David Hyles served as the youth pastor at First Baptist in Hammond under the leadership of his father. And it's not because he's worried about where to sit, and making friends, and fitting in, or not knowing where the loos are. Let Us Prey gives us a look into the life and mind of Ben Field one of the most chilling and manipulative murderers of modern times.

At Ballenger’s sentencing hearing—delayed three years by appeals, during which time he resumed working in the bus ministry—two women testified that Ballenger also molested them when they were young. When he arrived, the church had a membership of about seven hundred, many from affluent backgrounds. The fourth part covers how to make your speech interesting to listen to using power, pitch, pace, and pause.And the only thing more shocking than its male members’ offenses is the fact that, according to ID’s new four-part docuseries, it’s made little effort to conceal them. The belief was that women needed to be in complete and total submission to their husbands and to male leadership,” says a former member who requested that she not be named.

David has a close interest in criminal justice and served five years (2013-2018) as a Commissioner at The Criminal Cases Review Commission, appointed by HM The Queen to oversee investigations into miscarriages of justice.The girl told authorities that her father used biblical references to justify beating, torturing, and sexually abusing her.

Backed into a corner by a he-goes-or-I-go ultimatum from the administrator, sources say, Hyles arranged for his son to take over as pastor at his old church, Miller Road Baptist in Texas. Hyles was born and raised in Italy, Texas, a small, low-income city in Ellis County, south of Dallas.In her first one-on-one interview about the church, Hyles’s middle daughter, Linda Murphrey, a motivational speaker and coach in Southern California, remembers his followers as “zombies” who were “willing to believe and obey whatever he said. With intense compassion, Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals lets its speakers (including Nanette Miles) detail this religion’s monstrous beliefs and practices, name its most vile cretins, and point a finger at church superiors—such as Grace Baptist Church’s Jon Jenkins and Faith Baptist Church’s Bruce Goddard—for shielding these criminals and their conduct from children, parents and law enforcement.

They set up home together, underwent a 'betrothal' ceremony at a church, but all along Ben was gaslighting his partner and secretly poisoning him.I used to joke that people would not rearrange their living room furniture without help from Brother Hyles,” says Jerry Kaifetz, a former teacher at First Baptist’s Pastors’ School who left the church around 1990. The 1990 book details the affair and many other misdeeds, including a “Watergate-like coverup” of affairs and sexual abuse at First Baptist. The theme of the series was that "allegations of child molesting, abuse and sex scandals in several churches across the nation appear to be part of a pattern of such scandals among churches affiliated with the First Baptist Church of Hammond.