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On Tuesday, August 16, 2011, more than forty pastors who were friends of Zachery Tims gathered together for a prayer vigil in his honor.  The service comes  three days before a public viewing and wake that will be held on Friday, August 19, 2011.  Tims was once caught in an affair with a stripper that resulted in the end of his fifteen-year-marriage, and though authorities say white powder was found at the scene of his death, friends of Tims’ are asking the public not to jump to negative conclusions and speculations regarding his death or potential drug use.  A cause of death has not been determined as an autopsy was ruled inconclusive.  The New York Medical Examiner’s Office is currently awaiting the results of toxicology tests to determine if any chemicals were present in his bloodstream.   Tims’ body was found on August 12, 2011 at the W Hotel in New York by cleaning staff.  The Central Florida paper, Orlando Sentinel,  attended the prayer vigil and posted video online.

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Officials were hoping to shed a light on what may have lead to Tim’s tragic death by an autopsy conducted Saturday but the effort has failed to reveal the cause of the death.
Ever since Tims founded New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Fla along with former wife Riva Tims in 1996, he powerfully led the church for 15 years. He was especially influential to youth with is unique pastorship before his death last week.
Though he had many fans and supporters, some visitors to NDCC’s Facebook page have been questioning if he had indeed been living a changed life.
The Florida minister had vacationed in Puerto Rico with his family a week before he died. He has four children from his previous marriage with Riva. His marriage came to an end in 2009 after he admitted to having an affair with a stripper.

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On Friday, the body of Florida’s 8,000-member megachurch pastor Reverend Zachery Tims Jr. was found dead in a Times Square, New York, hotel with a white-powdered substance believed to be narcotics on his body, reports the Wall Street Journal.  
Tims was found lying on his back between the bedroom and living room area when a hotel worker went inside his room to check the minibar.
The white substance was found inside the right pocket of his shorts in a glassine envelope. According to officials the power is being tested.
According to Tims’ website and memoir published in 2006, he grew up as a drug addict and was then saved.
In 1996 he and his now-former wife founded New Destiny Christian Center in Orlando, Florida.
He and his wife Riva divorced in 2009 after 15 years of marriage after he admitted to a year-long affair with a stripper.

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The substance was being tested, according to a law enforcement official.
There were no signs of trauma to Tims’ body and at this time criminality is not suspected. None of the minister’s belongings and jewelry were believed to have been taken.
Tims had traveled to New York for a meeting and was due to leave Thursday for Texas.
Tims was a drug addict in Maryland during his youth. He said he was “miraculously saved” after discovering Christianity. He went to college and earned degrees in accounting and theology and worked at a ministry in Baltimore. In 1996, he and his wife Riva moved to Orlando and founded the New Destiny Christian Center.
In 2009, after being married for 15 years, Tims and his wife Riva divorced after he revealed he had engaged in a year-long affair with a stripper.

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Tims was in town for a meeting and was supposed to leave for Texas last Thursday, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the matter. He failed to check out that day, and on Friday, when he still had not checked out, maids went to the room.
Tims grew up as a drug addict in Maryland and was later “miraculously saved,” according to his website and a memoir published in 2006. After discovering Christianity, he earned degrees in accounting and theology and worked at a ministry in Baltimore. In 1996, he and his wife, Riva, moved to Orlando, where they founded the New Destiny Christian Center.
At the ministry’s first service, six people gathered in a hotel room, according to the ministry’s website. In 1999, they purchased a church, and two years later, the ministry expanded to a second 21-acre-location dubbed the “City of Destiny.”
In 2009, Tims and his wife divorced after he admitted to a yearlong affair with a stripper. The couple had been married for 15 years and had four children.

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The funeral has been scheduled to take place on Saturday, August 20 at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church of Orlando.
Tims’ funeral will be preceded by a wake at NDCC on Friday, August 19, in which Tims’ body will be lying in state from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
There will also be a limited viewing at First Baptist Church of Orlando, according to NDCC minister Wanda Robinson.
Robinson made the announcement during a Monday night memorial service in which NDCC members and supporters turned out to grieve and remember their leader.
Among those in attendance at the memorial service was
Riva Tims, Pastor Tims’ ex-wife. The couple divorced in 2009 after speculation that Zachery Tims had been involved in an affair with a stripper. They have four children together.

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NEW YORK, Aug. 15 (UPI) — New York police say Pastor Zachery Tims, leader of one of the largest congregations in central Florida, was found dead in a Times Square hotel room.
Tims, 42, the senior pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, was found in his room of the W Hotel on Broadway Friday.
“He’s going to be missed,” John Land, the mayor of Apopka, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
A cause of death had not yet been determined, the New York Daily News reported Monday.
Tims and his wife Riva founded the New Destiny church, which now has a congregation of about 8,000 members, in 1996.
In 2009 Tims and his wife of 15 years divorced after the pastor admitted to an affair with a stripper, the Daily News reported.

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Zachery Tims’ Body Found In New York City Hotel Room
POSTED: Monday, August 15, 2011
ORLANDO, Fla. — The pastor of one of the largest congregations in central Florida was found dead in a New York City hotel room on Friday.
New York City police said Rev. Zachery Tims, or Orlando, was found dead in a hotel room of the W Hotel on Broadway in Times Square late Friday afternoon. No criminal activity was suspected as of late Sunday.
Tims, 42, was the senior pastor of the 7,000-member New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka.
Police said Tims was found on the floor of the hotel room. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
Tims was involved in a controversy in 2009 when he divorced his wife Riva after admitting to having a year-long affair with a stripper.

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Obama-impersonator Reggie Brown launched into a series of racially-tinged “jokes” about the president’s racial background, the president’s parents (for example: “My mother loved a black man and, no, she was not a Kardashian,”), and perhaps most regrettable of all, a photo comparison of the president and first lady to Fred G. Sanford and Aunt Esther from Sanford and Son. [Check out political cartoons about the 2012 GOP field.]
Simultaneous to the audience reacting with nervous laughter, the press seized on the remarks, followed immediately by the Twittersphere of the Left. Reaction, as you can imagine, was not positive.
It should be easy to dismiss the event as a bad decision and total aberration. However, in this age of viral YouTube videos, tweets, Facebook comments, and instant news, this happens all too frequently.
Earlier this month, a YouTube video criticizing Democratic congressional candidate Janice Hahn used such gratuitous and racially stereotypical hip-hop imagery (think guns and strippers and language not suitable for the airwaves or this blog), that it has inflamed minorities in California and caused a backlash threatening to obscure legitimate questions about Hahn, potentially helping her candidacy. [Read Milligan: Sexist, Racist Ad Targets Democrat Janice Hahn.]

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Strip Club Owner Gets $250K From City Of Winter Park
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WINTER PARK, Fla. — Winter Park is paying a strip club owner $250,000, according to officials. It’s all over a legal settlement following several raids at Club Harem on Lee Road.
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Club Harem was the site of several high profile raids and police said they made numerous arrests, but some officers were stuck with their own problem. One officer was investigated for stalking a stripper and another vice cop was fired for dating a dancer, said officials.
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Club Harem eventually closed and owners filed a lawsuit, claiming they had been targeted because Winter Park didn’t want a strip club in city limits, officials said.
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Club Harem can reopen as a strip club, but the city said if the club stays closed for ninety days then it would lose its grandfather clause status. After that, officials said the club would no longer be able to operate as an adult club.

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