The Weems said the defendants wanted to advance their own financial and business interests when they “deliberately targeted Pastor Weems and those closest to him because he rejected their unbridled church growth model.”
Stovall and Kerri Weems’ federal filing lists ARC, a non-profit church planting organization, and three other pastors, two of which previously served as overseers of Celebration Church, as defendants in this case. The filing accuses the defendants of using the church’s incoming senior pastor as an “undisclosed agent” for ARC to carry out their directives.
The third pastor named as a defendant is John Siebeling, who leads The Life Church in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a founding board member of ARC who also served as an overseer at Celebration Church until September 2021. The filing said Celebration Church is not an ARC-planted church, but historically donated approximately $150,000 to $200,000 per year to ARC to benefit church planting operations. The federal complaint states the defendants were “constantly pressuring” Stovall Weems to commit to donating 2% of Celebration Church’s income to ARC for church planting purposes.
The Weemses developed a new plan that would establish several entities to house and fund Celebration Church’s operations. It included a retreat and outpatient facility for pastoral care, Honey Lake Farms, and adjoining clinic, Honey Lake Clinic. It also would establish NorthStream, a for-profit corporation to provide centralized and shared management services to Celebration Church and other churches. It also created AWKNG, Inc.
“The single word used most frequently to describe Stovall Weems was ‘narcissist.’ Nearly every witness we interviewed used that specific word,” the report stated.
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