According to the Houston Chronicle, hundreds have recently left Lake Point Church,

Josh Howerton's prominent megachurch in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

One of those who have left, a longtime volunteer leader at the church, joins me today to tell her story.

Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting

the truth and restoring the church. I'm Julie Roy's, and today I'll be speaking with Amanda Cunningham,

a former model and actress who became a Christian at Lake Point Church. That was more than a decade

ago when Steve Stroop pastored the church. But in 2019, Stroop retired, and young pastor, Josh Howardton, was hired to replace him.

According to Amanda, that's when a major transformation occurred.

Ministries were canceled as the church sought to become more centralized and on-brand.

Emails from Amanda to those in her ministry were canceled, and they were replaced by

communications from central leadership.

Then outsiders began posting about Howerton's plagiarized sermons.

His behavior online and in sermons led to allegations of misogyny.

And then, Howerton told a joke that some online said promoted marital rape.

Howardton apologized for the joke, but as the Roy's report reported, he apparently

plagiarized his apology.

Lastly, the church, in an effort to gain city approval for a traffic light,

urged people in the church to sign up to repeatedly drive through an effort to gain city approval for a traffic light, urge people in the church to sign up

to repeatedly drive through an intersection to manipulate the findings. All these events, plus

interactions Amanda witnessed personally, caused her family to leave the church, and now she's speaking

out to warn others. We'll hear Amanda's eye-opening account in just a minute, but first,

I'd like to thank the sponsors of this podcast, Talbot Seminary, and Mark Horda Barrington.

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