A Letter From Timothy Butler

REMNANTS HOPE MINISTRY PO. BOX 1915,ORANGEBURG SC 29116

DEAR Brother Dan,

I hope that this letter will help you to write your article on R.G. Stair.

  1. The Black Pastor at Victory communities name is David Jackson. He was Stairs right hand man until all of this wickedness was exposed and no repentence was to be seen from Stair. He is instrumental in all of this because an awareness of Stair's actions came to him in a very abrupt way a few months before this all came out. Stair had been stalking his wife and making passes at her. She told Bro. Jackson what Stair had done and Jackson confronted Stair and Stair repented to them of his deeds. When Stair confided in Bro. Jackson and Pastor Roberts then he knew something was not right and they started asking questions.
  2. Pastor Roberts found that one young lady who used to live at the Overcomer community, before she married one of the young men at Victory, had been sexually abused by Stair. She had recorded in her diary over 40 times where Stair had defiled her. After finding this out he got with Stair and demanded that something had to be done about this.
  3. Upon further investigation by Bro. Jackson it revealed that several young ladies on the farm had been sexually abused by Stair. One sister, who was 17 at the time that Stair started defiling her, had a regular schedule with Stair. He would meet her before prayer on Monday and Wednesday, in the morning and the evening. We prayed at 7am and 7pm every day.
  4. Another Girl, who was 18 or 19 when these sexual assaults started, Was married off to a young man on the farm. The husband was sent away by Stair and then he went in and committed adultery with this woman.
  5. There was also a couple of women in their 30's who Stair was committing adultery with.
  6. All these women were promised husbands and special treatment if they would give in to Stair. Stair told them that they would be blessing God by blessing him. One girl was even told her that it was God's will for her to sleep with him.
  7. The place was a revolving door of people. In the last 7 years over 110 people came and went from that place. Stair kept it that way so he could have a steady flow of people coming to the community and bringing their life savings. When they would leave then Stair would give back to the people only a tiny portion of the money they brought.
  8. Stair constantly kept the people fighting and bickering among themselves by going around and sowing discord among the brethren. He would do this by going to one brother and talking bad about someone and then going to the brother he was just talking about and talk bad about the brother he was just talking to.
  9. Stair would stand in the dining hall for hours and preach at us. He would tell us that we were soooo sinful and that he was soooo holy. Always exulting himself and belittling everybody else. He would rebuke before all to keep us in fear instead of to make us sound in the faith. Stair didn't know what admonition and exhorting was all about only rebuke.
  10. He did these things so that he could just go around and walk into sisters trailers and no one would think a thing about it. We all believed he was so holy and we were so wicked that we had enough to do just trying to do right ourselves rather then questioning him on things he did. We though he was going in to pray for these sister if they were sick or something like that.
  11. Stair also was meeting some of these girls right before services on Friday nights and Saturday mornings before getting in the pulpit.
  12. Two of the sisters came up pregnant. That is how all this came out. Suddenly these sisters weren't pregnant anymore. What happened. The girls said that Stair had given them an herbal concoction and they started their periods right after that. In other words they had an abortion by those herbs they were given.
  13. Stair preaches that a baby in the womb has no soul. He say's that as Adam when he was created was laying there perfect in his body he had no life until the Lord breathed into him and he became a living soul. Even so a baby has no soul until it takes it's first breath. A sister told us that Stair didn't start preaching and believing that until 1994 or 1995. Before that he believed abortion was totally wrong.
  14. Bro. Wayne Douglas is buried on the farm there. He came back from Nigeria and became sick and after a two week battle died. The coroner, who was a friend of the community, took control of the situation and an examination was done. It was said that he died of Pneumonia. Wayne did not have Pneumonia at first. He may have died from pneumonia but that is not what made him sick. This was covered up by Stair, he knew this also.
  15. Stair is a lawless man. Most buildings were built with out building permits. Wells were dug without a permit. Cars were registered in Tennessee instead of South Carolina so they wouldn't have to buy insurance. Trailers on the land have no tie downs. Many trailers have no running water in them. The electrical services run to many buildings are not up to code. Am I saying that these laws are right? No, but we are to obey the laws of the land as long as they do not affect us serving our God.

This is as much as I can think of at this time. If I think of anything else or you think of any Questions feel free to write or call me.

Bless you all. Included are four tapes I made on this subject of Stair and also a personal testimony.

In conclusion, I must maintain that Stair is not fit to lead the body of Christ after he has violated so great a trust given unto him. He has not repented to the church. The church in which he is overseer are all those who receive him as a man of God and hear his radio broadcast. He must repent on the air , not just once but enough for all to hear and step down and leave the community in Walterboro.

Maranatha

GOD BLESS

PASTOR TIM BUTLER