HINN’S CHURCH ANNOUNCES MERGER

Final closure was brought to Benny Hinn’s career as the pastor of the World Outreach Church when it was announced that Clint Brown and his Faith World Church would merge with Hinn’s former church.

According to a report in the August issue of Charisma magazine, “Hinn hammered out a plan for Brown to purchase WOC’s church facilities and to relocate Brown’s 1,300-member Faith World to the more centrally located WOC campus north of downtown Orlando.” Brown and Faith World receive WOC’s facilities and 30 acres of property and will assume its $5.7 million debt. Both Hinn and Brown say they “loathe” the suggestion that Hinn “sold” his congregation.

Brown and his Faith World Church already had bought 21 acres of land and were within a week of laying a foundation for a new facility when the call came from Hinn soliciting the merger. Brown determined Hinn’s call to be “one from the Lord” and altered the church’s plans from building to merging. Brown moved to Florida and founded Faith World in 1993 after being the worship leader for Rod Parsley’s World Harvest Church in Columbus, Ohio, for six years.

Hinn unveiled plans and broke ground for the Orlando Christian Center in 1983. It later became known as the World Outreach Center, then World Outreach Church. During the late 1990s, he began several major relocations. He first moved his television production and then his family to Southern California. Then last year, he said God told him to move his ministry’s operations to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

—MKG

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