Grammy Winner fights to save the church established by his ancestor after discovering what is happening.
A Grammy Award -winning singer, founded by his grandfather Nashville, Tennessee, is fighting to save the church.
Amy Grant, a Christian pop star, known for hits such as ‘Baby, Baby’ and ‘Love’, is fighting to get back the turning point, which he claims to be ‘bell tower’.
His grandfather, Andrew Mizell, who won six times Grammy, founded the Central Church of Christ in the 1920s and requires the use of the building only as a worship area.
Grant took over the defendant businessman Shawn Mathis, defending that the building which is now the cup is no longer used for the purpose purposeful purpose. Wall Street Journal.
Mathis rejected the allegations, claiming that the church was still engaged in missionary studies, including the online ministry, and accused the family of motivating the church property by the increasing market value of the church property.
The 2024 assessment valued the exploding building in the city center of Nashville at a value of $ 6.7 million and except for monthly income parking lots.
“This is entirely about Am Burton’s legacy,” he said to WSJ. “ In my opinion, the family has to be included because otherwise this property stands. And that doesn’t make sense. ‘
The membership of the church, which was once a ministry, fell into several dozen elderly communities over the years.
Amy Grant and Christian pop star who won grammy six times are fighting to get back the Nashville Church of his family
His great grandfather Andrew Mizell ‘am’ Burton founded the Central Church of Christ (in the picture) under a condition for the building only as a worship area of the building.
According to WSJ, Mathis started to go to the church in 2017 and worked until the elderly status.
A year later, Mathis said to his news organization that the congregation accepted a decision to transform and transform him into Nashville Christ Church, a non -profit -based company -based company.
The court documents show that the last church service of the building was in 2018 and the property was closed.
Since Grant and his family rented a lawyer to investigate in 2019, the church has dealt with legal wars.
In contrast, Christ’s Nashville Church sued Grant and relatives, and tried to invalidate restrictions that require the original church deed to work as a place of worship.
The court rejected that the claim and lawsuits on land registry restrictions continue.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the Chief Public Prosecutor of Tennessee filed a lawsuit against the church last year and confused him with misrepresentation with other funds.
The church, which is now classified as commercial property, is also reported to be indebted more than $ 500,000 to unpaid taxes.
The grant of the defendant businessman Shawn Mathis (in the picture), the hostile seizing of the church and its assets, to argue that now the shutter building is no longer used for its purpose purpose
Grant (in the picture), ‘Baby, baby’ and ‘love like this’, known for hits, his family said that his family was trying to save the legacy of his great grandfather
Wall Street Journal reported that the current financing of the church cannot be determined.
In response to the State Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Church said that since 2021, the Church’s administrative minister was called a basic salary of $ 138.250 and $ 2,000 per month.
Grant and his family are struggling to restrict property under the 1925 title deed and are expected to hear the State Court in June.
