The website of Creflo Dollar Ministries asked people
Friday to "Sow your love gift of any amount" to help the ministry buy
a Gulfstream G650 airplane. Dollar and his wife, Taffi, are co-pastors of World
Changers International Church in College Park, just south of Atlanta.
Dollar is one of the most prominent African-American
preachers based around Atlanta who have built successful ministries on the
prosperity gospel. Ministers in this tradition often hold up their own wealth
as evidence that the teaching works.
The ministry's current plane, acquired in 1999, was
built in 1984, has traveled more than 4 million miles and is no longer safe,
spokesman Juda Engelmayer said. On a recent trip overseas, one of the engines
failed, but the pilot was able to land safely and no one was injured, the
ministry's website says.
"(W)e are asking members, partners, and
supporters of this ministry to assist us in acquiring a Gulfstream G650
airplane so that Pastors Creflo and Taffi and World Changers Church
International can continue to blanket the globe with the Gospel of grace,"
the ministry's website says.
Gulfstream's website lists an asking price of
$67,950,000 for a G650 with a flight record of 1,616 hours and 625 landings
since it entered service in mid-December.
Members of the ministry travel for much of the year
bringing their message, food and supplies to people around the world,
Engelmayer said. They need a plane that's fuel efficient, faster, with enough
cargo capacity and enough seats, he said.
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