November 2, 2009
Rep. Sally Kern and her husband Pastor Steve Kern. Rep. Jason Murphey and the Church of God – Guthrie. Galen Kelly and the Church of God – Crutcho. Rep. Gus Blackwell. Hand Up Ministries’ 129 convicted sex felons, most being child molesters. The Tony Alamo Cult. Paul Blair and Reclaim Oklahoma. Character First. Infiltration into the Oklahoma school system. County government. The John Birch Society. OKC daycare centers. A pedophiles breeding ground. A home for unwed mothers. Inner city children’s ministry. A home for teenage girls coming out of foster care. Orphans. Rape. Murder. Resurrection. Children made second class and put into harm’s way.
It’s all a very tangled web. But we’ve unwoven it and are now ready to provide a detailed report that brings the key players together in a very frightening story that shows the intimate details of a wide-ranging organization pulling children into the clutches of pedophiles and being aided in their efforts by some very familiar figures.
At the end you decide whether how the same people and groups keep popping up is either a coincidence or something to worry about.
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Oklahoma State Representative Jason Murphey hails from an intense religious background in Guthrie, OK.
Rep. Jason Murphey
Murphey belongs to a cult called Church of God Outreach in rural Logan County, which is not connected to the Church of God denomination. They’ve been in the past been accused of withholding medical care to the cult’s children. In one case that resulted in 4-year-old Vicki Sorrel’s painful death from Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Before dying of respiratory failure the little girl’s body was ravaged by a rash and pain and fever sent her into a delirium. The leader of the church of that time was Danny Layne, a former heroin addict, who is now in Canada where he has been accused of child abuse and forced marriages. Two years before the Sorrell death another child in the cult barely survived an untreated case of meningitis.
A bible tract company connected to the cult is owned by Murphey’s father Wayne.
The Guthrie lawmaker, though considered by many a closeted gay man, has adopted Rep. Sally Kern’s anti-gay agenda and supported her various actions, including Oklahoma House Concurrent Resolution 1033, which disavows the United Nations global children’s rights treaty that called for a world effort in protecting children from abuse, prostitution, trafficking, and slavery.
The resolution, introduced by Rep. Sally Kern on May 6, 2009, condemned the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child for wanting to advocate children worldwide be protected by basic human rights. Kern declared it an abomination and that in America citizens could treat children how they see fit. Her resolution held that authorities must be required to prove harm to children before the government could intervene. Of course barring government intervention would preclude any investigation in seeing if a child was being abused.
Kern’s resolution decreed that the state has the right to monitor child abuse situations. Left out of the resolution was that she and her friends were wanting to dictate the laws in Oklahoma.
Why was Sally Kern so frightened of anyone wanting to stop sexual abuse, child prostitution, and such? Was it just to reserve a parent’s right to discipline and educate their child? Or was something darker involved in the resolution that passed the House?
Both Kern and Murphey are both connected to Hand Up Ministries, a pedophile compound in South Oklahoma City that has gone as far as purchasing a daycare center in the metro. Comprised of over one hundred violent sex offenders most being child molesters, who have been released from prison from around the nation, Hand Up Ministries, also, operates a smaller compound at 7601 NE 23rd Street in Oklahoma City and one near Seminole.
The NE 23rd Street property is owned by a Galen Randall Kelly of Ringwood, OK and includes most the section. Kelly has the huge property in the name of himself, his wife, and a registered company they own called Quality Outdoor Structures LLC.
Property owner Galen Kelly is a higher up at the Church of God - Crutcho, which is an off-shoot of Murphey’s Guthrie church. They’re the same church just serving different locations in an attempt to grow their cult.
Hand Up Ministries’ NE 23rd compound has been used in the past to house male and female sex offenders together in what some have claimed was an attempt to breed children into the sex offender ministry. In early 2008 the Oklahoma Department of Corrections forced Nichols’ to stop housing the sexes together. However, as of today’s date, sex offender records show one male residing on the property, which includes 7601, 7517, and 7577, with four females. Living on the compound at 7577 NE 23rd is Peggy Freisinger, convicted of causing or procuring children for sex abuse. At 7517 is rapist Rebecca Hansen; Amanda Howard, who was convicted of forcing a minor into prostitution; Denene Carrol, who has an indecent exposure record; and male Frank Lillie, who is listed as an aggravated sex offender after committing lewd acts with children.
This compound has been used by a number of work crews from Hand Up Ministries doing home repair, lawn services, and power washing. Oklahoma Department of Corrections officials have made numerous warnings to Hand Up that the sex offenders are not to go on people’s private property to do work unless the homeowners are aware of who they are and their criminal records. Despite the warnings Hand Up continues to send work crews to homes with no one knowing they’re letting rapists and child molesters in their front door.
Hand Up Ministries founder, David Nichols, is said to be a former member of the Tony Alamo cult in Arkansas. Both Nichols and Kern hail from Arkansas. Last fall, federal agents raided the Alamo compound and removed children, including the cult leader’s nine-year-old wife, who were being forced into sex and child pornography. In July Alamo was convicted on ten federal charges involving child sex complaints.
Nichols found Hand Up Ministries about ten years ago. He was employed with the Dayton Tire Plant in OKC until it was closed down in 2006. The laid off tire worker, however, has managed to afford a lavish home on 2.4 acres of the upscale Heritage Estates at 15301 SE 73rd St in Choctaw. Nichols charges the Hand Up residents a weekly fee to stay at his compounds and solicits donations from individuals and churches. While residents live in old FEMA trailers purchased at a post-Katrina auction, Nichols enjoys the high life as cult leaders tend to do. Home prices at Heritage Estates range from a quarter to a half million dollars. Nichols' home is shown below.
Kendall Ward, a trustee for Hand Up Ministries, also maintains a home there at 15109 SE 73rd, which is valued at $270,000. The Heritage Estates Homeowners Association is registered with the secretary of state in the name of David Nichols. Nichols is, also, owner of record for HUM Enterprises and Hand Up Industries; both of which are deemed "for profit" enterprises. A review of Hand Up Ministries' tax returns for the last nine years has shown that no income from either source was reported to the IRS and in fact the non-profit claims on their returns they have no major interest in any for profit ventures.
A 2006 tax return for the ministry showed that they paid out over $800,000 to residents. However, the residents are paying a weekly program fee and are not getting paid to stay there. Further, the return reflected 1.4 million dollars received in revenue and then stated there was no money earned in interest on it.
Nichols obtains over $40,000 a month just from the program fees alone. Another million a year comes from outside donors. He requires residents to work full time jobs outside the ministry and turn over their entire paychecks to him. A business manager doles out an allowance to the offenders. With the state secretary Nichols lists a business address of 3225 S. Agnew in OKC. It's an empty lot. Additionally, the Hand Up founder obtains donated vehicles and then sells them back to his residents.
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Tony Alamo previously worked alongside Danny Layne, former pastor of Rep. Jason Murphey’s Guthrie-area church, in Los Angeles where both led street ministries for prostitutes and drug addicts. A previous raid by federal marshals in 1991 on the Alamo compound saw the self-proclaimed savior flee with the decomposing body of his wife Susan. Alamo had kept her body in a glass coffin after she died of cancer and claimed that she would be resurrected. He hid the body for 16 years in different locations. Eventually, Susan’s family was able to get a court to turn over the body to them and she is now buried near Tulsa.
During a CNN interview last year, the anchor had to admonish the Christian leader for his frequent use of anti-gay slurs.
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Sally Kern’s husband Steve operates a home for young unwed mothers in Oklahoma City, as he did in Idaho, and we’ve now found he has been mentoring at a young women’s home in Midwest City, which houses girls coming out of the foster care system.
That home for teenage girls, Emerge Independent Living Center, was founded by Hand Up Ministries. In 2008, Cornerstone Church in Midwest City took over sponsorship of the home, but that was likely done to deflect controversy. David Nichols is a member of Cornerstone Church, whose pastor Ron McKey was involved in a religious cult in Arkansas prior to moving to MWC. McKey is said to house a small armory in his home. Kathy Foster operates the home and she is listed in the Hand Up Ministries staff directory. McKee's church is one of Hand Up's largest financial supporters. While at Cornerstone, McKey has concentrated on youth programs and built a large youth center next to the church.
McKey came to Cornerstone from Alma, Arkansas...the site of Tony Alamo's original compound. At one time Alamo owned 29 businesses in Alma and was said to control the small town and everyone in it. Nichols grew up and lived in the area before coming to Oklahoma. Located in Crawford County, Alma is a town of less than 5,000 people.
Due to the fact that these are teenage girls, we’re not releasing the exact location of that home.
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IRA LANE
Hand Up Ministries former assistant director and chaplain Ira Lane went on a multi-state crime spree selling drugs and attacking a disabled woman and elderly man. He was finally captured in Florida after murdering a man in Orange County. Warren Houghton, Hand Up’s former transportation captain placed in charged of dropping off sex offenders throughout locations in Oklahoma City, has several convictions for lewd molestation in Oklahoma County.
RICHARD KLEMM
People connected to the ministry haven’t always been ex-cons either. Nichols friend Richard Klemm joined the Hand Up board of trustees with a clean record in 1998. Shortly after joining Hand Up Ministries, Klemm was arrested in Canadian County for molesting his own daughter. Another board member Jerry Turbeville has been convicted of manslaughter and drug dealing.
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Serving for several years on the child sex offender’s ministry board was Argyl Dick, the current chaplain for the Oklahoma County Detention Center and advisory board member for Character First. The Character First Training Center in downtown OKC plays host to the John Birch Society’s meetings and was the location for January’s God, Guns & Gays conference hosted by Kern buddy Paul Blair of Reclaim Oklahoma. There Sally Kern explained how she had exposed the gay agenda. Since becoming chaplain for the detention center Dick has convinced the county to purchase Character First materials for county employees and inmates.
The Character First program is based upon the Christian teachings of evangelist Bill Gothard, who among other things has been accused by Crimes Against Orphans of the rape, trafficking, and murder of children in Eastern Europe. Character First has secularized the concepts developed by Gothard in order to sell their materials to public groups.
Among instructors for Character First is Pastor Steven Kern of Olivet Baptist Church, who taught the classes to Hand Up Ministry members, when they were located in a compound on North Broadway Avenue. Kern, also, brought residents of the sex offender complex to his church and around a group of inner city children involved with the Novo Ministries in Oklahoma City. Olivet is a designated site for the child ministry that brings endangered youth into their churches for contact with members. Novo Ministries operates 14 sites in the Metro and only one is located at a church, which happens to be Olivet Baptist Church. Most the sites are located at elementary schools and at public housing centers.
BILL GOTHARD
In the last few years the Gothard cult has given rise to two mass murderers.
Matthew Murray, who killed himself after going on a 2007 shooting spree at a youth training mission and church in Colorado , that left four dead and many injured, suffered greatly in the Gothard cult.
"Me, I remember the beatings and the fighting and yelling and insane rules and all the Bill Gothard (expletive) and then trancing out. (expletive). I'm still tranced out."
The above is a web posting by nghtmrchld26 (nightmare child) a/k/a Matthew Murray.
Murray’s brother currently attends Oral Roberts University in Tulsa.
David Ludwig, another Gothard cult member, shot and killed two people in 2005.
The Character First materials are also being used by the Oklahoma County Detention Program for training youthful offenders.
Despite being denounced by most educators, Character First is endorsed by Oklahoma State School Superintendent Sandy Garrett and is being purchased and used by many local schools now. Parents should be especially concerned if their children are being forced to adhere to the training program, which is the secularized version of Gothard’s mis-teachings of Biblical law. Gothard, a proven sex abuser, condones domestic violence in the family.
Gothard was widely ridiculed during the 1980’s and 1990’s for his demand that Cabbage Patch Dolls ® be destroyed. He believed the dolls were housing demons that were put into homes to influence children towards Satan. Teams of midwives were sent into homes to capture the dolls and perform cleansing rituals, which have been described as pagan superstition rites at their most extreme.
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In 2006 Oklahoma State Representative Gus Blackwell, R-Goodwell District 61, tacked on language to Oklahoma bill SB 1755 at the last minute and told house members there would be no significant change to the bill; thus assuring its passage without anyone questioning the fact that Hand Up members would not be subject to the new law.
SB 1755 was passed by a 97-0 vote. It is a bill designed to keep convicted sex offenders away from children. Blackwell’s sneaky act was to make sure Hand Up Ministries and its high risk felons would be exempt and could stay near children.
REP. GUS BLACKWELL
One line was added to that bill for the exclusive interest of Hand Up Ministries: provided, any nonprofit organization established and housing sex offenders prior to the effective date of this provision shall be allowed to continue its operation.
The despicable act by Blackwell enabled the cult to be located near schools, parks, and day care centers.
Language from SB1755, Legislative session: 2006, regular. Primary authors: Riley (senate) and Perry (house) A. It is unlawful for any person registered pursuant to the Sex Offenders Registration Act to reside, either temporarily or permanently, within a two-thousand-foot radius of any public or private school site, educational institution, a playground or park that is zoned by city, county, state, federal or tribal government, or licensed child care center as defined by the Department of Human Services. Establishment of a day care center or park in the vicinity of the residence of a registered sex offender will not require the relocation of the sex offender or the sale of the property. On the effective date of this act, the distance indicated in this section shall be measured from the nearest property line of the residence of the person to the nearest property line of the public or private school site, educational institution, playground, park, or licensed child care facility; provided, any nonprofit organization established and housing sex offenders prior to the effective date of this provision shall be allowed to continue its operation.
When the bill was passed, citizens, that had hoped Hand Up would have to close their then Broadway compound due to their proximity to a school, were now outraged. They contacted then state representative Debbie Blackburn, who approached the bill’s authors Rep. Fred Perry and Sen. Nancy Riley about the matter. It was then discovered Blackwell had snuck the sentence into the law and informed house members there was no significant change in the bill. Thereby allowing the highest concentration of sex offenders in the state a free pass from a law meant to protect children.
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Hand Up Ministries is closely aligned with Theodore Ray Ketterling, the owner of several daycare centers in Oklahoma City and he is the person who purchased the 14-acre cult compound on 2130 SE 59th Street in OKC where the ministry’s main site is located. Ketterling, who is the registered agent for Ranchwood Ministries (Nichols is a former board member) purchased the mobile home facility in February 2008 for $600,000. Three months later he deeded it over to Hand Up. That location now houses over one hundred violent sex offenders from around the state and country that Nichols has brought into the city.
Ketterling was a member of the Hand Up board until late 2008, when he and Nichols had a falling out over a soured mortgage the child sex offender group was involved in. A daycare facility at 7121 Lyrewood Lane is according to county assessor’s records owned by HUM Enterprises. HUM stands for Hand Up Ministries. County records also show a Kids R Us social services unit at the same address with a mailing address to Ketterling’s home at 13648 Red Bud Road in Choctaw. The Little Ones Learning Center at 7221 Lyrewood Lane has a mailing address of P.O. Box 2896 in Oklahoma City. It is the same post office box used by the pedophile group.
Ketterling controls several other child daycare centers in the Oklahoma City area along with his wife Sharon Diane Simmons Ketterling, daughter Angela Ketterling Stolldorf, and business associates Darcie Clark and Glynda Couch. Those are located at 3901 S. Bryant in Del City, 7916 S. Western in OKC, 1213 N. Rockwell in OKC, and 12501 NE 23rd St in Choctaw, which is just down the road from the Hand Up NE 23rd Compound. Ketterling owns another daycare in Edmond, but it is leased out to other operators, so we’re not identifying it yet.
Ketterling’s Kids USA is listed as a non-profit church organization, who we linked to Ranchwood Ministries. We followed the paper trail of incorporations, which ended up being a long string of incorporations under various Ketterling family members and included creative variations of their names. Other entities were partnerships between Ketterling and some business associates. In the end, however, the trail ends with the day care buildings being owned by for-profit investment companies, like T D K Investments Inc. (Ted and Diane Ketterling) and K & C Investments Inc. (Ketterling and Couch). This appears to be just a part of a much larger and suspicious trail of companies that link for profit daycare centers to a child molester ministry.
After Gossip Boy first exposed the sex offender ministry purchasing the day care center, Fox 25’s Andrew Speno did a story and Ketterling vowed he’d sever ties between the ministry and the daycare, but never did.
Upon reviewing a copy of the Hand Up application we obtained, one startling segment revealed the cult required applicants provide the names, ages, and addresses of their children. It clearly doesn’t ask for a spouse's address, only those of children. The office of Hand Up is run by other sex offenders.
You can also note that the post office box listed on the sex offender application is identical to that of the Little Ones Learning Center. Owner of the daycare is HUM (Hand Up Ministries) Enterprises. No one can explain how a child sex offender group managed to purchase a daycare center in Oklahoma City. Nor can authorities explain why they aren't doing anything about it. And of course Rep. Gus Blackwell is refusing to answer why he wrote a special provision into state sex offender law that excludes the pedophiles from Hand Up from being near child care centers. Another daycare center linked to Hand Up is located near their smaller compound on NE 23rd where reports claim the facility is using male and female sex offenders to breed children into the cult. Plus, they operate the Midwest City home for teenage girls aging out of the foster care system.
The evidence is irrefutable - convicted child molesters, led by a man whose former cult in Arkansas was shut down for the sexual abuse of children and the production of kiddy porn, are involved in OKC daycare facilities and officials are turning a blind eye. There is only one reason why a child sex offender cult would want to own daycare centers and you know exactly what that reason is.
Ketterling, his family, and Ranchwood have been involved in dozens of criminal, civil and tax actions. From meth, to burglary, to larceny, to protective orders, domestic violence, to tax liens, to multiple counts of negligence that include the injury of a child, to contempt of court – the Ketterling family is about as questionable as they come.
His wife, Sharon Diane Ketterling, is the owner, as Diane Ketterling, of a farm called S & S Enterprises LLC of Seminole that Hand Up has been using as a farm compound. She is also the registered agent for Kid's Ministries Inc. The wife has also put several properties and businesses under her maiden name and under variations of her name. Board members with Hand Up are known for using the residents as cheap labor for their business ventures.
On November 2, 2009, we ran a sex offender search for the 73129 zip code. There are 226 registered sex offenders in that area. Over half are located at the Hand Up cult compound. They’ve grown by about 25 percent since we last checked that compound in December ’08.
They have access to daycare centers and few are listening.
Could it perhaps be because both Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel and District Attorney David Prater are receiving kickbacks from Character First?
But that’s another report.
Rep. Sally Kern and her husband Pastor Steve Kern. Rep. Jason Murphey and the Church of God – Guthrie. Galen Kelly and the Church of God – Crutcho. Rep. Gus Blackwell. Hand Up Ministries’ 129 convicted sex felons, most being child molesters. The Tony Alamo Cult. Paul Blair and Reclaim Oklahoma. Character First. Infiltration into the Oklahoma school system. County government. The John Birch Society. OKC daycare centers. A pedophiles breeding ground. A home for unwed mothers. Inner city children’s ministry. A home for teenage girls coming out of foster care. Orphans. Rape. Murder. Resurrection. Children made second class and put into harm’s way.
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