The daughter of the late televangelist Jim Bakker is apologizing to anyone she says her “family’s ministry” has harmed and is urging people to donate to LGBT groups, as she reflects on her father’s death last week. In a statement published on Facebook Saturday, Tammy Sue Bakker addressed her father’s death five days earlier.
“There are very few times in life — if any — that we are given the chance to show the world that everyone is loved,” she began. “I have humbly been given the platform to be able to do so, and for that I am beyond grateful. I have thought about this moment for many years. At this difficult time, I’m thinking about my mother, Tammy Faye, and the unconditional love she showed.
That love is also in my heart.” “Throughout my life, I have stayed silent, not wanting to harm my family or the church,” she added. “I quietly left my father’s ministry in 2022 because the message that was being delivered was not mine.
I have spent the years since estranged from my father.” Tammy Sue Bakker said she was not told about her father’s illness “until three hours before his death," saying she learned he died from a friend who saw it online and "didn’t realize I hadn’t been told.” Tammy Sue Bakker, who described herself as a “peaceful and private person,” said she felt a need to “be transparent” after her father’s death, saying she could hear her “precious mother’s voice saying, ‘Sis, this is your time.
Do it.’” Tammy Faye Bakker divorced Jim Bakker and later remarried. She died in 2007. “I want to publicly apologize, from the depths of my soul, to anyone who has been hurt by the church or my family’s ministry over the last 60 years,” she