Social Exploitation

Effective April 1, 2011, Spiritual Counseling Network Healing & Deliverance Center will cease operations.
If you are currently a client, please consult with your pastoral counselor during your next ministry session
for further details. We may be able to assist you in locating alternative ministry or services.

This was posted by an anonymous commenter (I assume one of the faux ministers from Spiritual Counseling Network) and I will assume this is from them until told otherwise.  If the press would like to call them for comment, you can reach them by trying to access the www.zahrabaker.com website that takes you to their new church site.

PRESS STATEMENT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 3, 2010

HICKORY, NC – Spiritual Counseling Network Healing & Deliverance Center makes the following statement to the media:

On October 18, 2010 we started the Zahra Baker Fund to assist in locating and supporting efforts to locate Zahra Baker, a 10-year old Australian-native who went missing in our hometown of Hickory, NC. From the beginning, our efforts were totally sincere and genuine.

The media circus that has resulted primarily the result of false accusations and lies, and a number of threats of violence we have received, has caused us to rethink our efforts to assist in this endeavor. After careful consideration, the Board of Elders has decided to suspend our efforts. Effectively immediately, Spiritual Counseling Network will no longer accept donations or make solicitation for Zahra Baker Fund.

To date, we have raised $712.29. At this time, we are prayerfully awaiting the discovery of Zahra’s body. Once it is found, we will offer support to cover expenses related to her funeral/memorial or to aid in the transportation of her body back to Australia – as is decided by her family (which lives in Australia). We may also assist with transportation costs associated with her family coming from Australia to the United States to claim Zahra’s body. If no assistance is needed, we will disperse the balance of the account to a non-profit organization that educates the public against child abuse, neglect and/or exploitation - likely one who has assisted in Zahra’s disappearance.

We encourage the public that would still like to support ongoing efforts to locate Zahra, to make financial gifts to the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Individuals interested in giving financially for a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible, are encouraged to give to a local Crime Stoppers organization who are already offering rewards in this case.

Following legal advice we have received, no further comment will be available at this time surrounding any potential legal actions that we may be considering against individual(s) or any actions against individuals who have disseminated threats of violence against the ministry and our staff.


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Diploma mills are everywhere, and Mr. Curtis and his associates were "ordained" online through the Universal Church of Life Ministries.  The fact of the matter is this, Spiritual Counseling Network, obtained false  credentials in an effort to make themselves and their new business seem legitimate. By using the fake credentials and pastoral ordinations, they used this social standing to advertise  pastoral counseling which in turn would cause potential clients to rely on the expertise and perceived success behind the title of DOCTOR and reverend.  Therefore, new clients would be more likely to purchase their counseling services which they offered at a discounted price as evidenced by their website.  This deception is called FRAUD.  Color it any way you want to - it is a deceptive practice and deception is fraud.  Holding oneself out as a counselor infers that one has successfully reached a level of professional training and has graduated an accredited college or university to provide counseling.  An experienced counselor is not someone who worked in a mental health facility as an RA. The following is from their site that they have now pulled.  Why does a pastor accept insurance?

We do not accept any insurance.  We strive to make our rates affordable - in most cases about the same as you would typically pay for an insurance co-pay.
For those unable to meet the full cost of counseling, a fee adjustment can be made in order to make services available to almost everyone. The primary considerations for using the sliding fee are income level and special circumstances. Many churches also provide financial assistance to make these services a reality for their members. Clients are encouraged to discuss financial arrangements confidentially with their Counselor.  Source

Tim Curtis and Brandon Greeson have been running around like chickens with their heads cut off while they clean up and reword their website so it does not show that they were practicing psychology without a license and accepting money for counseling which is in violation of North Carolina law.  Greeson and Curtis also are so paranoid about being fingered for being the frauds that they are, that they reported the images of themselves to the image host and had them removed for terms of service violations.  Well, turn abouts are fair play - isn't that what they say?

Greeson and Curtis are criminals.  Please report them to the North Carolina Attorney General's Office for fraud.  The manager at the Granite City Walmart is not happy about the fact that these clowns are pretending that there is a "Walmart Outreach Fund" and intimating that the monies came from Walmart.  Walmart does NOT stand behind these criminals and does not support their website.  The information for North Carolina Attorney General's Office for General Consumer Complaints: please submit electronically or print the "Consumer Complaint" form in PDF and mail it in.  You can also call  to request a Consumer Complaint form, or mail  the required information in the form of a letter. You can call toll free within North Carolina at 1-877-5-NO-SCAM, at (919) 716-6000 from outside of North Carolina, or at (919) 716-0058 for Spanish speakers.

 These men do not care about Zahra or finding her.  They have an agenda.  They care about making money while standing on the back of her dead body.  Are they out searching for her?  I doubt it.  IMO, they are frauds.  To show how easy it is to be a minister, I have linked the Universal Church of Life where the Three Little Pigs got their certificates from.  Universal Church of Life Ministries CLICK HERE

EDITED to add:  It appears that Mr. Greeson complained to the image host and had the previous photo  removed.  I saved a copy!  You're welcome!  I also am beginning to wonder why the Sheriff in Hickory isn't going balls out on these guys.  Is it because he had placed the asp to his breast?  These clowns were in the jail feeding the inmates.  Brandon got to go in and see some of his old neighbors. 

Nope, Brandon Greeson doesn't have ANYTHING to do with Mastercard or VISA, does he?  Tell that to your Probation Officer, Brandon!!

Internet pariah who stand on the backs of dead children is becoming the new way for scum to make a living online.  It has become a cottage industry for some rather than doing what normal people do and getting a JOB.  Some people would rather take advantage of people with kind hearts and take their hard earned money.  They would rather desecrate and disrespect the memory of dead children to use as their marketing platform than get real jobs. Reverend Brandon Greeson is NO BETTER.  REVEREND Greeson?, might I start with asking where this person received his licensure?  He just got out of the clink not long ago, so I am going to pull this one out of a rabbit's butt and guess that he registered for it online.  Am I right?  Who knew I was psychic!

Brandon Greeson

Brandon Greeson is an ex-con who has started a website using the name of a missing child.  Zahra Baker is 10-years old and is missing from her home in Hickory, North Carolina.  She is presumed dead at the hands of her father and stepmonster.  Greaser here is cashing in on the tragedy with his website.

Greeson says that his fund will create a "legacy" for Zahra.  In his words "The Zahra Baker Fund exists to help find Zahra and give her a legacy she rightfully deserves."  WHAT exactly will this legacy provide for?  (besides the obvious - associating this beautiful little girl's name with the likes of a scumbag convict and pretend college graduate counselor minister from a fake church).  Greeson is very nondescript in what he will do with this money, and says absolutely NOTHING as to what the funds will be used for.  However, anyone with a brain knows exactly what it will be for - to line his fraudulent pockets.  Before you go squawking...let's learn more about this organization and Greeson.