He received neither. The Pure Light congregation has tried everything from weekly fish dinners to every-other-Friday car washes to pull in the needed money. This weekend, church members will be holding multiple fundraisers for their cause, including a fish fry on Friday and a carnival on Saturday. Moten contends that the congregation now acts as a community church serving as an "intricate part of the community," and he continues to maintain an optimistic outlook in light of the lawsuit.
A Florida-based company is currently in possession of the church as congregants continue to fight the lawsuit. In , the Rev. Wiley Jr. He subsequently granted summary judgment as to all of the remaining claims. The Court of Appeal agreed with Wiley as to the merits, except as to the First Amendment issue, which it said the plaintiff waived by not arguing it in his opening brief.
As to the fraud and conversion claims, she said the trial judge analyzed the statute of limitations issue correctly. The evidence, the justice explained, established that by September , Lewis knew that Sims was dishonest and untrustworthy, but that he waited until more than three years after that to file suit.
Attorneys in Lewis v. He is scheduled to be arraigned today in L. County Superior Court in Compton on charges of grand theft by embezzlement, money laundering and witness intimidation. If convicted, Sims faces up to seven years in state prison. According to a report that appeared in the Compton Bulletin last year, Sims stunned members of his congregation when he admitted at a Sept. Sims was ordained as a minister in and has preached at several other churches in Los Angeles County and elsewhere in the country, according to the website.
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