The owner of a California generator company is suing worship leader John Christopher “Sean” Feucht for fraud, alleging the musician took a $250,000 donation and used it to buy personal property.

Steve Bray, owner of Power Plus, filed suit in federal court on March 6. He’s asking for “restitution and disgorgement of all funds fraudulently obtained” as well as punitive damages and “any further relief” the court finds “just and proper.”

The lawsuit accuses Feucht, who rose to prominence by staging large, outdoor worship gatherings during COVID, of fraudulent misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, unfair business practices and civil theft by false pretenses. 

Bunni Pounds, a political fundraiser-turned-activist who lost a 2018 bid for U.S. Congress from Texas, was visiting the Museum of the Bible in Washington when she says God spoke to her. 

At the time, Pounds told attendees at a recent National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville, she’d been thinking about Ezra, the biblical prophet who read the law of Moses aloud to the Israelites as they returned to Jerusalem from exile in Babylon and began rebuilding the city’s walls. 

According to a report published earlier this year by Mission Eurasia, a parachurch ministry dedicated to equipping churches in and around Ukraine, Russian forces have damaged or destroyed at least 737 religious buildings since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022.

While the majority were churches, mosques, synagogues, and other religious sites were attacked as well.

Of the 737 buildings affected, about 450 were Baptist churches. Baptists, while the largest evangelical population in Ukraine, represent only 1% to 2% of the overall population, suggesting that Russian forces may be deliberately targeting Baptists in their violent campaign across Ukraine.

In a move some have called “a God moment” of interdenominational unity, an Assemblies of God church swapped buildings with a Baptist church in a small East Texas town, allowing each congregation to thrive in their new space.

Southside Baptist Church (SBC) in Carthage, Texas, was running about 50 people in a 46,000-square-foot building that was draining all the church’s resources, including the congregation’s energy.

Kirby Hill, pastor of SBC, noticed Faith Assembly of God outgrowing its space, so he proposed to Senior Pastor David Baze in October 2024 a building swap to better serve both churches.

More than 100 Latino Christians leaders signed a statement saying Samuel Rodriguez, an evangelical adviser to President Donald Trump and a go-to voice for Hispanic evangelical perspectives, and news media have exaggerated the size of Rodriguez’s reach as president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. 

In the statement released Tuesday, March 10, the signers said they were prompted to speak out because of the damage the Trump administration’s immigration policies have done to Latino communities.