A Church Plant and a Shell Company
Bellwether Holdings LLC has no employees, no website, and a lease on the building your offering paid for.
By Marcus Ellery|Aug 16, 2026|8 min
Updated Sep 2, 2026 at 8:51 PM EDT
Bellwether Holdings LLC was registered in February 2022. Its sole managing member is the executive pastor of a church plant that had, at the time, existed for nineteen months.
Six weeks later, the church signed a fifteen-year lease with Bellwether for the building the congregation had raised $2.8 million to acquire.
What the congregation was told
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