The founders and former leaders of a Florida church have named the lead and associate pastors of Church of the Highlands as defendants in a lawsuit for “engineering” a takeover of their congregation.
Church of the Highlands Pastor Chris Hodges, shown in his office where he serves as chancellor of Highlands College, talked July 13, 2023 about his plans for The Lodge, a newly opened retreat center on the Grants Mill Road campus. Chris Hodges
The suit was filed on July 12 by Stovall Weems and his wife Kerri Weems, who founded Celebration Church of Jacksonville, Fla. back in 1998. The lawsuit lays out a host of accusations, claiming that Hodges benefits from not only ARC, but Church of the Highlands and its affiliated ministries, which includes The Lodge at Grants Mill on its main campus in Irondale,The Lodge, according to the plaintiffs, is a copy of their Honey Lake Farms’ Lodge, operating since December 2020.
At the same time, Weems committed to transitioning out of the senior pastor role and moving the church more toward mission work. As a result, the defendants moved to “oust” Weems and “plant an ARC-affiliated pastor they knew they could control...”
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