“Thanks for the highs and for being there in the lows,” responded Bobbie Houston. “Will miss your faces there but completely understand your desire for this next season. johntermini/InstagramĬomments on the announcement are full of glowing goodbyes from Hillsong’s upper management, as well as other celebrity pastors including Zoe Church founder Chad Veach. 12 Instagram photo with Justin and Hailey Bieber. “Hillsong church, I love you.”ĭespite formerly being Lentz’s “right-hand guy,” the post makes no mention of him, nor the past year’s worth of turmoil at the megachurch, including claims of financial abuse by pastors and accusations that members were indoctrinated into an alleged cult that demanded they perform “ slave labor.” John Termini in a Jan. “I am fortunate to have Pastor Brian’s blessing and I am thankful for our relationship moving forward,” he wrote in the announcement, formatted as the image caption on a photo of himself, his wife and their two children in front of a red surfboard. Termini, however, insists that his departure is not only amicable but that he has Hillsong leaders’ best wishes in his new venture. ![]() Since Hillsong began an internal investigation in response to Lentz’s firing - and the onslaught of allegations that followed - a slew of pastors has left the church under unclear circumstances. ![]() “My family and I will be moving to Hawaii in August, where I will begin the process of planting a local church close to where my brother lives with his beautiful wife and little boy,” Termini, 38, said in an Instagram post Thursday, before launching into praise for Hillsong founders Brian and Bobbie Houston. ![]() Yet another pastor is out at scandal-plagued Hillsong megachurch.Īfter a decade working at the Australia-based church, John Termini - who temporarily served as lead pastor for Hillsong’s NYC branch in the wake of Carl Lentz’s adulterous fall from grace - is leaving and embarking for sunnier shores, to set up his own religious institution in Hawaii. Disgraced celebrity pastor cheated with family nanny Hillsong Church doc details scandalĮx-Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz on ‘sobriety’ and ‘humiliation’ after cheating scandalĮx-Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz’s new megachurch accused of ‘inappropriate’ Easter serviceĭisgraced Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz hired by new church: ‘We believe in Carl’
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