Creflo Dollar Is No Longer Asking Faithful to Fund Private Jet

CREFLO DOLLAR IS NO LONGER ASKING HIS FAITHFUL TO FUND A NEW $65 MILLION PRIVATE JET [Excerpts]

Televangelist Creflo Dollar wanted a $65 million, state-of-the-art private jet. But unlike many people who want expensive things, Dollar believed he had a plan to acquire it: simply ask 200,000 of his friends and followers to donate a few hundred dollars towards its purchase.

But there was just one problem for Dollar: The campaign, “Project G650,” was roundly mocked by those who felt that perhaps a pastor should focus on something other than obtaining a Gulfstream G650 plane of his very own. A spokesperson for Dollar’s ministries told the Christian Post on Monday that the campaign no longer exists. Instead, Dollar and company will wait for the opportunity to buy a “properly priced” private jet. 

“There is no campaign. It’s a moot point. The ministry will now focus on spreading the Gospel,” Juda Engelmayer of 5W Public Relations said to the Christian Post. It’s not quite an apology, but it does hint at the extent of the backlash Dollar’s ministry faced for the campaign.

Engelmayer, speaking on behalf of the church, told the Christian Post that Dollar was now forced to fly commercial after his old private jet was damaged. He needed a new one, he said, to carry “12 people plus 100,000 pounds of food” with him on his international trips. With that statement, Dollar’s team angered some aviation experts in addition to those already fed up with his fundraising campaign for the jet. One aircraft captain wrote the Christian Post, almost entirely in uppercase letters, to note that the plane Dollar wants to buy can’t carry 100,000 pounds of anything.

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[TBC: 1 Timothy:6:10For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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