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Trumpvangelical worship leader Sean Feucht accused of 'longstanding and serious' misconduct [1]

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Date: 2025-06-02

In recent years, a number of high-profile evangelical leaders with close ties to Donald Trump have had their careers all but ended due to gross and outright criminal conduct. First, in 2023, Mike Bickle, founder of the International House of Prayer, was exposed as a serial sexual predator and child molester. Last summer, Robert Morris, founder of Gateway Church, had decades of deceit catch up with him when it emerged he had groomed and molested an Oklahoma girl 40 years earlier—and had spent most of that time claiming he’d merely had “moral failure” with “a young lady.” Morris is now facing criminal charges that could potentially put him in prison for life.

Well, add another to the list—worship leader and Christianist provocateur Sean Feucht. He started out as a worship leader at Bethel Church, one of the fountainheads of the New Apostolic Reformation, an overtly fascist offshoot of the religious right that believes it can bring about the Second Coming by taking over the world. However, he is better known for leading the “Let Us Worship” concerts that began as a protest against COVID restrictions and has expanded to a larger protest against Christians supposedly being “canceled.” Someone must have forgotten to tell Feucht that Discovery continuing to do business with the Duggars even though they were guilty of gross child neglect should put the lie to any talk of Christians being persecuted.

Well, the bill may finally be coming due for Feucht. On Sunday, four of his former staffers came forward with a report alleging a litany of “longstanding and serious” misconduct on Feucht’s part—including numerous “moral, ethical, financial, organizational and governance failures.” Granted, it’s minor league compared to the gross sexual crimes of Bickle and Morris. But it’s yet another case of a rabid Trumpvangelical being exposed.

One of the whistleblowers, Richie Booth, had been an administrative staffer at Let Us Worship along with two other groups associated with Feucht—his original worship outlet, Burn 24/7, and outreach movement Light a Candle. Booth convinced three of his former colleagues at Burn 24/7—former national director Christy Gafford, former Mid-South regional director Liam Bernard, and former staffers Peter and Amanda Hartzell—to sign on as well. They claim that Feucht has a longstanding pattern of “manipulation, exaggeration, control, lying, gaslighting, and spiritual and emotional abuse.” They also claim that Feucht has a bad habit of “misusing ministry resources” for his own gain. When confronted, the whistleblowers say, Feucht’s response is usually to go full DARVO.

The whistleblowers also accuse the board members of Feucht’s organizations of abdicating their fiduciary duty. Rather, they have given Feucht “near complete autonomy,” and many key employees of Feucht’s groups don’t know the names of the board members. In the report’s executive summary, the whistleblowers claim that Feucht holds at least ten properties worth “multiple millions of dollars” in California, Montana, and Pennsylvania, even though his only employment over the last decade-plus has been operating his various nonprofits. Additionally, his ministry owns “multi-million-dollar ‘parsonages’” in Washington and San Juan Capistrano.

The whistleblowers include their own accounts of their dealings with Feucht. These stories are stomach-churning—coercion, diversion of funds, not paying people for their work, dysfunction, etc. They invite anyone else who has experiences with Feucht to share their stories here, and also urge an investigation into “fraud, donation diversion, and embezzlement, amongst other financial improprieties.”

Feucht’s response, as near as can be determined, has been to play the victim.

No, Sean. It’s not a sign of “offense” when people want accountability. And from the looks of it, you’re long overdue for accountability.

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