Television Jim BakkerWho was at the heart of one of the most notorious religious scandals of the 1980s, says he desperately needs money right now.
And if he does not get $ 1 million, he will lose everything and will be homeless.
“If everyone who looks at this program will give $ 1,000, we will be able to pay our bills and stay on the waves”, ” He said in his show Tuesday. “Otherwise, we had about another one perhaps a month.”
He said it was not only his show that is at stake.
“If they enter this ministry, they will take my house too, so I will be on the street,” he said.
Bakker said that he had not had a salary himself and that he has no money.
“We have a big debt,” he said, saying that a nameless “they” “took millions of dollars”.
One of the broadcasts of the show said that financial problems started in 2020 when Bakker was worry with a number of authorities For Hawking “Silver Solution” During the cocovide-19 pandemic. In a case, he reached a settlement With the Attorney General of Missouri, which included a restitution of $ 156,000.
Bakker at the time too used the threat of imminent bankruptcy To collect funds.
He said on Tuesday that those who give him money would collect other services.
“I guarantee you that God will do something,” he said, adding later, “God will bless you while you give, because when you give, you will receive.”
Bakker spent the 1980s transforming his ministry into an empire which included a television network and a seaside resort. But everything crashed on him when he resigned in the midst of a sex scandal and the allegations of fraud, the latter landed in prison for four years.
In recent years, Bakker has shaped as something of a prophet competition – saying Tuesday, for example, that we are in the “end of time” – and sells food buckets and other “prepper” articles in his program and his website.
The 85 -year -old also had health problems including a series of blows in 2020 and a hospitalization last year.
