Arise Church lender wants answers following damaging report

Arise Church lender wants answers following damaging report
Arise's Church in the Hutt Valley. (Image: Arise Church website)
Denise McNabb
Arise Church’s biggest lender wants answers about how the church will remediate issues raised in a damning report that revealed members were subject to mental and physical abuse, racism, homophobia and labour exploitation.Like the embattled Pentecostal megachurch, Christian Savings – a licensed non-bank deposit taker and lender – is a charity.In 2019, it arranged a $12 million loan facility for Arise to pay for building and land projects in Whangarei and Christchurch. The church’s December 2021 annual report reveale...

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