After months of internal squabbling and court battles, members of the Southern Acres Christian Church in Lexington, Kentucky, unanimously voted to remove their leader, Pastor Cameron McDonald, who has been accused of financial impropriety and abuse of power.
Southern Acres member Chance Staley, who was at one point blocked from attending his own church for speaking out against the abuse, told the Herald Leader that nearly 200 members of the church voted in agreement to give McDonald the boot.
A WKYT report said the members who voted to remove McDonald on Sunday, however, were “disfellowshipped” by the pastor and their resolution has no legal authority to make him step down.
Staley insisted that the will of the congregation will stand.
“The people have spoken,” he said. “Democracy has really gotten to play out here. I think it’s a very important lesson that you have to stand up to injustice.”
The vote came after two Southern Acres Christian Church members alleged in a lawsuit last November that McDonald mismanaged church funds. Concerned church members James Keogh and Chad Martin filed the lawsuit to prevent McDonald and his wife, Erica, from spending…
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