When I last left the “Peeing Pastor,” Daniel Chalmers, he was fresh off a red-eye flight from Las Vegas to Detroit. From there he planned on boarding a connecting flight to Raleigh-Durham where the man of God and his prophetess wife, Shara, were on staff at “Catch On Fire Church” (sic) in Raleigh. (Having recently left Bethel Church in Redding, CA and moved to Raleigh, NC in response to a prophecy that Raleigh was where God would next be pouring out His Spirit.)
Danny boy had one little problem though – please allow a Law Enforcement Officer on the flight to explain:
As you can see above, Danny is a bit truth challenged. It appears he has had that issue most of his life. After stating he peed on the woman Danny then denied everything to the Officer, he also denied having any alcohol – “Not a drip of alcohol” were his exact words. 3-4 hours later Danny was tested for blood alcohol content. He registered a .175! That’s more than twice the amount required to be legally intoxicated.
But that doesn’t mean I don’t believe Danny when he told us his hand was caked in gold dust when he proposed to Shara! No word on whether he used that gold dust to make Shara’s wedding ring!
Danny and “Love Wins” was hit with a two-million dollar lawsuit a few days after the peeing incident. It appears it was settled out of court. I called Alicia Beverly in an attempt to discover what the settlement included, but my call went straight to voice mail and I have not heard back from her.
For the full account of the event, please see the story I wrote on November 4, 2020.
Fast-foward to today and we have some “Epic News” from the couple formerly named Chalmers. They have changed their last name to Vithoulkas!
Below is a short clip showing just how wacky these New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) prophets are. They attempt to con their gullible followers into believing the reason for the name changes is that God has promoted Danny and Shara! They even show biblical precedent for the name change. (No word on the ministry being renamed!)
Alrighty then, if you believe that I have some gold dust I’m willing to sell you at a greatly discounted price!
I generally keep my prophetic names to myself, but today I thought you should know that I am a Liger! (See Napolean Dynamite if you are unfamiliar with a Liger!)
Well, I best be bringing this blog article to a close. I need to see if there is still time to sign up for the National School of the Prophets. It’s being taught by a couple of people I have never heard of – Daniel and Shara Vithoulkas, and hosted by a ministry I’ve never heard of – At His Feet Ministries, but I’m sure I will receive an impartation nonetheless.
Thanks, Todd.
I couldn’t help giggling at the mention of “gold dust”. I guess that’s a thing in some religious circles, but the thing it evoked for me was “The Conductor” in the children’s movie “Thomas and the Magic Railroad”.
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Maybe the bishops made a mistake at the time of the Montanist controversy, in banning prophecy. It might have been better to have tried to regulate it and impose some standards.
Thanks for your and Dee’s ministry, which definitely has a prophetic character.
No near general familial relationship! Maybe a distant connection, but very distant!
i live in Silicon Valley. I plan to avoid going near Fremont (not FREEMONT) the week of June 6. These folks appear more than a bit unhinged.
So is “Vithoulkas” a family name? Or did they just pull out a phone book and go with something obscure?
It also appears that Shara is an “Integrative Health Practitioner” Level 1. This appears to be some sort of woo-woo certification within “functional medicine.” All the people who practice “functional medicine” in my neck of the woods are described as “naturopaths” which, well, I’m just going to say, they can’t perform the endoscopy (EGD) I’m undergoing tomorrow morning. Anyway, for more about functional medicine, I’ll just point you to the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_medicine
It also looks like they’ve moved back to Redding and Bethel Church, which is frankly no surprise to me. I’m sure the grifting is better there. (Why yes, I’m hugely cynical.)
Yes, they moved back to Redding soon after the peeing incident. They said in their goodbye to Bethel Church that they were keeping their home in Redding, and indeed, that is where they moved back to.
As for the name, they did discuss that in the video I took a clip from – the one with the two couples. It was Danny’s original name, but it sounds like he had issues with his family and changed to Chalmers when he began his “acting” career.
What I also did not mention is that the “Love Wins Community Engagement Center” in Raleigh received a PPP loan in the amount of $15,397 and the status of the loan is “not disclosed.” The website for the Community Engagement Center is shut down and I assume the facility is as well. That was all pretty much Shara’s baby.
OK … let me see if I have this right. Peeing Pastor Chalmers is now Prophet Vithoulkas because God changed his name in order to promote him from peeing to prophesying? You know, in a strange way, this all makes perfect sense against the backdrop of what the American church has become in some corners. Who am I to question if this is real or not … after all, the new normal used to be the old abnormal and I just need to get with it.
So, I’ll accept it … but I do have just one question, God. Why Vithoulkas?
Yep, you have it right, Max. God works in mysterious ways!
Sorry God. Todd already answered that in his comment upstream.
Yes, but not in wacky ways!
Peeing pastor huh?
Anybody remember old timey actor Edward G. Robinson in the film Soylent Green when he wept into his hands saying:
“How did we come to this?…”
When church descended into entertainment, money grifting (pastors’ private planes anyone?), and hierarchical power.
Hollywood, Vegas, & such, always have crackpots, floozies and their ilk.
Chollywood. Cool Crowd Christians.
“Jesus and John Wayne” by Kristin Kibes Du Mez drops all the crackpot, grifter, floozy names, as well as those who seem decent enough but are pursuing some kind of notoriety, like Billy Graham.
With Graham Senior’s pursuit of the jetset, why are we not surprised regarding his son Franklin? Same with the Falwells. Eli had sons, too. 1 Samuel 1-4.
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
My neighbor is into this stuff, big-time. And thereby hangs a tale. A long one. Which I won’t bore you with. :p
This actually sounds like a side effect of the sleeping pill Zolpidem (aka Ambien).
Oh, Pastor Daniel, now urine trouble!
… or a side effect of a .175 blood alcohol content! We’ve let the Ambien excuse mask the fact that “Pastor” was skunk-drunk on a commercial airline.
Why did the Peeing Pastor ‘really’ change his name? Pure and simple, to avoid detection.
If you Google “Daniel Chalmers”, the sorry saga of the Peeing Pastor pops up top of the search: “Pastor Accused of Peeing on Fellow Flier”, etc. etc. headlines
If you Google “Daniel Vithoulkas”, you will find a humble servant of God pursuing the presence of Jesus.
https://www.athisfeetinternationalministries.com/about
Which “Pastor” would you want? Deception is alive and well in the American church. Tread lightly.
Gold dust that magically appears from Heaven as a Sign and Wonder.
Sounds like something NAR to me.
I’ve also heard of that happening as things really get rolling at some big-name Signs and Wonders meetings (Bethel of Redding? Lakeland?) where gold dust appears and rains down on the worshippers. (And something about Angel Feathers doing the same at another venue.)
But in the logic of the Hypercharismatic Bubble, the more Wacky the Way, the more Godly it must be.
AKA running “The Wisdom of God is Foolishness to Man” in reverse.
It’s called “fool’s gold”
Touch Not Mine Anointed.
Hey, this is Bethel of Redding, home of Grave-Soaking Necromancy and Virile Muscular Dead Raising Teams. I wouldn’t be surprised by anything that comes out of that freak show.
And a BAL of .175 sure didn’t help.
Well, Frank Herbert pulled “Harkonnen” out of a phone book, but he was looking for Harsh and Threatening-sounding more than Obscure.
From the Peeing Pastor’s “ministry” bio: “Danny is a natural born communicator — whether acting on stage or preaching”
Bingo! As I’ve said before, all it takes to be a successful “pastor” in America is a touch of charisma, a gift of gab, and a bag of gimmicks. Build and they will come.
These actors would have no stage if it weren’t for a gullible audience who buy tickets to the show.
Todd–thank you for the music link! That is my “heart music” and the scenes in the video could be my neighborhood. After the song an ad appeared and I clicked on Drew Parker doing “What a day that will be.” Took me back to better times in tiny churches out in the country, before it was all hype and showmanship.
Unintended consequence: today, this old grandma got a taste of revival!
Thank you so much!
sometimes I see those videos about strange behaviors on planes, but THIS . . . in a class of its own
too many charlatans out there, prolly because there are too many willing to be charlatanized (is that a word?)
imagine being on a long flight, resting your eyes, and getting pee’d on by some drunken ‘pastor’ (another one who sees the ‘truth’ only he can see); on second thought, don’t 🙂
signs and wonders from the peeing pastor – come one come all – you bring $$$, we give you hope (and entertainment), well, at least, entertainment
(sigh)
“If you encounter a preacher who has titled himself ‘Prophet’ or ‘Apostle’, RUN!”
— my writing partner (the burned-out country preacher)
I love the title “ The peeing pastor”…..
An interesting word to use in this context.
Oops. I was wrong. I assumed that “Vithoulkas” meant “not potty trained” in some arcane language!
Lol!
Glad you liked it Linda! Glad your spirit was lifted too.
Why does this make me think of a silly parody ditty a friend once sent me? To wit:
How are things in Medjugorje?
Are those rosary beads still turnin’ gold?
(Sorry…inside baseball.)
Well, I’m not a wizz at these sort of things, but sometimes I just have to go, take a leak, and micturate a comment for my TWW fans like you Ken.
Here’s a pattern I keep seeing in leaders like Chalmers: 1) They promote a certain image about themselves that they seem to genuinely believe (ie, “I’m a prophet”, “I’m a pastor so I don’t drink and pee on people”, “I’m a winner”, etc…) 2) That image slams into the brick wall of reality (ie, A prophetic prediction fails, they get drunk and pee on someone, they lose an election, etc…) 3) They double-down on the image (ie, “I’m still a prophet!”, “I didn’t do it!”, “Frankly, we did win”, etc…) and they suck their followers deeper into the whirlpool of that false image.
Is the “biiiiig stretch” that Emma Stark mentions referring to Danny’s urinary sphincter?