Creflo Dollar Appeals to Parishioners to Pay Bills of Slain Church Employee

Creflo Dollar Appeals to Parishioners to Pay Bills of Slain Church Employee

   
*In the wake of last week’s shooting that killed an employee of World Changers Church International, on Sunday the Rev. Creflo Dollar asked parishioners to pay the bills of the family of Greg McDowell.

“In my book, he’s a hero,” Dollar said of McDowell, who was gunned down while leading morning prayer service at the church. “If those bullets hadn’t been trained on him, there would’ve been more people that would’ve died,” Dollar told the congregation.

Police have charged former church employee Floyd Palmer in McDowel’s death. Investigators say Palmer, 52, calmly walked into morning prayer service Wednesday and fired six shots at McDowell, killing the 39-year-old husband and father.

Dollar challenged church members to give as they left the College Park church, to make online donations and to give to a special fund the church has set up at a bank.

“The goal is $234,000,” Dollar said, telling the congregation he wanted to raise that amount by the end of the day Sunday. “We want to completely eradicate all debts in their lives … house, cars, everything. Let’s now show the world the power of a megachurch.”