A day after resigning from his role as President and CEO of the New Apostolic Reformation mecca known as MorningStar Ministries, Chris Reed has admitted to sexual misconduct with one of his students.
MorningStar Ministries, a prominent entity in Charismatic Christendom, has become a symbol of the worst excesses of the New Apostolic Reformation and Pentecostal movement. Founded by Rick Joyner in 1985, the ministry has been a platform for every false teacher and loon with a story of visiting heaven, a prophetic word to plug, and a book to sell.
It was under the leadership of Rick Joyner that MorningStar Ministries introduced the Holy Spirit Hokey Pokey and promoted, platformed, and restored cancerous evangelist Todd Bentley.
In fact, it’s no exaggeration to say that Bentley’s movements and speech are dictated by little demons that sit on his head, steering him by tugging his ears left or right while whispering the words they want him to say. For years this was overseen with the approval and blessing of Joyner, who was also a key cog in the Charismatic Day of Infamy.
In 2021, Chris Reed, a false prophet and spiritual con artist took over MorningStar from Joyner. Reed is as crooked as a question mark, insisting he received a vision from God that John the apostle is still alive and roaming the earth today, all the while routinely engaging in cringy fake ‘mentalism’ displays.
In an article written by Rebecca Hopkins for The Roys Report she reveals that Reed, who is married and has six younger children, was involved with a student (who is an adult seven years his junior) at MorningStar named here as “Kathryn,” whom he was kissing and sending sexual text messages to in 2021, prior to becoming CEO.
When confronted by TRR, Reed admitted, “I sorely regret it. I take full responsibility for it. It wasn’t her fault at all. I’m fully, fully to blame.”
Kathyrn said Reed also touched her genitals and “said things that a man of honor, even with his wife, should not have said.” and provided Facebook messages of some of their interactions and encounters.
Reed denies that he touched her below the waist, but admits that he did send her “terrible” text messages.
“There was no sexual encounter. She’s never seen me unclothed or touched me unclothed. I’ve never seen her unclothed or touched her unclothed.”
Kathryn says she told MorningStar leaders about the sexual messages in February 2022. As a result of this, Reed was not disqualified from ministry but merely stopped preaching for a short while, but was still otherwise actively involved other leadership responsibilities with the organization.
In fact, the only real consequence he faced was that he was supposed to take over as CEO or MorningStar in 2022, but his promotion was delayed for the better part of the year because of it; with the leadership still feeling he was the right man to lead them.
While some in the church leadership knew of his sexual indiscretions, he did not admit to the church body as a whole that he’d been involved in kissing and sexting, but rather revealed:
“Here’s what I told the church, ‘I take full responsibility for it. There was a situation in my life where I needed the grace of God. It did not involve sex or money or notoriety, but it was still wrong and I had to talk to my elders in my life and be accountable about it.”
Despite these revelations, Reed intends to continue to be involved in prophetic ministry and church planting, revealing in his resignation letter:
“I will continue to write and build an online model of house churches led by regional elders, based on the Acts 2:42 model I have received from the Lord. Additionally, I will continue to train and lead others in an online school of the prophetic, similar to what I created with the School of the Prophets. At some point, I plan to relocate and start a new church in another part of South Carolina.”
