*Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser, televangelist Paula White, is reportedly stepping down from her role as senior pastor of New Destiny Christian Center, an evangelical church in Apopka, Florida, Florida.
According to the HuffPost, White named her son Brad Knight, and his wife, Rachel Joy Knight, as senior pastors at the center, which has been renamed City of Destiny. During a service on Sunday, she told the congregation that she will continue to serve them as “oversight pastor.”
White said her focus will now shift to the 3,000 churches she intends to launch as well as serving as a mentor to pastors, opening a university, and creating a performing arts center, the report states.
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Just because I forgive doesn’t mean I forget! It means I’m wise enough to obey God and smart enough to protect myself
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“The Lord spoke to me very clearly and said, ‘If you miss this moment, you will delay things. Do not miss this moment,’” White said during the service.
White, who has over 3 million Facebook users, has been in charge of the 23-year-old congregation since 2012. She’s became a close friend and spiritual adviser to Trump in the early 2000s and “personally led him to Christ.”
But her friendship with Trump has been an issue for many members of her predominantly Black congregation.
Bradley Knight told the Washington Post in 2017 that the church lost hundreds people because of Trump, and donations dropped by $10,000 a week.
“Her relationship with the black community got really frayed because of President Trump,” Knight said. “She got messages from black leaders, saying, ‘You betrayed us.’”
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