https://www.dailywire.com/news/plumber-finds-secret-cash-stash-in-joel-osteens-church

According to officials at Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch, a plumber recently found envelopes full of cash and checks behind a toilet while he was doing repairs.

The man identified only as “Justin” called into country music station 100.3 The Bull Thursday to tell the strange story of making the discovery of the stash on November 10. “There was a loose toilet in the wall, and we removed the tile,” he said, according to NBC affiliate KPRC . “We went to go remove the toilet, and I moved some insulation away and about 500 envelopes fell out of the wall, and I was like ‘Oh wow!’” He concluded, “I went ahead and contacted the maintenance supervisor that was there, and I turned it all in.”

DJ for the show “Morning Bullpen” George Lindsey expressed amazement at the revelation. “It was just unbelievable!” he told the Houston-area news outlet. “The things he was telling us that they found in the walls. We were like, ‘What are you talking about?’ So, then he relayed to us that in 2014 there was a big story about money being stolen from Lakewood Church that they never recovered.”

The burglary in question occurred in 2014 when thieves made off with about of $600,000 from a church safe.

Lindsey said that just makes the case more intriguing.

“Don’t you want to know what happened, I mean they stole the money, but they didn’t get it out of the wall,” the morning host exclaimed. “Did they have an accident, you know what I mean? It’s like, why did they never go back? If it’s that money, why did they never go back?”

Lakewood Church released a statement that confirmed the plumber’s account of finding an undisclosed amount of cash and checks while doing repairs. The church said they notified the Houston Police Department, and are currently assisting with the investigation:

Recently, while repair work was being done at Lakewood Church, an undisclosed amount of cash and checks were found Lakewood immediately notified the Houston Police Department and is assisting them with their investigation. Lakewood has no further comment at this time.

The non-denominational Lakewood claims to have the biggest Christian congregation in the world, with an average weekly attendance of 43,000. Osteen is often criticized by other Christian leaders for teaching a “prosperity gospel” — that is, if you donate money to his church in a show of faith, God will, in turn, bless you financially. He rose to fame with best-selling books that teach, contrary to the Bible, that God desires to give people their “best life now,” writing in 2005, “God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.”

As The Daily Wire previously reported, in 2017, Lakewood initially declined to open its doors as a haven to Hurricane Harvey victims, though it relented after an outpouring of public criticism.

That's just what he couldn't fit in the trunk for the ride home last Sunday.....

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Some things are just amazing!

"Chump Change"- - - - -Joel Osteen

"There's a sucker born every minute!"- - - - - - -P.T. Barnum

"Never give a sucker an even break!"- - - - -W.C. Fields

"I never drink water- - - -fish fornicate in it!- - - - -W.C. Fields

43000 attendees a week ? Hell , if they only gave a dollar each that’s 43000 a week and you know he is taking in a hell of a lot more than that .
Shoulda stayed in church and got me one of them tv shows , holy shiet!!!
Kenneth

It’s a modern-day miracle.

So what does this have to do with a woman breastfeeding a cat on a Delta Airlines flight??

Do what?

Where? When?

Tell me more, start a thread

Is he a Catholic?

Love how he squints, can’t bear to look his congregation while he’s spewing his bullshît

Why would Osteen want to steal checks? Most likely wasn't him, personally. Someone in charge of taking the collection likely is responsible. Not that I have much respect for Osteen, but isn't he already quite wealthy from his many supporters?

I thought he was okay?

Is he not now?

Geeze he isn't a Methodist is he?

Someone just grabbed the whole pile, obviously checks are no-go but you dont want to be caught with them. Stash the whole pile and sort it out later.

The thief, bag man or whatever probably got found out by internal jnvestigation and was probably Osteencided 😃

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Or, as Bret Maverick once said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time .... and those are pretty good odds."

L.W.

No

Methodist churches have lesbian pastors

Lesbians tend to be attracted to positions of authority within the mainstream institutional churches.

Why do they go with those Freddie Mercury haircuts?

LOL.

When I encounter a lesbian or suspected bull dyke

50/50 either a cop or preacher 😃

Are they hot?

Sometimes I think I have dyslexia cause when I saw this title I thought I read 650 large rifle primers hidden in church

Hell no. Real ones, not porn lesbians or drunk college chick experimenting kind.

Phys Ed teacher? Geez, hold into the medicine ball.

Insurance scam? Claimed it back during the "burglary" in '14.

Secret fund stash, leadership swiped the money, reported it stolen, hid it in the bathroom 7 years ago.

The toilet was loose because every now and again "someone" would go grab a few envelopes from the now forgotten stash for junkets. To the China King restaurant? CiCi's? Maybe even the Olive Garden.

Hopefully not Epstein and Ghislane's island

Beula Ballbricker

That’s just one terlot

What’s behind all the other crappers?

There could be walls filled with cash

Not just one hit, what anout a low grade chronic skimming operation that takes 20% off the top?

George Lindsey has a radio show?

Shazam!

The principal at a big high school where I taught in Nashville got caught skimming the admission fees from football and basketball games. He would take the cash box home after the game and turn it over to the school bookkeeper the next morning, minus his cut. He lost his job, but I believe the school board allowed him to "retire" without losing his pension. Yep, he was "melanin-enhanced"!

I was thinking of the 43,000 attendees/parishners or whatever y'all non-denominational Protestants call folks that go to their churches.

Then figure they're in Houston TX. And figure again it's a Prosperity message of 'Give to the Church and you will receive back". Then figure the average household income of those 43K folks. Then figure out an average "tithing" to Pastor Joel.................every week.

And that ain't figuring the TV tithing either.


Sheesh.

I’d say that plumber was living his best life.

Or could have if he’d have kept the money?

What would Joel do?

This comes to mind...




#behealed

Claim 100% as stolen, get the insurance payment.

Several years later uncover it, shred the checks and pocket the cash

Sounds like a great investment

LOL. Does sound a little fishy.

LOL. Yep.

LOL. No doubt.

I forget. Was that Fletch or Fletch Lives ???

Both were funny sumbitches !

And a great portrayal of a Slick TV Preacher by R Lee Ermy.

Wow. I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you…

Plumber figured it was a trap, was scared to take it.

The original theft was an inside job. Whoever is investigating can use the polygraph offer. Find out who possibly could have gotten into the safe and offer them a polygraph exam as a way to eliminate suspects starting with Osteen. Ask them if they have any knowledge. The restroom wall as a hiding place is odd and I can't figure that out unless it was under construction at the time and got walled up before the thief could retrieve the loot. If the restroom was being worked on at the time I guess it could have been a contractor employee that knew how to crack a safe. As usual when something doesn't make sense you are lacking information.

I have met Joel and his wife, worked with his brother in law Kevin Combs, he is the maintenance supervisor mentioned. Joel has taken his father’s huckster gifts to a new level. He is no different than 99% of politicians we have putting the wood to us.

If you got it, use it!!

Dude gives me the creeps.

All those big church so called preachers give me the creeps. Sheep need tending…

Fletch lives

The Lord just keeps giving when you're not a holy rolling p.o.s. lol

Should'a kept it. He'd be flush now.

I sorta did the same thing, but worse.

I opened this thread in a new window. I'd read 80% of it when I caught the title again out of the corner of my eye on the other screen. Stopped reading this one and looked back, searching for the thread about primers in the Dillon 650.

Scary how your brain fills in the blanks.

I would have kept it, would have been worth a chance. You couldn’t spend it very fast.