Dr. Linda Lowes, a physical therapist and researcher specializing in the assessment of neuromuscular dystrophies, is a principal investigator in the Center for Gene Therapy and a research associate professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University. , because his influence is so pervasive even to this day. Did Davids dad know that he was adulterous before we went to Texas? He was very wealthy. Brother Evans daughter was one of the ones that David had an affair with. But in the process of hollowing you out, he made you very weak., In her first one-on-one interview about the church, Hyless middle daughter, Linda Murphrey, a motivational speaker and coach in Southern California, remembers his followers as zombies who were willing to believe and obey whatever he said. She told me: He used to joke around about drinking the Kool-Aid, but that was never funny to me because I knew that those people really would have done anything he told them to do. And his dad would get up and preach this and browbeat everybody to death to do their kids that way, but David didnt have to live that way. He got five years in prison. Linda. His daughter, Linda Hyles Murphrey, recalls her mother and father arguing over his many affairs with church members. Eddie Lapina was witness to all of that. Multiple websites tracking the First Baptist Church of Hammond have identified more than a dozen men with ties to the churchmany of whom graduated from its college, Hyles-Anderson, or its annual Pastors Schoolswho fanned out around the country, preaching at their own churches and racking up a string of arrests and civil lawsuits, including physical abuse of minors, sexual molestation, and rape. A string of assaults and sexual crimes committed by pastors across the country have one thing in common: The perpetrators have ties to the megachurch in Hammond, Indiana. Abused her. Former principal at Liberty Baptist Academy, Lake Station, Indiana, Convicted in 2002 of crossing state lines with the intent to have sex with an 11-year-old girl, 7. His wife, Paula, divorced him. When all of this happened with our church in Garland, his dad didnt want to hear it. I asked Rick Ross, whose nonprofit institute maintains an online archive of data on cults and controversial movements. . And all this barely half an hours drive from downtown Chicago. I was threatened with physical harm, death threats. His office was broken into. The sermon was called The Polished Shaft, and in the many times that Jack Schaap, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, had delivered it, it was the kind of showstopper that made him a rock star to his flock. [Hyles] took your voice, he took your beliefs, he took your likes and dislikes and opinions, and he gave you his own. look with favor on an unjust man. In light of the firsthand testimonies that have been published, this pastor is simply closing his eyes to the truth, for whatever reason. It operated and still operates under the guise of an independent fundamental Baptist church. Regardless of whether Hyles actually committed physical adultery, he was unquestionably guilty of a grossly improper relationship with a woman who was not his wife, and was thus disqualified to be a pastor. I'm Jennie Nischik's daughter. You see, he had taught us that the best way to please God was to please him, because he was Gods man. I grieve for them.. The age at which such punishment should begin? Way of Lifes content falls into two categories: sharable and non-sharable. If the members of the congregation were heartbroken about what was happening to their church, they didnt show it on this night. So yes, he did know. #2. I mean when I was dating David, the books that Hyles has written on teenagers and dating, we never did one thing that he taught. In his 1979 book How to Rear Infants, he wrote: The parent who spanks his child keeps him from going to hell.. (Similar concern has yet to be expressed for his victim.) Its a continuous guilt trip, says McGuire. I about laughed in his face. With your own insecurities and personal failures as your driving force, you have quite simply played havoc with an entire church, some of my dearest friends and worst of all, my family. 1. And his dad would get up and preach this and browbeat everybody to death to do their kids that way, but David didnt have to live that way. How I emerged from such a pit of secret sin, manipulation, and hypocrisy with the slightest interest in my professed religion at all, I do not know. I met him fresh out of high school. I thank God for giving me the sense to decide not to become one of the neurotic puppets you employ. The autopsy revealed trauma and numerous broken bones in various stages of healing. Linda Hyles Murphrey on the cult her father created. (Hyles did not respond to an interview request. You are a self-proclaimed giant, sensationalist, exhibitionist, and 'big-time spender' grasping for every expression of love, admiration and loyalty that you can get your filthy little hands on. The surrounding blocks bustled with activity. He said that he didnt know he had broken mans law but knew he had violated Gods law. With that, he entered a guilty pleaand was immediately escorted to Porter County Jail to await sentencing. Never. Open Letter to First Baptist Church Hammond Indiana. In 1997, the parents of a mentally disabled 12-year-old sued First Baptist over what they alleged was a months-long pattern of rape and torture of their daughter. COLUMBUS (WCMH) The Gahanna Division of Police says a woman found dead in her residence on Brookhill Drive was most likely the victim of a murder-suicide. Posted on September 8, 2018 by Jim. If you mean what you said, you have a lot of work to do. 12:9). I would just sit there, and he would say, My son David and Paula never single dated, and I would look at David and start laughing and think, This is hilarious; I cant believe that he gets up and says this. His dad gave me six months of sex counseling before David and I got married, and I could nail him just with that and what he said to me. Charles V. Shifflett, 61 Further, this was not just one pastor. Schaap continued to rub the stickup and down, up and downand converse with God, sometimes angrily, sometimes ecstatically, for more than a minute. He had a mistress for many years, the wife of a Sunday School teacher. Jack Hyles wouldnt live to see Mulligans conviction. Hes never spoken of her in endearing terms. Linda Hyles-Murphrey - IMDb SEE RANK Linda Hyles-Murphrey + Add or change photo on IMDbPro Contribute to IMDb. The flock grew to include prominent business leaders such as Austin Jack DeCoster, the former egg mogul who by some estimates has given tens of millions to First Baptist and has two church buildings named for him. The problem is that his dad has set himself up so good, that everybody doubts everything because thats how they have been taught. It probably is one the most significant (and difficult) decisions I've ever made since. I think back to the utter immorality of the fundamentalist sect that ran by high school and college. After the divorce, Jennie moved into a brand new $150,000 condominium at Hyles generous behest. Later Hyles paid to have a room built for Vic over the garage, where he lived without being allowed any conjugal relationship with his wife. (You know well the horrifying effects doing so can cause, don't you?) We could never even tell our best friends what went on in our home, because we might be the cause of the destruction of his ministry. Other items we sell to help fund our expensive literature and foreign church planting ministries. The author of this book, Cindy Schaap, has now divorced her husband b/c he's in prison. Linda Hyles Murphrey - The Jim Baumer Experience. In 1971, Hyles, without his wife, took Jennie and three other women to Hawaii and stayed in the same hotel, being the only male in the group. The following is excerpted from Linda Murphreys testimony at the TEDxOjaiChange event in Ojai, California, April 5, 2012. I have sat in his office and he in mine. Many rumors and much slander developed, some of which continues to rattle around to this day. Author: jimbaumerexperience.com. Hes never said that he loved Mrs. Hyles. But a cult, no. On a cool Sunday evening in mid-October, I drove to Hammond to sit in on a First Baptist service. His dads philosophy is if I didnt see it I dont believe it. The approach resonated deeply with rural Texans longing for a return to old-time religion. Lawyers are trained in using minor mistakes to draw attention away from major facts. So does every expert and religion blogger tracking the churchand virtually every one of the dozens of victims and former church memberswith whom I spoke. Our primary goal with the FBIS is to provide material to assist preachers in the edification and protection of the churches. Speaker: Linda Hyles Murphrey Date: April 5, 2012 Event: TEDx Conference Continuity 1. About 1,000 students are currently enrolled, down from 2,700 in its heyday, according to admissions director Joe Peete, who gave a Chicago intern a tour of the premises in late October. Every member was in complete obedience to my father. They didnt go on a vacation without asking my dads permission, and if he had said to drink the Kool-aid, Im not kidding, they would have. First, we see that refusal to separate from those who are immoral takes away the ability to protest their evil. Excrement was left on his doorstep. Hyles arranged for Jennie Nischik to work as a secretary in an adjoining office in the late 1960s, and she would not allow her husband to touch her by 1971. My dad pastored a church that evolved into a 50,000-member cult. According to a blog called Fallen in Grace, written by someone identifying himself as David Hyles: I have no intention of defending myself. These are sharable. I, too, witnessed a lot of hypocrisy growing up in a Baptist church, but my unbelief and rebellion was my own fault and not something I could blame on others. If it were not so, the Bible would not thrice warn in the New Testament Epistles, Be not deceived.. It is easy to sit decades later and call that ministry a cult. The problem is that his dad has set himself up so good, that everybody doubts everything because thats how they have been taught. (The previous are excerpts from Dave Colemans Interview with Paula Hyles Polonco, first wife of Jack Hyles son Dave, November 1, 1989). 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