Christian City Church Canberra Scam

After checking my stats (which I do on a daily basis), these also including checking the numerous keywords used to find this blog on the search engines. Anyway...I found another Parliamentary post about another Christian City Church, this time CCC Canberra. Although it's a bit dated, it still demonstrates the sheer lack of accountability and integrity of Christian City Church.

Christian City Church Canberra Scam

This scam was perpetrated by Pastor Paul Whittaker the pastor at the time of CCC Canberra. He obviously had a vision to build a new church (how familiar is that), however did not have the funds to do so. Instead he convinced many families of CCC Canberra to put up their homes as collateral for the $1.2 million dollars at the State Bank who gave CCC Canberra the funds needed for the building of the new Christian City Church Canberra.

In addition to these people putting up their homes as security to the $1.2 million dollar loan, some people, who btw were not wealthy had also donated many thousands of dollars to the new Christian City Church Canberra building fund.

One such couple Bernie and Linda Cabone members of CCC Canberra not only gave their family home as collateral but also gave $17,000 (I believe this was their life savings).

Unfortunately for all these families and also those who had injected money, Christian City Church Canberra at the hands of Pastor Paul Whittaker went broke. Thus leaving all these families and their homes in debt to the State Bank.

Pastor Paul Whittaker washed his hands on the entire situation and turned his back on these families. Instead of facing the music he was last seen flying the coup and heading to Sydney.