Maybe He Should Throw A Rent Party
Bishop Thomas Weeks held Sunday services at the Holiday Inn in Norcross, after his congregation was evicted from their previous home in Duluth.
If I were faced with the same dilemma I would have moved my spiritual sheep to the Motel 6. They keep the light on for you . . . this little light of mine. Connection much?
Weeks said in an interview Sunday that he was “re-sizing” his church “to fit economic times. We are committed to being an absolutely debt-free ministry,” he said.
[This story isn't worthy of a side-eye, this shit has tangled pupils written all over it. - - Fresh]
Weeks, the leader of Global Destiny International Ministries, has long battled financial problems, including civil lawsuits for past-due accounts.
His church used to have about 3,400 members but lost about 1,600 after he attacked his now ex-wife, national evangelist Juanita Bynum, in an Atlanta hotel parking lot in 2007.
On Sunday about 250 enthusiastic worshippers found their way to the meeting room at the Holiday Inn Select, 6050 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Church members clapped, sang and praised the Lord as they waited for Weeks to start the service.
Weeks was optimistic about the future, saying it’ll be “greater than ever.”
He now calls his church Global Destiny Worldwide Vision.
When something like this happens, it’s really an exodus into a new prophecy,” he said. [source]
Exodus, eh? That’s what we’re calling it now? I guess my cousin made the same exodus when he fled the state in an attempt to run away from child support payments. According to a lawyer for Grimes-Square Executive, Weeks owes more than $400,000 in rent and fees to the landlord of his church campus.
Weeks told his congregation he wants to pay off debt and only worry about utilities, “and pay those off too, in advance.” A long line of church members stood up and offered donations at the pulpit.
