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The lawsuits accuse McKean of urging members to keep quiet about the alleged crimes, telling them, “We cannot report these abuses, because it would hurt our church, God’s Modern-Day Movement.”
In April 2007, McKean and his wife Elena left the Portland International Christian Church to plant the City of Angels International Christian Church in Los Angeles. McKean and his wife were accompanied by 40 other leaders from the Portland ICC. [25] In 2008, McKean began the benevolent arm of the movement: Mercy WorldWide. [24] [26]
CGI was founded in 1978 by four former members of the Worldwide Church of God, [2] including evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong (1930–2003) [3] after his father, Herbert W. Armstrong, excommunicated him from the WCG and fired him from all roles in the church over disagreements about operations and certain doctrinal positions.
[8] [9] McKean taught that the church was "God's true and only modern movement" and under his leadership, it "envisioned and implemented a tightly structured community that returned to the doctrines and lifestyles of the first-century Christian churches, with the goal of evangelizing the entire planet within a generation". [15]
A Bergen county church pastor was arrested on Thursday and charged with 21 counts of sexual offenses allegedly against a child, officials said. Stephen Sweet, 74, of Paramus, is a reverend at ...
Aaron Ivey was the head worship pastor at the Austin Stone Community Church until he was fired Feb. 5, according to a statement from church officials. McClatchy News reached out to Ivey for ...
The (Original) Church of God shares a common origin and history with the Church of God (Cleveland) and several other Christian bodies named Church of God.The (Original) Church of God, Inc. came into being in 1917, when the Church of God in Chattanooga, Tennessee, led by Joseph L. Scott, separated from the Cleveland-based church. [1]
Will Johnson, the organization's worship pastor director, allegedly "confessed that he placed it there" and was fired. "Church leadership quickly notified the Livingston County Sheriff's Office ...