The Dallas Morning News reported in December 2006 that televangelist Benny Hinn has grown tired of flying commercial. The minister, based in Irving, Texas put out a call to his followers to help pay for “Dove One”, a Gulfstream jet that costs about 30 million dollars. For a gift of $1,000 toward paying off the $6 million dollar down payment, Hinn promised to put each donors name in a special place on the airplane so he could pray especially for them “in the highest prayer tower in the world”.
This is really sad: read below (this is from FEED THE HUNGRY Site)
When 14,357 children in some of the world’s poorest countries bow their heads over a good meal today they’ll thank God for YOU! Last year at this time we were feeding around 4,400 children enrolled in the program every day. That was wonderful, but isn’t it great to know that right now we’re feeding almost 14,400?
Without your faithfulness to God’s call, we couldn’t have added children in Uganda, North Korea, Swaziland, Colombia, New Sudan, Liberia, and Cambodia to the list of boys and girls who get to eat every day.
$18.42 is enough to feed one of these precious children for 3 whole months!
That is 1,628,664 could eat for 3 months. WOW God forgive us!
By: angiepaxton on May 8, 2008
at 3:36 pm
As Angie stated ; the world if full of need. We are called by God to feed the hungry and take care of the poor and the widows. As a church how can we justify this excess? Why would anyone support the purchase of a $30 million airplane? He could fly on United like the rest of us. So much good could be done with that money. Benny Hinn will have to stand before God one day and explain it to Him. He is certainly not someone with a burden for lost souls!
By: Mary on May 9, 2008
at 9:00 am