His ministry is based in Upland, California, and is funded through donations. A widely popular minster in the 1980s, he went bankrupt in 1987 after two journalists obtained proof that Popoff's wife, Elizabeth, was transmitting names and details of the lives of people in the audience to Popoff. Popoff would then claim he received the names directly from God.<ref>The Investigation of Peter Popoff http://www.bible.ca/tongues-popoff-39-17Mhz.htm</ref> | His ministry is based in Upland, California, and is funded through donations. A widely popular minster in the 1980s, he went bankrupt in 1987 after two journalists obtained proof that Popoff's wife, Elizabeth, was transmitting names and details of the lives of people in the audience to Popoff. Popoff would then claim he received the names directly from God.<ref>The Investigation of Peter Popoff http://www.bible.ca/tongues-popoff-39-17Mhz.htm</ref> |