Author: William T Freeman
Alternate names: William T. Freeman; Bill Freeman; Brother Bill
Born: 1937
Died: 2013
Bio: William Taft Freeman was born in California to immigrant parents. He grew up in the Los Angeles area and, after initially being called to ministry at the age of 18, he eventually graduated from Fuller Theological Seminary in 1979. During the later years of his Christian ministry, Mr. Freeman, called "Bill" by friends and family, authored over a dozen books, booklets and outlines of the books of the Bible for use in Sunday school and Bible study groups. Mr. Freeman traveled to over 13 countries preaching the love of Jesus Christ and bringing young people to faith in Jesus Christ through his Bible studies.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Freeman operated his own publishing house, Ministry of the Word, Inc., and produced a monthly newsletter, "The True Report" which later became called "The Christian." His spoken messages and Bible studies were recorded. Several were later edited into his paperback books and 15- or 30-minute radio broadcasts aired in Phoenix and several cities in Washington and Oregon. By this time, however, controversy had already begun to spread following Bill and especially his wife's inappropriate meddling in the lives of the young people in their Seattle congregation. Bill Freeman could not face growing criticism that mounted against his wife and her inordinate need to control people's private lives. Character defects in this author's personal life have also shown up in his literary works.

For over the last fifty years Bill Freeman's wife has been actively meddling in the private lives of the young people and families in Bill's charismatic church congregations.  In the process, her behavior has routinely and consistently been violating not only normal church practices but also normal human boundaries and normal personal spaces. She has purposely pushed her way into young people's private lives by overstepping normal boundaries to interfere in their most significant life decisions. These were not small decisions. These decisions were as monumental as what college to attend, where to live, who to live with, what long-term career path to pursue and even who to marry. By interfering in relationships, Mrs. Freeman had gained a controlling interest in many of the young people's lives; they became her puppets. She determined who the young people would marry; these were arranged marriages. Yet, the perception presented to the congregation was that this was what God had done. In the meantime, Mr. Freeman, as the church elder, quietly followed Mrs. Freeman's leading by pretended to be oblivious to all her covert activities; he pretended to look the other way. Mrs. Freeman leveraged this to her advantage with great latitude. Most normal, responsible, and healthy Christian leaders practice and respect the golden rule. Not Mrs. Freeman. Under her false leadership practices, Mrs. Freeman and Bill have privately demonstrated a complete lack of care and concern for anyone besides themselves.  Their main focus is making money. In public and in the church meetings they have acted one way.  In private, is when they have shown their true colors.  In private, is when they have revealed their total lack of concern for the welfare of others. not to know, care, or practice treating respect for other people or normal human boundaries. In an apparent attempt to add spark to her inner feelings of boredom, Mrs. Freeman became a church busybody upon finding that scheming and toying with the lives of young people in Bill's congregations could be very entertaining. Her regular routine has been to step in and target young believers once they had become regular members in this author's congregation. Mrs. Freeman then arranged one-on-one meetings with these new sheep or relatively new church members who subsequently would reappear as if they had become swayed, subdued, and compliant with Mrs. Freeman's imposed high-pressure suggestions. Young people are generally naive of the power coercive persuasion can hold over them. Unfortunately, many of these same innocent sheep and young people were progressively led, influenced, altered, and eventually controlled by Mrs. Freeman's well-honed psychological skills. Four over fifty years Mrs. Freeman has been directing many young people on a downward path that often turns eviler and spiritually destructive. All it takes to sway people is one crazy person.

Instead of shepherding a healthy and safe church, author Bill Freeman has permitted his wife's meddling misbehavior to run rampant among the young people in his congregations for over five decades. His role has not only been to be Mrs. Freeman's front man; he has also become her enabler. Mrs. Freeman's meddling influences over young people have literally turned dozens of formerly healthy Christian marriages into divorces. She has also torn hundreds of Christian relationships apart as collateral damage after several traumatic church splits resulted among Bill's church congregations due to her inappropriate behavior or misbehavior. Yet, the Freeman family has been consistently profiting financially in the midst of all this human trauma. Bill Freeman became involved in ministry at the age of eighteen and Mrs. Freeman became enabled simply by becoming Bill's wife at the age of seventeen. She has been orchestrating one-on-one meddling confrontations with members of Bill's congregations ever since. Mrs. Freeman's behavior as a busybody has repeatedly targeted, influenced, and brought harm upon not only Bill and many of the church women, but also upon many of the young people in his congregations without any appearance of remorse. Mrs. and Bill Freeman have attempted to continue their pranks by living in denial. By remaining silent and refusing to protect his congregation from the damage brought on by his wife's meddling, Mr. Freeman has appeared impotent and profoundly weak. He also appears to have consistently failed to perform normal pastoral duties of managing his own household and controlling his own wife. Instead, Bill Freeman has been facilitating his wife's "control trip" and inordinate fascination with meddling into people's lives in the congregation.  Mr. Freeman has also failed to hold Mrs. Freeman accountable, since doing so would have also implicated him, as it eventually has in each of their church splits. Mrs. Freeman appears to live in a mentally toxic world of extreme perfectionism; all the while striving to control her environment by raising the bar higher on those around her. Much like a childish game of "playing church," only Mrs. Freeman decides who is right and who is wrong; only she decides who will stay and who she and Bill will character assassinate and excommunicate.  Anyone who crosses or finds fault with Bill Freeman or Mrs. Freeman will be shunned and forced to permanently leave the congregation. In 1998, Mrs. Freeman's grown children publicly identified the source of their mother's misbehavior as mental illness. Yet, Bill has remained silent and done nothing to protect the unsuspecting victims, men, women, children, and marriages in his charismatic church congregations from his wife's antics and psychological assaults. Even the Freeman's family and Mrs. Freeman's own children have not been exempted from Mrs. Freeman's destructive meddling and busybody behaviors. In retrospect, a large debris field of broken lives, broken relationships, broken families, broken marriages, and ugly divorces have been discarded and spread across four states over the last five decades. Discarded in the wake of Bill and Mrs. Freeman's intrastate geographic moves have been many genuine Christians and Christian families who had formerly been the unfortunate targets of Mrs. Freeman's coercive persuasion. Unwinding the personal accounts of these humble believers have revealed the true story and helped unmask the false leadership practices Mrs. Freeman has attempted to hide within Bill Freeman's counterfeit church.

Instead of remaining Christ centered, Mrs. Freeman's egocentric ascent into assuming greater power over Bill and his church congregation involves politics and spiritual deception by leveraging her inner circle of loyal women as her co-conspirators. As a busybody, Mrs. Freeman's selfish thrust into presumed leadership roles in the congregation have introduced corrupt activities characterized by subtle and dishonest practices through a process of moral disengagement. Moral disengagement has become the underlying social and psychological basis for her undue influence and corrupting affect upon church women. Mrs. Freeman has cleverly promoted and convinced Christian women to lie, violate the truth, and even violate their normal human morals during her weekly Wednesday morning Women's Bible Studies. Women in Mr. Freeman's congregation have been encouraged by Mrs. Freeman to speak and say things that undermine their true relationship with their husbands and families. In the meantime, Bill may be sharing messages and Bible verses about maintaining honest and transparent relationships with God at their regular weekly church meetings. Thus, Mrs. Freeman's activities have represented a subculture with values, beliefs, and goals that are antithetical to and undermining of normal Christian churches. Her social and psychological activities have subtly, politically, and morally been dividing and destroying Mr. Freeman's congregations.  She has not only arranged marriages among the young people. She has also driven a wedge into marriages by targeting and demanding that the wife prove her loyalty by divorcing her husband and dividing their family. Over the years, news of Mrs. Freeman's meddling behavior has reached the surface and erupted publicly, resulting in three or more painful church splits. Not only has serious relationship damage resulted from Mrs. Freeman's busybody practices of arranging marriages among the college-age young people in each of their congregations. But she has also imposed herself as an autocratic ruler over individual members of the congregation by making unfounded claims that by following her "fellowship" women in the church would be "following the Lord." Mrs. Freeman's passionate pleas were often initially made during covert one-on-one meetings arranged with one vulnerable church member at a time. Having masterminded the spiritual warfare tactics of dividing and conquering, distorting the truth as subtly and skillfully as any con artist, and practicing subtle forms of spiritual deception by twisting Bible scriptures, Mrs. Freeman has eventually enlisted dozens of mature women in the congregation to divorce their husbands. This moral disengagement and deception have occurred despite these women's former or present involvement in healthy marriages and loving Christian families. Divorce ultimately became the litmus test to prove if a woman's misplaced loyalty towards Mrs. Freeman exceeded her loyalty to her husband and ultimately her loyalty to Jesus Christ. Such an invasion of privacy and invasive spirit of deception has produced a very unusual and ingrown congregation of several dozen single and divorced women; an isolated group of adherents, who, while living communally and still claiming to be Christians, have all been subtly groomed into all accepting the same "group think." Mrs. Freeman's adherents have virtually given up their individual human identities in a twisted social psychological experiment to mold them into human extensions of Mrs. Freeman's elitist persona. Thus, by identifying themselves with Mrs. Freeman after having been reduced to listening only to what this Freeman couple dictates; these adherents have passively allowed themselves to become progressively more and more isolated from reality. They have been programmed by Mrs. Freeman to avoid contact with other Christians, other Christian groups, their former friends and their biological families, and the entire outside world. By following Mrs. Freeman's works of darkness, these adherents have also moved and have been led geographically away from their biological families. Their misplaced loyalty to Mrs. Freeman also explains why the young women who have become psychologically trapped within the Freeman's dwindling following have remained single and not sought marriage. The spiritual foundation for this idolatry behavior is found in the Bible, but the source is certainly not from God. The Bible addresses the misbehaviors of busybodies and meddlers in the same verses as murderers and thieves. Only Mrs. Freeman and her Eastern European playbook have stooped to such evil, deceptive, and corrupt forms of gang culture involving fear and intimidation as this. Nothing is more dangerous than blind loyalty.

After each of Bill and Mrs. Freeman's church splits, Mrs. Freeman and Bill have made attempts to flee their church crime scenes. Most church splits are caused by a lack of theological education on the part of the leaders. Knowing that Mrs. Freeman has not acquired any formal education beyond high school adds further support to the common conclusion that she and her meddling misbehaviors are the cause of these church splits.  She appears to have an infatuation with Madame Guyon, another misled individual in church history. Church splits are healed through repentance and humility.  Unfortunately, Mrs. Freeman's mental illness has not allowed her to embrace healthy behaviors and accept responsibility for her actions. Thus, among her adherents, spiritual and emotional scars remain, healing has not begun, and their hidden toxic effects have lingered for three generations.  Mrs. Freeman's primary goal has been to secure her own wealth and power by devious means. By making several geographic moves across the country, Mrs. and Mr. Freeman have attempted to distance themselves and their dwindling number of adherents away from the truth and the true Christians left behind after each of their church splits. Each of these radical moves have been traumatic, having separated the Freeman's remaining adherents further away geographically from their former Christian friends and biological family members. Yet, the Freeman couple's "official" narrative during each of their church splits and subsequent geographical moves were merely political attempts to twist the truth by posturing. They would release claims stating that the goal of their move was to "do the Lord's work" or "to spread the gospel," but fail to mention the true reason and cause for their geographic moves.  Their actions have not matched their words. These same red flags and false claims have been repeated each time the Freeman couple attempted to elude their moral accountability, much like the excuses provided by other con artists. The Freeman's deceptive practices and autocratic leadership styles have brought harm to hundreds of unfortunate souls who had innocently and unknowingly allowed themselves to become close to this couple, influenced by them, and involved in their congregations. Another hidden fact is that Bill and his wife have often targeted their victims. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman have intentionally sought out young people on college campuses who came from wealthy middle-class families as potential sources for the Freeman couple's own financial gain. This type of hunting and targeting behavior has a very selfish and evil intent. Such preferential treatment also appears contrary to what commonly is termed the normal Christian life.

In 1999, Mr. Freeman retired in Scottsdale, AZ after being confronted and expelled by the majority of his congregation. Instead of behaving courageously, acting responsibly, and speaking truthfully, during his final church meeting Bill chose a coward's path. Bill Freeman blamed his congregation for "giving Mrs. Freeman too much power."  In 2005, after reuniting with his wife, moving to Spokane, WA and purchasing several homes near a private Christian university campus, he and his wife were confronted again. This time the confrontation came from the university's administration. Efforts were made to warn the entire student body, staff, and faculty about this Freeman couple and their prior history of employing aggressive and deceptive tactics to target and recruit young college students on other university campuses. The Freeman's campus ministry has historically been intent on contacting young college students and deceiving them into joining their congregation with the ultimate goal of boosting the Freeman family's financial cash flow. A dozen well written articles published in the university's student newspaper helped to expose the Freemans, their campus ministry’s deceitful history and other harmful practices. Mrs. and Mr. Freeman moved back to Scottsdale shortly thereafter. God's truth comes out in the end.

After a 7-year battle with cancer, at 9:30 AM on Friday March 22, 2013, Bill went to be with the Lord.