IHOPKC Timelines Matter

IHOPKC Timelines Matter

by Donna Diorio
November 5, 2025

All along, since the first breaking news on accusations against Mike Bickle Oct 28, 2023, I have gathered and documented material about it. It was a more casual type of documentation I was doing at first. In August, I had almost come to the point of giving up. No one was making any effort to go beyond the 1-sided public character assassination of Mike Bickle. I thought it was just hopeless until I saw Lisa Bickle Stribling early August deliver a message I could really relate to – anger that no one was questioning the accusers even slightly!  Since then, my research has been much more concentrated and I have organized the Word files and Screen Saves I have gathered in all of my research.

Deborah Hiebert says she first realized Mike had abused her in March 2023 listening to a podcast about the Bill Cosby case. “I fell to my floor and began to wail,” she said. “That was a moment of trauma unearthed.”  In another place she says her therapist made her realize it was sexual abuse and grooming. But Deborah tells in a Nov 30^th Roys Report that after telling her husband in May, “Four days later, a friend of hers asked her a question out of the blue: “Did Mike ever do anything physical to you?”

“I literally start to cry and shake and I just shared with her my story,” Doe said. “That’s when she said, ‘You know, there’s a current woman.’” The friend is never identified, which would seem important to confirm the exchange and also what the woman claimed to know about a “current” woman.” Was that friend Elizabeth Herder? When was Elizabeth Herder brought into the circle?

In June Deborah and Murray told Allen Hood and wife; then Dwayne and Jennifer Roberts and Michel Sullivant in August. 

Kezia Hatfield is right in the middle of this thing. I apparently ran across her name while I was researching someone else, but for several days “Kezia” kept rising in my thoughts to return to. When I did, I realized that I knew her parents from Asher Intrater. He brought her parents and Troy Wallace to Dallas one year as he had multiple speaking engagements in Dallas. At that time, when Asher came to Dallas, I would transport him to the various meetings and speaking engagements. I never knew the Hatfields had a daughter named Kezia. I can only believe that the Holy Spirit prompted me to return to Kezia Hatfield’s Face account. I have screen saved all her posts referencing the first five months of the IHOP campaign against Bickle.

 #1 because Kezia, in several posts on her Facebook account, confirmed that she was brought into the AG loop on October 1, 2023 apparently to hear the stories of accusers. That is nine days before Mike Bickle got a first Matthew 18:15 private meeting.

FB screen save Dec 17, 2023 “When I was first contacted on October 1^st about the allegations….” | Nov 29, 2023 “For many, we are holding specific information. Some of which is not our information to share. But it does inform the gravity and urgency by which we speak. It is not gossip. It’s responding to and processing actual experiences . . . .So ask Him…what’s yours to share? What’s He putting on your heart to say? We need voices from all over who are listening and responding to Him.”)

 Since Kezia had been on staff at IHOP years earlier through Exodus Cry (an organization seeking the abolition of the legal commercial sex industry, including pornography, strip clubs, and sex work, as well as illegal sex trafficking).  Kezia was likely also tapped to learn of any “red flags” she had seen at IHOP.

With respect to that, in a December 22 post, she says she did see a pattern with Stuart Greaves related to rape reports in 2011-2014, But she never had seen any red flags in Mike Bickle.

My concern is how drenched in Woke ideology Kezia is. For the first five months of her Facebook posts about the Bickle accusations, it is really clear that she was the early source of woke ideology narratives for the whole AG and all the supporters of the campaign against Mike Bickle and IHOP. Again, I have the documentation, this is not hearsay, it is from her own words.

 Also, it concerns me that due to her sex abuse therapist mindset, she had a willingness to believe things that I have found were not at all true about the progression of things leading up to the public exposing Mike Bickle on October 28, 2023.

In a Dec 29, 2023 Kezia first writes, “In the months preceding Mike’s public outing (during which he was given several opportunities privately to confess/repent) he chose instead to preach on betrayal.”

She is wrong in thinking Mike had months in which to repent privately. The AG lined up their campaign over months, but they only gave Mike at most, 28 days.

I have seen nothing that came out of the meeting Mike and Murray Hiebert had on Oct 10^th, but I did see Mike in the email exchange trying to understand exactly what Deborah and Murray wanted from him, seeing how he had already repented at the time, and had treated them with great favor over a couple of decades. Personally I doubt there was ever anything seriously Mike could have done or said in that meeting which would have changed the course already set by Deborah, Murray, Allen Hood, Dwayne and Jennifer Roberts, Michael Sullivant and Elizabeth Herder.

 I am including Dec 22^nd post because of what  Kezia says about how Mike directly linked the coming betrayal  because of the 5 million intercessors raised in the May 2023 Israel fast. I did not hear that message. Nevertheless that was also my EXACT first thought on hearing the allegations against Bickle. Since then I have not lost any conviction that was exactly why the attack came. Instead I have found evidence that I was right to think so! 

I also want to include it because of what Kezia says later: “….one of the first things on my heart when I heard on October 1^st what was about to come out…the achy question of why was Mike allowed to be a spokesperson for Israel??? Then October 7^th happened and heartbreak multiplies over and over.”

I had the same question. The story and narratives that have been told about Mike do not in the least line up in my understanding of God. But I do see a major parallel is the whole world believing lies about Israel and siding with terrorists, and the whole world believing lies about Bickle and believing the accusers of the brethren.

 Killing the prophets to try to stop God’s plan. That’s a biblical theme, not a Woke theme.

Mike Bickle had a Matthew 18:15 meeting with accuser #1 Deborah Hiebert’s husband on Oct 10. Murray Hiebert and Mike exchanged email on Oct 9^th setting up the meeting, which Murray wanted to bring Dwayne Roberts (AG) and David Perkins (I assume Deborah’s dad) to.  Mike nixed that idea saying it was disturbing to him that indicated the Hiebert’s were already talking to others before coming to him. Little did Bickle know how MANY people they were talking to and arranging a take down of Mike from IHOP.

Little did Mike know how that Matthew 18:15 meeting was long gone.

The AG misrepresents this fact in the statements they have made, acting as if this proceeded along biblical standards. It did not. 

They blame Mike and Stuart Greaves for turning them away, but they wanted to skip a one on one meeting and so straight to the 2 or 3 witnesses stage of dealing with an offense.

 In an email exchange on Oct 9, Mike even agreed to meet with husband Murray alone because Deborah would not agree to do the meeting even if Murray came with her. Bickle also nixed Murray bringing in others with him to do the meeting.  Did her own shame of what she was doing keep her from facing Mike? I certainly can’t rule that out.

Additional women to accuse Mike were being sought by several of the AG in the months before Kezia was contacted on Oct 1.

There are many reports of women who were identified as potentially ‘having a story’ to tell. Several were hounded to identify as a witness even though they said they had nothing to tell.  Kezia even does a post on why women won’t own up to being victims.

“Believe the women – but not if they say they are not victims.” Up to 5 women (maybe 8) were identified in the 50-page document the AG laid on IHOPKC  on October 24^th. Four or five women denied publicly that they were ever victims. It was swept under the rug, but if Firefly had been truly unbiased, their misidentification would not have been excluded, but would have been include as  exculpatory evidence that the AG was trying to stack up a case they did not have. 

I also found that Dwayne Roberts admitted that they were trying to find other accusers of Mike Bickle in the story that appeared in Julie Roys Report November 30, 2023:  Woman Says IHOPKC Founder Mike Bickle Used Prophecy to Sexually Abuse Her | By Rebecca Hopkins

Dwayne Roberts says “throughout August and September” that they were talking to "other former IHOPKC staffers."

Michael Sullivant, who is said to have learned of Deborah’s accusation in August, is quoted in the Nov 30 Roys Report article as saying an element of her story “reminded him of a 2015 conversation he and his wife had with a woman who’d been close to Bickle when he pastored at MCF.”

That woman who is not identified in the article, was interviewed by Rebecca Hopkins for the article. That woman is Tammy Wood Riddering.

 Hopkins reports, “The woman to whom Sullivant was referring spoke with TRR. She confirmed that Bickle, when married and serving as a pastor in her church in Kansas City around 1983 or ‘84, had connected emotionally with her. She said she doesn’t consider herself a victim of Bickle’s. But she said Bickle communicated to her a prophecy that someday his wife Diane would die in an earthquake and then Bickle and this woman could be together.”

This connects “Tammy Woods” Riddering to knowing about the allegations by early November, but told no one until the week of Jan29-Feb 4, 2024 when she said she told her family she had been abused by Mike Bickle. Her sister, Susan Woods Claridge has for decades been estranged from Tammy because of a hateful obsession claiming IHOP was a cult. She even wrote House of Lies in 2013, a thinly veiled fictional  book called House of Lies. Susan began posting about the scandal at IHOP on February 1, 2024 coinciding with the time frame her sister Tammy Riddering says she told her family for the first that that Mike abused her as a teenager. It appears that it was Susan Claridge who arranged for Tammy to give an exclusive interview to Judy Thomas of the Kansas City Star.

So from November 2023 when Tammy spoke to Roys Report what changed in her mind about being a victim of Mike Bickle as reported on Feb 7^th?

My guess is it has to do with why Michael Sullivant had Roys Report call Tammy Woods Riddering in November: to confirm hearing a story about Diane Bickle dying early in life and Mike marrying her.
 
Question #1  Why did that claim not bother Michael Sullivant in 2015? If Tammy never told anyone her story, how is it that she volunteered this story to Sullivant? And how many times did Michael Sullivant contact Tammy between November 2023 and the first week of February – either directly or contact through others?

Question  #2  If one of the founders of Tikkun was written to me saying that the Firefly investigation did not prove the “17 accusers” had reasonable accounts of sexual abuse, but they did have five other claims that said Mike told them the same thing about Diane dying, what are the odds that any of these were genuine stories?

In my view, instead of being ‘a thread the AG pulled on’ this is more likely a thread they planted into the stories to give greater connectablity to add credibility to the non-abuse, abuse claims. 

In Jan 22, 2025 Dean Briggs claims that Jane Doe’s #5, 6, 8. 1 and 2 all claimed sex abuse and the Diane dying early claim. The story about Bickle making promises of marrying these women based on Diane dying young is more likely than not a red herring. In a legal and ethical context, a red herring presents an issue that is irrelevant but used to divert attention away from the main issues of a legal case.

It is an argument "fallacy" that is meant to divert attention from the real issue by focusing instead on an issue having only a surface relevance to the first. In this case it was taking known story around IHOP to create an added layer of credibility to the claims of abuse shared by multiple women whose claims did not even rise to a legal standard of abuse!. Nevertheless the red herring did work leading even one Tikkun leader to use it as an example of credibility.  The story, however, originated with Diane Bickle, and one of the older prophets at IHOP told her not to say such things about herself dying early. This is not the "grooming" thread evidence the AG has made it out to be.

There are many reasons why not doing a thorough investigation and leaving the woke investigation standing is a bad idea. Justice can NEVER be obtained if only ACCUSATIONS are given in a dispute. If there is no cross examination of the accusers, or many others that do have testimony that can be given in a case, JUSTICE will never emerge from a prosecutorial case only. Lawyers win cases every day where the accused exercises their right under the law not to testify. They do it because there are many others who can testify to the facts of the case and cross examination of accusers is a MUST.  Investigation of motives of those who formed a team around Deborah Hiebert must be examined.   

This is only one window into what my research has turned up. There are many more screen saves to analyze.