![]() The woman claimed in October 2020 - six years after the affair ended - that Bogard raped her the first time they had sex on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 2013. It then emerged he had an affair between October 20 with a junior female staffer. He was ousted from the church along with his wife amid claims they had been misappropriating church donations to fund their lavish lifestyle. In 2022, Hillsong Dallas pastor Reed Bogard was accused of raping a female staffer who he had an affair with in 2013. Josh and Leona Kimes resigned as Hillsong pastors in April 2022 after Josh admitted sending a 'racist text' to a congregant. Other former church members have compared the church to a cult and detailed incidents of sexual assault. Lentz was accused of causing workers to suffer mental health problems by belittling and bullying them. The investigation into the Lentzes also alleges that while Lentz was seeing Ranin Karim, he also engaged in another 'inappropriate relationship' with a woman he called Germany, who he met in Brooklyn. The Christian Post published excerpts of an internal investigation into the Lentzes' behavior, which found that Laura had punched Leona Kimes when she found her snuggled on the sofa with her husband Carl. The Lentzes strongly denied Kimes's allegations. Leona Kimes, co-pastor of Hillsong Boston with her husband Josh, announced in a bombshell Medium post in May 2021 that she had been 'subjected to manipulation, control, bullying, abuse of power, and sexual abuse' by the Lentzes while working at their home as a nanny. Lentz and his wife Laura were also the subject of abuse accusations from another Hillsong pastor. ![]() He was fired from the church in November 2020 after his five-month affair with Brooklyn-based jewelry designer Ranin Karim emerged. Carl Lentz, the star pastor who brought the global megachurch Hillsong from Australia to the United States, and once ministered to Justin Bieber and a bevy of other celebrities and sports stars, was exposed in 2020 for cheating on his wife.
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