re: healing place/the church st amant scandal

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Yes

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Legally and on paper, yes.

But in practice, not really. It’s the same crew. The Church was one of the first franchise churches of Healing Place. They pulled in enough money to pay off their contract and buy their own franchise rights so they legally split.

And I’m not joking about franchise rights and such. That’s how they operate monetarily, much like a McDonalds.

It used to be around a 50,000 dollar buy in to start a church under them. But the location, possible number of members had to be vetted first (like a McDonald’s location). If approved, you were set up with a small worship crew, equipment, and sermons for the new owner, aka Pastor of the new church, to preach. Everything done in the satellite church needed approval on some level and you were contracted to pay back the money + the owning church took a percentage off tithes off the top every week (like a pyramid).

Eventually, if you made enough money, you could “break away” for a price and franchise your brand out. That’s what St. Amant did.

I saw this first hand when a friend of mine was caught up in the process of starting a new church with them.