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Pastor to Wife: I’ll get a gun and it’ll be a
Murder suicide.”
Pastor to Congregation, Wife Statement:
“Not important”
The Rev. Dr. Daly Barnes, pastor of Fifty Ninth Street Baptist, (near Pine Street) and below, with his wife, Mrs. Jacqueline Barnes
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During his Sunday services, the Rev. Dr. Daly Barnes, Jr., delivers a fiery sermon that brings some his congregation to their feet and shouting praises.
And, then there are others who sit quietly, unmoved in the pews witnessing what they believe are performances by a troubled minister who preaches the Word, but doesn’t live by it.
They may have good reasons to believe that.
During his nearly two years since assuming the pulpit at Fifty Ninth Street Baptist Church, the Rev. Barnes has threatened to get a gun to kill his wife and himself, get arrested by Upper Merion police and plead guilty to disorderly conduct stemming from threatening his wife.
Meanwhile, Rev. Barnes, 54, has managed to fire the deacons and trustees who recruited him and changed the locks on the church to keep them out.
He has gotten into heated arguments with some of the men he calls renegade deacons, including a fist fight with one deacon who accused him of sending inappropriate text messages to his wife.
Needless to say, this has not been a happy union of church and pastor after the Rev. Benjamin F. Powell who led the congregation for 27 years before his death on November 13, 2009.
In an interview in his church office, Rev. Barnes shrugged off the church strife that has pitted worshipper against worshipper as a normal transition for a new pastor.
And, as for what he told the congregation about his arrest, disorderly conviction and statements to police by his wife that he wanted to kill her and himself, Rev. Barnes said he felt it was not important.
When his wife’s statements were read to him, Rev. Barnes took a long silent pause, but finally told this reporter:
Do you believe what she said?
It’s in a police statement, he was told.
Then, you don’t need to talk to me, he said sternly.
Why does he feel it not important his congregation know the full story, he was asked.
You don’t need to talk to me, he reiterated.
Interview over.
How did Barnes become pastor of this once stable congregation?
On March 18, 2010, Barnes was hired to the $80,000-plus year shepherd of the church after only a five-month search by the deacon and trustee boards.
He came to their attention after some were impressed by his U-Tube sermons and the seven years he served as pastor of the prestigious Zion Baptist Church. From July 2002 to May 2009, Rev. Barnes occupied the pulpit where the late Rev. Dr. Leon Sullivan, often called The Lion of Zion, led the 6,000-member congregation.
But after only two months on the job at Fifty Ninth Street, his relationship with his deacons and trustees began to sour.
Then, six months later on September 30, 2010, trouble came to Rev. Barnes’ million-dollar home on Valley Forge Road in King of Prussia, Upper Merion Township.
Around 4:15 on that day, his wife, Jacqueline Barnes, and two Montgomery County deputy sheriffs accompanied by township police knocked on Rev. Barnes door to serve him with a Protection From Abuse Order.
Mrs. Barnes told the police that Rev. Barnes had threaten her with I’ll get a gun and it’ll be a murder suicide.
She also told police her husband said, There are knives downstairs and they’ll work as a weapon.Both statements were included in an Affidavit of Probable Cause, a criminal complaint outlining the reasons for the arrest.
For more than an hour, police said Rev. Barnes refused to open the door and answer the repeated phone calls from the police.
When he finally exited his home, police arrested him and he was charged with making terroristic threats, resisting arrest, obstructing the law, harassment and disorderly conduct.
At his hearing, all the charges were dropped except disorderly conduct in which Rev. Barnes submitted a Òguilty plea, according to court records.
He was sentenced to three months probation, fined nearly $600 and ordered to undergo ÒPsychiatric Treatment... evaluation.. (and)... inpatient treatment.
The temporary Protection from Abuse Order is set to expire on April 7 of this year.
The Order excluded him from his home until October 24, 2010 and at one time forbided him from having any contact with his wife - except at their church.
In the last two Sundays, Mrs. Barnes has sat in the front pews.
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