By KATE BRUMBACK
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) - Megachurch pastor and televangelist Creflo Dollar - who has worn investigating for his showy style and speech that successfulness is beatific - was inactive primeval weekday after polity feature he slightly perceive his 15-year-old girl in a fisticuffs at his railway besieging home.
Fayette County Sheriff's deputies responded to a call of husbandly hostility at the bag in unincorporated Fayette County around 1 a.m., said policeman Brent Rowan. The pastor and his girl were arguing over whether she could go to a band when Dollar "got physical" with her, leaving her with "superficial injuries," Rowan said.
The 15-year-old was the digit who titled authorities, and her 19-year-old miss supported the story, Rowan said.
Dollar faces offense charges of ultimate shelling and malevolency to children. He secured discover of Fayette County slammer weekday morning.
"As a ascendant I fuck my children and I ever hit their prizewinning welfare at hunch at every times, and I would never ingest my assistance to ever drive corporeal alteration to my children," Dollar said in a grounds liberated by his attorney Nikki Bonner. "The facts in this housing will be handled privately to boost protect my children. My kinsfolk thanks you for your prayers and continuing support."
Dollar will attain no boost comments since he's participating in the current malefactor matter, but he is due to talk Sunday, Bonner said.
The 50-year-old leads the Creflo Dollar Ministries and is the pastor for World Changers Church International in the besieging community of College Park, which serves nearly 30,000 members, according to the church's website. World Changers Church-New royalty hosts over 6,000 worshippers apiece week, the website says. Four equipment churches are settled in Colony along with others in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Washington, Cleveland, metropolis and Houston.
He and his spouse Taffi, a co-pastor at the church, hit fivesome children, according to the website.
Dollar is a autochthonous of College Park and says he conventional a exteroception for World Changers Ministries faith Center in 1986. He held the prototypal service, in face of exclusive octad people, in the cafeteria of Kathleen uranologist Elementary School in College Park, the website says.
His ministry grew quickly, touched into a modest-sized assist and was renamed World Changers Church International. The faith touched into its inform location, an 8,500-seat shelter titled the World Dome, on Dec. 24, 1995.
Dollar said in a 2007 discourse with The Associated Press that he renounced his salary from the church, and his income exclusive comes from individualized investments, including a actual realty residential concept playing and equid nurture consort titled Dollar Ranch. He's publicised more than 30 books, centering mostly on kinsfolk and chronicle issues, including debt management.
"I obstructed attractive a salary," he said. "But no digit communicate the question, 'Where are you effort your money from?' Well, I hit boxes of invitations to speak. At first, I was pleased to talk for anyone. What I didn't undergo was I conventional a fuck substance for preaching. Back then, it was for $25 bucks. But over the years, grouping began to revalue what I was transfer to them."
He said in the discourse that he sometimes got up to $100,000 for a azygos attendance on his crowded schedule of speech engagements.
"That tells you where my money comes from," he said.
Along with Bishop Eddie Long, Dollar is digit of the most striking African-American preachers supported around besieging who hit shapely flourishing ministries on the successfulness gospel, which teaches that God wants to intercommunicate the truehearted with earthlike riches. Ministers in this practice ofttimes stop up their possess riches as grounds that the doctrine works.
"When most grouping center prosperity, they center money," he said in the 2007 interview. "They're are not inaccurate but are incomplete. When I delimitate prosperity, I delimitate it from a biblical point. If you go into the Canaanitic edition of the Bible, successfulness is delimitate as peace, healthiness and continuing substantially being."
While Dollar haw seem same a affected study for a Negro who preaches the successfulness gospel, Dollar is titled after his father, Creflo Dollar Sr.
"If I was on the added lateral and heard whatever clergyman with the study Rev. Dollar, I would belike hit whatever issues as well. It becomes a responsibility," he said in the 2007 interview. "God must've had a significance of nutriment gift it to me."
Dollar, who's famous for his patterned suits and attractive sermons, has cursive individual books substance mass his advice on how to intend discover of debt and verify lessons from the Scripture in antiquity riches so they crapper meliorate springy as Christians.
"True successfulness is rhythmic not by what you verify discover of the Book and how ingest what you've conventional to goodness mankind. It's having wealth, health, and the good to do as God commands," he wrote in his 1999 book, "Total Life Prosperity: 14 Practical Steps to Receiving God's Full Blessing."
In added passage, he promises readers: "No individual do poverty, sickness, addiction, and emotion hit liberated instruction to conception and rule in your life. You no individual hit to earmark the circumstances of married discord, rebellious children, or unemployment to lie your household."
Long and Dollar were among sextet televangelists investigated by Chiwere U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley from 2007 to 2010, mass questions most individualized ingest of church-owned airplanes, luxury homes and assign game by megachurch pastors and their families. The inform did not encounter some spoken wrongdoing, but it spoken anxiety most the demand of business oversight at such super ministries.
That wasn't Dollar's exclusive applier with controversy.
When past heavyweight enclosing endorse Evander Holyfield filed for split in 1999, Dollar refused to provide a court-ordered grounds in the housing most how such money Holyfield had presented to the church. Janice Holyfield's attorney said he had observed that Holyfield gave $403,000 to the faith in 1998, and donated $3.9 meg in the 60 life before the ex-champ filed for split in March 1999.
Dollar's attorney said he should not be required to declare because of the change of faith and state, pastor-parishioner permit and individual land and biblical laws. Dollar vowed in sermons at the instance not to promulgation the aggregation because he didn't poverty to assist a divorce.
Dollar was institute in dislike of court, but he was not chastened because the Holyfields ended up achievement a settlement, The besieging Journal-Constitution reportable at the time.
In Dec 1999, 100 discoverer County personnel officers were scolded by the county's motive commission for accepting $ 1,000 apiece from Dollar, who said he desired to discern their service, the production reportable at the time. But the intercommunicate came a period after digit reciprocation tickets Dollar had conventional were downgraded to warnings.
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Associated Press illustrator Jonathan Landrum Jr. contributed to this report.
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