Complaint Review: Streams Ministries - John Paul Jackson

The reports I've posted are not completely all inclusive of every single incident I have had with these people.

I do want to add that last March or April (2004), I visited Church on the Rock International in Carrollton, TX where I had been on other occasions. But this time, John Paul Jackson was speaking. He gave the same rehearsed speech I've heard zillions of times before.

But anyway, I sat through the entire service without being hassled. But when the service was over, I went to the book table where Streams Ministries had all their books and stuff out for sale. I wanted to speak to Mary Virginia (she's the one from San Antonio Vineyard who got very physical with me and forcefully manhandled me and tried to shove me out the church doors - Mary has pretty tight connections with John Paul/Streams Ministries).... anyway, I wanted to tell her that Streams did not give all my money back to me from the class I signed up to take at her church several months ago.

She stonewalled me, kept walking away, acting like she didn't see me; wouldn't acknowledge me; acted like I didn't even exist. I was being polite to her, despite the fact of her bullying me around a few months before. She called security on me.

Security came over to me and asked if I needed help, which was a strange question. The service was already over, and several people were lingering around, but nobody else was being asked to leave except me. I told these men to leave me alone and I would go to my car by myself. I asked them to not follow me. But they disrespectfully ignored my request. To make a long story short, four men followed me all the way through the church building and chased me through the parking lot.

They were not considering that somebody could get hurt running through the parking lot - that they could have gotten hit by a car, or tripped and fell and broken an arm or could have gotten badly hurt. This goes to show you the recklessness and carelessness these people have, and thoughtlessness they have towards others. It goes to show you how much control John Paul Jackson/Streams Ministries has over people - to the point that they will chase people through church parking lots at their expense of being possibly injured very badly. Not to mention the emotional trauma that is inflicted.

Ironically, the message that was preached THAT morning just happened to be on love, and learning to get along with others that you might not necessarily agree with. I guess none of these people (security, Mary Virginia, and John Paul Jackson who were all there) didn't hear a word that Lawrence Kennedy said, because this is what they did to me immediately after the service.

HYPOCRITES!!!

Don't they know that JESUS PAID MUCH TOO HIGH A PRICE FOR US TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHO SHOULD COME?

In my other post-dated 1/5/2005 1:22:00 AM, regarding the WhiteDove conference, I forgot to mention that there were SEVEN speakers - John Paul was only ONE of the seven. And yet, he ordered people to run me out of the building, as if he were the ONLY one speaking at the conference.

Control freak? Mean-spirited. Cold-hearted.Yes!

I tried to go to a conference called OneThing at the end of December 2004, but of all the sessions they had in a three day period, I went to only two, mainly because I felt so afraid that John Paul or people from Streams Ministries might be there, and afraid I was going to get harassed and hassled again the same way as all the other times.

There were security/cops everywhere at the OneThing conference. When one of them started walking towards me, I started to cringe, expecting only to be told I couldn't be there, being interrogated about who I am, asking for my ID, and telling me I had to leave - like I've been through so many times before when John Paul or people from Streams Ministries people were around.

I'm sick and tired of professing Christians like this. I think the whole world would be better without people like them in it.

Tammy
Grandview, Missouri
U.S.A.