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Brookins AME Church in Los Angeles
UPDATE: 5.22.09 – No response from Rev. Read-A-Sermon. No response to request for either evidence or rebuttal. Nothing new to report in that respect. Blame Brookins, not Mo’Kelly.
But…
Mo’Kelly did come to find out the following and this information is CONFIRMED, VALIDATED and VERIFIED.
Brookins is currently negotiating with Bank of America to sell off some of their properties to save the main sanctuary. If unsuccessful (albeit unlikely), Brookins will struggle to retain ownership of the main property (the sanctuary) through the summer.
NO bills are currently being paid, not the musicians, the general bills and Brookins is bouncing more checks than the Lakers bounce basketballs.
BOING!
And although Brookins is bouncing checks everywhere, ranging from the alarm company to the property insurance, Nixon is still getting his FULL $2500 per week cash salary.
Yes, $2500.00 per week. That equates to $130k per annum.
Not a bad job considering nothing/nobody ELSE is getting paid.
And that $2500 does NOT include Nixon’s parsonage/housing allowance for his house in the hills. That does NOT include his car allowance. And does not take into account the $17,000 in moving expenses from Denver to Los Angeles that Brookins had to pick up the tab.
Simple math folks…OF COURSE Brookins is broke.
Rev. Read-A-Sermon is an ineffectual, un-anointed preacher and people aren’t tithing. It’s not hard to understand. That’s not Dr. Murph’s fault, that’s Bishop Kirkland’s fault. If Rev. Read-A-Sermon were all that, he’d be bringing in the money and/or paying the GENERAL bills.
Let’s break it down…
Even if all the properties were free and clear, the general monthly bills STILL aren’t getting paid. NOTHING is getting paid, except for Nixon’s salary and ancillaries. Not the property mortgages, not the utilities, not the musicians.
NOTHING
One detail to be confirmed is whether present Minister of Music Rodena Preston will remain at Brookins beyond the end of this month.
Rodena, you know Mo’Kelly…reach out and verify whether this is true or not.
That is all for now…
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First Watergate, then FameGATE…now BrookinsGATE.
No…Mo’Kelly isn’t “slow.” No, Mo’Kelly isn’t “slippin’”. No, Mo’Kelly is not “late” on this story. Mo’Kelly simply wanted to get a better handle on the situation better known as the burglary of Brookins.
Mo’Kelly paused in reporting this “burglary” because the details have been sketchy at best. And “sketchy” is a generous and kind description to be sure. As Mo’Kelly prides himself on actual documentation and not mere conjecture, this “story” is suspect on its best day. The following is a merging of many different accounts of what “happened” at Brookins.
Allegedly…
An unknown number of “crooks” broke into Brookins AME by way of the front
Verne Troyer
window which leads to the men’s bathroom. This window faces the street (Gramercy Ave.) and is just to the right of the main steps leading up to the vestibule if you are entering the church. (See photo above.)
Now, as a former member of Brookins and a lifetime of experience as being male…Mo’Kelly has had more than a few occasions to use the men’s bathroom in question. That window couldn’t fit Verne Troyer through its opening on Verne’s slimmest day.
But that’s how the “story” goes…
Never mind the fact that the flood lights illuminate the front of the building all night long, non-stop. Never mind the fact that someone would’ve had to have placed a ladder to reach the second-story window with the lights beaming down on him/them the WHOLE time. Never mind that whatever was “stolen” had to ALSO come back out the same window as all the doors are chained shut.
Never mind all of THAT reality.
Also allegedly, a SINGLE computer was “stolen” from the pastor’s secretary’s credenza, which is just in front and outside the pastor’s office. Allegedly, as the “story” goes…it was “the computer” with all the “alleged evidence” of embezzlement by its former pastor Rev. Dr. Frederick O. Murph.
Oh…ok.
Never mind the fact that banks have paper trails of any movement of money anywhere in the country. Never mind THAT bit of minutia. ALL the “evidence” was on that ONE computer. Never mind that the computer was stolen from an area which has an alarm AND motion sensor. Never mind THAT bit of minutia either. The “story” is that “all” of the “evidence” with no back up or paper copies of course…resided on this ONE computer which was “stolen.”
Uh…yeah…ok.
Other reports came in claiming that a keyboard and some music equipment were also “stolen.” Strangely enough, the office of present pastor Joseph Nixon was untouched…
Hmm…how “fortunate” of him.
The “story” continues that there are also “rumors” that Dr. Murph hired “thieves” to break into the office to steal this ONE computer with “all” the evidence of financial malfeasance, (yet didn’t think to ALSO look in Joseph Nixon’s office…)
Joseph Nixon changed all the locks, but “forgot” to change the alarm codes?
Rev. Joseph Nixon
Oh…ok, if y’all say so.
Mo’Kelly reached out to Brookins to get a quote and statement from its pastor Joseph Nixon.
He was unavailable to comment as he’s presently vacationing somewhere in the Caribbean.
Not kidding. Yes, the Caribbean. The church is supposedly “broke” and the pastor is simultaneously getting his tan on.
Yes, Brookins was “burglarized” in order to steal ONE computer, leaving the pastor’s office untouched as the pastor “coincidentally” vacationed in the Caribbean.
Again, how “fortunate” for Joseph Nixon.
(On a side note…Mo’Kelly is SURE that Brookins members are pleased to know that after all of the double and triple offerings Nixon calls for on a weekly basis, the church properties ARE STILL going into foreclosure on HIS watch and he still has the time (and money) to go on vacation in the midst of the mess.)
Bring ye all the tithes to the storehouse…so that Joe may go on vacation!
This story is SO beneath The Mo’Kelly Report. The ONLY reason it is here is to acknowledge my “knowledge” of it because people have been “clamoring” for Mo’Kelly to give his take on it.
Well there you have it and Mo’Kelly won’t comment further until he has something REAL to report.
And Rev. Joseph Nixon…when you get back from “vacation” feel free to give Mo’Kelly a call and elaborate on this “break-in.” If you have to read a statement like you read all of your sermons, that’s fine. Just remember not to also write in your “Amens” on your statement like you do in your sermons. It would sound a bit weird.
(We can imagine what that would be like. Nixon calls Mo’Kelly one day with a piece of notebook paper in his hands, scribbled with chicken-scratch).
“You see Mo’Kelly, it was the devil in a hoodie, trying to push the spiritual ‘delete key’…amen? It was one of Beezlebub’s boys who broke in the bathroom, yes Lawd! It was King Herod trying to push the ‘reset’ button at Brookins like he did with King Jesus. It was a demon in search of a disk drive I tell you!…Awww, I wish I had a witness up in here!”
“Nixon, I just wish you had good sense…but do you mean a ‘burglary witness’ or an ‘amen’ type of witness? Either/or, ‘brother’…Mo’Kelly can’t help you.”
(Nixon pauses, flustered)
“Oops…lost my place. Uh, um…uh…”
“You stopped off with ‘I wish I had a witness.’ About the 3rd line down.”
“Oh, yeah, thank you Mo’Kelly. Sometimes I can’t even read my own writing. You see, if the criminal had G.O.D. in his heart, he wouldn’t be looking to put a U.S.B. cord in his hand. Lawd hammercy! Mo’Kelly, turn to your neighbor and say, ‘U.S.B…yeah you know me’.”
U.S.B? Oh Negro Please!
(Mo’Kelly hangs up on Nixon.)
Just a suggestion…
Also, if you get a chance, please clear up any rumors as to you referring to Mo’Kelly as an “idiot” in your meetings with church officers. Heretofore, Mo’Kelly had been awful kind and largely not referred to you in The Mo’Kelly Report. Mo’Kelly would hate to think this “rumor” is true. So anytime you feel like taking your big boy pill and going on the record to clarify in The Mo’Kelly Report…you’re more than welcome. Until that time…don’t start none…won’t be none. You want no parts of this…trust. You read sermons…I read people. Know your place. Idiot you say?!
Feel free to pick up the phone and we can match wits ON THE RECORD! When you get over your sunburn, call Mo’Kelly if you dare.
Because if you Joe, can’t keep Mo’Kelly’s name out of your mouth, then maybe Mo’Kelly should include yours in his. And we’ll see who has more “embarrassing” information to share. Remember, Shorter AME wasn’t exactly “disappointed” upon your departure either. Mo’Kelly has spies in Denver too…don’t sleep on Mo’Kelly.
Just another suggestion…
Maybe Mo’Kelly should devote some posts to your history prior to coming to Brookins. You had a free pass up until now…one which has now been revoked until you come in The Mo’Kelly Report.
Tricky Dick
Hmm…a burglary, “evidence” and a guy named “Nixon” at the center of it. Sounds vaguely familiar. Another “coincidence” to be sure…
I wonder what Bishop H.H. Brookins would say about his church now…
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Mo’ you are STUPID!!!!!!!! LOL. I love it. Go get’em. I’m tired of these low lifes coming in and raping our churches and then try to point someone elses shortcomings, while at least 3 fingers are pointing back at them. Nixon was a pond in all of this and he was too ignorant to know he was being set up.
Kirkland thought that by moving Murph and sending one of his boys that he would still be in control. I heard, don’t know if it’s true, that he comes by Brookins to pick up his weekly “stipend”.
I think this is sooooooo funny. The pit they tired to dig for someone else, they now find themselves in the mist!
Mo’, I thank God for a brother like you. Too many of us, see this stuff, and have become afraid to say something. I know you are making a difference. Stay strong and be encouraged for there are many of us, who support and stand behind the Mo’Kelly Report.
Comment by ebonyeyes 04.23.2009 @ 7:49 PMEbonyeyes…thank you for your support. Truth be told, I never really said anything about Nixon…and then I hear he’s been publicly…PUBLICLY talking mess about me. Well, then I’m obligated to respond. Even though he won’t dare return an email or pick up the phone. It’s not like I’m unavailable for dialogue. He’s simply just being the best “puppet” he can… Can’t fault him for trying.
I said it…and I meant it. If he wishes to disagree…he knows where to email/phone/visit me.
All my information still exists in the Brookins office (assuming that too wasn’t “stolen”.)
If he wishes to somehow “discredit me” he should pick up the phone and get on the record instead of taking shots from a distance. I guess he doesn’t realize I can do that too.
Since we now know for a fact he reads The Mo’Kelly Report, he’ll definitely be reading this…you know, like his sermons.
Comment by mrmokelly 04.23.2009 @ 8:18 PMMo Kelly, Mo Kelly, Mo Kelly. Can I be your date when you win the “Academy Award”. Damn man you are the expletive dude.
Keep doing your thing Mo. You are getting under their skin really bad. The talk back in Kansas is that Mo Kelly is rattling the bones of even the deceased Bishops except Richard Allen.
If Bishop Richard Allen and Episcopal Supervisor Sara Allen were alive, you would be given Sainthood by both of them. I think I was just told by a little blue bird that Queen Elizabeth is going to make you a Knight or Lord.
Wait until we get the people back in the 4th District to send you stuff on those crooked Bryants then you will have the Kirklands, Bryants, Hunters, Murphs (quit frowning), Williams’, Nixons, and Whites. Did we mention the Hunters above?
Comment by Brian 04.27.2009 @ 5:08 AMmokelly mokelly, well its confirmed you truly are a murphinite. I see you like to throw salt on everyone but your boy freddy who by the way put brookins in debt not nixon. I could go back and forth with you about just how WRONG you are but I see you don’t want to know the truth you just want to spew garbage, and whoever is feeding you your info tell them they need to get it straight. Just for the record your boy murph is dirty and will be sitting in a cell real soon, will you report that. And we here at Brookins support Pastor Nixon here 100% so report that!!
Comment by sweets16 04.29.2009 @ 9:43 AMHey Sweet 16…I guess you missed the part where I asked for any documentation or proof that Dr. Murph had in fact stole from Brookins. I’ll say it here again. If you have the proof…send it my way. mrmokelly@gmail.com.
You instead of sending actual documentation, offer instead to SAY I’m wrong…but offer nothing in terms of documentation.
So the question is…on WHAT do you base YOUR conclusion? Something someone “told” you? Something you “believe” or something you surmised?
Because in the two months in which I’ve ACTIVELY asked for documentation to support the allegations, there has been nothing forwarded to me. In attendance at the MEC meeting, the MEC said that they were no longer addressing the financial “issues” they were inquiring about procedures.
And if Dr. Murph is going to be sitting in a cell real soon…no I wouldn’t report “that.” I’d report if and when he were actually arrested.
And it’s NOT true that Brookins supports Nixon 100% so no, I WON’T report that.
So until you can DOCUMENT that 100% of Brookins supports Nixon 100%, your “anonymous” comment means nothing.
See, be glad I DON’T simply post rumors and innuendo, or Nixon would have to answer to all the RUMORS of his OWN financial and sexual improprieties in Palmdale, Denver, and elsewhere.
So that rumor knife cuts both ways. The reason I haven’t is because I rely on documentation. So if there is anything “wrong” with what I’ve reported, come with the documentation to prove otherwise.
Until you do…you just keep on reading The Mo’Kelly Report and sounding silly in your responses “Sweet 16″
The phrase Sweet 16 is appropriate…because it connotes a youthful, innocence and ignorance of the realities of the world around her.
How appropo…
Comment by mrmokelly 04.29.2009 @ 12:21 PMAlso JOVONNA PIERFAX (aka Sweet 16),
Of all the years I’ve known you, sat next to you in church on the left side…I would THINK you would at least hit me up in email and we could’ve dialogued as actual friends and Christians. But since you thought it “better” to try to blast me “anonymously” on MY blog, it’s well within my right to “expose” you on my blog.
JOVONNA…
You’re Jovonna Pierfax, administrative assistant to Joseph Nixon…i.e. a paid employee and that’s a fact.
Putting Brookins into debt is an “easy” answer when you don’t know/understand the reality of church assessments, budgets and the like. The cost of running Brookins is far more than you can even imagine and the moment you can show me how/where Dr. Murph stole the money…I’m on board. But until you do JOVONNA, or decide to be interested in actual facts and not conjecture JOVONNA…then you have no business accusing anyone of being “wrong” or spewing “garbage.”
You JOVONNA administrative assistant to Joseph Nixon…i.e. a paid employee, say Dr. Murph is dirty…please show me your facts. That’s NOT a lot to ask. Show me your facts. And before you come at me emotionally…TRUST there’s more than enough “dirt” on Nixon too. But notice how until now I’ve not even commented on him for the most part. Because in the end, I wasn’t interested in “dirt.” I’m only interested in facts. I really wasn’t even interested in reporting on that BOGUS break-in. I was only interested in FACTS.
And why did you not in your infinite wisdom testify at the MEC on the depth of Dr. Murph’s dirt? If you are THAT committed to truth and justice, (and THAT knowledgeable not to mention) why do both facts and active engagement (beyond an “anonymous comment” on my blog) repeatedly escape you?
And if Dr. Murph is on his way to jail…why should you care what I do or do NOT report here?
Think about that for a moment.
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Are you more concerned with a blog post or Dr. Murph going to jail? Because if Dr. Murph were on his way to jail…your issue with Mo’Kelly would then be what?
If he were “on his way” to jail, nothing I say, nothing I post, nothing I editorialize would matter. But evidently what I say matters, because here you are under the cloak of a pseudonym are up in arms.
Why is that JOVONNA administrative assistant to Joseph Nixon…i.e. a paid employee?
I’m sure you don’t have an answer for that…
If you are “right,” then stand on the Word and sign your name. Stop having me do your work for you. You’re neither “bold enough” to investigate the truth nor stand publicly in name of it. I’ve asked for the “evidence” I’ve received none.
Oh, ok… I know you’re smarter than that. Show me where I’ve withheld the reporting of any facts regarding Dr. Murph.
Show me? I’m here all day.
I’ve hidden NOTHING!
But I’m supposed to take your word for someone’s guilt and report it accordingly? I reported on John Hunter’s “dirtiness” because I have three folders worth of EVIDENCE. You’ve (individually and collectively) have sent me NOTHING!
I’m not impressed by people who yell insults from behind a wall JOVONNA PIERFAX. I’m most disappointed in you JOVONNA PIERFAX administrative assistant to Joseph Nixon…i.e. a paid employee. You of all people should know that IP addresses are traceable. So the next time you wish to insult me JOVONNA PIERFAX, administrative assistant to Joseph Nixon…i.e. a paid employee, please sign your name to it.
I’ve reached out to Brookins, Kirkland and Nixon DOZENS of times as to validating their claims against Dr. Murph. In response?
Nothing. That’s not a Mo’Kelly problem.
All the best,
Mo’Kelly.
P.S. The next time you try to light me up “anonymously,” try not to use an IP Address that traces back to you. It helps keep you more “anonymous.”
Comment by mrmokelly 04.29.2009 @ 12:34 PMThank you Mo’ for putting that sistah straight! I know Nixon and every church he has been in has complained about him stealing money and being a womanizer (I hope I spelled that right). It’s quite interesting that Nixon fired the other women in his office and hired this young lady, who I heard could not read or write. Oh, many see she can write because she sent this post to you. But, people need to stay in their lane.
I believe Nixon put her up to posting on your blog to try to get you off his back. But, Mo’, I’m sure you can find members of the churches he belongs to that will provide you with some facts. Miss Sweet 16 or Jovonna to grow up and not involved in grown folks business if she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. That how rumors start and continue.
Love ya, Mo’
Comment by Anonymous 04.29.2009 @ 2:05 PMActually you didn’t set me straight you only proved just how biased your site is. Since you have my ip address you could have sent me an email personally. And for the record the name is for my birthday. I don’t need to debate with you or any of your anonymous posters, about the congregration here at Brookins because I’m here and Nixon didn’t put me up to anything as I told you before I don’t have an agenda I love this Church and will support whatever Pastor is placed here as long as I think he is doing the work of God. And anonymous I can’t read or write that is truly funny, by reporting that other churches have accused Nixon of this or that aren’t you keeping the rumors going and contradicting yourself. Rumors start because jealous and insecure people have nothing better to do like whoever told you I couldn’t read or write.
Comment by sweets16 04.29.2009 @ 5:14 PMActually…the “site” is not biased as long as the commentary is within reason, people are free to express themselves. If you digested the fullness of the site you would find people who both agree and disagree with me. And yes, I “could” have written you a personal email, but since you STARTED the anonymous and “public” bashing…don’t get brand new and act like a response is “unfair.”
And if you think Nixon is doing the work of God…then that’s all you need. You don’t need the approval of man. Stand on the Word.
But I tend to deal in facts. The fact of the matter is that you are a paid employee of Joseph Nixon. Um…the word “biased” should not be anywhere in your argument about why you don’t like this site. You don’t have to “like” what is posted here. But Joseph Nixon has been given EVERY opportunity EVERY step of the way to speak on his behalf or the behalf of Brookins. He has declined. A “biased” site doesn’t offer that opportunity. Please come with facts as well as your criticism. You’re offering opinion and emotion.
Joseph Nixon knows how to reach me if he wishes to rebut anything I’ve said thus far. I don’t have to answer for his silence. He could’ve had full run of this site with an editorial and interview, what have you. He’s done NOTHING.
The absence of someone’s rebuttal doesn’t make a publication biased. That’s on the absent party.
Here’s another newsflash. This isn’t the Washington Post. My editorial standard is one that is mine and mine alone. It happens to be higher than 98% of the blogs out there, but it still mine and mine alone. Brookins has a website. You don’t see me over there complaining about what is on that website do you?
When you pitch in on the maintenance, the research and the writing, then your opinion about its content might have more merit. But here’s a free lesson for you. This blog and just about every other one in existence does NOT reproduce AP wire reports (i.e. news without opinion). This is an Op/Ed site. That’s short for opinion and editorial. I don’t necessarily agree with everything that is posted and just posted a letter on Ward AME that castigated a LONG time friend and fraternity brother. But the content of the letter and the issues it raised were relevant for public discussion. It met my editorial standard. It was a signed letter (not anonymous). And I offered the opportunity for a full rebuttal for the accused.
I’m not obligated to do that, but it’s the FAIR thing to do.
If you don’t like it, wordpress.com and blogspot.com can help you start your own blog for free.
Comment by mrmokelly 04.29.2009 @ 9:00 PMOh, and I noticed that you had no answer for anything I said. You’ve accused, you’ve alleged…but not answered. Are you willing to provide facts and proof to back up your assertions?
I promise you if Dr. Murph is arrested, I most assuredly will report it right here. But not a minute before. Not because Joseph Nixon’s assistant is jumping up and down and “sure” Dr. Murph will be in a cell “soon.” Not because you just “feel” you’re right. I will report it because it is documented and relevant news.
I don’t know if you’ve ever purchased property, but for a property to go into foreclosure it must be in arrears at least 4 months. When Dr. Murph left in November, none of the church properties were in foreclosure…a fact. So for the properties to fall into foreclosure SIX MONTHS after Dr. Murph leaves is on Joseph Nixon. If you can’t pay the notes SIX MONTHS after Murph leaves, that’s a Nixon problem. Maybe the pews aren’t as filled as Bishop Kirkland thought they would be after Dr. Murph was moved. But if things are falling apart financially now…Nixon’s had SIX MONTHS to bring them under control. He’s had SIX MONTHS and a supposedly sympathetic bishop. At what point is Nixon responsible for ANYTHING that happens at Brookins? Dr. Murph left in late October. It’s almost MAY.
Do the math.
Tell Joe Nixon I’m waiting on his editorial. I know he can “write” a sermon, so he can definitely put pen to paper and write a rebuttal editorial. Stop complaining about this site being supposedly “biased” when Brookins has made ZERO effort in which to come on the record.
Comment by mrmokelly 04.29.2009 @ 9:17 PMSistah Girl, I don’t have a reason to get in this fight. I am sick and tired of everyone pointing the finger at other people, when some of these same character are guilty of doing everything under the sun.
What I was saying to you and if you were interested in knowing the truth, that you can’t get caught up in what’s going on. You stated that you would support any pastor that would have come, but it appears that you didn’t support the pastor that was there. My question to you is, if you were sitting in the congregation and you knew Murph was dirty, why are you just now saying something? Why would you wait until now? That is the problem that I am having with a number of folks in the church. We sit in congregation week after week and if we know something and don’t say anything we are just as guilty as the person who committed the crime. It’s call being an accessory.
My challenge with people like you, is that you get a job and than you side with the person that is paying you. Do you truly have a clue as to the day to day expenses and operation of the church? Or are you just going by what you heard? If you are not involved with the financial aspects, you don’t know. You are only repeating what you heard.
I’m not taking anyone side – I am on God’s side.
I know that there are two sides to every story. And just like the woman that was brought to Jesus who was caught in adultery, Jesus never said a word, he just bent down in the dirt and started writing. Writing down the sins of those who came with accusations.
Young lady, what I am trying to teach you, in the mist of this world full of darkness and sin, is that you have to be careful. Don’t allow other people to use you for their personal benefit. Read your scripture, and know that you have power through Jesus Christ and you don’t have to bend every time the boss tells you too. In my heart I believe you were encouraged to write that blog, because the person that encouraged you didn’t have the guts or the balls to do it themselves.
You also stated that members of Brookins support Nixon 100%, then why are Brookins members showing up and joining our church on Sunday mornings?
Know the facts before you speak. Rumors are terrible things to pass as truth.
Comment by Anonymous 04.29.2009 @ 9:23 PM