L.A.'s Viral Exorcist Kathryn Krick Knew of Prophet's Sexual Abuse Allegations

Be Scofield is an investigative journalist whose reporting has led to HBO’s hit series Love Has Won, an episode of Netflix’s Unwell, the 2021 season premiere of Dr. Phil, multiple VICE programs, and Dateline. Her work has been cited by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, CBC, People, The Washington Post, CNN, and numerous other outlets. Her original reporting on Abdullah Hashem's doomsday cult in England in 2025 led to front-page coverage in The Guardian, The Telegraph, VICE, and The Daily Mail. She is the author of The Savior Complex: How Jesus Became the World’s Ultimate Influencer. Contact: [email protected]

By BE SCOFIELD

August 6th, 2026

In 2018, Kathryn Krick—L.A.’s now-viral “TikTok Apostle”—was warned that her spiritual father, the self-proclaimed Tanzanian prophet GeorDavie, had been accused of sexual abuse. At the time, Krick led the Los Angeles branch of his Advanced Anointing ministry, which later became Five-Fold Church, or 5F. Rather than call for an investigation or distance herself from him, she chastised two church members who raised the allegations and vowed never to leave the man she calls “Daddy” and the “prophet of prophets.”

“I was devastated,” a woman in the church wrote to Krick in an email reviewed by The Guru Magazine. “When the evidence was put before me, I realized everything. And as I said, more and more has come out almost every day.”

Krick rebuked her for speaking publicly.

“After all that Prophet GeorDavie has done for you, the love he’s shown you, and all that we have done for you at Advanced Anointing, it is very sad that you would stoop so low as to publicly speak against him and this ministry,” Krick wrote.

Then she doubled down on her allegiance to the prophet.

“I will never leave Advanced Anointing. I will never leave Prophet GeorDavie,” Krick declared. “I love him, and all of this has given me a reason to love him more.”

Cassandra Cymbal, who served as a worship leader and member of the ministry’s leadership team, said she also confronted Krick about the allegations.

“Someone in our church shared incidents of sexual assault by GeorDavie,” Cymbal recalled telling her during a phone call.

“I told her it was a disturbing sexual assault done in the name of the Lord,” Cymbal said in an interview with The Guru Magazine. “Kathryn was immediately defensive and aggressive and called the woman alleging abuse a liar.”

Cymbal said she pleaded with Krick to consider the possibility that GeorDavie had committed the alleged acts. Krick refused.

“He would never do that. I know him. I love him. He’s the most gentle man,” Cymbal recalled Krick saying.

Cymbal said she later viewed text messages between GeorDavie and the woman who accused him of sexual abuse. According to Cymbal, the messages included references by GeorDavie to the incidents the woman had described.

The woman also asked Cymbal whether there was any possibility that what had been done to her was biblical.

“Absolutely not,” Cymbal told her.

Cymbal said she had felt uneasy about the ministry even before the allegations emerged. GeorDavie’s name and image were constantly promoted, she recalled, and his supposed supernatural authority occupied the center of the group’s religious life.

“The whole ministry was based around his anointing that Jesus gave him,” Cymbal said.

The allegations became the final breaking point for her.

“I thought, ‘This is absolutely a cult, and I need to get these girls out of there,’” Cymbal said.

Cymbal then tried to help another church member, who was living with Krick at the time, pack her belongings and leave. According to Cymbal, Krick and another ministry leader stood in the doorway and attempted to prevent them from exiting.

“Kathryn and the other head pastor were standing in the doorway of the home, hindering us from leaving,” Cymbal said.

She recalled Krick accusing them of being controlled by Satan and attempting to destroy the church. Cymbal and the other woman eventually pushed past the two leaders, bumping shoulders with them as they left the home.

In total, five women left the church over the allegations, which at the time, in 2018, was nearly half of the small congregation.

The allegations involve two members of Kathryn Krick's church. One woman alleges that GeorDavie sexually abused her. She asked that the details of her account not be published at this time.

A second woman, Melissa Archer, alleges that GeorDavie sent her sexually inappropriate messages, questioned her about her body, and subjected her to an inappropriate “deliverance” ritual. Archer said he instructed her to touch her breasts and vagina during the ritual and asked whether she had pubic hair.

Messages reviewed by The Guru Magazine show GeorDavie discussing Archer’s body and sexual arousal in explicitly spiritual terms.

“Spiritually God was letting you know that the prophet can see you naked and that He knew how thirsty you were physically,” GeorDavie wrote in one message.

The exchange followed a prior conversation in which Archer had told him that she had kissed a man. According to Archer, GeorDavie asked whether the encounter had made her “wet.” She said she uncomfortably laughed and changed the subject, but he returned to the question and asked again, "But were you wet?" Archer froze and felt bile come up in her throat. Irritated, she reluctantly replied, "Yes."

“When I told you I was kissing [name redacted], you asked if I was wet,” Archer wrote in the later text message on August 2nd, 2018, asking him to explain what he meant in the earlier conversation.

“Wet and thirsty?” GeorDavie replied.

That's when he texted that God was letting her know that the prophet can see her naked.

Archer still has the original text messages from GeorDavie on her phone and has also downloaded the WhatsApp message history.

Archer also described a private “deliverance” session conducted by phone around March 2018 that she said crossed sexual boundaries.

“GeorDavie asked me to touch my breasts and vagina and asked if I had hair down there,” Archer said in an interview.

The Guru Magazine obtained and reviewed an audio recording of the session. GeorDavie asked her probing questions about past boyfriends and any sexual advances. He then instructed Archer to touch intimate parts of her body while claiming to remove spiritual markings and attachments.

“I want you to touch your breasts now,” GeorDavie tells her.

After Archer agrees, GeorDavie says he can see supernatural marks that others had placed upon her body.

“I’m cleansing you from everything,” he says. “Every mark they left in your breasts in the dark spiritual world, I remove those markers that they put there. I see the symbols put there. I remove them in Jesus’ name.”

He then instructs Archer to move her hand down her body.

“Can you rub down your stomach?” he asks. “I cleanse that completely. Whatever was attached to you, I cleanse that.”

GeorDavie next directs her to touch her genitals.

“I want you to touch your vagina—go straight down,” he says.

After Archer complies, he asks her a personal question about her pubic hair.

“Do you have hairs down there in your V?” he asks.

“No,” Archer replies.

“You are clean?” he asks.

Archer answers yes. GeorDavie then tells her to continue touching herself.

“I want you to just touch there, down there,” he says. “In the name of Jesus, I cleanse this part.”

Archer said GeorDavie later met with her alone for lunch in Los Angeles and spoke about making promises that could not be broken.

“He wanted to make a covenant with me, which is what he had said to the woman he had sexually abused," Archer said.

“I was praying against whatever he was saying,” she recalled.

During another encounter, while in Tanzania, Archer said GeorDavie embraced her tightly and appeared as though he might try to kiss her. It was during a one-on-one ministerial session.

“When he hugged me, he held on to me tightly but gave me a look like he was going to kiss me,” she said. “And I just freaked out.”

Archer said she became overwhelmed, surrendered physically, and made her body go limp.

“He laid me down on the floor,” she said. “I was in complete panic that he was going to do something.”

"We had a three-way call with Jeantall and told her everything," Archer said. Both the woman who alleged sexual abuse by GeorDavie and Archer were on the call. Jeantall Marshall was another leader in the church, also part of the inner circle. She is currently the main worship leader in Krick's church. "Jeantall was in shock, like what you'd expect from your closest friend. It was heartbreak and unbelievable sadness," Archer said.

Text messages shared with The Guru Magazine by a former inner circle member "Stephanie" (alias name) show her discussing the allegations with Jeantall, who states that she's "heartbroken" and "devastated." According to Archer, Krick and another ministry leader later persuaded Jeantall and others to reject the allegations. She said Krick called the woman who alleged sexual abuse a "liar."

Archer continued investigating GeorDavie after the fallout. "I also interviewed two women in Tanzania who described detailed accounts of sexual abuse by GeorDavie," she said.

Propositioning Women for Sex

After the allegations surfaced, the women who left the church connected with Ansie Visser, an ordained pastor in South Africa. Visser first met GeorDavie when he visited the country for a pastors’ conference. She later traveled to Tanzania and ministered three times from the stage of his church.

In an interview with The Guru Magazine, Visser said two women connected to her ministry showed her Facebook messages in which GeorDavie allegedly propositioned them for sex. One of the women, she said, was a close friend.

“One of the women accompanied me when we dropped him off at the airport,” Visser said. “He waited until he was alone with her and got her contact information.”

According to Visser, the women later came to her home and showed her the messages on their phones.

“He wanted one woman to travel to him so that they could have sex and she could receive impartation,” Visser said. “He told her she wasn’t allowed to tell me because I’m a very jealous person.”

Visser said GeorDavie sent the second woman messages late at night from his hotel room.

“He told her he wanted mixed-race babies and wanted to have sex with her,” Visser said. “He said she would be ‘honored’ because he would impart the anointing to her through sex.”

“He wanted one woman to travel to him so that they could have sex and she could receive impartation.”

Visser’s response contrasted sharply with Krick’s reaction when she was presented with allegations against GeorDavie. Visser said she confronted him directly.

“I messaged him and told him that the two women had shown us the messages and that he was not a man of God,” she said. “I told him, ‘You’re not to be trusted, because that’s not what a man of God does.’ I saw the messages. I knew they were telling the truth.”

Visser said GeorDavie “blocked me immediately” and then “went into hiding.”

The experience profoundly damaged her trust in religious leadership, she said, and it took her years to recover.

“My faith in church leaders was totally destroyed,” Visser said.

Kathryn Krick Becomes an Apostle

Before becoming a viral exorcist, Krick was an aspiring actress and Christian singer trying to establish herself in Los Angeles. Her path changed in October 2016, when the Tanzanian preacher GeorDavie appeared at a Hispanic church in the city. Her friend invited her to the service, where GeorDavie singled out the two women and asked them to join him for dinner afterward.

“I had never seen the power of God like I did when Daddy was ministering,” Krick later said in a video. “I had the greatest honor of having dinner with Daddy and other members from the church and Pastor David the following day. This is where Daddy delivered prophetic words that completely changed my life. This is when my eyes were opened to how much God loves me. I knew it was my destiny to be a part of GeorDavie International Ministries.”

That destiny soon took Krick to Arusha, Tanzania, where GeorDavie’s church is based.

A video depicts Krick speaking in his church: “I think that you have had Daddy for a long time. I think it might be time for you to share him with America!”

“When she came back from Tanzania, she had a ring on her finger,” Archer said. Cassandra Cymbal said Krick explained it as a "promise ring" with Jesus.

A former friend named Nyatta described Krick as spiritually ambitious but directionless. 

“She was rejected from the Mosaic Church praise music team,” the former friend said during an interview. “Kathryn was naive and searching for direction. She couldn’t get one-on-one time with leaders, so when GeorDavie showed up, he played into her deep desire to know God’s direction for her life.”

Archer said that one of GeorDavie’s principal worship leaders “isolated” Krick and drew her more deeply into the ministry. Between 2017 and 2018, Krick traveled to Tanzania several times.

One video from this period, which has since circulated widely among Krick’s critics, shows her standing onstage with four women from the L.A. church and publicly pledging their allegiance to GeorDavie.

“We want to be used to reach all of the people of Los Angeles and bring them to you,” Krick told him. “We plant this seed at your feet, Daddy, to serve you. We want the world to know you! We want you to be famous so that the real Jesus may be known! They will not know the real Jesus unless they know you! We love you! Thank you for being our father.”

The women then bowed before GeorDavie and touched his feet.

Exorcism Goes Viral 

GeorDavie has accumulated an assortment of grandiose titles, among them “Landmark Prophet of the Equator,” “The General,” and “Government Spokesman for the Kingdom of God.” But his most consequential claim is that he is the only middleman between Jesus and humanity.

According to GeorDavie, Jesus once appeared before him and handed him a set of keys bearing the names of different religious denominations—symbols of the institutions he had been given the authority to rule over and liberate from bondage. He then vanished. He also claims that from a young age he's had the ability to do miracle healings and give prophecy.

"They will not know the real Jesus unless they know you! Thank you for being our father."

Krick later promoted the story of Jesus appearing to him in a video interview with GeorDavie’s daughter.

“When they can see a drawing of Jesus handing Daddy the keys to set people free from religious bondage, and they can read about what that picture means—what Jesus said to Daddy,” Krick said, “people will see that, and they will be moved in their heart.”

The drawing appeared in a book Krick assembled about the history of Advanced Anointing Church. It visually enshrined the central mythology of his church: Jesus had personally selected GeorDavie, granted him supernatural authority, and positioned him as the man through whom others could encounter the “real Jesus.”

Krick claims GeorDavie predicted her rise and the specific mechanism through which it would occur. In a video, she said GeorDavie told her to make the videos one minute long. She then taught herself editing and social media. In just three months in 2021, her follower count skyrocketed from 500 to 100,000.

Recently Krick's dramatic healings and exorcisms on stage have gone extremely viral, garnering millions of views. Krick now claims that people attending her ministry have been healed of schizophrenia, cancer, blindness, paralysis, deafness, and other serious conditions. The fame has brought criticism from mainstream news outlets and Christian influencers who have warned of Krick running a cult.

A similar culture of veneration now surrounds Krick within her own ministry. Videos show followers bowing before her, weeping as they express their gratitude and repeatedly referring to her as “Momma.”

In one video, a man thanks Krick for what he portrays as a life-giving sacrifice. “Thank you for laying down your life that we may live,” he tells her. The same speaker describes Krick as “the apostle to the nations.”

Another follower addresses her in intensely personal and spiritual terms. “You are everything to me,” he says. “You’re my spiritual mom. You’re my David. You’re my best friend. You are everything.” He continues. “When I came to 5F, I was dying,” crediting Krick and her ministry with saving his life.

In another video, a woman tells Krick, “God needs you for this.”

The scenes echo the reverence Krick once directed toward GeorDavie: a spiritual leader elevated not merely as a teacher or pastor but as an indispensable vessel through whom followers believe God has transformed their lives.

"It seems to me that Kathryn Kricks’ 5F Church fits well within the construct of what can be seen as a destructive personality cult," wrote leading cult expert Rick Ross in a recent analysis.

The women who left the church are concerned about other women in the ministry being victimized by GeorDavie. "Soon after we left, Kathryn took a few women to GeorDavie in Tanzania," Archer said. A group of women recently returned from Tanzania. Krick has recently been heavily encouraging her church members to join GeorDavie in an upcoming conference in Paris at the end of August.

Krick’s ministry has grown increasingly zealous, and the distinction between loyalty to Krick and loyalty to God has begun to collapse. “This is not my ministry; it’s God’s ministry,” she proclaims. “This is not my church; it’s God’s church.” In a movement built around that claim, questioning Krick is no longer treated as criticism of a religious leader. It risks being cast as opposition to God himself.

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