One of Central Florida’s best-known religious properties, the former forum for televangelist Benny Hinn’s sermons, will hit the auction block Tuesday.
It’s the result of a multimillion-dollar foreclosure that displaced the property’s most recent congregation, that of pastor Clint Brown’s Faith World Center, records show.
Since last month, Brown, a flamboyant Pentecostal preacher and noted Christian recording artist, has been holding Sunday services at Wekiva High School’s auditorium. He also left behind the church’s name; his new endeavor is called Judah Church.
The foreclosure of the Faith World property on Forest City Road, which Brown purchased from Hinn in 2000, was set in motion by a lawsuit filed in September by Evangelical Christian Credit Union of California, one of several companies owed money by the church.
The suit alleged that Faith World had defaulted on its mortgage, on which it owed about $9.7 million. Orange Circuit Judge Lisa Munyon entered a final judgment June 2, setting the church and other Faith World properties for online auction next week.
“On behalf of the church, we’re not going to comment at this time,” Michele Diglio-Benkiran, an attorney who represented Faith World in the foreclosure case, said Thursday.
Brown did not return a reporter’s call to Judah Church. However, he has made reference to the situation during sermons at Wekiva High, several of which are available online.
“Can I tell you this morning? We’ve been through some pain,” Brown thundered in his first sermon at the high school June 8. “We’ve been abused. … We have been lied to. We have been taken advantage of.”
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