Complaint Review: JJ Michael Smith - - Port Richey Florida

JJ Michael Smith donated a sound system and other services to Clearwater Chapel in early 2020 (which is a chapel that began in the 1980's).  He was asked by the church leaders to be part of the leadership team and he agreed.  Over the next two years he dictated to the church leaders. And when he did not get his way, he was very unpleasant to deal with.

Finally the church leadership removed him from the leadership team on January 6, 2022.  It looks like JJ Michael Smith thought that he could strong arm the church leadership into inviting him back into the leadership team. JJ Michael Smith was an Admin of the chapel's Facebook page.  But he was not the only one.

There were two or more other chapel leaders who had Admin permissions. But JJ Michael Smith removed those chapel leaders as Admins and took sole control of the Facebook page for the chapel. He began posting haunting, ominous messages on the Facebook page. He also posted acrimonious messages on his personal Facebook page and on his IGOTASAVIOR Facebook page.

This ominous posts said that the devil let the chapel leaders take him out of the church, that the chapel leaders were liars, that he was planning to make a video and publish it to expose their lies. He taunted the pastor by name in posts stating that the truth will come out and "you can't stop it". Finally a good samaritan intervened and created a new Facebook page for the chapel.

Upon doing so, Brandi Bailey Smith, JJ Michael Smith's wife, began sending threatening messages and making threatening posts falsely stating that IGOTA was the owner of the chapel logo and that a lawsuit was going to be made against the user of this logo. Eventually, Brandi Bailey Smith admitted that IGOTA was not the owner of the logo when she admitted that the logo was made by IGOTA for the chapel and that IGOTA had not been paid for that work.

But the truth is that JJ Michael Smith offered to make that logo for free for the chapel in 2020. Now that he was removed from the church leadership, he apparently wanted to be reimbursed for all his prior charitable offerings.  Brandi Bailey Smith also complained that JJ Michael Smith had not been reimbursed for the sound system that he donated in 2020.

It is worth about $3000-$5000. But the chapel believed that this sound system was a charitable donation. The chapel leaders returned the sound system to JJ Michael Smith within about 2 days of seeing Brandi Bailey Smith's complaint about not receiving reimbursement for the sound system.  JJ Michael Smith admitted on his personal Facebook page that Clearwater Chapel was the third church in 7 years to remove him. 

It takes a whole lot of serious problems for a church to tell a member to leave.  And JJ Michael Smith does not understand that he is the problem.  He said on his Facebook page that it is the devil that is allowing these churches to remove him. All three churches that let JJ Michael Smith in during the past 7 years came to regret it and removed him.

The first church is in Pennsylvania (North Main Street Church of God). The second church is in NC (Colly Chapel - Harrells) and the third is in NC (Clearwater Chapel - White Lake).