The Prophet Of Profit
The pastors of megachurches all seem to be rich, but in South Texas, the complaints about alleged fraud led us to investigate a particular man of god. And after OUR SHOCKING REVELATIONS about a pastor with churches from San Antonio to the Rio Grande Valley, we got new complaints that this man of god is really a PROPHET OF PROFIT. It’s time for Cross Church to open its books to the people that pray there.
The Prophet of Profit
“In my long journalism career I’ve witnessed the deadly consequences of false prophet,” Wayne Dolcefino told the camera.
An eyewitness to the horrible end of the standoff with the Branch Davidians, 33 years ago. So many children died.
“Ever since my months in Waco a very long time ago, I’ve been intrigued when someone is accused of using the cloak of religion to hide religious malpractice, even fraud,” Dolcefino told the camera.
And it’s why the pastor of this South Texas mega church is under fire.
“Do what you can’t. I don’t know who I’m prophesying to tonight,” Jamie Loya said.
Is Jaime Loya really a prophet of profit?
“I believe he is a false apostle,” Brandon Bravo said.
“The Bible repeatedly warns believers to beware of false prophets who speak in God’s name but lead others astray,” Peyton Heussner said.
“Repent. Repent for what you have done,” Bravo said.
Brandon Bravo isn’t preaching to one of the tens of thousands of followers of the mega Cross churches across South Texas.
“Do what you can’t. I don’t know who I’m prophesying to tonight,” Jamie Loya said.
He’s sending a spiritual message to Pastor Jaime Loya.
“I don’t believe that this church is founded on the word of God,” Bravo said.
Preaching to all three Cross Church leaders.
“Say it to the other person, to the other side, I’m being called out,” Eric Garza said.
Eric Garza, an executive pastor.
And Abram Gomez, also an executive pastor.
“I believe that God, in his sovereign love, is going to expose Jaime, Abram, and Eric,” Bravo said.
“Bravo is still a fierce believer in God, but not in these self-proclaimed apostles of the South Texas. And he wasn’t just a member of the weekend flock at Cross Church. Listen,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“I was the campus pastor for Cross Church in San Antonio from the year 2024 to 2025,” Bravo said.
“Bravo says he was recruited by Pastor Loya, who promised that with the help of his ministry, the name ‘Brandon Bravo’ would be a household name in San Antonio,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“He said all the right things, and it held the right language, and it had all the emotions to it,” Bravo said.
Brandon saw it as a chance to share the word of God, like he and his wife did at the time on YouTube.
“We are from the San Antonio campus, and today we want to share our very own testimony,” Liz Bravo said.
He says he accepts the job, the pay, just $15 an hour.
“As soon as I sign, a week later Eric sends me an email with the non-compete agreement, and I said, what is this?” Bravo said.
Before he begins any work, Bravo was asked to sign a non-compete clause.
“When you get fired or if you leave, you can’t do it for a full year from any Cross Church location within a hundred miles,” Bravo said.
He’s also told to sign this non-disclosure agreement.
“A non-disclosure agreement is something I make my employees sign before they start here. So they don’t talk about investigations with the wrong people. But this is a church. Why do they need an NDA?” Dolcefino told the camera.
Upon receiving his first paycheck, Bravo notices something on his pay stub.
“They deduct tithes automatically from your paycheck,” Bravo said.
“Second Corinthians 9:7 says do not give out of compulsion, but give what you’ve decided in your heart,” Heussner said.
“I feel like these guys know the word of God, but they are not living it out, and they aren’t teaching it appropriately,” Bravo said.
And he told us he began to notice other things at this mega church that felt off.
“I started to see a lot of things that were unethical, a lot of practices that were not actually scriptural at all,” Bravo said.
And a power dynamic that Bravo says felt dark.
“He would make all the pastors stand up in the room when he came in like he was some type of general,” Bravo said.
“Since our Faith Under Fire investigation first aired, there have been brave voices from the pew began to emerge, and there have been consequences. Is Cross Church a place that tries to stifle dissent?” Dolcefino told the camera.
“I’m Amanda Duke. Me and my husband started going to Cross Easter of April of 2023,” Amada Duke said.
Amanda says one day at church she heard an overpowering voice to give up smoking. It was the voice of God.
“I had been smoking since I was twelve years old,” Duke said.
So she completely stopped.
Filled with joy, she was excited to share her miracle at church, but that joy quickly faded.
“There never was an altar call, but we spoke 20 minutes on the importance of tithing,” Duke said.
She says it was the first time she felt the building she was in wasn’t a church, it was a business.
“There’s the enemy in my head as we leave church. See? They don’t care about you. All they care about is your money. All they want is your money,” Duke said.
But Amanda was already heavily involved, what they call a Key-12 leader.
She says she was often required to pay for the church’s cleaning supplies, with church leaders citing “budget cuts.”
“I mean, we’ve poured hundreds, if not thousands of dollars out of our own pocket,” Duke said.
That’s when Amanda says she started asking questions about the church’s budget.
“During our K-12 meetings, we asked to see financials, and we never saw them. We were never given copies of them,” Duke said.
So Amanda says she went to go speak directly to Pastor Ram.
“What was coming out of his mouth was just Eric Garza, and he was like, you have a key to my church. If you’re not going to be doing this, then I need to give that key to somebody who will be serving my church,” Duke said.
She felt an evil spirit and decided to leave the church entirely.
“Brandon and Amanda were among those who came forward after first report,” Dolcefino told the camera.
And we met a Cross Church member who prays at the Laguna Vista campus.
After watching our video on Cross Church, he decided to ask church staff members about it.
“I questioned them, and then they didn’t like what I was saying, so they wanted to call the police on me.”
No answers, just the cops.
“These guys are telling me, they’re like, don’t tell anybody.”
He says they’ve since been trying to silence him. He didn’t want us to use his name.
“Now the pastor’s telling everybody to avoid me and stay cautious of me and having emergency meetings about me that said don’t listen to non-Bible believers, and I’m like, that had nothing to do with believing. That had nothing to do with anything, just questions.”
Just like Joey Cepeda, who Cross Church also tried to silence after this Facebook post went viral.
Suing Cepeda for 1 million dollars for defamation. Listen to this man of God. Pastor Loya.
“Get a life. Get a life, Joey. Get a life,” Loya said.
The lawsuit was dropped after Cepeda promised not to say any more mean things about the pastor, but here’s a Bible verse Pastor Loya might want to remember.
1 Corinthians 6:7:
“When you take another believer to court you have lost the battle already.”
“You create a narrative that gets views and gets clicked, and that’s very biased and one-sided.”
We have even told the pastor we would air the entire interview unedited on our social media pages.
“Pastor Loya ignored the opportunity to interview before our first story, so did his lawyer, and now he’s got demands, commands before sitting down with us,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“So if you’re willing to do it on my terms, I’d be more than happy to consider doing the interview,” Loya said.
The list of terms was a mile long and kept changing.
“In emails, Loya told us he wanted editorial control over our broadcast, to review and bless our report before granting his consent to publish our story,” Dolcefino told the camera.
Pastor Loya also wanted to include in our story in its entirety his full prayer and plan of salvation.
And in his emails, Loya also took a personal shot at Bravo.
“Did he disclose he has had two failed marriages and a poor reputation in the city of San Antonio?”
“Strange words coming from a pastor, and very different than what Brandon says Loya told him when he recruited him to San Antonio,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“He said all the right things, and it held the right language, and it had all the emotions to it,” Bravo said.
Brandon said the job at the church took a financial toll.
“I’m coming home with like four to five hundred dollars every week, and I fall behind three months’ rent,” Bravo said.
“You know what this San Antonio preacher says happened when he sat down with Pastor Loya to find a solution?” Dolcefino told the camera.
“He says, hold on, hold on. First and foremost, I’m not going to listen to a broke kid who is broke and struggling,” Bravo said.
“Loya claims in emails the church gave Brandon Bravo and his family an SUV and all kinds of financial help. We told his to provide us the proof and so far he hasn’t,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“The last thing he said to me, Peyton, was to swallow it. As soon as he hung up, I told my wife, I said we’re out of here,” Bravo said.
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