Illustrious AOG Member Alice Faye Redd Died Of Cancer?

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Illustrious AOG Member Alice Faye Redd Died Of Cancer?

Alice Faye Redd once a member of Carpenter's Home Church, Lakeland, Florida and later Victory Assembly of God in 1995 was sentenced to 15 years in prison for defrauding more than 100 people especially the elderly out of $3.5 million. The Auburndale native was released from prison in 1998 at the age of 61 because she was battling spinal cancer and the Parole Commission learned she was dying. She lived another four years before dying in 2002.

It was established in the Florida court by Debby, Dan Strader’s secretary from 1989 to 1992, that Dan quoted the bible “The wealth of the wicked will be inherited by the righteous.” Especially when he talked about and mocked three of his investors and called them alcoholics, a red neck and a truck driver. Other events would show that the Straders of Carpenter's Home Church, Lakeland, Florida, knew how to quote Scripture verses but they didn’t know how to live by them. There is a difference that is evident to all!
Although, some people, including Senior Pastors of Assembly of God churches, such as Karl Strader, memorized chapters and even books of the Bible, they definitely didn’t put into practice the bible the way it was meant to be. For many of them did not do anything about the injustices and wrongs in their denomination. Again, there is a difference between memorizing and doing the bible.
What was proven and established by the courts was that Dan stalked and preyed on the trusting and defenseless elderly. The unfortunate part is that the group of people, who were mostly hurt by the criminal actions of Dan Strader and his competitor Alice Faye Redd, were the elderly. It was a group that was defenseless and powerless and an easy prey to those who were supposed to be trustworthy.
In the PTL Scandal, it was also the widows with their small monthly incomes that became the target of Jim Bakker, in his search for easy money. It was no coincidence that both Jim and Dan pleaded not guilty and they both got a 45-year sentence.
The leadership in the Assembly of God never addressed this issue of who would help the victims caused by prominent members of their denomination. Nor did they help and befriend the real victims of Dan and Karl Strader, as well as of the Redds. Which is something that Jesus would have wanted us to do?
For Jesus demanded this of those who were called by His name and told about it in the story of the good Samaritan. The story of a certain man who had fallen among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and left, leaving him half dead. Just like what happened to the many real victims of Dan Strader and Alice Faye Redd. As a result Jesus asked this question of one who wanted to know what was the greatest commandment and who was his neighbor:
“So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?” And he said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.” (Luke 10:36-37)
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