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$600K in Donations Stolen from Joel Osteen’s Mega-Church [LISTEN]
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Posted on 03/11/2014 8:45:28 AM PDT by Morgana

Lakewood Church is dealing with a violation of the Ten Commandments after the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“Thou shalt not steal.” But someone did.

Lakewood Church has sent out a notice that donations collected at services Saturday and Sunday, the 8th and 9th, were stolen. And, they advise anyone who gave by check or credit card to watch their bank accounts very carefully and report any suspicious activity.

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KEYWORDS: joelosteen; lakewoodchurch; megachurch; money; osteen; prosperitygospel; theft; ybpdln
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1 posted on 03/11/2014 8:45:28 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

$600,000 donated in 2 days? And the city sold him the old stadium for only $8 million even though it was worth much more?

Crazy.


2 posted on 03/11/2014 8:50:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: Morgana

Liberals have infested the nest


3 posted on 03/11/2014 8:50:30 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Morgana

600 Thousand in one weekend?


4 posted on 03/11/2014 8:51:04 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: Morgana

$600,000? Man, he IS one hell of a motivational speaker!


5 posted on 03/11/2014 8:52:46 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Gadsden1st

Per Wikipedia, around 43k people go there a week.

Crazy.


6 posted on 03/11/2014 8:56:04 AM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Morgana

No worries, because there is no such thing as sin (or so some new age-y Christians tell me).


7 posted on 03/11/2014 8:56:08 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Morgana

$600K in two days? Obscene.


8 posted on 03/11/2014 9:00:20 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Gadsden1st

Judging from the seating capacity (based on 16,200_)that would be about $18.50 per person per day if the house was full.


9 posted on 03/11/2014 9:04:40 AM PDT by Texas Yellow Rose
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To: Morgana
Lakewood Church has sent out a notice that donations collected at services Saturday and Sunday, the 8th and 9th, were stolen. And, they advise anyone who gave by check or credit card to watch their bank accounts very carefully and report any suspicious activity.

I think someone is green with envy.

10 posted on 03/11/2014 9:04:46 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: boycott
$600K in two days? Obscene.

It wouldn't be obscene if the money were going to some good cause. If.

11 posted on 03/11/2014 9:05:28 AM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: Morgana

Sounds like the Church may have been doing money laundering with that much cash?.


12 posted on 03/11/2014 9:10:49 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Morgana

Someone needs to look a “Joal and Vicky’s” Bank account!


13 posted on 03/11/2014 9:17:40 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: Morgana

Well, I guess someone there named it, and claimed it!


14 posted on 03/11/2014 9:23:25 AM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: Vaduz

That’s what it sounds like.


15 posted on 03/11/2014 9:24:42 AM PDT by darkangel82
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To: Fido969
Well, I guess someone there named it, and claimed it!

ROTFLMAO!

16 posted on 03/11/2014 9:26:02 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Gadsden1st

Piker. Joyce Myers pulls in 100 million a year.


17 posted on 03/11/2014 9:26:35 AM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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Truth.


18 posted on 03/11/2014 9:29:42 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: ottbmare

Agree.


19 posted on 03/11/2014 9:35:27 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Morgana
I'm guessing the unusual part is that the donations weren't stolen by Osteen?
20 posted on 03/11/2014 9:41:20 AM PDT by Boogieman
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