Suzanne Ellis Wants Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III Jailed for Failure to Repay $90K for Items She Bought

Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III is back in the news again. Suzanne Ellis, a former employee of Global Destiny Church, has asked a Gwinnett judge to put him in jail for contempt of court because he failed to repay a debt to her.

According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the contempt petition said that Weeks, and his church empire Global Destiny Inc. and TWIII Ministries Inc., never reimbursed Ellis for about $90,000 worth of items she was asked to buy as an employee. Stop right there..... Shouldn't a red flag have gone up immediately to this woman when they started asking her to purchase things with her own money totalling $90,000? Weeks and his former wife, Prophetess Juanita Bynum, were clearly living way beyond their means. Granted, these are the same people who have consistently failed to practice what they preached.

After Ellis filed a lawsuit seeking repayment and reimbursement for attorney fees in 2007, Weeks’ attorneys reached an agreement to reconcile the debt last year. But Weeks did not make the payments as set forth in the agreement, the petition says. Yeah, she's right. They ought to throw him in prison for this. The petition has asked that Bishop Weeks be jailed for contempt of court for a time not to exceed 20 days and be forced to honor the earlier agreement. The judge will first have to hear evidence to determine whether Weeks is in contempt. A hearing date has yet to be scheduled.

Isn't this a shame that a pastor could be mired in such financial mess, possibly through greed and living beyond his means? The Bible talks about our relationship with money in such detail and it is unconscionable that this man literally fleeced his congregation and caused the church to be evicted because of nonpayment of rent. He does not need to grace another pulpit as pastor of any church, anywhere and anytime.