Millionaire pastor's church 'not really about God', ex-member claims amid calls for transparencyFACEBOOK Nancy and Murray Watkinson are the founders of a growing church in Christchurch. DAVID HALLETT/STUFF Murray Watkinson, pictured in 2007, began the Celebration Centre church in Aranui in about 1990. One of the preschools paid about $34,000 rent to the M & N Watkinson Trust for a property Watkinson and his wife Nancy own. The Celebration Centre Trust's records for 2010 show it making a profit before depreciation of $171,809. The church's richest trust is the PTL Property Trust, which, despite having $2.8m in the bank, still gets donations from the Celebration Centre Trust.

Source: Stuff December 08, 2017 05:37 UTC