The former pastor of Celebration Church is fighting back in federal court after he claims he was forced out of the church he founded by national association.
[DOWNLOAD:He said he was ousted “through a pattern of unlawful and often criminal acts that included extortion, bribery, psychological abuse, wire fraud, and computer crimes which ultimately caused over $100 million in damages,” according to the claim.
“Quickly my values changed to focusing on missions and being anti-hierarchy and getting the power and control and inequity out of God’s House,” he said. The church’s current senior pastor, Tim Timberlake is “an ARC-affiliated pastor they knew they could control and who would continue to advance Defendants’ church growth model,” the lawsuit claims.
Action News Jax spoke to Weems first in April of 2022 about a Nelson Mullins investigative report released by the current church leadership which claimed the Weemses’s owed the church more than $3 million‘It’s repulsive:’ Celebration Church founding pastor responds to accusations of fraud, misconduct
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