Family Feud Reveals Luxuries At Largest Christian TV Network [Televangelist Crooks Galore!]

Family Feud Reveals Luxuries At Largest Christian TV Network Granddaughter attacks founders, who accuse her of embezzlement

The Trinity Broadcasting Network, which also runs the Holy Land Experience theme park in Orlando, Fla., is at the center of a family battle.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — For 39 years, the Trinity Broadcasting Network has urged viewers to give generously and reap the Lord’s bounty in return.

The prosperity gospel preached by Paul and Janice Crouch, who built a single station into the world’s largest Christian television network, has worked out well for them.

Mr. and Mrs. Crouch have his-and-her mansions one street apart in a gated community here, provided by the network using viewer donations and tax-free earnings. But Mrs. Crouch, 74, rarely sleeps in the $5.6 million house with tennis court and pool. She mostly lives in a large company house near Orlando, Fla., where she runs a side business, the Holy Land Experience theme park. Mr. Crouch, 78, has an adjacent home there too, but rarely visits. Its occupant is often a security guard who doubles as Mrs. Crouch’s chauffeur.

The twin sets of luxury homes only hint at the high living enjoyed by the Crouches, inspirational television personalities whose multitudes of stations and satellite signals reach millions of worshipers across the globe. Almost since they started in the 1970s, the couple have been criticized for secrecy about their use of donations, which totaled $93 million in 2010.

Now, after an upheaval with Shakespearean echoes, one son in this first family of televangelism has ousted the other to become the heir apparent. A granddaughter, who was in charge of TBN’s finances, has gone public with the most detailed allegations of financial improprieties yet, which TBN has denied, saying its practices were audited and legal.

Now in the midst of this semi-good natured ribbing of television evangelifrauds, I DO want to put in a good word for one of them, he may appear flamboyant, some might say that he is quick to smack the forehead with a resounding *YAY-YUH* !!! but I am here to tell you that in late 2003, I actually received a true healing from the man, it wasn't all in my mind, and he never so much as hinted at my giving a donation, in fact our meeting was private and 'off the grid', and he was quick to take NO credit for what was a miraculous healing, and gave all the Glory to God.

Interesting. As you don’t mention what you needed to be healed from it’s hard to determine what sort of healing you actually received. If you were suffering from some sort of emotional affliction, I’m sure a kind word and some encouragement from a stranger, any stranger, could be healing if you were looking to be healed in the first place. In that case it wasn’t the healer that healed you but the reinforcement of what you probably already knew, a bit of common sense, a kind word that helped you. That wasn’t a miracle.

If you had some medical condition, Earnest Angley’s words to you likely had nothing to do with it. Without knowing if you were under a doctor’s care, perhaps your healing had more to with him than with Angley. Or perhaps you thought you were ill and weren’t or you were misdiagnosed in the first place. Again, this would not be a miracle.

That Angely didn’t hit you up for a donation and gave all the Glory to God doesn’t mean he (Angely) gave you “true healing” and that he isn’t a con man. Understand that sometimes con artists will walk away from a mark. Perhaps he didn’t think you were worth enough or perhaps he thought you would do better as someone who could help him set up other, more lucrative marks. Sometime con artists use “shills” to lubricate the wallets of the “whales”.

“Shills, also known as accomplices, help manipulate the mark into accepting the con man's plan. In a traditional confidence trick, the mark is led to believe that he will be able to win money or some other prize by doing some task. The accomplices may pretend to be strangers who have benefited from performing the task in the past.”

I believe he is sincere, and I will never say an unkind word about him.

See what happened there, you are an unknowing shill in the con game that is Earnest Angley. Nobody ever said he wasn’t a good con artist.

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