• “Prophet went after my genitals to treat stomach ailment”
• Underwent 8 hours of deliverance service.
• “…told church members his body-sweat Is Holy Spirit Anointing,”
• Trial due end on 4^th April 2015.

 
As the case against Prophet and Archbishop Walter Masocha’s Agape of All Nations church based in Stirling, continues with only one witness testifying to date, the latter, a 32-year-old Zimbabwean woman who joined the church before exiting, says the preacher allegedly touched her inappropriately after informing her he would remove something from her genitals.
This was to cure her of a stomach ailment.
The former church deacon who is mother of four, wept in court as she told a court that a man she called The Prophet touched her inappropriately while claiming he was curing her of a stomach ailment.
She said she had been persuaded by her husband’s family to join an English branch of a Pentecostal church known as Agape for All Nations, based in Stirling .
The woman, who cannot be named, said as part of her involvement with the church, she had to undergo an all-night “deliverance” after her husband, whom she has since left, told her she had to be delivered from demons.
She said: “In Manchester in 2011 I went an eight hour deliverance service. I was literally pinned to the floor and people were pushing my head. It was quite a violent process.”
She said the Agape church, which she said now had many branches, was founded by 51-year-old Walter Masocha, who was called “The Archbishop” and “The Prophet” and claimed to have heard God speaking to him after fasting for a week at a prayer meeting in St Andrews.
She said: “He said that in an audible voice, God had told him to found the church and ‘deliver my people who are suffering’.”
She said she paid several visits to Masocha’s large home, Cosyneuk House at Sauchieburn, near Stirling, which she said had five bathrooms, “numerous” bedrooms and a large kitchen.
She said Mashocha – who always had a bodyguard – used to touch her when he was praying for her.
She told jurors at Falkirk Sheriff Court : “It was on more than one occasion. I went home and spoke to my husband and my husband said he [Masocha] was anointed, and he was The Prophet and he was allowed to do that.”
She said she and other female church members called Masocha “My Dad”.
She said one one occasion in 2012 she had gone into Masocha’s office in Coseyneuk House “to see him about the work of God”.
Masocha had hugged her “very intimately”, caressing her back and kissing her round the neck.
She said: “I felt confused, I felt violated.
“He was saying ‘receive my love’.
“At one point I felt his manhood against me.”
On another occasion in May 2013, also in Masocha’s office, he told her he would pray “for her whole body”.
She said: “He touched the top of my head, my eyes, my nose, my ears. He was saying ‘I’m praying for every part of your body’.
“He touched my shoulders, and went down and touched my chest.
“I felt violated.”
She said she had once gone to his office for prayer with a stomach complaint.
She said: “He said he was going to pray it away. He touched my tummy, then his hand went down my body, onto my private parts.”
Weeping, she said: “It was like he was feeling me. I was so shocked. At that time I saw him as somebody who could never do any wrong, because that was what he used to teach us.
“My husband told me ‘the Prophet is seeing something in your genitals that needs to be removed, so he was removing that’.
“Outside, I had to believe that, but inside I didn’t.”
The woman told the court that she later fled her matrimonial home with her children, and spoke about what had happened to her brother, and others.
She said: “Suddenly, my eyes were opened. This man was touching me inappropriately.”
She added that Masocha has told her that God had told him that “he was the one with the keys to her destiny”.
She said she and her husband had paid over “a lot of money” to the church, including £600 in an envelope they had saved for a mortgage, “child credits”, and “tithes”.
She said: “The doctrine we were taught was that we had to release money, and God would open doors for us.”
“You are putting in most of your money to the point where your children are left hungry.”
Masocha, of Sauchieburn, denies sexually assaulting the woman between April 01, 2012, and March 30, 2013.
Further charges, which he also denies, allege that he induced a 12 year girl to sex-massage his body with oils and engaged in sexual activity with a 14-year-old girl.
He is said to have committed the offences at the Church, at his home in Sauchieburn on the outskirts of the city, and at the plush Crieff Hydro Hotel in Perthshire .
Overall, the incidents are said to have occurred over a two-year period between January 2012 and January 2014.
 
“…told Church His Body-Sweat Is Holy Spirit Anointing,”
 
Meanwhile it was also claimed that the preacher taught people saying the sweat from his body is the anointing and people compete for it, the Falkirk Sherriff Court was told.
The court through a recorded witness statement by former deaconess testifying against the preacher, was told that Archbishop Masocha allegedly caused people to fight for his sweat. While the man was preaching, church members would fight to wipe his face and use the towel cloth to rub on their own bodies in the belief that this would bring blessings, the woman who cannot be named for her protection said.
Masocha is on trial for a series of sex charges which include making a minor massage his naked body using so called anointing oils.
Masocha denies all charges against him.
Since the case commenced on Monday only one person out of a list of at least five, has testified. She is going under cross examination which has continued into Wednesday. At the time of writing, she was preparing to enter the witness stand.
The trial, before Sheriff Kenneth McGowan and jury, will continue today.
It is projected to end on the 4^th April.     (ZimEye/ Additional Reporting DailyRecord).