I came across your video while trying to find our what happened to a pastor that was there before Steve Poe and haven't had any success. Although I never attended that church I had friends who did. Unfortunately the Pastor before Steve Poe was involved in a scandal which began the splitting up of the congregation. There were three big churches in St Joseph at the time, Word of Life where I attended for a number of years, Grace Evangical, and Caring First and it seemed like people would migrate around those congregations when they got disgruntled where they were going so a good number of Caring First members left and went to the other two congregations after the scandal and so I think because of the loss of substantial financial support of the wealthy members the church got on a downhill slide till they gradually started selling off property until they were down to a skeleton of the church they once were and had to put the building up for sale and the Baptist Church bought it. Very sad story
I wasn't aware of a previous scandal before Steve Poe but most evangelical churches had their share of scandals so it's not surprising. There was still lots of money in the church when I was attending once they had a guest evangelist in around Christmas and the total for the offering was like $30. Steve got up and shamed the church for not giving better to this guy since he was basically there for free and the next night the total was $10,000. Another poster who contacted me said that after Steve Poe left a guy named Tim Woody took over and bankrupted the church through his investment in a television ministry. Caring first on the surface was a thriving church but after you peeled back the layers there e were many problems.
@@jasonwilliams8321 Yes that church was even bigger before Steve Poe could have been the biggest one in St Joseph and it took a downhill slide for a number of years before they were forced to sell the property and I do remember Tim Woody. He continued on with a handful of members who were left after they moved out of the property and into different rehabbed buildings around town and I lost track after that. Word of Life where I attended suffered an internal problem and lost many members also due to a sort of change in doctrine to the point that it went from two services on Sunday to one and many other changes in outreach, very sad
That could have been his name I am not sure. Since I wasn't a senior I really didn't have much to do with him. As an afterthought there was a meme that was circulated in St. Joseph that the church's name should be "Caring Last" since many people were unable to breach the social barriers and establish a church home there. I honestly don't remember many poor people but the ones I do remember were pretty much shut out from the daily goings on at the place. I remember a very young couple who had a child out of wedlock. They we're married but all the people treated them like they had the plague. I ran into them at a local restaurant one time and honestly they were two of the nicest people I had met in St Joe although the general consensus in the youth group was that no one should associate with them because they were "sinners".
@@jasonwilliams8321 Yes that doesn't surprise me any about the young couple. Its sad that they were treated that way but unfortunately that is common amongst most churches
I came across your video while trying to find our what happened to a pastor that was there before Steve Poe and haven't had any success. Although I never attended that church I had friends who did. Unfortunately the Pastor before Steve Poe was involved in a scandal which began the splitting up of the congregation. There were three big churches in St Joseph at the time, Word of Life where I attended for a number of years, Grace Evangical, and Caring First and it seemed like people would migrate around those congregations when they got disgruntled where they were going so a good number of Caring First members left and went to the other two congregations after the scandal and so I think because of the loss of substantial financial support of the wealthy members the church got on a downhill slide till they gradually started selling off property until they were down to a skeleton of the church they once were and had to put the building up for sale and the Baptist Church bought it. Very sad story
I wasn't aware of a previous scandal before Steve Poe but most evangelical churches had their share of scandals so it's not surprising. There was still lots of money in the church when I was attending once they had a guest evangelist in around Christmas and the total for the offering was like $30. Steve got up and shamed the church for not giving better to this guy since he was basically there for free and the next night the total was $10,000. Another poster who contacted me said that after Steve Poe left a guy named Tim Woody took over and bankrupted the church through his investment in a television ministry. Caring first on the surface was a thriving church but after you peeled back the layers there e were many problems.
@@jasonwilliams8321 Yes that church was even bigger before Steve Poe could have been the biggest one in St Joseph and it took a downhill slide for a number of years before they were forced to sell the property and I do remember Tim Woody. He continued on with a handful of members who were left after they moved out of the property and into different rehabbed buildings around town and I lost track after that. Word of Life where I attended suffered an internal problem and lost many members also due to a sort of change in doctrine to the point that it went from two services on Sunday to one and many other changes in outreach, very sad
Also you mentioned you couldn't remember the name of the pastor for seniors. Was it Rick Wilson? That is who was there under Tim Woody.
That could have been his name I am not sure. Since I wasn't a senior I really didn't have much to do with him. As an afterthought there was a meme that was circulated in St. Joseph that the church's name should be "Caring Last" since many people were unable to breach the social barriers and establish a church home there. I honestly don't remember many poor people but the ones I do remember were pretty much shut out from the daily goings on at the place. I remember a very young couple who had a child out of wedlock. They we're married but all the people treated them like they had the plague. I ran into them at a local restaurant one time and honestly they were two of the nicest people I had met in St Joe although the general consensus in the youth group was that no one should associate with them because they were "sinners".
@@jasonwilliams8321 Yes that doesn't surprise me any about the young couple. Its sad that they were treated that way but unfortunately that is common amongst most churches