You Can Run But You Cannot Hide was evicted from Plymouth offices in 2007

Deadbeat “ministry” run by Bradley Dean Smith given the boot under court order for nonpayment of rent.

By Karl Bremer

Bradley Dean Smith, aka “Bradlee Dean,” and his Annandale-based anti-gay hate “ministry” found out that you can run, but you cannot hide—from the landlord. In 2007, Smith’s Old Paths Church Ministries, dba You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, was evicted under court order from its offices in the Bass Lake Business Centre II in Plymouth for nonpayment of rent.

The eviction was the result of a complaint filed against Old Paths Church Ministries in Hennepin County Housing Court on June 7, 2007, by its landlord, Bass Lake Realty LLC of Minneapolis.

According to Hennepin County Housing Court records, an eviction hearing was held June 21, 2007. A judgment against Old Paths Church Ministries and a “writ of recovery of premises” was issued the same day. It appears that Smith had flown the coop by then, because court records state that the writ of recovery was returned six days later and had to be re-sent to a forwarding address.

Although Old Paths Church Ministries was never served, court records state the writ of recovery of premises was satisfied on July 5, 2007.

At the same time Old Paths Church Ministries was welshing on its rent due Bass Lake Realty, it was operating as a self-described “sham” ministerial trust and owned a house and property in rural Annandale valued at $361,600. The house was—and still is—occupied by Smith, who was paid a $45,887 housing allowance by You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International in 2009. Smith still lives there, but the property was transferred into his name in 2009 after he and his sidekick Jake MacAulay took legal action to escape from their sham trust.

No 2007 tax records are available for either Old Paths Church Ministries or You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, so it’s not known what either entity’s income was that year.

Also unknown is the amount of rent that deadbeat tenants Old Paths Church Ministries failed to pay. Neither Smith nor Bass Lake Realty LLC returned phone calls regarding this story.



This is the latest in an ongoing Ripple in Stillwater investigative series on Bradley Dean Smith and his Annandale “ministries.” For more, read:

http://tinyurl.com/ycr-sham-ministry

http://tinyurl.com/ycr-and-irs

http://tinyurl.com/ycr-and-dayton

http://tinyurl.com/ycr-and-embassy-of-heaven

http://tinyurl.com/ycr-lawyers-up

Punk anti-gay 'minister' tells Governor Dayton churches should provide health care for the poor

But Bradley Dean Smith's sidekick at You Can Run But You Cannot Hide is silent on what his own 'ministry' does for the poor--or anyone else. Can we expect to see an Annandale Free Clinic soon?

By Karl Bremer

In his first major act as Minnesota governor, Mark Dayton reversed his predecessor, Tim Pawlenty, by expanding the federal Medicaid program in the state to up to 95,000 more people currently not eligible for Medicaid or not covered by any insurance at all. But after doing so, he took the unprecedented step of turning over his podium—and microphone—to a few of the noisy teabagger protesters present who were clamoring for an end to “Obamacare.”

Among them was none other than Jacob McMillian MacAulay, aka “Jake McMillian,” COO and allegedly an ordained minister at the Annandale-based anti-gay hate ministry Old Paths Church/You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International (YCR).

(Go to 16:15 of the video above)

What was astonishing was that although MacAulay never identified himself as a 'minister' or affiliated with any church, he blasted churches for not stepping up to the plate and providing health care for those who cannot afford it, rather than letting government provide it through some "unconstitutional" means such as “Obamacare” or Medicare or Medicaid:

Addressing the issue of Minnesotans without health care, MacAulay asks: “Where is the church to help these people? Because that is the church’s job and duty—it’s social causes. Find in the Constitution where it’s the government’s job to do that. It’s for nonprofit organizations. It’s for the church to do what it rightfully should do.

“I don’t blame somebody for feeling that when the church doesn’t do its job, we’ve got to do something,” he continued. “I agree we need to do something, there’s no doubt about it. But when we step outside of our bounds where our Constitutional authority lies, and we start to take that authority on ourselves, because we can create an executive order, it has a ripple effect of destroying societies.

“What we need is not a strong centralized government. What we need is strong self-government of the people who will look out for each other, just like this poor woman who died,” MacAulay concluded, referring to an earlier speaker’s story of inadequate health care. “The church should have been looking after her.”

MacAulay raises some interesting points—especially considering he’s supposedly a paid ordained minister in a church himself. So as long as he’s asking, where is MacAulay’s “church” in all this?

I’ve spent a lot of time in the past few weeks looking into MacAulay’s mysterious “church” and have found virtually nothing about what it does or who it serves—other than the tens of thousands of dollars in grants it has received from its sister “ministry” YCR, and the $360,000 Annandale property it once owned that’s the home of Bradley Dean Smith, aka Bradlee Dean.

MacAulay is listed as the “agent” and “incorporator” of Old Paths Church, Inc. and YCR in filings with the State of Minnesota. The mission of Old Paths Church, its Articles of Incorporation state, “is to proclaim the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, to develop Christian leadership, to perform charitable work and to otherwise function as a church.” Nothing about providing medical help for the poor, as he so eloquently demanded of his fellow church brethren.

There are no expenses reported for indigent medical services—or any other kind of medical services—in the tax filings, state filings or an independent audit of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International. Nor are there any other expenses listed that could conceivably be related to medical services. No tax records are available for Old Paths Church, which shares the same Annandale address as YCR.

An exhaustive internet search turns up no evidence of any “charitable work”—medical or otherwise—on the part of MacAulay’s Old Paths Church either. In fact, it's almost as if the church doesn't exist at all, other than on paper.

No one at YCR/Old Paths Church responded to inquiries about either organization.

The next time “Pastor” MacAulay decides to take the podium and preach about what churches should be doing for the poor, perhaps he should stick around to enlighten his congregation as to what his own Old Paths Church is doing in that capacity. Or what it’s doing in any capacity, other than trying to shelter its income from the government.

That’s something he may have to answer sooner rather than later anyway.