GOD TV co-founder Wendy Alec has made an emotional live broadcast yesterday in which she disclosed that her husband and ministry partner of over 20 years, Rory Alec, has left her for another woman.
Her comments were made after the TV channel confirmed last week that Rory would be stepping aside as chairman and chief executive with immediate effect following an undisclosed “moral failure”, Cath Martin reported in Christian Today.
Rory said in a statement on October 2: “After 20 years of service, I have had a moral failure this year. For this reason, I am stepping down. Please forgive me for the disappointment I’ve caused, but I know your eyes are on Jesus who is the author and finisher of your faith and not on me, an imperfect man.
“It is with a heavy heart that I confirm my season with GOD TV is over for now.”
In a lengthy statement broadcast live on GOD TV on October 8, Wendy said Rory had been having an affair with a divorced woman in Austria and that he is currently staying on the farm belonging to the woman’s father in South Africa.
Wendy also stated that he no longer wishes to be involved in the GOD TV ministry, which they founded together in 1995.
Related Reading: Billy Graham on answer to dilemmas of life | Born this way? Try being born again! | Reality Check: Are you practicing counterfeit Christianity?
She was frequently tearful as she explained Rory’s decision, which she described as a “satanic assault on God TV and Rory and I”.
Wendy said problems first appeared in March this year when Rory returned home from a visit to South Africa and announced his intention to go to Germany for some “space”.
“My whole world started turning upside down and the next morning he just went,” Wendy said. “It started to be extremely traumatic for me because suddenly my husband just started to change in a pattern and a way I had never seen him act before.”
She shared the situation with trusted friends and they initially kept it quiet because they were believing God for a breakthrough, but “it got worse”, she says, and Rory “just started to go off”.
She alleges he told her to keep his behaviour quiet for the sake of the ministry and the staff, and that she started to feel “very manipulated and intimidated”.
Wendy said she and the board of GOD TV asked Rory to go for counselling because they thought he might be suffering from burnout as a result of carrying the financial burden of the ministry for so many years, but she says he was not able to trust anyone enough to go for counselling and refused.
As the year went on, he “started going away for weeks at a time” but rather than making things better, it “seemed like every time he had more space it got worse and worse for our marriage”, she alleged.
“To live like that for me was really, really hard.”
She described one time when she had emergency hospital treatment for gall bladder on the Global Day of Prayer and while she was in hospital, Rory “just flew off to Austria”.
Wendy said he only returned home when her brother, who is a doctor, told him how serious it was, but she says he left again just a few days after she came out of the hospital.
She also said that she had at one point asked him if there was another woman and that he had denied there was.
It was following a night of prayer with friends for the situation on August 15 she says she discovered he had been having an affair with a divorced woman in Austria that he had apparently come to know as a result of working with her on her jazz album in the studio.
“The devil got in very, very easily,” said Wendy. Source: Christian Today (To read more, click here.)
