Upon our second visit to Bible Way Baptist Church, we went back in search of the pastor for permission to cover the Tuesday "Outreach" program. The program starts at noon and Maria and I arrived around 10:30. The pastor was scheduled for a staff meeting and it was not looking so good to sit down and talk to him. He had never gotten back to us so we were not able to set up an interview. As we were summoned into his office, Senior Pastor Dr. Damone B. Jones Sr. greeted us and had us sit down. He then went on to explain about how a few years ago, a Temple came to do a story about the church and casted a negative image of the church on a public website where the reputation of the pastor was tarnished. He was very reluctant to allow us to cover the luncheon down stairs. He did not trust us and we had to assure him that our story was strictly about the luncheon and nothing else. After threatening to bring every lawyer and judge he knew against us if we wrote anything negative, he had his secretary photocopy our student ID's. After a little more reluctance, he finally allowed us to shoot video of the luncheon. This experience was very unexpected but we were still able to get permission to do our story. We were unable to have the pastor pose for a picture or give us an interview.
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