https://jumpshare.com/v/h5h4iG3qge4OlQjVdvTD
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Thank You, Shane! Totally Agree.
As a former BRSM student, FIRE grad and FIRE missionary, I was stunned when I learned and am still learning of all this about Dr Michael Brown which happened while I was attending the school in Pensacola.
When David was confronted with his sin, he repented. When Michael Brown was confronted with his sin, he made excuses, lied and looked the other way.
Numbers 32:23 says, "But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out."
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Go to 4:40 or so. I particularly enjoyed Ron Canter’s “Michael Brown’s to do list”
https://youtu.be/Dn54CzUv1oo?si=q6uFBYA8N26G9vMj
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MAY 13, 2025 UPDATE
Witnesses Call for Michael Brown’s Resignation in Bombshell Report; Board Member Resigns
A 134-page indictment against Messianic apologist Michael Brown released last Friday may be the most damaging report yet on the Bible teacher’s sexual misconduct with his former secretary.
With new allegations on sexual and spiritual abuse, cover-ups, and complicit leaders including Brown’s wife, Nancy, the bombshell report is calling for Michael Brown’s permanent removal from ministry.
“Mike Brown is presently—and perhaps permanently—unfit for any position of church or ministry leadership,” the Michael Brown Witness Report states. “Neither should he be teaching at any level at this time. That is our position. We therefore call on fellow leaders to insist that he step down from all leadership roles.”
Brown used to lead the Brownsville Revival School of Ministry in Pensacola, Florida. He then founded the North Carolina-based Fire School of Ministry in the early 2000s during the time he engaged in sexual misconduct.
The new report is signed by Ron Cantor, Bob Gladstone, Keith Collins, and Mike Lubanovic, representing a larger gathering known as the “witness group.” This latest broadside refutes a recent report by an elder accountability team (EAT) appointed by Brown’s Line of Fire board that exonerated Brown.
Cantor is president of Messianic-themed Shelanu TV; Bob Gladstone and Keith Collins are former FIRE School of Ministry leaders, and Mike Lubanovic is a former FIRE Church pastor.
“It was our hope that we would not have to release this, but seeing that some members of the body of Christ have seen the EAT as exonerating Michael Brown, we have no choice but to release all the evidence and our conclusions. . . .” the witness report stated.
Meanwhile, Jonathan Bernis, the only Line of Fire board member on the EAT, has resigned.
“I have stepped off the LOF board due to health and family issues,” Bernis emailed to The Roys Report (TRR) Monday. “I know Dr. Brown has brought on some new, really capable board members to serve going forward.”
Brown has not responded to TRR’s request for comment.
The report includes previously unreported material about accusations that Brown swatted former secretary Sarah Monk’s rear-end, kissed her, held her hand, and allowed her to sit on his lap in the early 2000s. There are testimonies, documentation and recordings by 25 people that include but also go beyond the sexual misconduct allegations.
New allegations included:
- A witness found pornography on Brown’s phone in 2017 or 2018, refuting the EAT’s claim that Brown’s record was clean of sexual misconduct allegations after 2002.
- In late 2024, Brown told people that TRR was investigating him but also seemed to have prophesied that TRR wouldn’t publish an investigation on him. (TRR published an investigation last December.)
- In November 2024, Brown contacted Tikkun Global, of which Cantor is a part, to complain that Cantor was trying to “destroy” him. “Many lives are at stake—and I fear that Ron’s own soul and future ministry is at stake,” Brown reportedly wrote to Tikkun.
- Also in November 2024, Brown tried to do “damage control” and manipulate influencer and apologist Mike Winger into siding with him about an “unjust investigation” before TRR’s initial December 2024 article, Winger wrote in a statement.
- Brown reportedly told Winger that someone planted false memories in Monk’s mind.
- Nancy told a student that he wouldn’t be able to graduate after he’d already spent two years at the ministry school because he had been homeschooled. When he got a homeschool association involved and threatened a lawsuit, Nancy and Michael chastised him, saying he was unbiblical and a “Jezebel.”
Brown has returned to his speaking ministry with Line of Fire to both criticism and fanfare. This is despite a third-party investigation by independent investigator Firefly that determined Brown had engaged in “sexually abusive misconduct” with Monk and an “inappropriate relationship” with a married woman. The Firefly report also concluded Brown engaged in a “calculated effort to evade accountability.”
Last week, Landon Schott and his Fort Worth-based Mercy Culture Church welcomed Michael Brown back into ministry with confetti and applause.
Raleigh Washington concludes
The witness report alleges the Firefly report left out key testimonies and didn’t follow up on important leads, both of which the witness report included in their report.
TRR reached out to Jim Holler of Firefly for comment, but he didn’t respond.
The witness report also refutes a 27-page recommendation report by the Line of Fire board-appointed elder accountability team (EAT) that had rejected Firefly’s conclusion of “sexually abusive misconduct.” The EAT reframed it “leadership misconduct” instead. The EAT also praised Brown’s response to confrontations and stated Brown adequately repented.
In contrast, the witness report offered testimony and documentation that allege Brown attempted to deceive, manipulate, and retaliate against people who inquired or confronted him over two decades.
“(T)he 23-year effort to keep his actions from coming to light seems like pathological behavior—contrary to the standards for any believer, much less someone who regularly speaks of himself as a ‘elder and father in the body,’ ” the witness report stated. “And it was not adequately taken into account in the EAT Report.”
Cantor told TRR he gave Line of Fire board member Jonathan Bernis a copy of the witness report and asked that he share it with the EAT before publishing it on Cantor’s website. The witness report calls for the EAT to bring in a previously promised trauma-informed expert to advise them and reconsider its recommendations that include restoring Brown to ministry.
“Dr. Brown needs to be in therapy,” the witness report states. “He needs help in understanding the damage and traumatic effects of CSA (Clergy Sexual Abuse).”
However, Raleigh Washington, spokesperson for EAT and former president of Promise Keepers, told TRR Monday the EAT already involved an anonymous trauma-informed expert. The EAT has no plan to make any changes to its decision to reframe Brown’s behavior “leadership misconduct” rather than “sexually abusive misconduct.”
“The accountability team is sticking by what we have published,” Washington said. “We felt like what we did was right. It was godly. We feel like our definition of it better describes it than what Firefly said.”
Washington added that he believes Cantor convinced Monk that what happened to her was “10 times worse” than what it was.
“I feel (Cantor)’s done far more harm than good to Sarah,” Washington said.
Monk, who was 20 years old when Brown’s misconduct allegedly began, scoffed at that idea.
“Mr. Washington, you are deeply wrong,” Monk told TRR. “You have no right to speak about my trauma and blame it on anyone except Michael L. Brown, the one who violated my trust, touched my butt, and kissed me. That is the one to blame. Not the voice who has advocated for victims.”
Similarly, Cantor called Washington’s comments “highly irresponsible” and lacking “any level of empathy for victims of abuse.”
“That statement alone should disqualify Raleigh Washington from being on Mike’s eldership accountability team,” Cantor said. “He clearly does not understand abuse and its paralyzing effects.” Cantor called Washington’s statement “misogynistic and dishonoring to Sarah; it belittles her as a woman and a survivor—’It took some man to tell her how bad things really were.’
“. . . I’d love for him to explain how a girl, who at 19 years old was on fire for God, left FIRE School two years later in the aftermath of a sexually abusive relationship, backslidden and broken. It’s almost like he’s saying, ‘It’s not like he raped you . . . Get over it.’
Cantor also added that by the time he met Sarah in early November 2024, she had already disclosed Brown’s alleged abuse to many people. “All I did was write down her story and give it to Mike Brown’s board,” Cantor said. “The only convincing that I had to do was to help her see that she was a victim of Mike Brown, not a willing participant. She continued to blame herself, as is typical of victims of abuse.”
On May 7, Brown posted a video—his first since Dec. 17.
“I am very much aware of the fact that in the body (of Christ) now, there’s kind of like a mini-civil war over me,” he said. “Some of you are really for me. Some of you are really against me. I want to make an appeal to you. Please don’t divide over me. Unite around Jesus instead.”
Rebecca Hopkins is a journalist based in Colorado.
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Posted by Ron Cantor May 14, 2025
Lawyer Randy Hood addresses Raleigh Washington's inappropriate, spiritually abusive comments regarding Sarah Monk when he portrays the sexually abusive misconduct that Michael Brown committed against her as far less than it was. His actual words were that I convinced Sarah that what happened to her was “10 times worse” than what it was. I hope Raleigh himself will read what this trauma-informed attorney has to say. Thank you to Stephen Powell for sending them to me.
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Has Michael Brown Lost His Entire Board?
As Messianic apologist Michael Brown faces sexual misconduct allegations from outside his organization, he’s losing support from within. All three members of Brown’s board have left this year, The Roys Report (TRR) has confirmed.
This is during the same time period a sex abuse scandal has eclipsed Brown’s Line of Fire ministry.
“One by one, they left,” said Ron Cantor, president of Shelanu TV and former Brown confidant. “My understanding is that there are no board members right now unless they’re new.”
When TRR contacted Line of Fire board member Cindy Panepinto last November regarding the allegations, she told TRR the board had four members: Herself, Brown, former personal assistant Scott Volk, and Jonathan Bernis, founder and president of the Phoenix-based Jewish Voice Ministries International.
Bernis quit earlier this month, citing health and family reasons. He told TRR earlier this week that Brown had brought on “some new, really capable board members,” but will only divulge it’s “at least two.”
Panepinto, co-founder of Upward Call Ministries in Charlotte, North Carolina, told TRR this week that she resigned from the board two weeks ago. She said she has also resigned from her staff position as director of operations for Line of Fire. Panepinto didn’t give TRR a reason why she left both roles.
Volk, who was Brown’s personal assistant from 1997 to 2002, told TRR this week he resigned from the board in January. He declined to say why.
Volk was also a witness in an inquiry conducted earlier this year by Firefly Investigations that concluded that Brown had engaged in “sexually abusive misconduct” with former secretary Sarah Monk by swatting Monk’s rearend, kissing her, holding her hand, and allowing her to sit on his lap. The Firefly report also concluded Brown engaged in an “inappropriate relationship” that included “sexually related communication” with a second woman in the early 2000s.
Brown, a leader in the Brownsville revival of the late 1990s, was founding the FIRE School of Ministry at the time of the misconduct.
According to the Firefly report, Brown confessed to Volk that he was having a relationship with a married woman and told Volk he would end things. In a “heated” conversation with Volk, Brown’s wife, Nancy, forbid Volk from telling anyone, including Volk’s wife.
Brown hasn’t responded to TRR’s requests for names of any new board members. As Line of Fire doesn’t list board members on its site, questions remain as to who is now overseeing Brown.
Demand letters
This past week, Brown’s ministry fired off several legal demands to detractors who have commented or reported on various allegations about the organization.
On Tuesday, attorney Barry Arrington sent Cantor a demand and cease and desist letter,a copy of which Cantor’s attorney Richard Towne provided to TRR. The letter focused on comments Cantor made in a witness report about how Brown failed to warn a missions organization about an alleged predator.
In 2008, Brown’s FIRE School of Ministry removed volunteer mentor Keith Lashbrook for inappropriate behavior with young women but failed to warn Lashbrook’s mission organization, Globe, which oversaw a Haitian orphanage Lashbrook ran, TRRpreviously reported. Two years later, recently adopted children from Lashbrook’s orphanage began telling their new American parents that Lashbrook and his staff had abused them.
Along with three former FIRE leaders, Cantor recently signed a bombshell reportthat included 25 witnesses’ testimonies and documentation about sexual and spiritual abuse, some of which was not included in the Firefly report.
The demand letter gives Cantor two weeks to respond. Towne told TRR that he plans to send a response likely next week.
“As is our standard practice, we’ll review and evaluate the assertions in the letter and craft an appropriate response,” he said.
After Brown learned of child abuse allegations at the orphanage, he also allegedly encouraged families not to take legal action or publicize their concerns and to trust Globe.
“The sad thing about this situation is the mothers of the Haitian children, Natalie (Lewis) and Milissa (McGavin), say that the reason Mike Brown did not want them to sue Globe is because it’s not what Christians do,” Cantor said. “Yet he’s willing to sue somebody over information regarding the Haiti situation.”
Brown’s attorney, Arrington, was the attorney who represented families of victims of the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in a lawsuit against the gunmen’s parents. Arrington is now the chief legal counsel for the National Association for Gun Rights.
Blaise and Christina Foret, YouTubers with a show, “Wake up and Win” published an episode called, “Michael Brown Fired a Predator—Then Let Him Run an Orphanage in Haiti.” Brown’s attorney sent them a similar cease and desist and demand letter for retraction. The letter gives the Forets, who are also represented by Towne, two weeks to respond. Towne told TRR he’ll also provide a response to the Forets’ letter.
Arrington also sent Canadian journalist Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson a cease and desist letter with a demand for retraction on her reporting in her episode, “Two Predators on the Loose After Dr. Michael Brown and Globe Mission Coverup.” The letter also gives her two weeks to respond.
“I am collaborating with Ron and the other whistleblower on what took place and if we have gotten any information wrong, we will correct it,” Thompson told TRR. “But if it is Dr. Michael Brown’s word against those that we know to speak the truth, we will probably side with them.”
Arrington also sent a letter to TRR, but it wasn’t a cease and desist and demand for retraction letter. Rather it was a warning that cease-and-desist letters were sent to others with the advisement to TRR not to report the recipients’ defamatory statements in any of TRR’s future reporting.
“I hereby put you on notice of the falsity of these libelous allegations should you choose to include them in your future coverage,” the letter states.
The letter also included a statement from Brown.
“Claiming to speak for victims does not confer a license to lie,” Brown states in the letter to TRR. “The accusations made by certain persons about covering or abetting child sexual abuse in Haiti are vile and false, causing irreparable harm to many. These are especially horrific charges that have been repeated without regard for facts in something like a mob mentality.
“If those behind these baseless allegations wish to retract them and apologize, there is a way forward. If not, a truth-sorting process is needed to demonstrate both the falsity of their comments, and the harm they have caused. This is not about silencing anyone, but rather bringing truth where people think they can spew any kind of nonsense without consequence.”
Rebecca Hopkins is a journalist based in Colorado.
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“Here is the bottom line: You cannot say that you’ve taken full responsibility and repented—while simultaneously claiming the charges are lies and a satanic attack,” Joel Richardson wrote. “You can’t say you care deeply for victims—while publicly dismissing them as deceived or dishonest. . . . You are a coward, a fraud, a rebel, and a wolf.”
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POSTED BY NATALIE STUMP LEWIS ON MAY 23, 2025
This statement is to anyone that is asking for proof that Brown tried to silence me (and other moms) in 2010-early 2011:
What would you do (I’m asking those of you who have sat under MLB as a student) if someone you hold in such high esteem (Brown) continued to insert himself with (very opinionated) advice, after you found out that your children had been sexually abused by someone in ministry leadership?
Add the level of chaos and confusion we faced because the abuse had taken place in another country and your local authorities didn’t know what to do with the police reports because the crimes were commited outside of their jurisdiction.
Let’s even add that the country where the crimes took place had just been hit by a massive earthquake that destroyed government buildings.
Now, let’s add the fact that your children are not yet US citizens and came here on humanitarian parole. Most of the children were not even adopted yet (still in the process).
Let’s think about your home. You are in a state of emergency with your children. You’re looking for someone to counsel them and most counselors you reach out to do not feel they are equipped to handle this level of trauma (in your local area), some children even need inpatient intervention, and you must protect the innocence of the other children (young biological children who have not been abused) while maintaining peace and never ever shaming your children who have lost all innocence (ALL innocence-even my 3 year old).
Back to Brown…after sitting under his teachings, mentorship, leadership for years…you’ve developed the “WWBD” complex (what would brown do) because he was the epitome of holy living (right?). Well, I had this complex. I brought it into my marriage, my parenting, my life.
In July 2010 I received my first of 3 phone calls (I believe 3), along with emails and messages from Brown, chiding me to be “above reproach” while handling the information I have received from my children (and several other familes with adopted children from the same orphanage), telling me to not send letters to donors and churches that currently supported the corrupt missionaries, to not inform the public through social media (warning them), to not take legal action at that time (this was 7 months into our discovery phase).
What would you do if you received a FB message at 11:40 at night within 30 minutes of posting something on social media; something you (as a grown adult and parent) felt was pertinent to let your friends/family/acquaintances know? A message that strikes your core with “WWBD”. Those of you who have had this complex can understand how I felt. I felt shame. I felt like I was a gossip and a bad Christian. I felt the same way I just felt when I watched his pathetic interview with Heather Schott 2 nights ago (yes although I’m free now, the emotions came flooding back
Very few have walked out what I have over the past 15 years. My focus was always on my children. So my focus was not on my former teacher. But the questions did often come to mind, or they would come up in conversations with other Haiti mamma grads or family members. Especially when I would see Brown insert himself into Morningstar and IHOP abuse issues. I would watch from afar and think, “That’s just like what he did to us”. I still let it
Another point I’d like to make, is after our final phone call where MLB once again chided us about our tone and actions (February 2011) he did not reach out to us again. I reached out to him in May 2012 to ask if he or someone from FIRE could give account of Keith Lashbrook’s grooming of young female students and SA on their campus in 2007, or locate one of his victims, in order to testify in Keith’s court hearing as a witness to his predatorial-like behavior. Then, about a year and a half later (fall 2013) I asked him about a certain Messianic church, wanting his opinion. We’ve never communicated ever again.
Over the past 12 years he had never reached out and asked about my children. He never asked how the investigation was going.
Why would he be so invested from July 2010-February 2011 (2/2011 is when I informed him that ICE was involved and lawyers were hired), and then never reach out ever again? Don’t you find that odd?
Jump forward to December 2024, when I read the Roys Report. I read about what he had done to Sarah, I read about what he had done to “Kim”. I read about how he had helped his son in law cover up (a fellow grad in my class). I read about the years of manipulation and coverup by him. I was shocked. I couldn’t even wrap my mind around it at first.
Weeks went by. I couldn’t shake the memory of what he had done to “us Haiti moms”. So I reached out to them. And we all shared the same feelings.
I then decided to give my testimony to the Firefly investigator (although it was outside of the scope of his investigation), and in order to prepare for his phone call and jog my memory I went back over all of the emails and messages with Brown- so did the other moms. And, it’s like “the scales finally fell off”. I truly saw it. He didn’t care about us. He cared about the sanctity of the institution-Globe and FIRE’s reputation. HIS reputation. He had manipulated us with his “fatherly advice”. He tried to control the narrative and put out the “fire” he saw coming. A fire that would lead back to his ministry; letting a predator off the hook.
See, he did not report Keith to Globe, the agency that oversaw Keith Lashbrook in Haiti (the agency we later sued-public record) and Brown absolutely KNEW that Keith Lashbrook was a GLOBE missionary. I’d even told him when he met my adopted son Benjamin at my 10 year BRSM reunion that I had recently taken Ben to a Globe picnic so they could meet him…but he knew even before that, because GLOBE and BRSM sat on the same campus and Keith would visit our school when he was in town for GLOBE events. Notice in Brown’s email to Doug Gehman (below), President of Globe, that he signs “Blessings, Michael”? They all knew each other. First name basis. Had been in the same circles for years.
Brown and Josh Peters (former Globe missionary same time as Keith) knew Keith Lashbrook was a Globe missionary and did not inform Globe in 2007 when they kicked Keith off of their campus (Keith had been living in an RV on the FIRE campus and leading a “father daughter” outreach to the FIRE female students). In fact, Brown waited 3 years to tell Globe, after he found out about our children being abused in Keith’s Haitian orphanage.
It is because of this realization that I decided to speak publicly, for the first time (other than an interview with a local paper in 2011).
Michael Brown has shown a pattern of manipulation, control, and cover up-silencing victims (and I now know about other situations that have not been made known publicly…direct knowledge…not “gossip”).
I will not be silenced…
Attached are correspondence’s from Brown.
The last one is a letter I wrote to my attorney at the time, responding to her question about Brown’s email telling his “grads” to not take legal action and not go public.
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PART 1
http://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/04/michael-brown-and-mike-bickle-exposing.html
PART 2
http://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/04/michael-brown-and-mike-bickle-exposing_23.html
PART 3
http://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/04/michael-brown-and-mike-bickel-exposing.html
PART 4
http://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/04/michael-brown-and-mike-bickel-exposing_29.html
PART 5
https://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/05/michael-brown-and-mike-bickel-exposing.html
PART 6
https://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/05/michael-brown-and-mike-bickel-exposing_4.html
PART 7
https://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/05/michael-brown-needs-to-step-down.html
PART 8
https://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/05/michael-brown-and-haiti-exposing-lies.html
PART 9
https://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/05/dr-michael-brown-exposed.html
PART 10
https://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2025/06/rick-joyner-and-mike-bickle-exposing.html
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