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“The more you lean into every comma that God has created you to be, the more commas you will visibly see in your bank account.”
— Pastor Adrian Davis
Adrian Davis, pastor of All Nations Worship Assembly in Huntsville, Alabama, stands accused of wire fraud and filing a false tax return.
Federal court records show that the former pastor of a Huntsville church is facing charges for wire fraud and filing a false tax return.
Adrian Davis was the lead pastor at All Nations Worship Assembly and also served as a marketing consultant for the church. According to court records, he received a salary and parsonage as compensation.
Davis is accused of using ANWA funds for his personal benefit beginning in or around 2018.
The court documents say Davis used funds to pay his mother’s mortgage, buy vehicles like an Audi A7 and a 2016 GMC Yukon, as well as pay off over $268,000 on his personal credit cards, which were used to make purchases from luxury stores like Louis Vuitton, Flight Club, a shoe store in New York, and other stores over the course of 2019 and 2020.
The documents state that Davis wired $13,663 from the ANWA bank account to pay off his personal credit card in October 2020.
Federal records also say Davis filed a tax return in 2021, falsely claiming he received $138,621 when he received total income in excess of that.
Davis agreed to plead guilty to both charges, court records show. As part of his plea agreement, he would be required to pay restitution to All Nations Worship Assembly and the Internal Revenue Service.
Bruce Gerencser, 68, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 47 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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