Dubbed Hillsong NYC, the church drew as many as 10,000 mostly young New Yorkers to its services at its height. Lentz, a native of North Carolina, was trained at Hillsong College in Sydney, Australia, before being sent to by the Pentecostal powerhouse to plant a Hillsong outpost in Manhattan in 2010. Todd later apologized for the “disgusting” illustration. A year ago, Todd made headlines for rubbing spit in a man’s eyes to simulate Jesus’ healing of a blind man.
Todd and Transformation Church have become known in Tulsa for their community donations, including $200,000 to each of the three living survivors of the race massacre, part of a $1 million donation given by the church to commemorate the tragedy at its centennial.īut the church has also attracted controversy. The arena, purchased by Transformation in 2019 for $10.5 million, was among the nearly $67 million in real estate properties the church has bought in the area in the past four years. Transformation Church, founded in 1999 in the historically Black Greenwood District of Tulsa, home to the city’s 1921 race massacre, now meets in the nearby suburb of Bixby, at the 4,500-seat SpiritBank Event Center, which the church owns. “We are called to be a safe environment for people to evolve and transform,” she added. The two go “hand-in-hand,” she said, pointing to Scripture from the Book of Galatians that includes a message to “restore one another” after sin, mistakes and repentance. McQuarters said the church’s vision to “re-present God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ” includes restoration. We believe in Carl, his marriage, his skill set, and his restoration,” McQuarters said. “After two years of Carl being in his own discovery and healing process, he has shown readiness to use his God-given gifts towards the local church again. Lentz, 44, once labeled a “hypepriest” by GQ Magazine for his fashionable attire and ministry to NBA players and celebrities such as Justin Bieber, has been mostly silent since his firing, even as rumors and ongoing accusations have dogged him and his former church. Pastor Michael Todd gives a sermon recently at Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Give a gift of $30 or more to The Roys Report this month, and you will receive a copy of “The Ballot and the Bible” by Kaitlyn Schiess.
Tulsa was the right place for Lentz’s family to “continue to heal and move forward,” said the source. Lentz, according to the source, has launched a consulting and coaching business and his clients include churches. “We gladly welcome Carl Lentz to our Transformation Church staff, helping TC with strategy as we continue to move forward in our vast vision,” Tammy McQuarters, the church’s executive pastor of operations, told Religion News Service in an email Monday (March 27).Ī source close to Lentz also confirmed to media that Lentz and his family had relocated to Tulsa and were attending Transformation Church, though the source did not confirm Lentz was on staff at the church. Transformation, a juggernaut in a town replete with megachurches, has confirmed that Lentz, who was fired from Hillsong in 2020 when an extramarital affair came to light, has joined its staff. Carl Lentz, the ousted pastor of Hillsong New York City, has landed on staff at Transformation Church, a predominantly Black, nondenominational megachurch in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that is led by pastor, author and popular YouTuber Michael Todd.
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