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	Morningside - Jim Bakker Is Back

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2-21-2008 1:14 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5770948d-5289-4cf3-8285-cfaea91cef0a/C40BC319-C926-4E79-8E34-A23CCF7700DF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/041C935E03A6B97A862573F1001E00A5?OpenDocument" href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/041C935E03A6B97A862573F1001E00A5?OpenDocument" style="font-size: 11px;">www.stltoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/041C935E03A6B97A862573F1001E00A5?OpenDocument">"It’s a little like Disneyland," one stunned visitor says.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/041C935E03A6B97A862573F1001E00A5?OpenDocument">"A miracle," says another. "It is God’s work."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/041C935E03A6B97A862573F1001E00A5?OpenDocument"><DIV>This is even more than Jim Bakker promised them. For months they had heard Bakker on his TV show touting his impending move here. Bakker, the disgraced TV minister of PTL-and-Tammy-Faye fame, said the day was coming when he would no longer broadcast his bare-bones show from inside a converted restaurant in nearby Branson, as he had for five years. He talked about moving to a sprawling complex being built for him as the new headquarters for his television ministry, the heart of a 600-acre development named Morningside.</DIV>
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Almost nothing is held in his name these days. He has no registered ownership interest in Morningside. Bakker's name is nowhere to be found on his church and TV show nonprofit registrations with the state. (They were registered by Lori Bakker's mother, Charlene Graham.) </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/041C935E03A6B97A862573F1001E00A5?OpenDocument">
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