Former members of Anaheim’s Vineyard Church—now The Dwelling Place—are suing the church’s senior leaders for fraud, claiming they split the church from the Vineyard network and took control over the church and its $62 million assets under false pretenses.
For more than 40 years, Vineyard Anaheim Church had been a pillar of the Orange County community and the birthplace of the Vineyard charismatic movement, which has spawned more than 2,400 churches in 95 countries since its founding in the late 1970s.
In March, married pastors Alan and Kathryn Scott, who took over in 2018, announced that the church would split from Vineyard USA, the national association of Vineyard churches, out of “a desire to say yes to the Holy Spirit.”…