“Preaching mostly to a low-income following, the Hallandale Beach-based evangelist has raised millions of dollars through services and crusades in South Florida and across the country.
Former followers say the only one who seemed to attain wealth was the preacher.”
Yes, OU still sucks.
“Since the story appeared, I’ve been getting, unsolicited, a regular newsletter from, of all things, squirrel lovers. “In a Nutshell” is usually eight pages long, complete with photos and headlines such as: “Baldy and His Gang — Part 5″ ( a 1,200-word essay by a squirrel-feeding window washer charmed by a hoard of squirrels peering into his bucket). In the May/June issue the same author has a piece on his 1997 invitation to appear on the Rosie O’Donnell show to defend the honor of all squirrels, whom Rosie likened to “rats with too much hair” (a phrase she no doubt later employed in her feud with Donald Trump).”
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1 johnestus // May 14, 2008 at 9:55 pm
This Mundell clown is nothing but an Oral Roberts wannabe! Woman shoulda known better:
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Sandy Miller met Mundell at a crusade in Dallas in 2006.
“He just was friendly, knew you on a first-name basis,” she said. “He did a lot of promising, that it’s your time for the Lord to bless you financially.”
Miller said she gave the preacher about $16,000. Her daughter, Kelly Smith of Santa Monica, Calif., said she reviewed her mother’s financial records and calculated the total was $43,000.
Mundell talked about his missionary work in poor countries. Skeptical, Smith attended a crusade he held in Los Angeles and pressed the preacher for details of his work via e-mails, copies of which she provided to the Sun-Sentinel.
Mundell sent Smith photos from India, though he was not in them, and an e-mail that he described as confirmation of an upcoming trip to Africa.
“We are under a great burden of finance for our upcoming mission trips,” he wrote to Smith on Aug. 13, 2006. “I want to ask you if you can give an offering any thing would help, also you may have some friends that might want to help… I have to send a payment next week.”
Miller said the mission trips never occurred. Kimberly Mundell said they were canceled “because we did not have the money to go.”
Miller, 66, now lives in an assisted living facility in Glendale, Calif., unable to pay her bills, and is financially dependent on her daughter. She said her once-trusted preacher stopped taking her calls.
“He dropped me like a hot potato,” Miller said.
2 allio12 // May 20, 2008 at 8:12 pm
it’s tired in here.
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