled from the church for the same reason, she said.

Jordan said children at the church will never receive a high school diploma and will stay stuck in the corrupted system.

Worthy said he’s met three young men who are ex-church members struggling to get higher education because they had no diploma and tested at an eighth grade level.

“This is the kind of stuff that the House of Prayer is bringing into our neighborhood,” Worthy said.

Serious allegation
An even more serious allegation was made when Jordan said Denis and the man who run the school have admitted, during church testimonies that they lust after young kids.

In a Hinesville Police Department incident report dated Dec. 15, 2016, a representative from the Department of Family and Children Services was escorted by HPD officers to a home owned by House of Prayer and allegedly occupied by Denis, his wife and their daughter.

NOTE: The Courier obtained a copy of the report which does show the address where Rony Denis lived at the time. It does mention his wife Majorie Denis and daughter Mariah Denis but it appears that the officer kept spelling their last names as Dennis and listed the name Juan Denis instead of Rony. There is no Juan Denis. There will be more on this for sure!

Scuffle in parking lot
After the June 21 meeting broke up, another confrontation occurred in the parking lot as church goers waited for the people to exit the building.

Tensions rose and two people pushed each other before calmer heads prevailed.

Yorke said church officials are trying to distance themselves from allegations and have changed the name of the church to the Place of Help Prayer Force.

The church, located off Airport Road, has placed up new signs with those names.

As you can see this second article started the conversation about the school and its credibility. If you’ve heard the recordings posted on my Bump Investigations Ministry Inc., page you know that Lynette Rosario and Andrew Lawhon found out the hard way that in fact the school stopped being accredited around 2013 when they changed their curriculum provider. Their "School transcripts" were WORTHLESS.

Tonight I’ll post that education article and information on why I think (my personal opinion) these kids are being denied proper education and why they can continue running the school the way they do.

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