(Screenshot: Taylor associate, so-called “Prophetess” Kathleen Woods, preaching a sermon on September 21, 2025.)
Following the arrest of televangelist David E. Taylor and ministry executive Michelle Brannon for forced labor and money laundering, members of Taylor’s Kingdom of God Global Church (KGGC) have rallied to Taylor’s defense.
Recently, an informant contacted Trinity Foundation, revealing that members of Taylor’s church have continued their fundraising efforts by texting and calling previous church donors.
According to the federal indictment, Taylor operated call centers in four states (Florida, Michigan, Missouri, and Texas) with unpaid call center workers.
The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) reports that one of the common characteristics of cults is, “The group is preoccupied with making money.”
So-called Prophetess Kathleen Woods, preaching in Taylor’s absence during September 21 and September 28 church services, claimed that Pastor Taylor would be vindicated while warning attendees and the church’s online audience to avoid reading articles and social media posts criticizing Apostle Taylor (another characteristic of cults).
Woods equates reading critical articles and social media posts about David E. Taylor to eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden: “Don’t renew your mind in the knowledge of good and evil. Stop biting it. Stop eating it. Stop poisoning yourself. To eat of the knowledge of good and evil is spiritual suicide.”
The ICSA also links this kind of messaging to cults:
- “The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.”
- “Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.”
During the September 21st sermon Woods proclaimed that Taylor is serving a divine mission: “God has been creating in him and developing him to carry the weight of God’s glory that’s going to be coming down.”
Woods described Taylor’s relationship with God as intimate: “He’s one with him. That has been confirmed and validated over the years through people that don’t even know him. Visitation after visitation, confirmation after confirmation, validation after validation. And with all of that, you can rest assured there will be vindication. I can’t hear you. There will be vindication. Amen.”
As Woods preached on September 28th, music from a keyboard played lightly in the background.
Woods warned against exposing sexual abuse while knowing that Taylor is accused of having numerous sexual relationships with different women in his church:
“Look at around the world and just see how many women are Me Too movement … I want to tell my story. I got to tell my story. And I’m not saying you don’t have a story to tell, but if it doesn’t line up with the love of God, if it doesn’t line up to accomplish the purposes of God, it is satanic and demonic.”
Nearing the end of her September 28th sermon, Woods said, “So, I’m finished today. That’s what the Lord told me to share with you and that’s what I did.”
Woods audience should instead listen to Jeremiah 23:16.
This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.”