Church Account
6:51A fake church member calls Pastor Hayes asking how much money is in the church account, claiming he's fallen on hard times and needs cash. The pastor refuses and demands to know who gave out his number.
Transcript
130 linesHello?
Hello, I'm trying to reach uh Pastor Hayes.
Um, this is he.
Pastor Hayes, how you doing?
This is this is Brother Line Line Thompson.
How you doing?
I'm I'm good, brother.
And how can I help you today?
Past I'm actually one of your members at the church, and I want to just commend you that you're doing a good job the way you um are displaying uh safety.
Let me say that first and foremost.
Okay, cool.
Thank you.
You know, we just want everybody to be safe and and healthy.
And and your name again?
Brother Line Thompson.
Okay, and and and Brother Thompson, I'm I'm I'm kinda about to be in the middle of dinner.
How can I help you, brother?
Well here's what I wanted to ask you, man.
Uh Past, I want to ask you this.
I I know you know a lot of people are going through different things and and and uh people are you know trying to make sure they keep food and stuff in the house because it's you know, time like this, you know, you kinda wanna stay put and and but you want to make sure you got enough food and water and things like that.
So but but but what I want to my reason for calling you is I wanted to ask you how uh how how much money do we have in the account?
Come again?
The church account.
How much money do we have in there?
But brother, what what do you say your name was again, brother?
My name is uh uh brother Lion Thompson.
Okay, Brother Thompson, how did you get my personal cell phone number to be calling me at home this time of day?
Well I got this number from one of the brothers at the church.
What what what brother they know not to give my personal number off to to people I don't know.
Are you a member of the Well I'm a m I'm a but I'm a but I'm a member though.
I'm a member.
Okay.
Well how how long you been a member?
Because I've been pastor of this church for 10 years and I your name ain't familiar to me.
How long how long you been a member at my church?
I've been a member probably going on going on three years now.
But I ain't I ain't been since you know since that day I joined I you know I you know I d kind of got caught out there you know how I go but uh wait wait wait wait wait wait so you you've been a member of my church two or three years you ain't been to the church in two to three years and you calling me to ask me about finances of my church I'm understand what
you're looking for.
Well I am a member so I mean I do have the don't I have the right to know what we got in the what we got in the account?
No actually you don't you don't have the right to that question if you don't actively come to the church.
You can't come to the church sign up for church and then call me three years later asking me what we got going on at church.
So I need to understand what is your purpose.
What what do you think I say everybody going through hard times I'm trying to see what we got in there because you know I I need to pick up a few things from the stove I don't have the money right now but sh shouldn't I be able to lean on my church though?
You can lean on a we we've done a lot of stuff in the community.
We've been feeding the elderly we got a food bank we've been cash app and people some money that when we can but you ain't been at this church in three years.
You can't call me out of three years and think I'm about to give you some money for some I don't even know if you're a real member.
I am a real member.
I'm a real member.
So hold on, hold on, hold on.
Hold hold hold on, Pastor.
Hold on.
No, no, no, you hold on.
No, no, no.
You hold on.
Boy, boy, look here.
I'm trying to sit down and have dinner with my family.
You sitting here on my last nut.
Look here, Brother Thompson.
I don't know you.
I ain't never heard of you.
You am not about to call here and try to get some money out of me and you ain't even a member of the church.
You can't I am a member of the church.
Because you come to the church one time you ain't been back in three years and you come to me for some money.
I am a member.
You are not a member of this church, sir.
I am a member of the church.
Look, look, look, let me tell you something.
I know this ain't no.
No, no, no, Mr.
Thomas, let me tell you what you can't join my church two or three years ago and call me three years later, get my number from somebody and ask me for money because you're going through hard times.
Now if you was a true member of the church, you'll understand how we work and how we give money to people that's struggling.
I just deliver 40 meals today to our elderly, huh?
Huh?
Last week we cash out people money to go pick up groceries.
Comparing Well do you need my do you need my cash app then?
Do you need my cash app boy, boy, you gotta make because you ain't even tithing.
So how you not tithing and think you can't I told you I have fell on bad times.
Didn't I say I fell on bad times?
You fell on bad times for three years?
Hey, hey, you know, it takes longer for some people, okay?
Why you j why are you judging me and opposite trying to figure out how to cash app me so I can get on.
I don't know if you some scam artist trying to get money from the church, sir.
I have never met you.
I don't know you.
Matter of fact, I'm about to call up the deacons to see who you are and why they would give my number to some boy to call me and ask me for some money.
Hey let me say this to you.
If you don't cash app me, then I'm finna let all the members I know you I know our church ain't no mega church.
You know, we got three, four hundred members already know.
So, but but I would let every member know that you're not cash app and me to help me in a time of need.
I will do that.
You can let them know.
You can Facebook it, Instagram, you can put it on that TikTok and tag me in it.
I ain't giving you a dime.
I don't know you.
I ain't never heard of you.
Matter of fact, you need to get off my phone.
I got dinner with my wife about to go on, man, and I ain't got time to be going back and forth with you.
I need to know who gave you my number so I can call them up and tell them, don't be giving my number out to some stranger who ain't been our church in two to three years and gonna ask me for some money, some cash out.
Well, if you don't get off this phone, who gave you my number?
Okay, so let me ask you something.
So, so you know Deacon uh uh Marvin Dillard?
I know Dick Marvin, yeah.
What about him?
Do you know he listened to the radio every morning?
Yeah.
He's listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Pastor Hayes, you just got pranked by your boy, Deacon Marvin.
Boy, see, and that's why Dick Marvin about to get kicked off the board.
Boy, you you got me out here in my yard.
Yeah.
My neighbors looking at me like I'm crazy.
They know I'm not on the block.
Boy, you almost made me cuss.
You can't be doing that during this time, man.
Pastor, you alright, man.
Man, I'm good, man.
I'm good.
Baby, baby, everything good.
My wife done came out here, boy.
And you don't want her to set it off.
You don't want the first lady to go out.
Okay.
Man, man.
But no, we take care of our church, man.
We feeding them, sending the money, man, delivering meals, man.
Make sure everybody's good during this time.
That's good, man.
Hey, man, before we get off, you gotta let me know.
2020, baby, what is the baddest, and I mean the baddest, radio show in the land.
Man, it's the Steve Harvey morning show with that ignorant nephew Tommy.