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Post by keita on Sept 3, 2005 1:10:23 GMT -5
Plate-Skimming Pastor Gets 18 Months
Date: Thursday, September 01, 2005
By: Mike Robinson, Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) - A pastor was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison for failing to pay taxes on the roughly $1,000 a week that federal prosecutors say he skimmed from the collection plate.
Hundreds of church members packed a federal courtroom for William Ellis' sentencing to show support for the former bishop of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church, and many were in tears over his punishment.
Ellis, 62, stared down, held his head in one hand and shook it sadly as U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman imposed the sentence - the minimum called for by federal guidelines.
Ellis allegedly skimmed $525,000 in church money over about five years. He pleaded guilty to a single count of tax fraud in a plea agreement with prosecutors under which six other counts were dropped.
Besides dipping into the weekly collection plate, Ellis allegedly used a church credit card for personal travel and clothes, and bought a life insurance policy and paid for a Mercedes Benz with church funds.
Defense attorney James Montgomery argued the church wasn't swindled because its officers knew that Ellis was dipping into the collections and approved the car payments.
Ellis is due to begin serving his sentence Oct. 17.
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Post by Servant4Christ on Sept 6, 2005 1:36:52 GMT -5
Greetings,
I have visited Bishop E's (as he is affectionately called) church on many occasions. I will be praying for that ministry. More than likely, his son, will minister until his return.
Next week the church is celebrating it's 82nd year anniversary, and I will definitely be there. Guest speakers will be:
9/11 Sunday @11:30am Prophet Todd Hall, Orlando, FL
9/11 Sunday @4pm Pastor Willie James Campbell,
Chicago, IL
(I call him my spiritual father)
9/12 Monday @7pm Bishop Paul Morton,
New Orleans, LA
9/13 Tuesday @7pm Pastor Stephen Thurston,
Chicago, IL
9/14 Wednesday @7pm Pastor Jamal Bryant,
Baltimore, MD
9/15 Thursday @7pm Pastor Sheryl Brady, Raleigh, NC
9/16 Friday @7pm Pastor Darrel Hines, Milwaukee, WI
9/18 Sunday @ 11am Pastor Jonathan Ellis,
San Antonio, TX
9/18 Sunday @ 4pm Concert with J. Moss and
many others
Bishop E is an anointed man of God. I pray that God's glory is revealed in the midst of what has occurred.
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Post by MsKayLander on Sept 6, 2005 14:39:56 GMT -5
How can we say he is anointed?
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Sept 6, 2005 14:55:42 GMT -5
How can we say he is anointed? LOL...now misskay...do you really want to start that again. LOL ;D |
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Post by Nikkol on Sept 6, 2005 14:57:21 GMT -5
Well, you know how I see it..... the anointing comes for a person TO DO something and even if one is anointed at a given time to do a work for His name sake, it's still the anointing.............  ASWSOY---- "Don't be starting nothing"....lol |
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Sept 6, 2005 15:00:49 GMT -5
misskay started it!..LOL
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Post by MsKayLander on Sept 6, 2005 15:03:10 GMT -5
You can be anointed to do... but you must live in the anointing and the ANOINTED one lives in you.... so, how can the anointing and "other things" reside in the same temple... Hey, I'm not MissKay... I am a guest.... not telling who I am.....
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Sept 6, 2005 15:04:47 GMT -5
You can be anointed to do... but you must live in the anointing and the ANOINTED one lives in you.... so, how can the anointing and "other things" reside in the same temple... Hey, I'm not MissKay... I am a guest.... not telling who I am..... ooohh, misskay you are being bad today!  BTW, I agree with what you posted! |
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Post by MsKayLander on Sept 6, 2005 15:07:52 GMT -5
The views expressed here may or may not reflect my official opinion.
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Sept 6, 2005 15:09:42 GMT -5
The views expressed here may or may not reflect my official opinion. Okay, now you need to be banned! LOL Now THAT was a good one! |
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Post by keita on Sept 6, 2005 15:11:19 GMT -5
How can we say he is anointed? LOL...now misskay...do you really want to start that again. LOL ;D LOL! I'll continue to be up for "going there" for as long as we continue to use that particular 'churchspeak" in the completely ambiguous way that we so often do. Anyway, for me, this is so not about this man as an individual. Never met him and don't know him, his walk, or ministry. My focus was and is the issues presented in the article which I think are much more weighty in their potential impact on the Church at large. For example, this statement was especially significant to me: in its failure to succeed in U.S. court as an acceptable church financial management position and strategy. Here's a "prophetic word": Uh-oh! |
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Post by Nikkol on Sept 6, 2005 15:11:34 GMT -5
LOL....
TO answer your question, it's because the spirit of the Lord comes "upon" an individual in order to do something. I know of people that are in blatant sin, and yokes are still destroyed, the gospel is being preached, etc.... not because of who they are but because of who God is.....
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Post by MsKayLander on Sept 6, 2005 15:12:15 GMT -5
Just having some fun... been overwhelmed (slightly) with coordinating my sister's wedding...
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Sept 6, 2005 15:13:42 GMT -5
oooh, you can now coordinate mine!
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Sept 6, 2005 15:14:11 GMT -5
LOL,
Miss Keita, this prophetic person bears witness with your prophetic word!
lol
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