On May 5, 2017, according to a Taylor police report, a former member threatened to blow up the church. Some were seemingly innocuous, while others - including a bomb threat - suggest a climate of tension between current and former members of the organization. Since 2016, Taylor police have had 30 calls regarding JMMI.
Joseph Busch - said that JMMI planned on releasing a statement.Ī statement never came and repeated requests for comment from the church and its minister were not returned.
When asked for comment on the protests and allegations against JMMI, a man in a suit - later identified as the Rev. We love America.” Many of them carried signs reading “JMMI loves God’s kingdom” and “We are here to save America.” While protesters were being interviewed outside the church March 9, counter-protesters from JMMI marched in a circle, chanting: “We love God. In Michigan, so-called “revenge porn” is illegal and punishable by imprisonment and a fine. Yohe said she shared risqué photos with Taylor, and that he threatened to release them after she went public. Yohe said other women have told her similar stories detailing their experiences with Taylor. If you even think about getting mad or you want to break up, (or) if you expose him, he's going to send those pictures out.” … When you first get with him, he asks you for naked pictures, inappropriate pictures. “He told me if I went public, I would get cancer,” she said. Only three months earlier, she recorded a video of herself defending Taylor following a Charisma magazine story accusing JMMI and its leader of “spiritual abuse.” She said Taylor responded vindictively when she first told him she was going to speak out regarding his philandering.
Yohe went public with these claims in December. He says, ‘Yes, our ministry blesses other ministries with vehicles sometimes.’” “So that money for my car actually came from Joshua Media Ministries. “He said God just spoke to him to bless me with a car,” she said. She said some of the money for gifts came from JMMI accounts. Women are just a vagina.”Īccording to Yohe, Taylor made a habit of buying her expensive gifts - including Louboutin “red bottom” shoes, a fur coat and a Jaguar sedan - during their relationship. Yohe said the minister considered her a “spiritual daughter” during their 16-month relationship, a tactic she alleged he has repeatedly used to have sex with women in his ministry. Hank Dunkerson, who lives in Kentucky, said he came up to show support for his cousin, Vicki Yohe, a Dove Award-nominated gospel recording artist who began speaking out after her relationship with Taylor ended late last year. Taking place during Women’s History Month, the three-day conference was met with protests from individuals calling JMMI a “slave labor cult.” Some of the protesters were former church members, while others were friends and relatives of past members. In the video, footage of Taylor preaching is spliced with imagery of female warriors and backed by swelling, dramatic string music. Taylor and commissioned him to help you fulfill your identity and destiny”). A four-minute promotional video for the gathering hypes the event (“your life will be phenomenally revolutionized”) and its leader (“the Lord appeared to David E. ‘He preys on women’įrom March 7-9, JMMI hosted a Women of Destiny conference at its Taylor headquarters near the intersection of North Line and Allen Roads. Taylor, JMMI’s minister and her former boyfriend, repeatedly violated his duties as a man of the cloth by having sexual relations with more than 40 women, many of them in his ministry. A renowned gospel recording artist alleged that David E. Other former members accused the organization of taking advantage of individuals with a desire to serve the Lord by having them solicit donations, which were then used to enrich church leaders. He said the work of the church “didn’t add up,” pointing to what he called misbehavior by church officials, including physical assault and sleep deprivation. Six months after joining, Sorensen left JMMI. “I wanted to be in ministry,” he said, recalling almost two years later. He said he was burning with the desire to serve God. He packed his belongings into a car and drove from just outside Minneapolis to just outside Detroit, ready to become a full-time staff member at the church. In February 2017, former JMMI member Chris Sorensen “was on fire for God.” To former members, though, the multimillion-dollar church at 20320 Superior Road that police monitor daily is “a slave labor cult” operating on an unholy trinity of intimidation, manipulation and greed. To current members of Joshua Media Ministries International, the Taylor-based organization represents a path to the kingdom of God a journey shepherded by a full-fledged prophet.
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