MIDLAND COUNTY, MI — Painting himself as “rejected and persecuted,” the Rev. Mark T. Barclay is praying for financial help from his parishioners to keep his ministry afloat and thriving. Meanwhile, son-in-law James P. Randolph is awaiting his return to prison for once again preying on a minor.

Barclay, 73, is the televangelist founder of Mark Barclay Ministries and Living Word Church, 2010 N. Stark Road in Midland County’s Lincoln Township. The organization describes itself as “a worldwide gospel ministry with a prophetic voice in end times alerting God’s people with God’s Word of righteousness through every available means in every available place.”

The church has been mired in controversy since July 2023, when the first of three men associated with it — elder Brandon S. Saylor — was

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