Pastor Keith

The story you are about to read is not easy to share. I ask you to read prayerfully and invite the Holy Spirit to guide your heart as you consider the grace of God at work in my life.

For many years, God was calling me to pastoral ministry. Friends, mentors, and pastors would speak words of encouragement, telling me God would use my life to reach others. In 2017, Pastor Rajesh first told me this, but at that time I was living a double life—active in church outwardly, yet enslaved to pornography in secret. My addiction began at the age of nine and continued for more than forty years, escalating into darker, more violent, and more depraved forms. This sin spilled over into my marriage through infidelity and left devastation in its wake.

In 2021, my sin caught up to me. The FBI raided my home and workplace after I downloaded files containing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). I was arrested in January 2023 and faced up to 20 years in prison. I lost my career at the Post Office, my reputation, and nearly my marriage. By every measure, my life was over.

But God was not finished with me. In jail, the Lord told me I would one day share my story without fear to warn others of the dangers of pornography. At first, I resisted—certain no one would understand, certain I would be rejected. But God pressed me to write, and the result was my first book, Bunk 47. At sentencing, He showed me mercy: instead of decades in prison, I received probation. Six months later, the book was finished, and I began publicly sharing my testimony in churches and other gatherings.

As I reflected on my journey, one question haunted me: How did I get here? I had never once been attracted to children in my life—so how did I end up consuming the darkest material imaginable? Looking back over four decades of porn use, the answer was clear: I had been carried along a trajectory, a kind of “pipeline” that dragged me deeper and darker over time. That realization became the foundation of my second book, The Devil’s Pipeline.

In 2024, a pastor visited my home to discuss Bunk 47. Before we spoke, he told me God had given him a message: I was called to be a pastor. My immediate response was disbelief—“You’ve got the wrong house. Don’t you know what I’ve done?” But he looked me in the eye and said, “You can run from God or you can submit to Him, but I will be calling you Pastor Keith.” The very next week, I was serving as Men’s Pastor in his church. From there, God moved me to other ministries—one where I learned painful lessons about how not to run a church, and later to Holy Spirit Encounters Church under Apostle Philip Peters, where I was trained in deliverance and spiritual warfare.

On March 28, 2025, I experienced a three-hour private deliverance session with Apostle Philip and his wife, Pastora Rosemarie. Over 100 demons were cast out of me that day. Some may doubt Christians can need deliverance, but my experience—and the Word of God—testify otherwise (Isaiah 61:1).

Since that deliverance, the enemy has fought hard to discourage and distract me. But God has been faithful. On August 11, 2025, the Lord gave me my first prophetic dream, followed by its interpretation four days later. That was the moment I knew I could no longer delay His plan. My wife and I began preparing immediately to launch the church God had placed in our hearts years before—The Carpenter’s House—founded on Jeremiah 17:7–8.

My testimony is not one of my strength, but of God’s mercy. What Satan meant for destruction, God has turned into a mission to set captives free.

Books by Pastor Keith