Things that make you go hmmmmm

Here is another interesting thing that happened as I started looking into all these things about House of Prayer.

As you recall (or can look up on these blogs), church member Cesar Vargas was quoted in a newspaper story as he vehemently denied the church is a cult. In that story he was quoted to say:

“We know several people that left our church have been making prank calls to several places,” he said. “The fire marshal was called and told a bunch of lies about the safety of the church. He came out, inspected, and everything was fine. Several church members have had Child Protective Services called to their home for no reason, no nefarious activity or child abuse/neglect has been found. We were able to obtain copies of the phone complaints, and we recognize the voices of former members. We are considering soliciting the help of local law enforcement.”

Immediately following that story I got an email from a concerned wife of a former pastor of House of Prayer.
The email was dated 7/7/2017.

Hi Patty,I had a concern not even sure if it's true or not, but how was it even possible that law enforcement and Social Services turned over tapes to HOPCC of people calling, is this possible? and isn't that a breech of people's safety and welfare for the law enforcement to do such a thing? I mean that would prohibit people from calling out child endangerment cases because of something like this. I

She wanted to know if it could be true that somehow members of HOPCC got audio tapes of calls made to DFACS.

I replied 7/8/2017:

I am not sure about how Child Protective Services works....if the calls go only to CPS I am not sure how they are handled.

I found a document online that explained exactly who and how people may or can access information on child abuse complaints and cases. This document is VERY specific and on page 19 states the requirements for the state of Georgia. 
You can view that document here:
Child Disclosure Act

In the email I went on to explain how open records can be requested for police reports  and also how certain documents, when used in court can be found through a public records search at the count clerk's office. I even said that I thought Cesar said that as a scare tactic and that I highly doubted the HOPCC folks actually had audiotapes from DFACS.

Remember what Cesar Vargas said:

"We were able to obtain copies of the phone complaints, and we recognize the voices of former members."

VOICES...AS IN AUDIO. Well it turns out they may have gained access to items they shouldn't have had access to. Fox 28 news reporter Robert Catanese broke open the story at the beginning of this year:

Liberty County DFCS employee dismissed after internal audit

It could very well be that HOPCC had inside information for however many years Marshel Webb was employed there. 

The former pastor referenced in the Fox 28 story was calling to report on the abuse he had heard that happened to Lynette Rosario and the other girls while in Stuart Florida with Rony Denis. If you have yet to hear that, here is the link:

Interview with Lynette Rosario regarding beatings

So much more to come. Sorry it's taking a while but my work has kept me busy. Still need to tell you Arlen's story and also how the church may be getting funded by the city of Hinesville. Yep, you read that correctly. Stayed tuned.

How many homes does a church need?

One of the main things that most former members of House of Prayer allege (and is something that most people already somewhat familiar with this place already knows) is that House of Prayer owns roughly 200 plus home in the Hinesville, Liberty County area.

Now they don't own every home in the name of the church. They avoid that as much as possible but there are a few listed under House of Prayer.

So what?

Well here is what usually happens.
The church convinces a member  to sign over their house to the church. Their "Go-To" specialist in this arena is Anthony Oloans. So he gets Power of Attorney under the various "Property management companies" they have.

The people get to remain in their home and now pay their mortgage to Oloans and company. In the meantime the church is re-financing and getting all the equity out of the house. They often let the home go into foreclosure, and then purchase the home under the name of another church member and continue the vicious cycle.
In other words they tend to pocket as much of the money they can for the "church" but primarily for Rony Denis, who is supposedly renting a mansion in Stuart Florida (where he beat the girls) and has not one but two Rolls Royce.

It is alleged that Oloans has forged signatures and has bought homes in the names of church members without their knowledge.

The first property management firm the church ran under Oloans was called People Helping People. As I noted in my real estate fraud story in the newspaper, that company was placed on the Fort Stewart Off limits list in 2011 and remains there today.

Anthony Oloans is named as an officer under a company called Centex Management and also Union Park LLC.
Union Park LLC

Centex

This research is still underway but you can easily look on the County's property tax site and find what I did.

Union Park LLC owns 10 homes to include the one that Rony Denis' was residing in until the stories and the heat made the coward run for cover and out of sight. That house is 428 Willow Oak.
Union Park owns:
310 Floyd Street
401 Club Dr.
634 Varnedoe
701 Little John
819 Forest
412 and 428 Willow Oak
2033 Andover
605 Georgia
1804 Blair Ct

And these are just the ones under Union Park. Multiply this by the hundred or so members that may have houses under their names.

I'll be posting some more on this after I get a chance to scan documents this weekend.

But I also think there is some fraud going on. As one example, Arlen and his former wife Christy A Bradeen recently went through a divorce after he "Escaped" and his wife and daughter chose to listen to lies Rony said about him and stay at House of Prayer.

Anyone can look this up in public records. Again I am only posting portions that need to be posted as the whole file contains personal information on both parties that aren't relevant to this particular issue.

Under the name of Christy A Bradeen there are two properties:

800 Forest

1818 Blair Court

Well okay people tend to own more than one home at times.
But how did she get the loans under her name?

According to court records Christy Bradeen testified that she has never earned a paycheck or has held a job for the last 30 years or more!!

Yet she is clearly listed as the owner.

I asked Arlen about this. He said that during the discovery portion of his divorce his lawyer showed him Christy' s paperwork for the home loans.

Those papers noted that said she she earned $12,000 PER MONTH as being part of the ministry...doesn't say what church....and again no W-4's, W-2's or tax returns.
Yes she has a bank account but noting that would show she would qualify for the loan amounts of these two high priced homes.

Also if you've been following this blog House of Prayer practices under the principles of Old Time Holy Pentecostal. There is NO WAY they would allow a woman to run a ministry!

Also both of these homes are currently under foreclosure proceedings.
Hmmm.

Think about what would happen if Rony Denis pulled the entire church group to Augusta (where there is already another branch of HOPCC) and let all 200 home go under after pulling all the equity out of them!

How can everyone in ministry suddenly all be gay?

Some of the emails I started to get (everyone in the office got) were to point me in the right direction and prove that the church was not a cult.

This is a touchy post as it mentions the gay-lifestyle. Please remember these are not my views but the views of those in House of Prayer as taught to them based on their interpretation of the Bible or by their leader Rony Denis.

In no way am I condoning their interpretation and this post is not an open invitation to share your personal views of that lifestyle. I love everyone regardless of race, religion and sexual orientation. 

There is plenty of hatred already in the world. It is also not for me to judge.

In fact I’ll start and give credit where credit is due. As I’ve said before not everyone in House of Prayer is a bad person or manipulator or a greed mongering leader.

Many are just folks who truly believe they are in a place of worship that is serving God.

I got one email from CJ Vargas that was dated 7/3/2017 and it starts out talking about the good things he and the church have done:

“I have been a part of the food bank/homeless ministry, nursing home ministry, and are beginning our jail ministry soon. I would love to invite you to one of our next community outreach events so that you can see firsthand the good things that God is doing right here in our community. We go into lower income areas Hinesville and surrounding areas to bring spiritual relief because many of these people seem to be neglected and forgotten. From time to time in some of the worst areas of town you see us talking to those who are hurting and forgotten. In the worst trailer parks in Hinesville and the surrounding area you will find us ministering. We are a church made up of people who were bound by the power of Satan, but have now been set free. We are free to serve God, not a man.”

Then he lost me a bit when he worded his next sentence in the following manner (And I think he was GUIDED by Denis on what to write):

“We love people from all walks of life. In our church you see whites, Negroes, Latinos and Asian. There are even some that were formally gay, truly we are a church of all nations.” 

Again this was written in 2017 and I just thought it harsh to see that he used the “N” word instead of the more commonly used African American. Maybe since they practice Old-Time Pentecostal he used that word which was used a lot in older times. I also think he meant to say formerly gay not formally.

CJ went on to write:

“This is another point of confusion about our church. We are not “anti-gay”. We believe the Bible’s teachings about traditional marriage, just like we believe its teachings regarding murder.

The Bible says:

“Therefore, shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Genesis 2:24

 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers themselves with of mankind, ……I Corinthians 6:9

That is what this is all about Ms. Patty. There were some ministers who were living very ungodly and did not want to be exposed for their immoral closet lifestyle. They were here for over 12 years, and could not accept the Biblical standards for the ministry. We do not condemn Gays or gay people, but we love them enough to want to help see them delivered by the blood of Jesus Christ.

The only time we would even expose someone’s sexuality is if they are in the ministry. We will not tolerate Gays and lesbians behind the pulpit. Again, this is not because we hate them, but because we want them to be delivered. Many people in our church have been delivered from drugs and all manner of immoral lifestyles, including homosexuality.

 Again, we serve Jesus Christ, he is our leader. Denis is not the leader, it is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. It is God that does not want Homosexuals or bi-sexuals in his pulpit, just as much as he doesn’t want liars or adulterers.

 In an email from Jeff Derby dated 7/4/2017, Derby said the church is not homophobic, but the church believes it can deliver these folks out of the sin of being homosexual and that HOPCC “will never accept gay minister.”

But this is what I’ve learned:

There are at least 5 former HOPCC Pastors that were kicked out or left after challenging the church.

Denis accused all five of being homosexual or child molesters only AFTER they left or were ousted. Denis then proceeded to announce this in front of the entire congregation, including the children. He spread this lie across all the affiliates’ churches as well.

It truly believe it is a lie.

I know of or know personally at least three of the five men and they were all STRAIGHT MARRIED MEN.

One of the former pastors lives in North Carolina, still with his wife and kids. They are lucky and got out. The whole family together.

The other two men are also still with their wives who left when they did.

One man is Arlen Bradeen who I’ve mentioned before and will soon be posting his devastating story. Denis ruined his marriage of 30 years. Bradeen is now kept away from his former wife and his daughter. I’ve talked to many folks in the community, and they all say the same thing about Arlen Bradeen. He is a great guy and didn’t and doesn’t deserve what happened.

When you hear the awful Denis said about him in front of hundreds of church members and kids it will have you in tears as it did Bradeen and I when he told me his story.

And within a week of the divorce his ex is already paired off and about to marry a man Denis chose for her.

Go back for a second a look again at what CJ Vargas said:

There were some ministers who were living very ungodly and did not want to be exposed for their immoral closet lifestyle. They were here for over 12 years, and could not accept the Biblical standards for the ministry.

The only time we would even expose someone’s sexuality is if they are in the ministry. We will not tolerate Gays and lesbians behind the pulpit.

The truth is the only time church members were told or learned that these “ministers were gay,” was after they were kicked out.

I know the pastor of 12 years that CJ was talking about. CJ and this former pastor had an exchange of words during a town hall event that I was there to cover. And it is well-known that Denis dislikes the man and the others who are trying to show people what is really transpiring behind those hidden walls.

And how is it that each and every person they throw out of that church is gay?

Come on!

“Gay” is something Denis has taught everyone to fear. So once Denis removes someone from the church he labels them gay KNOWING the church members will not want to associate or even with that person even if they were best friends…even if they were siblings…..even if they were husband and wife.

Just another form of control, manipulation, deceit and fear-mongering.

Definition of a master manipulator from Psychology Today: Most manipulative individuals have four common characteristics:

1.      They know how to detect your weaknesses.

2.      Once found, they use your weaknesses against you.

3.      Through their shrewd machinations, they convince you to give up something of yourself in order to serve their self-centered interests.

4.      In work, social, and family situations, once a manipulator succeeds in taking advantage of you, he or she will likely repeat the violation until you put a stop to the exploitation.

Here is a nice picture of Rony Denis mocking former members.