Calling him “the greatest voice on the globe,” megachurch preacher Ron Carpenter Jr. revealed Wednesday that he once sowed “every dime I had” in the ministry of popular televangelist T.D. Jakes and God blessed him with a new church.
The revelation came Wednesday night as Carpenter and his wife Hope were officially installed as the new pastors of the 14,000-member Redemption Bay Area church in San Jose, California.
Jakes who is senior pastor of The Potter’s House megachurch in Dallas, Texas, preached during the kickoff of a multi-day conference at the church, which was also attended by a number of high-profile religious figures such as Pastor John Gray of Relentless Church in South Carolina.
In introducing Jakes to the church before he preached, Carpenter revealed that in 2002 he had a metal building that only seated 600 people. He was averaging about 5,000 people in weekly services and he badly needed a new building to accommodate the crowd.
“I had $4 million in the bank and needed to build an $8 million building and…
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