Exposing the Most Corrupt Church in Pensacola

[Music] hello everyone my name is Holden Hardman and today I wanted to talk about something that came to my attention recently and I know ahead of time that I'm gonna have to preface this with a trigger warning with an age restriction warning just every warning we got I was driving down the road on Palafox Street right noticed a billboard this is a billboard for the miracle faith Apostolic global Church and on this billboard are a man and a woman holding a bunch of crutches I also noticed they had one on Cervantes as well so I looked into these guys and we all know about these faith healing types of churches and usually when it comes to people that believe differently than I do I really don't pay it in mind but the more I looked into this church in particular the more I found stuff that was pretty messed up I want to start off by talking about the pastor himself and I want it to be noted here that he does not go by the title pastor or priest usually but by the title apostle doctor and this goes for his wife as well they refer to themselves as apostle dr. the opening sentence on his own website says dr. Christian har foo is a modern-day apostle and a prophet to the nation's not even the first sentence of the main page of his website and I'm already calling BS this autobiography talks about his early life growing up and how he became involved in ministry he started his own evangelical school about teaching people how to heal through the Holy Spirit which he called the International miracle Institute or IMI for short and no neither of them are actual doctors either online however it does say that apostle dr. Christian Haifa has a PhD but no reference to it anywhere as to where that school he might have been and I really looked for it but guys listen here I'm just getting started in the 33rd year of dr. Harford's ministry and at Global Gathering that he had prepared for through more than 40 days of fasting the voice of the Lord came to him saying I am increasing the level of your jurisdiction at the same time some of those present witnessed a vision of Jesus Christ standing behind dr. Harford and placing on his head a crown where are these people who say they saw Jesus putting a crown on your head come on you'd be to stop this on March 22nd hey that's my birthday in the year 2014 24 global church leaders from 24 different nations that collectively represent more than 4 million believers worldwide presented the affirmation of consecration to dr. Harford hailing and honoring him as a modern day apostle a teacher of teachers a doctor of doctors a father of fathers and a chief in the church this guy is setting himself up to be the Galactic Emperor and you know what he even kind of looks like him you're telling me that this guy isn't using the dark side his outfit is the same color as Satan's this guy is peddling the preposterous claim that he is not only a doctor which he is not but also a modern-day apostle equivalent to frickin Paul his wife also claims to be an apostle dr. her story goes that she an aspiring actress in dancer in Hollywood she was in an accident at the cusp of stepping into stardom however she found herself in a wheelchair crippled in a freak accident 23 doctors told her that she would never walk again that she would never dance again her career was over and according to the doctors her life was soon to follow that is really sad and it's no doubt that things happen in our life that are out of our control and I would never mock somebody who was permanently disabled because of something like that happening except that when she tells the story it's not quite as permanent as it's made out to be on their website I had to hold on to things to walk and stuff and I I could shuffle you know like walk a little bit she was actually walking around and moving with enough physical therapy it's not a crazy idea to think that she'll be able to walk again this story makes you think that she was a paraplegic when in fact she was not I also loved that in the retelling in the video she actually drives herself to the church that she gets healed at early in her ministry dr. Robin found herself caught up in one such vision when the Lord brought her to heaven for an extremely urgent Commission having laid his hand on her personally he sent her back to the earth with a revelation of the spirit of pain and insight and direction concerning a global move of the Holy Spirit and an outpouring of the creative miraculous there's so much BS here I feel like I'm in a sea of Donald Trump tweets since we can now just make up nonsensical titles and give ourselves the authority to be whatever we want I will now be referred to as super Jedi Master Holden and some people have even claimed that they can see obi-wan Kenobi standing behind me giving us a powerful insight hello this harf use claims that on one occasion you could hear angels singing from their service and it is recorded on one of their CDs spirit songs you can buy the CD on iTunes for $0.99 or you can kill yourself for free luckily for us the church actually records its own miracles so that we can watch and I'm so glad too because in cases like this there's always a lack of evidence and I'm so glad that we can now look and see the evidence firsthand I'm gonna say this is very very accurate your left shoulder is set my frozen you can't lift it up you know how people who are psychics often generalize their statements and kind of let you fill in the blanks it's a psychological technique and it's used here as well everybody on the planet has some type of back pain or shoulder pain he baits some do to come up and begins to heal his shoulder we're not gonna have to let it go and just look at me this guy does not break eye contact we're not gonna have to spend let it go and just look at me everything he's doing right now is built on remaining dominant the eye contact says I'm in control I have the authority his placement on the stage he's one step higher his verbage intone look at me look at me look at me sure just look at me look at me sure I'm the captain now that's another step towards dominance the hand placement on the opposite shoulder all of this is dominance behavior and then when you nearly break the guy's arm out when you've done this and nothing is happening you have to quickly draw the attention away to something else boom healed fast move on and that is exactly what he does I set out I set out hand on head guy falls and the people who are already indoctrinated into the church are much easier to get out of them what you want they will literally just come up to the stage say ow my arm was hurting when I got in here but now it's all healed he's all the pain car yes that was some hesitation for a guy who is just miraculously healed of a lot of pain yes yeah yeah he claims to heal people who were blind and luckily he has video of that too they later say that these people just sort of had some cataracts again the reaction of people who have legitimate problems is really interesting yep a lot better without these I better keep him on though you know I spent a lot of money on these don't want that to go to waste he even tells one lady after he heals her eyesight - hey go check your eye maybe you didn't notice but I just healed your eyes and then you're always gonna have these attention seekers who have really big impossible to verify miracles like this one lady who says she's been in constant pain her entire life and now all of a sudden she's healed constantly in pain I mean all over my neck I couldn't move it I couldn't move my hips I couldn't move my legs I mean I was in agony and now I feel it's not totally all gone I've worked in hospital settings pretty much my entire adult working life and this is a pretty common thing are you in any pain yes on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the worst how much pain are you in well it's definitely a 10 where is your pain located oh it's it's just it's just everywhere really because when I walked in here I saw you bending down to get the remote and you didn't seem to be in any pain then well I well I I'm not fine okay and that is exactly what's happening here and the apostle doctor knows it and he's just eating it up wait get my hand again my god no more no more yes there's the paint all gone yes I couldn't believe it I can't believe it either I like the one guy who just comes up there and starts making stuff up and heart food is just like yeah yeah that's what happened that's it that's it and I think my spine just straightened yeah feels like it's straight yeah that's exactly what's going on here I threw it out playing t-ball but then I got hit with something I wasn't expecting conditions that can be medically verified I didn't feel the replacement I didn't feel the apparatus they put in my knee many times the doctors had to put metal plates and different things in people's body and they were Melton they believe I'm so glad they brought this up because this one is different than the rest because this can be verified there's cases of cancer being healed metal discs and metal screws in the body miraculously vanishing some pretty downright amazing stuff and I do not argue with sound medical records you had a severe condition verified by medical professionals you go to this church to get healed you get re-examined to re-verify everything is gone and healed that is powerful and I'm not about to stand here and tell you that miracles like this don't happen because I believe in miracles but I will say it doesn't happen at this church there have been several times where people have reached out to this church for verification on these miracles I contacted the ministry on the phone in early October of 98 for some of the documentation they were advertising I was questioned why I would ask for them by the woman on the line when I explained that you are offering documentation publicly on the video the woman on the other line told me that the records are private that may need permission to be released she said that they would have to see if they can be released and made public she then got into a discussion telling me that the burden and proof is on the Lord not them the original guy spent about five years kind of off and on emailing them calling that they said that they would send them something but they never did but I know what you're thinking that was 1998 nearly 20 years ago maybe the records have been made public by then and you know what fair's fair which is why I called the lady myself hi ma'am my name is Holden Hardman I'm a a local videographer in the area and I'm doing a journalistic report on the church and I was hoping you could answer some questions for me I was trying to see if there is any type of documentation or any medical records that could back up some of the claims sure you have a good email okay okay noon report on just the churches and the the claims of the miracles and if there's any kind of physical evidence to support it my name is Holden Hardman okay well do you know how long it usually takes to get a reply okay no such luck there but I did exactly what she said and I emailed them at info at global revival com I just explained that I was a filmmaker looking into the church and trying to get some type of verification particularly I'm looking for any medical records with a clear lineage of events illness injury Church healing and then medical records after the healing to confirm in addition if you have any church members who have had any metal objects or replacements removed from the body as stated in the video which I linked I'd like to have some type of documentation to confirm these miracles and missing metal objects again with the same lineage after not getting a single reply for about a week and a half I went back to their site and found some other email addresses just to make sure they got that message I found a few more emails that they listed on their website and still nothing I would give anything to see a medical record of a metal object in some of these body being removed and that by the removal actually benefitted the person's overall well-being moreover I would love to see that happen multiple times because if that is actually true this really is the Church of God but false miracles is just a part of a larger problem because as you could imagine it gets worse what happens when the actual sick and vulnerable come to this church looking to be healed and I'm not talking about my shoulder hurts and the answer is actually pretty dang sad horror Fouche talks about his inspiration behind his ministry and it mentions a guy by the name of Jack Coe he was one of the grandfather's of this mass healing movement whom our Fouch himself referenced as being a true man of God aside note even the Assemblies of God churches expelled him from the church for quote misleading the public her Fouch follows the practices of this guy including quote sometimes you would pick people up out of the wheelchairs if they fell he'd say you didn't have faith Coe also warned followers quote that the day would come when those who consulted physicians would have to take the mark of the beast a man after God's own heart but Who am I just a simple doubting Thomas the school that was founded by apostle doctors Christian and Robin teaches people how to embrace the holy spirit for healing I wonder how those graduates are doing like this young man who graduated with the knowledge of how to pick people up out of wheelchairs but why Holden well I manipulate all these people what could possibly be in it for them you want to go to the school they found it to become a theological doctor just like apostle dr. Christian R foosh that's gonna run you about twelve thousand six hundred and fifty dollars I'm sorry that's not fair per their website you may qualify for a scholarship which would make the whole program only seven one hundred dollars for a limited time only but maybe you just want to take a course to try it out well now you can one course at dr. you can come back he can take more it's no problem and don't worry because the worst thing that could happen is after spending all this money finding out that they're not accredited per his website quote the accrediting commission International has a membership of over three hundred seven schools colleges universities and theological seminaries and over thirty nine United States and eight countries of the world it is the world's largest non-governmental accrediting body so in short the ACI a-- credits them but i did some digging into the ACI and as you could imagine it gets better on a list of the top forty fake accrediting agencies in the united states guess which one was the sixth one down the six the one down the ACI they are not recognized by the council for higher education accreditation or the united states department of education the two institutions responsible for recognizing educational accrediting institutions in the united states and if that doesn't sell you on it they've also been charged for fraud before we won't go into the theology of tithes today but we will talk about how the lowest suggested donation on their website is one thousand thirty-eight dollars this church is against everything that christ told us to be and you are manipulating a very large very vulnerable very gullible part of our community while lining your pockets in the process apostle dr. i respect any belief that's different than my own but the exception comes where your belief actually starts to hurt legitimately hurt other people and this church should outraged anybody but especially legitimate believers and it's not because of doubting God's ability or desire to see people healed but because or discouraging people from seeking actual medical care when they think that all I have to do is go see apostle dr. harsh and all my physical problems will go away unless you don't believe hard enough this is dangerous unbiblical and morally irresponsible the fact that he puts himself on the same pedestal as the Apostles Paul Peter James John is a joke and I would be laughing if it wasn't so evil 2 Corinthians 2 Corinthians 11 13 through 15 for such men are false apostles deceitful working disguising themselves as apostles of Christ and no wonder for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light so it is no surprise if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness their end will correspond with their deeds is the Lord telling you anything about the revelation I'm giving you apostle dr. somebody shout hallelujah I just want to thank you very much for watching this video I know it's a little bit longer than usual but I have a lot of stuff to talk about and if you can believe this I even had to cut out more stuff just for time and whatever you do don't go to their Facebook page and spam them with hashtags show us your medical records because that won't solve anything as always I appreciate you watching and I'll catch you in my next video take care [Music] [Music]

Channel: Holden Hardman

Views: 163,287

Rating: 4.4445424 out of 5

Keywords: Church, God, Jesus Christ, Apostle, Miracle, Faith, Apostolic, Global Revival, Christian Harfouche, Robin Harfouche, Apostle Doctor, Miracles, Healing, Jack Coe, Faith Healing, Pentacostles, Assemblies of God, Fraud, False Prophet, Liar, Prophet

Id: pl3q5JWEN7I

Length: 17min 44sec (1064 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 10 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/literanch]

Some friends and I always saw the billboards for this and had to go see the freak show in person. So one Sunday morning we smoked a bowl and went. We were herded into a tent that seemed to be newcomers... You apparently had to go thru multiple steps to get to go into the main building.

The service consisted mostly of awful Christian rock music, people talking in tongues (gibberish) and people dancing around and rolling on the floor when they "felt the spirit" or whatever.

Finally, the moment we had been waiting for happened... The faith healing.

Some people played along and others didn't really at first. We finally left after a young man was pushed onto the stage who seemed to have very bad cerebral palsy... And the preacher said she was going to heal his hearing. His hearing!? This poor guy is horribly debilitated and this bitch wants to heal his hearing? We had seen enough and satisfied our curiosity.

Just as bad of a con on stupid people as we assumed.

[u/neighbs]

Tax churches and this shit disappears.

[u/AMightyWeasel]

It gets better: http://www.shoritetaijutsu.com/dr_christian_harfouche.htm

[u/yesmaybeyes]

Holden, what a jamming swell spectacle exposure. Well done. Only one complaint, the part about, "kill yourself" . wanna be slow make such suggestions, especially to fanatics and zealot type folks.

[u/[deleted]]

Excellent work! Your videos are super well done, informative, concise, and funny.

[u/Unst3rblich]

Man....that guy looks awfully familiar...

[u/Oafus]

So many crutches, so many ankle, knee, hip and leg issues.

[u/sarty]

Very good video! Nicely researched and explained. I've lived here my entire life and it's just so sad that these two prey upon the sick and the lonely.

[u/Cynispin]

All hail Super Jedi Master Holden.