PTL Creditors Want Bakkers Back: Network

PTL’s largest creditor and others owed money by the ministry will present a bankruptcy court with their own plan to take control of it, and they want to return evangelist Jim Bakker to power, Cable News Network reported today.

Roe Messner, a Wichita, Kan., building contractor who claims that he is owed $14 million by PTL, met in secret with Bakker on Thursday night for more than two hours at the $1.3-million Tega Cay parsonage where Bakker and his wife, Tammy Faye, are staying.

Messner tried to elude reporters and was followed in a wild chase, CNN said.

But Messner later told CNN that he and other creditors are planning their own reorganization plan to present in bankruptcy court, where PTL’s current management under the Rev. Jerry Falwell has filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

CNN said Messner did not confirm that his plan would bring Bakker to power.