5 TRAGIC STORIES IN 1! Julie Roys and Other Reporters are all Over the Tragic Mike Bickle/International House of Prayer Demonic Scandal. Daniel Whyte III says this is too much! There is much confusion!

International House of Prayer Founder Mike Bickle (right) pictured with his son, Luke Bickle (TRR Graphic / Video screengrab)

5 TRAGIC STORIES IN 1! Julie Roys and Other Reporters are all Over the Tragic Mike Bickle/International House of Prayer Demonic Scandal. Daniel Whyte III says this is too much! There is much confusion! “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.” “Let all things be done decently and in order.” Whyte says Billy Graham’s grandson, Attorney Boz Tchividjian, should lead in resolving this demonic mess impacting all parts of the church. Whyte tells Prophet Michael Brown and CEO Stephen Strang that if they are long-time friends of Mike Bickle and the leadership at the International House of Prayer and if they have received phone calls to help Mike Bickle come back into leadership they need to stand down and let Boz Tchividjian be the sole leader in resolving this demonic scandal that is metastasizing like a cancer in the Body of Christ. Below are 5 tragic stories in 1 regarding this sad, growing scandal:

  1. It is Reported that the INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PRAYER’S Founder, Mike Bickle, Covered Up His son’s Long Term Adulterous Relationship 
  2. The Sexual Misconduct Allegations Go Both Ways in Ongoing Scandal at Mike Bickle’s International House Of Prayer
  3. Charisma CEO Stephen Strang Calls Exposure of Mike Bickle’s Alleged Sex Abuse a ‘Spiritual Attack’
  4. Dr. Michael Brown Calls for ‘New Direction’ to Resolve IHOPKC Sex Abuse Scandal, Following ‘Impasse’
  5. International House Of Prayer Fights with Billy Graham’s Grandson, Attorney Boz Tchividjian after multiple Jane Does deny abuse

Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, says the Church as a Whole is in an ILLICIT SEXUAL CRISIS rooted in the following:

  1. In the God-given, legitimate, explosive, hunger, and desire by men for sex, which Evangelical-Charismatic church leaders and pastors have tried to beat down in men over the past five decades by emasculating and making men more effeminate in the Church by beating them down in front of their wives and family members and promoting the false idea that the man is always wrong and the woman is always right and put on a pedestal which she does not belong on and that the man ought to submit to the wife.
  2. Kelvinator-refrigerator, proud, arrogant, stubborn, unsubmissive, witchcraft wives who make themselves ugly to a husband even though they may be pretty on the outside but are not willing to give the husband sex-on-demand cheerfully and joyfully like that woman in the church, who will leave her job on her lunch break, not eat, to meet with the pastor in the pastor’s office and perform oral sex on him and “swallow” to satisfy his need and then go back to work.
  3. Because these “church leaders” and pastors are not getting sex on demand from a willing, loving, cheerful wife who also keeps herself clean and looking good, these sex-starved men are getting on their computers and devices and filling their hearts and minds with vile pornography. Looking at pornography is an attempt for most of these men to “have sex” they are not having with their spouses. By the way, the Evangelical-produced and promoted movie Fireproof plot line was bogus. The truth about that movie is the husband was a good, hardworking man and a good husband struggling with “peeking” at pornography but who was dealing with a Kelvinator-refrigerator, arrogant, bossy, looking-down-her-nose-at-her-husband, whorish wife, who was flirting on the job like it was her husband’s fault, which an adrift evangelical movement loves (The wife is always holy and right; the man is always unholy and wrong). With that said, any man who claims to be a Christian and is looking at pornography is sinning against God Almighty, Jesus Christ, and the Word of God, and there is no such thing as BEING ADDICTED TO PORNOGRAPHY! Porn addiction among Christians is an idea promoted by misguided Evangelicals who negate the power of being a born-again-saved Christian. If a man is addicted to pornography, he is lost and on his way to hell. Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are not going to sit there and watch pornography with you. Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are going to put a stop to that through rebuke, guilt, and chastisement, or you are simply not a born-again-saved Christian. This goes for men and women, pastors and pastors’ wives because now we have just as many pastors’ wives addicted to pornography as their husbands. Whyte says further that there is an illicit sexual crisis in the Church because many so-called bishops, pastors, pastors’ wives, and “church leaders” are in ministry, but they are lost. They are not true believers in Christ. They are counterfeits, hypocrites, Judases, and false prophets. 
  4. Many so-called evangelical church couples simply do not take advantage of the greatest gift to a married man and a married woman, for various stupid reasons and that is having guilt-free sex multiple times a week in a bed that God says is “undefiled.” These foolish excuses run the gamut such as: ‘I don’t love him or her anymore.’ ‘I am mad at him or her.’ ‘I don’t like being around him or her anymore.’ ‘There is too much stress in our marriage.’ ‘He or she does not do it for me any more sexually speaking.’ All of these excuses and foolishness lead to the man and the woman becoming “horny” and vulnerable to having sex with other people in the church, on the job, or at the coffee shop. None of these excuses have anything to do with having sex. Whyte hopes you love your spouse, but Tina Turner was right when she raised the question, “What’s love got to do with it?” Millions of us wicked sinners have had sex with people we didn’t love, like, and in some cases, we did not even know because that desire for sex is a fiery need that must be taken care of, especially in real men. 
  5. The Evangelical Church is generally trying to lead the Church, as a whole, into sin by forsaking several things that the Church has always stood against: (A.) Divorce and remarriage, which has led to millions of people living in adultery, and that has led to many men and women being vulnerable to having sex with people they are not married to because contrary to what many believe now, sexual desire is a fire that has to be extinguished regularly. Many Divorce Care Ministries are nothing more than hook-up sites for horny formerly married people who are used to having sex but refuse to have sex with their God-given spouses. People have been allowed to stay in the church even though they have been divorced and remarried when that was not the case years ago. (B.) People who were living in fornication or shacking up have been allowed to remain as members of the church when that was not the case years ago. 
  6. Some Evangelical “church leaders” have attempted to lead much of the Protestant side of the Church to accept the abomination of sodomy/homosexuality, which is not only a sin and an abomination against God, but it is an intentional Judas betrayal of God, Jesus Christ, and the Word of God. Choosing to commit this abomination in God’s sight, opens up the door for gross sin in the church that most Evangelical so-called leaders and pastors do not understand. Most church leaders and pastors do not understand that if you do something over here “in a corner” that is diametrically opposed to God’s clear teaching in His Word there is a negative reaction from God in Heaven against the church and “God’s people” who are perpetrating that evil.
  7. There is an evangelical-church-leaders-pastor cabal of silence that fights to keep the pastoral perpetrators of sexual abuse, rape, sex trafficking, child molestation, and sodomy/homosexuality among pastors in place. They cover up each other’s sins and fight to keep them in place for years, and they have harmed and destroyed many lives often-times because of Judas’ 30 pieces of silver “filthy lucre” money. Sad to say, the evangelical church, which used to be a stalwart, a protector, and a keeper of the faith, now is just as guilty as the Catholic church of covering up the sins of the bishops, pastors, and so-called “church leaders,” whom God is rebuking and chastising in real-time in this life and will do in the life to come because lost souls are being damned to hell by these lies, cover-ups, and hypocrisy. GOD HAVE MERCY!

International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC) founder Mike Bickle covered up his son’s affair with the wife of an IHOPKC department head, according to videos released today by former top IHOPKC leaders.

“This is manipulation, coercion, threats, intimidation—that is, a shepherd with a huge platform is willing . . . to lie and coerce. That is what we’re speaking to,” said former IHOPKC Executive Leadership Team (ELT) member Wes Martin in a video. “(I)t’s exposing a liar. It’s exposing someone who was willing to intimidate and threaten in order to . . . keep his position or to keep the secrets hidden.”

In October, some of the 15 former IHOPKC executive leaders, known as the “advocate group”(AG), released a statement accusing Bickle of clergy sexual abuse with multiple women over decades.  Today, the AG released another statement, as well as three explosive videos.

 

The statement addressed allegations brought by the five alleged “Jane Does” that the AG had falsely named them as victims of Bickle’s clergy sexual abuse and then harassed them. In the statement, the AG denied the allegations, saying the group didn’t harass the women or name them in documents given to the ELT.

The videos addressed an allegation by IHOPKC worship leader and former Executive Leadership Team (ELT) member, Misty Edwards, that the AG had conspired to “take down” Bickle before learning of any alleged victims.

According to the videos, the AG members were heartbroken when they learned of Bickle’s misconduct and sought to address matters internally. However, the responses from Bickle and other IHOPKC leaders made the AG members even more concerned and eventually compelled them to blow the whistle.

“This is about exposing wickedness that is within the church. Period,” said AG member Wes Martin. “It has nothing to do with conspiracy. . . . I want to see that exposed because when that’s not exposed, it creates rot in the church.”

Former IHOPKC leaders say Bickle covered up son’s adultery

In one video, AG members Dean Briggs and John Chisholm describe how they learned that Luke Bickle, Mike Bickle’s son, was engaged in an adulterous affair with the wife of an IHOPKC department head. Yet, when they brought the matter to former IHOPKC Executive Director Stuart Greaves and Bickle, the two seemingly conspired to cover up the years-long affair.

 

The Roys Report (TRR) reached out to Greaves, Mike Bickle, and Luke Bickle for comment, but did not receive any response.

We also reached out to the husband of the woman involved in the alleged affair, whose name was shared confidentially with TRR. He did not respond to our request for comment.

TRR had reached out months ago through Facebook to the woman allegedly involved with Luke Bickle. She did not respond. We reached out again recently through social media and email but have not received a response.

In the video, Briggs also alleged that Mike Bickle engaged in “very questionable interactions” for six years with the wife before Luke had the affair with the same woman.

“So that man, in double fashion, was destroyed by Mike’s influence on his wife and his son’s affair with his wife,” Briggs said. “That’s a problem.”

Testimony by the woman’s husband was included in a 50-page document that the AG used to present their allegations to Greaves and other members of IHOPKC’s ELT, Briggs said.

“(The woman’s husband) is a victim as much as the other Jane Does are victims, relative to what’s happening,” Chisholm said.

Chisholm said the husband had told Chisholm about his wife’s affair with Luke and asked for his help arranging a meeting between them and Mike Bickle. But Chisholm said Bickle refused the three-person meeting and instead met with Chisholm one-on-one.

“I didn’t get anywhere,” Chisholm said. “I just sort of stopped it at the end of the half hour because I wasn’t getting anywhere in terms of him understanding what’s really happening and my hope about how he would get involved.”

Then, about six months ago, Chisholm said he learned that the affair between Luke Bickle and man’s wife was still happening. So, Chisholm met with Greaves.

 

“His challenge back to me was, ‘You know you have no idea what Mike is doing as it relates to this. You have no idea what I’m doing,’” Chisholm said. “And my pushback was, ‘That’s my point. Nobody knows.’”

Source: Julie Roys

To read more, click here: https://julieroys.com/advocate-group-ihopkc-founder-mike-bickle-covered-up-sons-affair-threatened-whistleblower/

Who Abused Whom?—Allegations Go Both Ways in Ongoing Sex Abuse Scandal at IHOPKC

Dwayne Roberts (left) of The Advocate Group; International House of Prayer Kansas City Founder Mike Bickle (center); and worship leader Misty Edwards. (TRR Graphic / Photos via social media)

A statement by women claiming that an advocate group falsely named them as victims of abuse by International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC) Founder Mike Bickle has ignited a firestorm online. It also has prompted strong denials from the advocate group, which today published a statement and three videos, containing new evidence in the ongoing Bickle clergy sex abuse scandal.

Among the bombshell revelations in the videos is testimony that Luke Bickle, Mike Bickle’s son, was engaged in a years-long adulterous affair, which his father allegedly tried to cover up. The videos also provide background as to why the advocate group, which first published allegations of clergy sexual abuse against Bickle in October, decided to blow the whistle.

This latest chapter in the ongoing IHOPKC sex abuse saga began last Thursday when a “Protest Statement,” claiming to represent the views of at least five falsely named “Jane Does,” was posted online. In the statement, the women accused the AG of falsely identifying them as Bickle’s victims and then abusing them when the women didn’t submit to the AG’s narrative.

“Behind the scenes we have been harassed, secretly recorded, had family members contacted, had our phone numbers given out, and been bullied and pressured to ‘admit’ to being victims . . .” the statement said. It added that when the women denied “such untruths,” they were “gaslit, told that these people know the true stories of our lives better than we do, and had the narratives they have formed about our lives suggestively put in media articles and social media posts, or threatened to be put in public articles.”

The statement was posted online by two of the five alleged “Does.” One of them is April Rose, who worked closely with Bickle for years as a researcher, multiple sources told The Roys Report (TRR). The other woman is popular IHOPKC worship leader Misty Edwards.

An October 2023 staff list obtained by The Roys Report (TRR) listed Edwards as a member of IHOPKC’s Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and as “Mike Bickle Products Director.” However, when asked online about Edwards’ position last week, IHOPKC Spokesman Eric Volz stated that Edwards resigned from the ELT “several months” ago.

Neither Volz nor Edwards responded to TRR’s request for clarity about when and why Edwards resigned.

Yesterday, Edwards also posted a personal statement on X, accusing the AG of hatching a plan “behind closed doors . . . to bring down Mike Bickle and IHOPKC.” Edwards said the AG devised the plan “BEFORE there were multiple alleged ‘Jane Does’ . . . (T)hen the search for ‘victims’ to fill in that 40 year time line began.”

Several minutes after posting the statement, Edwards removed it. Then, she re-posted it and removed it again. At the time of publishing, the statement was not posted on Edwards’ feed.

Two members of the AG—former senior IHOPKC leaders Dwayne Roberts and Dean Briggs—claimed in separate, online posts over the weekend that the AG never publicized the names of the alleged Jane Does. Instead, the men claimed IHOPKC shared a confidential document from the AG with Bickle, which included initials of some alleged victims.

On X, Roberts wrote that he and other advocates created a “working document” months ago. This document, purported to be 50 pages long, included “the initials of women who agreed to be named and the ex-spouse of one victim.”

In a separate post on Facebook, Briggs wrote that the document also included a list of five other, “possible Jane Does,” who were “numbered, not named.”

Roberts said he used this working document as an “outline” during an Oct. 24 meeting with IHOPKC’s Executive Leadership Team (ELT), two other AG members, and himself. Roberts said he met the next day with Stuart Greaves, IHOPKC’s former executive director who resigned last month.

Roberts said that during the meeting with Greaves, he shared a couple names of possible victims in confidence, “which I now fully regret doing.” Roberts claimed that after that meeting, Greaves met with Bickle and discussed the document.

“I felt utterly betrayed because this was not (the document’s) intended use and exposed victims,” Roberts wrote.

TRR reached out to Greaves for comment but did not hear back.

Volz accuses AG, AG responds

In response to Roberts’ statement, IHOPKC Spokesman Eric Volz accused Roberts and Briggs of triggering “a global crisis in the prayer movement.”

In a meeting in October, Briggs had publicly confronted IHOPKC leaders for failing to give any details about the allegations against Bickle in their announcement. Briggs called the announcement “righteous bullshit” in an interaction captured on video.

Similarly, Roberts was the AG member who published the initial statement accusing Bickle of clergy sexual abuse.

“The initial events, specifically the iPhone video of Dean Briggs yelling profanity during the Oct. 27 staff service and your decision to prematurely release a condemning statement about Mike Bickle on Instagram to over 147,000 people in Brazil, are the sparks that ignited this fire,” Volz said.

(Roberts maintains he published the statement on his church’s website, not social media.)

Volz also published two pages from the “50 page document” that Roberts gave Greaves. Volz claimed the pages confirmed “it was not a ‘working document’” because it contained “required” actions, not “simple ‘suggestions.’”

In addition, Volz claimed on X that the AG told “many stories” that it did “not verify or have permission to tell and that has caused harm to innocent people.” Volz reiterated the alleged Does’ claim that “they were bullied, harassed and manipulated as part of this questionable process.”

Today, Roberts posted a statement on X on behalf of the entire AG, addressing the allegations.

The statement claimed that at no point since the Oct. 24 meeting “has there been any contact with any of these women, with the exception of Misty Edwards.”

The statement added that Dwayne Roberts’ wife, Jennifer Roberts, met with Edwards on Oct. 24 “in a non-confrontational meeting and discussed with her the abuse the main Jane Doe suffered (with her permission).” Then, “at (Edwards’) request,” Edwards met with other members of the AG, so they could “hear Misty’s side.”

“(T)hese conversations were ones of humble listening and would in no way be characterized as ‘bullying’ or trying to force anything onto Misty,” the statement added.

The AG statement also addressed a claim by the alleged Does in their statement that they have been traumatized by IHOPKC’s three investigations.

“We are deeply sorry that these women were seemingly forced to be interviewed three times, but the Advocate Group cannot be held responsible for a process unilaterally determined by IHOPKC and in which we have no involvement,” the AG statement said.

Source: https://julieroys.com/who-abused-whom-allegations-go-both-ways-sex-abuse-scandal-ihopkc/

Charisma CEO Calls Exposure of Mike Bickle’s Alleged Sex Abuse a ‘Spiritual Attack’

Charisma Media CEO Stephen Strang calls exposure of alleged clergy sexual abuse by IHOPKC Founder Mike Bickle a “spiritual attack” in a podcast Thursday. (Source: Video screengrab)

In a podcast Thursday, Charisma Media CEO Stephen Strang repeatedly called exposure of alleged clergy sexual abuse by Mike Bickle, founder of the International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC), a “spiritual attack.” He further claimed that “to burn the ministry to the ground is just the tool of Satan.” And he expressed hope that Bickle “reemerges in ministry stronger than . . . before.”

Strang used the strong language during his interview with IHOPKC Executive Director General Kurt Fuller on Strang’s podcast, the Strang Report.

Strang also stated that “charges were leveled about Bickle” on October 7—“the same day that Hamas attacked Israel.” (The first meeting with IHOPKC leaders concerning Bickle’s alleged clergy sex abuse was on Oct. 9, according to members of the so-called “advocate group,” working with alleged victims of Bickle’s.)

“This persecution is coming from within the Christian community,” Strang alleged. “. . . There have been people that are just waiting for this and are downright nasty. To burn a ministry to the ground is just the tool of Satan . . . I hope Mike Bickle—this is my opinion, as his friend—I hope he reemerges in ministry stronger than he ever has before.”

Strang’s comments sparked strong backlash on social media, with people labeling his actions a “PR campaign,” “master class on unbiblical leadership,” and “DARVO,” which stands for deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender.

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Even on Strang’s YouTube page, most of the responses were negative.

“The Strang Report just imploded on itself with one of the most bantenly obsurd (sic) videos,” wrote someone named Ron Lagerquist. “. . . This is not an attack from Satan. This is a sad story of a man who could not keep it in his pants and used prophecy to manipulate young women.”

A few commenters supported Strang, though. One wrote Bickle is “innocent until proven guilty” and another stated, “Stephen Strang and General Fuller are taking the appropriate action that I believe Jesus would take.”

 

The Roys Report (TRR) reached out to Strang for comment, but he did not respond.

Enough!

Strang’s interview with Fuller published hours after Fuller announced in a video entitled “Enough!” that he would no longer negotiate with the “advocate group” (AG). Fuller also accused the AG of lying and referred to the AG, some of whom were founding members of IHOPKC, as “men I barely know.”

“I cannot and will not work with or concede to the demands of people who do not tell the truth,” Fuller said. “To do so would compromise my own principles and our organizational sovereignty. It would be completely irresponsible.’

The AG is comprised of 15 former, top IHOPKC leaders who brought the allegations against Bickle to IHOPKC leaders privately. Then, when their efforts didn’t produced the desired results, the AG published the allegations in late October.

Fuller and the AG have reached an impasse concerning who should conduct a third-party investigation into the allegations against Bickle. Fuller said he is sticking with the law firm IHOPKC hired in December, the Lathrop Group. The AG has claimed the Lathrop Group is not independent and has refused to work with Lathrop.

Source: https://julieroys.com/charisma-ceo-exposure-bickles-sex-abuse-spiritual-attack/

Dr. Michael Brown Calls for ‘New Direction’ to Resolve IHOPKC Sex Abuse Scandal, Following ‘Impasse’

Dr. Michael Brown calls for a “new direction” to resolve sex scandal at the International House of Prayer Kansas City. (Source: Video Screengrab)

Charismatic Christian leader Dr. Michael Brown today called for a “new direction” to resolve the sex abuse scandal at the International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC), following an “impasse” between IHOPKC leaders and an “advocate group.”

“I made a public commitment November 5, that if things did not go in the right direction, I would be the loudest one calling for account,” Brown, who at one time served as an adviser for IHOPKC, said. “. . . So, I’m seeking to raise my voice as loudly and clearly as possible to say there must be a new direction.”

 

Brown explained that negotiations have broken down between IHOPKC and the advocate group (AG)—15 former, top IHOPKC leaders who published allegations of clergy sexual abuse against IHOPKC Founder Mike Bickle in October.

As a result of the impasse, Brown appealed to “senior, respected leaders” in the “Body of Christ” to “find a third party” to investigate the allegations that is acceptable” to the AG. Then, those leaders need to pursue the investigation, independent of IHOPKC, Brown suggested.

“The body of Christ is hurting terribly right now,” Brown said. “The name of Jesus is suffering terrible reproach. The Holy Spirit is being mocked. People are losing their faith in Jesus over this. . . . We all have to humble ourselves and come together and find a path forward.”

Brown’s announcement, posted on YouTube, comes just hours after IHOPKC posted a defiant address, titled “Enough!,” by interim IHOPKC Executive Director General Kurt Fuller.

In the address, Fuller accused the AG of lying in videos the group published yesterday. And he expressed anger that the AG had refused to give him information or participate in the third-party investigation IHOPKC had commissioned last month.

(Both the AG and the lawyer representing Bickle’s alleged victims have claimed IHOPKC’s investigation is not independent. They have asked IHOPKC for an investigation by a mutually-agreed-upon firm.)

 

“I can’t understand why they would not have provided these videos to me to support their claims,” Fuller said. “I’m the one person who has both the authority and responsibility to properly adjudicate this case and hold people accountable. They haven’t even given me a chance to do that. I leave it to you to judge their motives for this.”

Source: https://julieroys.com/dr-michael-brown-calls-for-new-direction-to-resolve-ihopkc-sex-abuse-scandal-following-impasse/

IHOPKC spars with attorney Boz Tchividjian after multiple Jane Does deny abuse

An attorney for International House of Prayer Kansas City publicly sparred online with noted attorney and Billy Graham’s grandson, Boz Tchividjian, over the strength of abuse allegations against the ministry’s founder, Mike Bickle, after five of eight Jane Does an advocate group claimed were victims publicly denied the allegations.

The response from IHOPKC’s attorney to Tchividjian came after he took issue with ministry spokesman Eric Volz’s claim on the social platform X that he, along with the ministry’s interim executive director Kurt Fuller, had met with the advocate group to discuss hiring a “mutually agreed upon 3rd party investigator” to review the allegations against Bickle.

“This is what the IHOP attorney emailed to me just two days ago … you be the judge,” Tchividjian began in a statement on X Sunday night addressing Volz’s claim.

“[I]f you or the Group claim other alleged Jane Doe victims have come forth, we need to know the who, what, when, and where of any other claimed victimizations. If that information is provided, we pledge to review and investigate as warranted. 2/4 [Keep reading…it gets better]

“If this request is once again refused, as it has been on multiple occasions in the past, IHOP will have no choice but to assume that like the prior and now debunked ‘victimization’ allegations against ‘at least 5 Jane Does’, 3/4 [Get ready for the clincher]

“there is no real substance to any such other unsupported allegation, and they will be dismissed.”

In a joint statement last October, IHOPKC founding member Dwayne Roberts, former IHOPKC Executive Leadership Team member Brian Kim and former Forerunner Church Pastor Wes Martin revealed they were the ones who first confronted IHOPKC leaders about the allegations against Bickle spanning “several decades.”

They alleged that before meeting with IHOPKC’s leadership team, they attempted to discuss the allegations directly with Bickle “in the spirit of Matthew 18:15-17” but were rebuffed. They claimed that Bickle also attempted to intimidate, isolate, manipulate and discredit his alleged victims.

In its “Report on Initial Findings,” IHOPKC’s executive leadership team said they treated the allegations against Bickle as credible and asked Bickle to step away from public ministry when they were first confronted with the allegations on Oct. 24.

The IHOPKC leaders identified five of some eight women who the complaint group alleged are Bickle’s victims and found the evidence thin. Three of the alleged victims called the allegations “lies.'” One of the alleged victims refused to communicate with the attorneys for the ministry. Only one woman, identified as Jane Doe, who Tchividjian is representing, was found to be credible.

On Jan. 16, IHOPKC worship leader Misty Edwards released a joint statement on behalf of herself and four other women misidentified as Bickle’s victims.

“Many of us alleged Jane Does have been silent throughout the months of the three IHOPKC investigations and difficult ordeal. While other voices have chosen to clamor loudly and insistently, we have maintained our silence, desiring to retain whatever measure of privacy of life we could that was left after our lives were invaded by the violating behavior of those involved in a calculated ‘Jane Doe’ campaign that is being done in the name of ‘love, transparency, justice, and advocacy,'” the statement noted, criticizing the advocate group.

“While a narrative has been presented of many female victims whom the ‘advocate’ group is representing, the true story that has not come out is how many of those victims were involuntarily labelled that and had narratives constructed by others forced upon our lives, that we have been forced to defend ourselves from. This has been painful, humiliating, and traumatizing to all of us.”