Monday, March 23, 2015

Church members fighting over pastor - WAPT Jackson


JACKSON POLICE WERE CALLED OUT TO A DISPUTE AT A CHURCH THIS MORNING. 16 WAPTS ALLIE WARE TELLS US WHAT HAD THE CONGREGATION DIVIDED LEADING TO AN UNRULY SITUATION. O NATS OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE CHURCH PROTESTING. WORSHIP SERVICES AT NEW GALILEAN CHURCH DID NOT TAKE PLACE AS NORMAL SUNDAY MORNING. THE MEMBERS FIGHTING AND YELLING OVER THE CURRENT PASTOR. THINGS GETTING SO HEATED THE POLICE WERE CALLED TO GET CONTROL OF THE SITUATION. THIS MAN WAS MONEY HUNGRY WE WAS AFTER MONEY HE CAME IN SPENDING RIDICULOUSLY HE WAS A MINIPULATOR AND CONNING. MEMBERS SAY THE CURRENT PASTOR TOOK OVER THE JOB WHEN THE PREVIOUS PASTOR PASSED AWAY. SOME WERE UNSURE ABOUT HIM HAVING THE JOB FROM THE BEGINNING. WHEN HE WAS VOTED IN ONLY 147 PEOPLE VOTED HIM IN AND WHEN HE WAS VOTED OUT OVER 400 PEOPLE VOTED HIM OUT. THE CHURCH BOARD VOTED TO TERMINATE THE PASTOR IN A MEETING SATURDAY BUT NOT EVERY MEMBER IS BEHIND THAT DECISION. I DON'T WANT HIM TO GO IF HE LEAVES IM LEAVING ANDREWS SAYS SHES BEEN ATTENDING NEW GALILEAN SINCE SHE WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD AND THAT SOME OF THE CONGREGATION ARE SPREADING RUMORS AND LIES ABOUT WHAT THE PASTOR DOES WITH THE CHURCHES FINANCES. HE IS A GODLY MAN AND DOING NOTHING WRONG I WISH PEOPLE WOULD STOP. THE PASTOR WAS ESCORTED OUT OF THE CHURCH SUNDAY AND THE BOARD SAYS HE WON'T BE BACK BUT OTHERS WHO SUPPORT THE PASTOR SAY THEY AREN'T BACKING DOWN. IN JACKSON AW 16 WAPT NEWS NEW GALILEAN CHURCH IS LOCATED ON FLAG CHAPEL ROAD AND J- P-D SPENT MOST OF THE MORNING TRYING TO DIFFUSE THE DISPUTE BETWEEN FIGHTNG CHURCH MEMBERS.



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