Funny Biz Review: Church and chain-recruitment?

12 Comments on “Funny Biz Review: Church and chain-recruitment?”

#1

Oz

Aug 22nd, 2015 at 12:08 pm  Oz(Q)

Sidenote: I’m not sure this is the same guy, however this might explain why there’s not much information on Alderdice from the 80s till “god called him” in the 1990s;

A former officer of the defunct International Gold Bullion Exchange reports to a federal prison today to begin serving a 10-year term for defrauding 25,000 people of at least $75 million.

James Alderdice, 28, pleaded guilty to two counts of an 18-count indictment alleging that he and his late brother, William, bilked investors through their precious metals firm, then believed to be the world`s largest.

The indictment, handed up in August 1983, alleged conspiracy, wire fraud and mail fraud.

Article was published in June 1985.

articles.sun-sentinel.com/1985-06-03/news/8501220086_1_james-alderdice-prison-terms-federal-prison-today

On his LinkedIn profile (“linkedin.com/in/jimalderdice”), Alderdice lists

Entrepreneur, owner/operator various business ventures

1975 – 1985 (10 years)

Previously a business executive and entrepreneur before God called me to preach His Gospel.

And then nothing till 2001.

28 in 1985 means he’d be 58 today, which looks about right in his profile photo.

Again, not confirmed at this stage but I don’t think James Alderdice is all that common of a name. And the LinkedIn dates pretty much match with the 1985 news article.



#2

Oz

Aug 22nd, 2015 at 12:15 pm  Oz(Q)

Confirmed (1993, with James sometimes cited as “Jim”):

A smoky voice rings up to the rafters of the pink chapel at the Cathedral of the Valley in Glendale. With an otherworldly echo, it calls out to the 20 or so faithful gathered for the Sunday-afternoon service:

“We lift up our hands toward Heaven and say, ‘Jesus, I reach up to You, reach down to me. . . .'”

The voice belongs to James Alderdice, who is trying to reach up to the Lord from the worldly trials and excesses of his past life.

In Florida in the early 1980s, Alderdice and his older brother, Bill, were charged with defrauding 13,000 would-be investors out of $75 million in one of the nation’s largest-ever precious-metals frauds.

Jim served five years in prison, and although he did not have to make restitution to his victims, the IRS is still waiting for more than $700,000 worth of the take; proceeds from swindles are taxable income. Justice is blind, after all, and so is faith, and sometimes also the preacher.

Alderdice studied the Bible in jail in Florida, and somehow emerged as youth minister of the First Assembly of God of Glendale.

His pastoral message today is about salvation, and the cadence and crescendos of raw emotion surge through the clichs: Seek and ye shall find, ask and it will be given, and so on.

Religion has saved Jim Alderdice from a life of crime and depredation. He has given his testimony, confessed his past sins and, according to the doctrine of the church that adopted him, all is forgiven. He is reborn. He is a new man.

Or is he? The Arizona District Council of Assemblies of God recently disaffiliated this tiny congregation–which has long been plagued by money problems and church politics. It’s the only Arizona church in memory to have declared bankruptcy, to lose its church building through foreclosure.

The District Council was so peeved that it also chose not to renew the credentials of the church’s charismatic and controlling pastor, the Reverend Philip V. Sturgeon. And Jim Alderdice himself may be guilty of behavior many consider worse than fraud.

And no one there will talk about any of it, because, they say, they answer only to the Lord.

So much for being reborn a new man… 2015 and he’s launched a pyramid scheme.

Oh and then there’s this (from the same 1993 article):

A Glendale police report dated July 16, 1992, details a revelation made by a 7-year-old girl who is friends with Alderdice’s stepdaughter.

While at brunch with her family at a local restaurant, according to the police report, the little girl suddenly announced, “Jim’s been touching me where he’s not supposed to.”

The parents were shocked and asked for details, and the child bravely reported that over the course of several days, while Alderdice’s wife was at work, Jim Alderdice would fondle her genitals through her clothing.

When asked to be specific, as written in the police report, the child “responded by saying, ‘Well, Jim sat me down on the bed (demonstrated by spreading her legs and showed that she was sitting between his legs facing away from him) to brush the back of my hair.

[Name deleted] said that she told Jim, ‘That’s OK because I can do it myself.’ Added ‘He started rubbing between my legs.’

When [name deleted] asked [name deleted] if she told him to stop [name deleted] replied ‘Yes’ and added that she was pushing his hands away so he took hold of her hands to stop her from pushing his away. . . . When asked when this started [name deleted] replied ‘It started happening after church (Sunday), it happened everyday, and it happened a lot.'”

But there was never an investigation of the incident.

Even though the last line of the police report indicates that the family members were willing to testify in court against Alderdice, when Glendale police asked to interview the child, the parents refused.

Alderdice was not questioned–even though Glendale police felt the allegation was valid.

Alderdice claimed he never knew the police had been called. “I don’t know where it comes from,” Alderdice said of the allegation, “and, of course, it’s absolutely untrue.”

phoenixnewtimes.com/news/from-the-big-house-to-gods-house-6432445



#3

anjali

Aug 22nd, 2015 at 1:23 pm  anjali(Q)

Oz: I’m not sure this is the same guy, however this might explain why there’s not much information on Alderdice from the 80s till “god called him” in the 1990s;

it definitely IS the same james D alderice, because it matches his photo on his blog [James D Alderice’s Blog] which states:

In his early twenties, as the Co-Founder of what was then the largest seller of gold and silver bullion in the U.S., James D. Alderdice was recognized nationally as an innovative entrepreneur and business mogul by such distinguished publications as Forbes Magazine and the Wall Street Journal.

Having since answered the Call of God upon his life, James Alderdice now serves as a Pastor, Prophet, Evangelist, Author & Christian Business Entrepreneur.

James Alderdice, along with his wife Sharri, pastors’ New Life Worship Center Church of God in Peoria, Arizona.

his bio on his blog does not mention he was jailed for 5 years.

and uh, Pastor alderdice has some disastrous predictions for sept 11th, 2015, wherein people will loose all their money and get blown away by tsunami’s:

Stock Market Crash on Sept. 11, 2015 & Tsunami to Hit U.S. East Coast Prophecies

Friends, I am Predicting – not “prophesying” based on a special message I received from the Lord, but “predicting” based upon the Biblical “principle” of the “Shmitah” – the Hebrew word in Deuteronomy 15:1, where God commands that on the final day of every 7-years there is to be a “release of debts

In addition to economic collapse, there are many Christian Prophets prophesying that a Tsunami, possibly caused by an asteroid, meteor or comet hitting the ocean, is going to hit the East Coast of the U.S., Caribbean, Central & South America & Europe, and I provide you 3 different Prophets prophesying this below.

Many Prophets are also prophesying that Obama will institute Marshall Law in America, possibly even suspending the Nov. 2016 Presidential Election

A Glendale police report dated July 16, 1992, details a revelation made by a 7-year-old girl who is friends

the urban dictionary has a word called called bobbit, and it can be a useful verb…



#4

GlimDropper

Aug 22nd, 2015 at 11:02 pm  GlimDropper(Q)

Looks like Funny Biz is a reboot. Here’s a video from May when Jim was pushing his Millionaire-Makers-Club dot com:

youtube.com/watch?v=UrDt9WyflIs

I’m sure I don’t read the Bible the same way Rev. Jim does because I flat out missed the “Ancient biblical Secrets of Wealth” and the five by seven money matrix.

I do however remember something about Christ driving usurers (money changers) out of the temple.



#5

Oz

Aug 23rd, 2015 at 7:32 am  Oz(Q)

Turn 66 cents a day into a million dollars?

Evidently even Jesus can’t change a leopard’s spots…



#6

ksp7653

Aug 24th, 2015 at 12:06 am  ksp7653(Q)

I don’t know… what would Jesus do?



#7

anjali

Aug 24th, 2015 at 12:28 am  anjali(Q)

Oz: Evidently even Jesus can’t change a leopard’s spots…

apparently not.

however, board members of the church which alderdice belongs to believe that:

“A sin is a sin,” echoes board member Jim Bennett.

“It doesn’t matter if you murdered somebody or you stole a pencil; a sin is a sin in the eyes of God. God says the same forgiveness is there for everyone. That means a person who committed a murder can also be forgiven.”

see, the way these guys read the bible is a bit different from rational readers.

they believe that since Jesus died on the cross for all our sins, everybody’s crimes have been paid for in advance, and everybody can commit crimes as long as they confess to Jesus and accept Him, etc etc 🙂

how bloody convenient.

phoenixnewtimes.com/news/from-the-big-house-to-gods-house-6432445



#8

hoss

Aug 24th, 2015 at 12:47 am  hoss(Q)

ksp7653: I don’t know…what would Jesus do?

What he has always done. Die on Friday and Rise on Sunday.



#9

hoss

Aug 24th, 2015 at 12:48 am  hoss(Q)

hoss: What he has always done. Die on Friday and Rise on Sunday.

He that is.



#10

anjali

Aug 24th, 2015 at 12:54 am  anjali(Q)

hoss: hoss: What he has always done. Die on Friday and Rise on Sunday.

every week?



#11

DGR

Aug 24th, 2015 at 1:32 am  DGR(Q)

Oz: Evidently even Jesus can’t change a leopard’s spots…

No, but he can be useful in tax avoidance schemes.



#12

John

Oct 24th, 2015 at 12:52 am  John(Q)

Thanks for the review.