A portion of an extortionate email that Celebration Church founder Stovall Weems alleges was sent to him on January 17, 2022, by, Larry Stockstill, an overseer and Apostolic Elder of Church of the Highlands and Chris Hodges' personal pastor. In addition to ARC and Hodges, the federal lawsuit filed in Jacksonville, Florida, on July 12 also names the associate pastor at Church of the Highlands, Dino Rizzo, and John Seibeling of The Life Church as defendants. The complaint claims that the alleged takeover of the church, now led by Pastor Tim Timberlake and his wife, Jen, allowed "defendants to effectively gain control over its operations and substantial assets, coverup numerous criminal and tortious acts committed in the process, and frame the Weemses for financial crimes they never committed." "This case arises out of a continuing unlawful conspiracy masterminded by the Defendants to protect and expand their church growth business interests and endeavors and the substantial income they generate by destroying plaintiffs and eliminating them as perceived threats and competitors, which included engineering a takeover at Celebration Church of Jacksonville, Inc," the complaint alleges. | FacebookĬelebration Church founders Stovall and Kerri Weems have filed a lawsuit accusing the Association of Related Churches, one of North America's largest church-planting organizations, and several high-profile members of its executive team, including Church of the Highlands founder and leader, Chris Hodges, of "engineering" a takeover of the church and damaging their reputations. Stovall Weems, former senior pastor of Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida.
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