1 /5 All Things Home Improvements: Watch the RED FLAGS! He recommends people leave a google review, so heres mine.
Went to this church for a couple months after arriving to SA. At first the Pastor (Ayala) seems on fire for the Lord which I was very excited about. Unfortunately it seems like hes on fire for himself! ALWAYS condemning, comparing other ministries to his, trying to raise funds for something other than outreaches, over hearing women that have been there for years refer to him as "dad" or "daddy", and calling out people about Tithing. When they have "revivals" and pray over you, they will try to push you down as their hand is on you to make it seem as if you have "fallen out" to try to show the rest of the people how "anointed" they are.
Hell go try to recruit people for his church by preaching on the side of the highway, but Ive never seen him do outreaches that actually help the community. Plate sales to pay rent is not outreach.
The worse part is I learned NOTHING biblical (scripture, context, history, etc.) except flashy catch phrases from him (come on somebody). If you read many of the positive reviews, they speak like the pastor "no sugar coating" "no watered down teaching" "greasy grace"......almost cult like. Also, the pastor has "body guards" who stand around with stone faces just looking at everyone. Theyre not even into the service. What Pastor has body guards around him all day?
I kept feeling like Holy Spirit was telling me to leave.....so I did. I tried CBC and LOVE it. The first service I went to, they passed around buckets with money saying if anyone needed $ for anything, to go ahead and take from the bucket. I was very impressed and felt Holy Spirit in the service. If you feel the urge to leave, listen to your God given intuition. Jesus has somewhere better for you....I promise.