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Celebration Church sues to evict founders from parsonage

Celebration Church near Baymeadows Road and Interstate 295 grew dramatically after its founding in 1998, but it recently parted ways with its founding pastor, Stovall Weems.
Corey Perrine
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Florida Times-Union
Celebration Church, near Baymeadows Road and Interstate 295, grew dramatically after its founding in 1998.

Jacksonville’s Celebration Church has gone to court to evict estranged founders Stovall and Kerri Weems from the high-end home they occupied as the church parsonage.

“The Weemses remain in possession of the … property despite Stovall Weems’ resignation of employment, the Weemses’ refusal to pay rent and the church’s demands that the Weemses vacate the premises,” says a lawsuit filed last week in Duval County Court.

The suit demands that the couple leave the home and pay rent for the time they’ve lived there since Stovall Weems resigned from the megachurch April 15.

Read the rest of this story at WJCT News partner The Florida Times-Union.