Biography
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Born
28 January 1962 (age 63)
Creflo Augustus Dollar, Jr. (born January 28, 1962 in College Park, Georgia) is a televangelist, Word of Faith teacher, pastor, and the founder of the non-denominational World Changers Church International based in College Park, Georgia, Creflo Dollar Ministerial Association (formerly called International Covenant Ministries), Creflo Dollar Ministries, and Arrow Records. Each of these enterprises is overseen by Dollar and his wife, Taffi Dollar.
In 1984, Dollar received a Bachelor of Science degree in education from West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Oral Roberts University in 1998. Dollar started his ministry in 1986 with eight people and in 2007 was said to have a congregation of 30,000 with $69 million in revenue (gross cash collections) for 2006.
Dollar's Changing Your World television program is aired both in the United States and internationally. In 2004, a satellite church was started in New York which has a membership of over 7,000.
Dollar is the publisher of CHANGE magazine, a quarterly international publication with nearly 100,000 subscribers and The Max, a bimonthly resource newsletter for ministers and ministry leaders.
A popular conference speaker and best-selling author, Dollar is known for espousing his own method of approaching the Bible for spiritual and financial fulfillment.
Dollar is the founder and senior pastor of World Changers Church International (WCCI) in College Park, Georgia, which has nearly 30,000 members, and World Changers Church-New York which hosts over 7,000 each week.
Dollar claims to have received the vision for World Changers Ministries Christian Center in 1986. He reputedly held the church's first worship service in the cafeteria of Kathleen Mitchell Elementary School in College Park, Georgia, with only eight people in attendance, and successfully soliciting over $100 in contributions from those present. Over the years the ministry is said to have grown rapidly and was renamed World Changers Church International. The congregation moved from the cafeteria to a modest-sized chapel, adding a weekly radio broadcast and four services each Sunday. On December 24, 1995, WCCI moved into its present location, the 8,500-seat sanctuary known as the World Dome. At a cost of nearly $18 million, it is claimed the World Dome was built without any bank financing.
Dollar and his wife, Taffi, have five children and live in Atlanta.
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