Pastor John Gray’s Lawyers Respond To Claims That Relentless Church Is Being Evicted
Lawyers representing Relentless Church issued a statement on Thursday after the church had received a termination letter — which a church spokesperson said is not an eviction notice, but a reference to a false verbal agreement between former Redemption Pastor Ron Carpenter and current Relentless Pastor John Gray.
The letter was a 30-day termination notice of a non-residential lease that was sent to Relentless on Nov. 27, according to a response from the law firm representing Gray.
Larry Reid Live exclusively reported that Relentless Church was to pay $26,ooo per month for rent but allegedly neglected to pay for a few months.
Also according to GreenvilleCounty.org, the buildings property taxes — which totaled to be about $20,00 every year — has been neglected but a spokesperson for Relentless church has come forward to share their side of the story.
FOX Carolina reported:
Holly Baird, a spokesperson representing Relentless clarified, the letter was not an eviction notice.
Baird added, “A termination letter referencing a false VERBAL agreement was sent. The letter did NOT however reference the actual signed lease agreement in which Redemption/ Ron Carpenter is in violation of not honoring amongst many other things. The Grays are current with both of their leases.”
According to the legal response, the lawyers for Gray claim Carpenter did not follow through with all the terms of the terms they initially set in the transition agreement when Gray took over the church in Greenville.
The legal response also mentions a message that Carpenter’s wife, Hope, reportedly sent to members of Relentless’ congregation, which the lawyers claim included several defamatory statements about Gray.
The lawyers conclude by stating there is hope that both sides can sit down together to resolve the issue reasonably. If not, the lawyers say Gray and his church will have no choice but to protect their reputations.
“They cannot sit back while such defamatory and untrue statements are being purposely spread,” the attorneys’ letter states.
About a year ago, Pastor John Gray received some heat after he bought his wife Aventer Gray a $200,000 Lamborghini — which he said he bought with his own money — but not too long after the huge gift, he asked the church to foot a $250,000 bill for repairs to the church’s roof in addition to what’s already collected for weekly tithes and offering.
Pastor John Gray spoke on the roof issue saying, “(Ron Carpenter) handed us keys. The keys were not to a paid off building, the keys were to an opportunity, an opportunity to continue the work,” Gray said. “Nothing you see is paid off. It wasn’t paid off when we got here.”
Also according to Greenville News, Relentless Church bought Pastor John Gray a $1.8 Million home after he relocated his family from Texas to South Carolina.
Praying that the issue between these two pastors will be resolved.
Carpenter and Redemption has not responded nor told their side of the story yet but we will keep y’all informed.
