The church is 120 years old... so there is no way his buddher could set up the church for fraudulent purposes before any of them were born.
And it is a Lutheran church, which requires a pastor with a copious amount of education, years of scholarly work, not a fly-by-night make believe diploma from a 6 week “preaching for dummies” crash course.
I didn’t say the church was a fraud, I said if you allow this loop hole many fraudsters will be establishing fake church’s to hide dirty money.