False Teacher of the Day #59: Kathryn Krick
While we here at The Dissenter along with other discernment ministries have been sounding the alarm on her for some time, any False Teacher of the Day series would be woefully incomplete without a full expose on “Apostle” Kathryn Krick. After all, this self-styled prophetess-turned-faith healer has amassed a massive following and stirred up no small amount of controversy.
From public park exorcisms to globe-trotting “revivals,” Krick’s meteoric rise is a masterclass in modern deception. She has quickly become one of the most popular – and disingenuous – purveyors of false teaching in Charismatic circles, accumulating hundreds of millions of views on social media while putting on “extended shows of pomp and pageantry” as she “casts out” demons from sad, desperate people.
In other words, Kathryn Krick has graduated from aspiring L.A. starlet to full-blown spiritual charlatan, making her a prime candidate for #59 in our False Teacher of the Day series. We include her here not out of novelty, but out of necessity.
From Aspiring Starlet to Self-Styled “Apostle”
Krick’s journey into deception didn’t start in a pulpit – it started on a stage. Born in 1991 in small-town New York, she moved to Los Angeles after college with dreams of making it in showbiz. She landed a few tiny acting gigs (even a reality TV dating show appearance) and dabbled in Christian EDM music under the name “Kat Krick,” convinced that was her God-given calling.
But her big break came not from Hollywood or Billboard, but from a so-called “Healing and Impartation” conference in 2016. There, a visiting Tanzanian prophet named GeorDavie Moses Kasambale singled her out and declared that God had called her to be an apostle who would work miracles worldwide. In a moment of rapturous import, this “dapper, mustachioed spiritual leader” anointed the 25-year-old Krick with oil and effectively commissioned her as an “apostle”. Krick later recalled that prophecy as the turning point: “I was actually called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ... to reach the nations, and God was going to do many miracles through me”. Forget seminary or pastoral training – all it took was one grandiose prophecy from a globe-trotting miracle man and voilà, Apostle Kathryn was born.
Ironically, a young woman hungry for fame and significance suddenly gets a personalized prophecy offering exactly that. Krick admits she was nervous and initially hesitant – she’d never led a ministry and still hoped to become an EDM star – but who is she to resist a “direct command from God,” right?