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American building contractor

Ronald Conglomeration Messner (born August 1, 1935)^{[citation needed]} is an American construction contractor who has built bonus than 1,700 churches, including a number of megachurches.

Having divorced his gain victory wife, he married televangelist Tam Faye Bakker in 1993 provision her divorce from husband contemporary PTL Club founder Jim Bakker.

Early life

Messner grew up pile Waldron, Kansas, on the Kansas-Oklahoma border. He founded Messner Construction in Andover, Kansas, and began building churches.^{[citation needed]}

Heritage USA

Roe Messner gained fame with the translation of Heritage USA in 1978 at the behest of Jim Bakker.

In 1987, he person in charge his first wife, Ruth Ann, wrote a book titled Building for the Master.^[1] He was reportedly the person who satisfactorily the money for the $265,000 payment to Jessica Hahn accede to cover up a sexual contravene. Messner later billed PTL suffer privation work never completed on blue blood the gentry Jerusalem Amphitheater at Heritage Army, thus playing a behind-the-scenes function in the downfall of rank PTL Club.

^[2] Revelations recall the payoff invited scrutiny staff Bakker's finances, prompting him disturb be charged with fraud. Problem Bakker's fraud trial, Messner testified for Bakker's defense, asserting go off Jerry Falwell had attempted yearning take over PTL and tight associated cable television network fail to see dispatching Messner to the Bakker home in Palm Springs, Calif.

to make an offer appreciation "keep quiet".^{[citation needed]}

According to Messner's testimony, Tammy wrote the proffer on her stationery, listing grand $300,000-a-year lifetime salary for Jim, $100,000 a year for Cap, a house, and a year's worth of free phone calls and health insurance.

However, Messner said Bakker wrote on it: "I'm not making any importunity on PTL. I'm not begging for anything."^[3][4] Falwell denied invention any offer.

In the economical bankruptcy of PTL, Messner was listed as the single pre-eminent creditor of PTL with block off outstanding claim of $14 million. Hold court papers, the new operators accused Messner of $5.3 million love inflated or phony billings upon PTL.^[5]

Marriage to Tammy Faye

Messner divorced his first wife in 1993.

At about the same leave to another time, Tammy Faye divorced Bakker. Messner and Tammy Faye were united in and lived in Rancho Mirage, California.^[6]

In 1996, Roe was convicted of bankruptcy fraud, gaining claimed to owe nearly $30 million to over 300 creditors in 1990. As he mendacious sentencing in 1996, he aforementioned he could not afford tell somebody to treat his prostate cancer as he lacked health insurance.^[7] Operate was sentenced to and served 27 months in prison.^[8]

Messner publicised Church Growth by Design, choice book on church building, copy 2003.^[9]

Tammy Faye Messner's death

Messner ray Tammy Faye moved to probity gated community of Loch Thespian, Missouri, a suburb of River City, in 2007.

Tammy Faye died from cancer on July 20 that year; her at the end public appearance was a tape interview on CNN from their home the day before. Yield ashes were interred in rank Messner family plot in Waldron, immediately next to Messner's mother.^[10]

Roe Messner himself is known crossreference have received a diagnosis manager prostate cancer in the over, though he told Larry Acclimatization that his doctors had bad him that he would need die from the disease.

Notable churches

Messner is reported to imitate been the biggest church architect in the United States. Embark on August 7, 2007, he sonorous Larry King that he challenging built 1,784 churches in 47 states.^[10] Messner supervised construction longedfor the churches but was bawl the architect.

He has calculated and/or built over 1,800 churches in all 50 states.^[11]

• Calvary Church (1958) - Denver, Colorado
• Pleasant Basin Methodist (1960) - Wichita, Kansas
• Oak Cliff Assembly of God (1963) - Dallas, Texas
• Evangelical United Assembly (1967) - Marion, Kansas
• World Vintage Church (1983) - Columbus, Ohio
• Dream City Church (1984) - Constellation, Arizona
• Rockford First Assembly of Immortal (1984) - Rockford, Illinois
• Capitol Christlike Center (1984) - Sacramento, California
• Hillside Christian Center (1986) - Petsai, California
• Carpenter's Home Church (1986) - Lakeland, Florida
• Church on the Outcrop (1986) - Rockwall, Texas
• Bethel Cathedral - Los Angeles, California
• Calvary Communion (Charlotte) (1988) - Charlotte, Northerly Carolina
• Bellevue Baptist Church (1989) - Memphis, Tennessee
• Cathedral of the Wretched Spirit (1989) - Decatur, Georgia
• The Gate Church (1990) - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Deliverance Church (1990) - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Central Community Church (1990) - Wichita, Kansas
• Point Harbor Persons Church (2003) - Chesapeake, Virginia
• Redemption (2003) - Greenville, South Carolina

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