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Money fell from the sky

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Christian huckster bilked elderly and disabled fellow church members.

[Johnny "Mickey"] Brown claims humble roots in the testimonial CD, which he circulated at Living Water Christian Assembly, an Albany Pentecostal church he joined in 1997.

Brown says on the CD that he was raised by a churchgoing family in Independence, La., but strayed into a life of lust and drugs while playing professional basketball. He tells of his financial success after joining Living Water.

"Some of you got financial problems," Mickey Brown said. "I had them. But when I came up here and knelt on the altar, money just started falling literally out of the sky. It just came from everywhere."

Larry and Vivian Vogel, pastors at Living Water, said they asked the Browns to leave the church in July for failing to "practice proper Christian financial ethics."

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I once knew Mickey and Lily Brown and when we first met, they seemed odd, phony, uneducated and my family and I tried our best to avoid them. A few weeks after we met my wife and I were invited to go out to have lunch with Mickey and his wife...we went. Why not? Free meal!! Anyway....we were asked if we were interested in this or that and how we can make more money, etc, etc. I thank G-d for discernment. We stayed away from them and we're glad we did. So many of the people we once knew were scammed out of their money and some are now seeing foreclosures, total loss, and worse. May G-d judge them according to their works and I pray they both reap what they've sown.

Posted by: Russ | July 29, 2004 3:46 AM

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