A federal court has granted a motion to drop claims against Gateway Church former executive global pastor Kevin Grove from a lawsuit over alleged fraud, according to recent court documents.
The order, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Sherman, removes Grove from a lawsuit first filed in October. The suit alleged Dallas-based Gateway Church and several of its senior leadership, including Grove and founder Robert Morris, misallocated members’ tithes and committed financial fraud.
Four members of the megachurch argue in the lawsuit that Gateway claimed to give 15% of members’ tithe to global missions, but it failed to do this. According to the suit, Gateway should have given a minimum of $15 million a year to global missions, as the church had annual revenue around $100 million…