In 2017 I received a flyer from the pastors son (who I’ll call Jake) The first service my mom and I attended I noticed there were no crosses hung up on the walls of the church, only earth symbols and three large portraits of three elderly men they called their “founding fathers” which I thought …
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There are also many different leadership styles. Authoritative, dictatorial, democratic, serving. And there are so many types of leadership in life. We grow up in families, with parents. In some cases, it may be other guardians. We go to school and have teachers. We get jobs and have bosses. We join sports teams and have …
A friend I was in the Gulf with later went to the PH in El Paso.He told me that the reason he left was the church was being investigated by the FBI after 9/11 and he was told he would lose his clearance if he kept going to the church. (his job require him to …
In a recent article I mentioned the reasons I had for leaving the church I attended. It is a church in the Netherlands called Evangelie Gemeente de Deur (Gospel Church the Door). It is part of the Christian Fellowship Ministries (CFM), who have churches around the world, also called Potter’s House, and Victory Chapel (not to …
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I squirmed in my uncomfortable plastic fold-up chair and anxiously awaited the end of the seemingly endless prayer I was listening to. I began to hear some strange noises. The woman seated next to me was rocking back and forth muttering under her breath. She gradually became louder and louder until she was yelling at …
In 1999, my family moved to the Netherlands. In South Africa we had attended a Pentecostal church, the Assemblies of God. In the Netherlands we searched for a new church. It took a year for me to find the Door, part of the Christian Fellowship Ministries (CFM). I was really impressed with the strict rules …
The Fellowship’s deviation from it’s own beginnings is graphically illustrated by this simple example.The bylaws of 1980 were abruptly superseded by a new document, in this example renamed a “Covenant”, which reversed the earlier stance of independent churches to complete ownership to Christian Fellowship Churches, aka Wayman. This enabled him to control all the pastors …
I recently watched one of Nomdo’s online damage control sessions. It followed the series of articles in the Reformatorisch Dagblad that exposed the Valk cover-up. Nomdo quoted this text:Psa 84:10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than dwell in …
These recent days, The Door Netherlands has come to the attention of the Dutch government because of an article about healing homosexuality (currently only available in Dutch). The Door, Potter’s House, or any other “church” under ‘Christian Fellowship Ministries’, holds a ‘Public Benefit Organization’ status. This means any donations they receive are deductible from taxes, …
The Potter’s House sign on Northern Avenue. Ken Haywood’s name is still barely visible on the bottom of the sign. India Bombing, Ken Haywood, Campbell White, Door Ministries, Christian Fellowship Ministries ”The only problem is, Campbell White, the firm that Haywood works for, is not a multinational company at all. Or, if it is, it’s …